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5 total sentences available.
To raise the Sham-Noblest, and solemnly consecrate him by whatever method, new-devised, or slavishly adhered to from old wont, this, little as we may regard it, is, in all times and countries, a practical blasphemy, and Nature will in nowise forget it. Alas, there lies the origin, the fatal necessity, of modern Democracy everywhere.
Source: wiktionary
But that did in nowise mend the matter, or at all soften the hard heart of the learned gentleman with the copy of Blackstone.
Source: wiktionary
The division into paragraphs aims in nowise [translating durchaus nicht] at logical consistency :[…]
Source: wiktionary
His article was received with keen interest by Fredrik Vult von Steijern, the newspaper's cultural editor, who in turn paid the writer an honorarium of twenty crowns — nowise a modest sum at that time — despite the fact that the article never appeared in Dagens Nyheter.
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Closest matches include absolutely not, at no hand, by no means, by no means, in no case.
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