Nowhere

Examples

• Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. Plato. The Republic.
• Word was soon brought that I was nowhere to be found, either in the palace or at my former quarters in the barracks of the air-scout squadron. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The increase of stock and the improvement of land are two events which must go hand in hand, and of which the one can nowhere much outrun the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But I had the start of them, and when I stopped the driver and got out, they were nowhere in sight. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Nowhere was there evidence of a man tilling the fields or performing any of the homely duties of the village. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• We saw water, then, but nowhere in all the waste around was there a foot of shade, and we were scorching to death. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The grass was long; but it was trodden down nowhere, save where their own feet had crushed it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• That's the place to get to--nowhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They had kept her hull-up until sunset, firing several shots after her, but the next morning she was nowhere to be seen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• The crowd dispersed, indeed, but the knight was nowhere to be seen. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But nowhere, except in the air around us, do we find oxygen free and uncombined with other substances. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was nowhere. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Oh, intolerable questions, when I could do nothing and go nowhere! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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