How To Use Nonsuch In A Sentence
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He is a nonsuch for prudence: There is none so discreet and wise as thou art, v. 39.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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Up swept the _Nonsuch_ into the wind, with all her sails ashiver in the brisk breeze, and, watching carefully, George gave the order to fire at the exact moment when the Spanish ship was square abeam.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
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On every average page of Shakespeare you are greeted and gladdened by at least five words that you never saw before in his writings, and that you never will see again, speaking once and then for ever holding their peace -- each not only rare, but a nonsuch -- five gems just shown, then snatched away.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
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That he has that loveliness in him which is not to be found in any other: He is the chief among ten thousand, a nonsuch for beauty, fairer than the children of men, than any of them, than all of them; there is none like him, nor any to be compared with him; every thing else is to be accounted loss and dung in comparison of him, Phil. iii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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The Nonsuch is no typical catboat below the waterline, and if you are familiar with the considerable weather helm common to most Cape Cod catboats, you will be pleasantly surprised.
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If this crazy, nonsuch wedding hadn't sent us packing 10,000 miles with our toddler, it's shameful what we would have missed.
Yes, my gourd
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By then the volunteer team of diggers, guides, museum attendants and receptionists had formed into the Nonsuch and Ewell Antiquarian Society.
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With one sail, one halyard, one sheet, and two winches, the Nonsuch 30 is the ultimate in uncomplicated sailing.
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November Index-Fu
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Then you are, as indeed I have always thought you, a nonsuch of a woman.
Sir Charles Grandison
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As for James, he declared him a nonsuch, and said, that although poor, he would not have hesitated to have given him sixpence for
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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Nonsuch boasted a wonderland of groves, rockeries, aviaries, and trellis walks.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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As for James, he declared him a nonsuch, and said, that although poor, he would not have hesitated to have given him sixpence for a lock of his hair, just to keep beside him for a keepsake; (did any body ever hear such nonsense?)
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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It was, however, not necessary to wait for noon; for about half-past ten o'clock a boat was seen approaching the _Nonsuch_ from the shore; and when she presently drew near enough to permit recognition of the faces of those in her it was seen that the alcalde was her solitary passenger; and very shortly afterwards she ranged up alongside the English ship, and Don Juan Alvarez climbed the side ladder in an evident state of profound trepidation.
The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer
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How I've missed Scoop after all these years I can't imagine and in this edition it is followed by The Loved One, another spectre from the era of Form Vc at Nonsuch Girls, who now I think on it had an odd and very quirky shared sense in humour and books.
Everyman's Library
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According to Christie's auction house, which is selling the work, the painting is one of just a handful of direct depictions of Nonsuch.
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A few years later, however, Prince Rupert and some other prominent members of the court and the city bought the third-hand forty-three-ton ketch, the "Nonsuch", and borrowed the fifty-four-ton "Eaglet" ketch from the King.
Three Hundred Years