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.
An English mastiff named Kell, described as weighing. taller than a Shetland pony, and more than six feet long, was previously described as the world's heaviest dog, but it's unclear whether she's still alive. (Different newspaper articles from 2001 refer to her as both living and dead, and we could find nothing but brief, indefinite mentions of her after early 2002.