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NEVER AGAIN
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At no time hereafter
Example:
Quoth the raven, nevermore!
Synonyms:
never again; nevermore
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Context examples:
It may be, never again!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Not an invalid exactly, but never again the rosy, healthy creature she had been, yet always hopeful, happy, and serene, and busy with the quiet duties she loved, everyone's friend, and an angel in the house, long before those who loved her most had learned to know it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mr. Wickham was so perfectly satisfied with this conversation that he never again distressed himself, or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth, by introducing the subject of it; and she was pleased to find that she had said enough to keep him quiet.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He now flew into a very great passion, and, suspecting the company who had come in the night before, he went to look after them, but they were all off; so he swore that he never again would take in such a troop of vagabonds, who ate a great deal, paid no reckoning, and gave him nothing for his trouble but their apish tricks.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
From you, from my home, I shall never again have the smallest incitement to move; and if I do mix in other society, it will be only to shew that my spirit is humbled, my heart amended, and that I can practise the civilities, the lesser duties of life, with gentleness and forbearance.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Never again, I trust, will it be necessary for me to open my lips about the miserable business.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
‘It is utterly useless,’ replied Felix; ‘we can never again inhabit your cottage.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Never shall I speak in the council again, never again till the men come to me and say, 'It is well, Keesh, that thou shouldst speak, it is well and it is our wish.'
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Twelve hundred pounds she’s worth to me, Mary, my darling, and never again shall you soil your pretty fingers or pinch upon my beggarly pay.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sometimes, when I am walking in dreams this way, I have strange thoughts. Why does Sitka Charley live? I ask myself. Why does Sitka Charley work hard, and go hungry, and have all this pain? For seven hundred and fifty dollars a month, I make the answer, and I know it is a foolish answer. Also is it a true answer. And after that never again do I care for money. For that day a large wisdom came to me. There was a great light, and I saw clear, and I knew that it was not for money that a man must live, but for a happiness that no man can give, or buy, or sell, and that is beyond all value of all money in the world.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
