Nary

Nary a word was uttered that day.

With nary a word to Tom, Mary ran away with their twins.

The professor scolded me for my tardiness, yet he said nary a word when his favorite student showed up ten minutes after I arrived.

With nary a single Michelin star to its name, and an exterior facade befitting a local hardware store, Chef Ian Boden's "The Shack" is nonetheless packed with customers, some of whom drove hours to get there.

Many a tear was shed, but nary a word was spoken.

On these blustery, end-of-winter days in New York City, the sky is often grey and overcast, the wind may howl, and there is nary a green leaf to be seen. But in the tropical garden at the Butterfly Conservatory, it is a humid thirty-two degrees Celsius and the air is alive with the iridescent flutter of patterned wings.

And all about the room, candles gleaming in branched sconces. Nary one glare of electric light.

Every day, uncomplaining, this ten-ounce muscle contracts 100 thousand times nary “missing a beat.” Over a lifetime of faithful service, these two self-lubricating, self-regulating, high-capacity pumps beat two and one-half billion times […]

Then, it took her nary ten minutes to diagnose me with adrenal fatigue

Nary three weeks before, on December 12, Officer Cherylann Young steered a marked Miami-Dade County police cruiser toward the perimeter of MIA, the international airport.