Neither

Examples

• The heart was thrilled, the mind astonished, by the power of the preacher: neither were softened. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Five days' journey from here--say two hundred miles--are the ruins of an ancient city, of whose history there is neither record nor tradition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Neither had read it, but they knew it was a love story, and each privately wondered if it was half as interesting as their own. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The horses were post; and neither the carriage, nor the livery of the servant who preceded it, were familiar to them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Nor an old 'un neither, Sir,' observed Mr. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Take it and read it to me, for I have neither the strength nor the courage to do it myself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The servant who stood holding the door, asked no question of John, neither did he go before them or follow them as they went straight up-stairs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It's neither, my friend, neither. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Neither Jos nor Emmy knew this important maxim. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The result was an intermediate substance, neither glass nor whinstone--a sort of slag. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I deserve neither such praise nor such censure, cried Elizabeth; I am _not_ a great reader, and I have pleasure in many things. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His strange life had left him neither morose nor bloodthirsty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But it is all one to both; neither is troubled about that. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My head ached with wondering how it happened, if men were neither fools nor rascals; and my heart ached to think they could possibly be either. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I looked for Peggotty, but it was not she; neither she nor Mr. Murdstone appeared. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They was, my lady, said Horrocks, and precious little else we get there neither. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Graham, however, must go: his was a profession whose claims are neither to be ignored nor deferred. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Neither Laura nor I were in any favorable disposition to be amused. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She is captive unto those men of Belial, and they will wreak their cruelty upon her, sparing neither for her youth nor her comely favour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He knows drugs, you may be sure, as you can neither smell nor see, neither before they're swallowed nor after. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I cannot, she replied, and, I pray you, neither do you. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Greeks derived their musical instruments from the Egyptians, and the Romans borrowed theirs from the Greeks, but neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented any. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Well, you will neither of you be told. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• And the unjust is good and wise, and the just is neither? Plato. The Republic.
• But can that which is neither become both? Plato. The Republic.
• But this was neither love nor passion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Once I have that information, Andros will find out that I neither trust nor like him, and that he will have neither my child nor my island. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Neither ought a desire, though indivisible, to be considered as a mathematical point. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Neither me nor my people. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They take with them neither wagons nor artillery; these latter marching with the balance of the army to the James River. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Edited by Craig