nay

Praise him with nightingale words-- Nay, I will praise him instead.

She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne.

“Nay, if you are so serious about it, I shall consider the matter as absolutely settled.

I remember the time when I liked a red coat myself very well--and, indeed, so I do still at my heart; and if a smart young colonel, with five or six thousand a year, should want one of my girls, I shall not say nay to him; and I thought Colonel Forster looked very becoming the other night at Sir William’s in his regimentals.”