I should most likely have been a Neer-do-weel all my days, and maybe have died a drunkard, if it hadn't been for you, Dick, and the good words of the Book.
"Dick Lionheart"
Mary Rowles Jarvis
The dried-up gullies and canals became silver-streaked with the incoming spray, and it needed only a windmill to make the scene as Dutch as a Van Der Neer.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
"Doan't know Neer a one o' 'em.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid