Aught

Examples

• I'm a poor black feckless sheep--childer may clem for aught I can do, unless, parson, yo'd help me? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It will have to be done, though, for aught I see,--hang it all! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• For aught I knew, there might have been fifty of you at least to victual. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Hast thou aught else to say? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It is time lost, muttered Cedric apart and impatiently, to speak to him of aught else but that which concerns his appetite! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I am sorry, I said, nor did there seem aught else to say. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Yet, bethink thee, noble Saxon, said the knight, thou hast neither hauberk, nor corslet, nor aught but that light helmet, target, and sword. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I telled her she weren't to meddle again in aught that concerned yo'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• From within the city neither shout nor cry, nor aught except the casual howling of a dog, broke the noon-day stillness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We cannot think aught than that Dejah Thoris has sought the icy bosom of Iss, and that her devoted servants have chosen to accompany her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You do not know me, Verney; neither you, nor our audience of last night, nor does universal England know aught of me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There we can be married in it if it means aught to thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient. Plato. The Republic.
• His savage life among the fierce wild brutes of the jungle left no opening for any thought that these could be aught else than enemies. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Mr. Malone and Mr. Donne is almost too proud to do aught for theirseln; _we_ are almost too proud to let anybody do aught for us. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Colin