Nought

Examples

• I can make nought on't. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Because there is nought agate that fits women to be consarned in. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is his pleasure, answered Gurth, that they be concealed; and from me, assuredly, you will learn nought of them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Human natur', taking it i' th' lump, is nought but selfishness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but mutability! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And his brain turned to nought at the idea. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Men say thou dost love wine, and a lady's smile, better than beseems thy Order, Sir Priest; but with that I have nought to do. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Nay; I dunnut want ye to do nought. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It is a pity but their office could magnify them; but it does nought o' t' soart. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We're thrown out o' work wi' these frames; we can get nought to do; we can earn nought. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And he knew that there were tears in her eyes, her own tears, tears of her strange religion, that put him to nought. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And as she didn't get there it was all nought, and nothing to tell. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Human labour was wasted--human life set at nought. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He's deaved wi' my talking; he says it's all nought to do with the things o' to-day, and that's his business. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• At last he said: 'I know nought of your ways down South. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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