haud
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Danny Alderslowe, of Haud the Bus, described the escalating cost of bus travel as "tragic".
From BBC
“I care nought about the truth or not All I say is, Haud yer tongue.”
From Literature
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Verum fideles si videri ipsi cupiunt christiani, dubitare haud debent contra aquam remigare.”
From Economist
I may add the well-known sentiment which Virgil puts in the mouth of Dido: “Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.”
From Project Gutenberg
"Ipsa vero hypothesis nostra quominus scrupulum moveat, nihil aliud sibi velle ostendemus, quam, quod nemo unquam negavit, gravia nempe sursum non ferri.—Et sane, si hac eadem uti scirent novorum operum machinatores, qui motum perpetuum irrito conatu moliuntur, facile suos ipsi errores deprehenderent, intelligerentque rem eam mechanica ratione haud quaquam possibilem esse."
From Project Gutenberg
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