Used in the preterite negatively, querer is understood to mean that one not only didn't want to do something, but refused to. Here are some examples of querer in the imperfect and preterite tenses in affirmative and negative situations:
The Great Dane holds the record for the world's tallest dog,the Irish Wolfhound is a close second. The biggest dog on record was a Great Dane. It was 41 and a half inches high! The largest dog is the Irish wolfhound. The tallest recorded dog is a Great Dane called 'Giant George' grew to the height of 43 inches.
The Guinness world record for biggest (heaviest) dog was set in 1989 by an Old English Mastiff named Aicama Zorba of La-Susa, owned by Chris Eraclides of London, England. Zorba weighed in at 343 pounds. The biggest dog alive is said to be a female English Mastiff named Kell, who weighed 286 pounds in 1999.