None of the Below (cont'd): 1/2 an(e) ABC (N thru Z)

     (N)
No nervous strain. No noms d'huitaines.*
No Nick (nor Nora) Charles's wane.
"No, No, Nanette”…? No! Not again! 

     (O)
No Orson "Bane." No odder twain.*
No "Open sesame!" refrain.
No Orient Express (the train).

     * Cf. "Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider..."

     (P)
No pain. No gain. No Pontchartrain.
No Peter Pain. No peneplain.
No “phart.” No “ph**k!” (They’re both profane.) 
     
     (Q)
No Quiche Lorraine. No quadruplane.
No Quackenbush. (That man's insane!)
No quid. No quo. (Cf. Ukraine.)

     (R)
No rain in Spain. No regent’s reign.
No reindeer’s rein. No Claude Rains cane.*
No rani’s raw salát romaine.
     
     * Which he wields as Mr. Dryden 
in the film "Lawrence of Arabia."

     (S) 
No suzerain. No sales campaign.
No Shakespeare's Melancholy Dane.
Nor definitely no Sinn Fein.

     (T)
No tumtum pain. No two cents plain.* 
No tourists trapp'd in Taprobane.
No twice-told tales of Tramontane.

     * During the Great Depression, 
the price of a glass of seltzer water 
at soda fountains.

     (U)
No urethane. No ururbane.
No University, Tulane.
No undercover sting -- cocaine! 

     (V) 
No vortex vein. No Vivian Blaine.
No Value Village voles maintain.
No vex’d Vince Vaughn: “Na twa, na ane!” 

     (W)
No wax. No wane. No Walter Crane.* 
No John ("Duke") Wayne in "Wagon Train."
No warbling whippoorwill’s refrain.

     (X)
No xanthic acid's yellow stain.
No XXX (i.e., "profane").
No 12 xaq = 1 xaqane.* 
   
      * Footnote currently on inter-library loan. 

     (Y)
No Yardbird playin’ “Sweet Lorraine.”
No "You're So Vain" -- verse nor refrain.
No yin. No yang. No “yawp!”s of pain.*

     * Cf. Whitman’s “Song of Myself.”

     (Z)
No “…zizzy, zing, zing, boom, boom, ay”’n’*
No Zane Gray's novel "Betty Zane."
No reachin’ zed with zip delay’n.’ 

      * Cf. “Italian Street Song.”