Use naught in a sentence
Sentences starting with naught
- Naught but her own ignorance. [10]
- Naught in this hour seemed to him worthy of being clothed in words, save the hope and passion which filled his heart. [10]
- Naught but kindness have I had among you all; and I will answer. [11]
- Naught but ruin could follow the telling of the tale at this moment--his work, his life, all done. [11]
- Naught doth so befit ye grete as grete performance; and haply shall ye finde yt 'tis not from mediocrity this miracle hath issued. [5]
- Naught save misery and despair could come to him from so faithless a woman. [10]
Sentences ending with naught
- Last night's good work seemed to have gone for naught. [11]
- Yet in Egypt thou wilt kill, or thou shalt thyself be killed, and thy aims will come to naught. [11]
- But a fathomless pity stirred her heart, that Philip's life had been so futile and that all he had done was come to naught. [11]
- M'sieu' Doltaire rises not early for naught. [11]
- He told me naught. [11]
- Would all his labor and his love be for naught? [13]
- Dolly in holiday humour stopped for naught. [9]
- Instead of telling her of Luzanne Larue, and of what he would do if he found things going against him, instead of that he resolved to say naught. [11]
- Listen to him; he is reading aloud in impassioned tones: And have I coined my soul in words for naught? [6]
- The old man's fingers moved quickly among the strips of cane, and, after a silence, without raising his head, he said: "Thirty, it means naught. [11]
Short sentences using naught
- It matters naught to me. [11]
- Was naught due me? [11]
- And for naught else? [11]
- I wanted naught. [11]
Sentences containing naught two or more times
- Money's naught, naught's naught, if there isn't a friend to feel a crunch at his heart when summat bad happens to you. [11]
- It isn't human nature to sit still and do naught, and say naught, when things aren't going right for him in the place where things matter most. [11]
- The real Charley could remember naught of the other, could feel naught, save, as in the stirring industrious day, one remembers that he has dreamed a strange dream the night before, and cannot recall it, though the overpowering sense of it remains. [11]
- It is fighting and fighting, for honour, and glory, and houses and cattle, but naught for love, and naught that there may be peace. [11]
More example sentences with the word naught in them
- But the captain wadna hark to my rede when I tauld him naught but dool wad cooin o' taking Mungo. [9]
- The older felt transported to the past, the younger seemed to have naught save a present rich in blessing and a future green with hope. [10]
- His self-respect was trampled under foot, love and happiness were forfeited, there was naught before him save a colorless, charmless future, full of bitterness and mental anguish. [10]
- Herdegen she sent to the other end of the table to sit near his uncle, and Ursula far from him near the middle; to the end that it might be clearly seen that she knew naught of any alliance between that damsel and her nephew. [10]
- Hast thou naught to say but this--the fortune of Egypt burned to ashes! [11]
- I've got naught to live for except my friends. [11]
- Was there naught to have stayed your tongue and stemmed the tide in which you would engulf me? [11]
- What had belonged to Guida belonged to her for ever, belonged to a past life with which henceforth he should have naught to do. [11]
- They have naught to confess, being innocent, wherefore there will they remain until they die. [5]
- There's only this to be said: She's done naught yet, and she mayn't do aught! [11]
- In darkness, however, those things were naught, because judgment must depend on the eyes and senses of others. [11]
- By my life, there's naught to dread. [11]
- And for all the things that these men did--Fielding Bey and Donovan Pasha--they got naught but an Egyptian ribbon to wear on the breast and a laboured censure from the Administration for overrunning the budget allowance. [11]
- If he suspected the real trouble he said naught, but was gone before you could realize it. [11]
- And the honour--save that it was Pontiac-it was naught to her. [11]
- Joan said: "Paying taxes with naught to pay them with is what the rest of France has been doing these many years, but we never knew the bitterness of that before. [5]
- The man that succeeds fastens hard on what he wants to do-- the one big thing, and he does it, thinking of naught else. [11]
- I will not stand in the way, though if it is to be offered him, he must comprehend that I had naught to do with the matter. [9]
- In the garden she had been struck by the superiority of a nature which set at naught what had been, to some smaller spirits, a difficult situation. [9]
- In accordance with Roman law and Roman usage, the government being half-owner in all works of art found in the Campagna, the State has naught to do but pay five million francs to Mr. Arnold and take permanent possession of the beautiful statue. [5]
- Well, wealth and power, the friends so needed in dark days, had not been made, and Barode Barouche realized he had naught left. [11]
- It was a pity that so many weeks of dreary labor should have come to naught at last. [5]
- A thing of perfect beauty and of absolute finish in every detail, it might pass for the work of genii who knew naught of the weaknesses and ills with which mankind are beset. [5]
- But this is past, and naught remains That raised thee o'er the brute; Thy piercing shrieks and soothing strains Are like, forever mute. [7]
- Howbeit I at once brought her plot to naught and the young gentleman to shame. [10]
- I must go on alone, with naught of what makes life bearable; you will keep climbing higher by your vanity, your strength, and your deceit. [11]
- In sooth thy office must not be set at naught lightly--not when it is flanked by the perquage. [11]
- Philip knew naught of Ranulph save the story babbled by the islanders. [11]
- Then shall I not be damned for an unconfessed man that had naught to confess --wherefore, I shall be safe. [5]
- She said, 'she never thought o' naught o' t' sort as Miss sending her aught, and, she is sure, she can never thank her enough for it. [14]
- I have done naught, and never did, nor ever will, that might shame a king, or the daughter of a king, or the wife of a king, or a woman. [11]
- It can hurt naught to wait a little longer. [11]
- Erris Boyne was naught to me at all, but he was my daughter's father, and that made everything difficult. [11]
- She will be naught to him but one that belongs. [11]
- I will have naught to do with the army. [11]
- He would have naught to do with it, and so no preparations are made. [11]
- I will have naught to do with any Romany law. [11]
- It was in my heart to die upon the sheep-skin where I had prayed; for I was burned up within, and there seemed naught to do but say malaish, and go hence. [11]
- On this autumn morning, under this grey sky, from which sank a damp, light fog, with these hopes and fears in his heart, he beheld in both the present and future naught save shadows. [10]
- Through month after month of discouragement, and work gone for naught, and fever and death, his eyes never left his goal. [9]
- I hear the loved survivors tell How naught from death could save, Till every sound appears a knell, And every spot a grave. [7]
- But I can leave him naught, neither estates nor power. [11]
- Your honour well knows we have naught against either, and are as peaceful a mob as ever assembled. [9]
- So dies a human habitation left to natural decay, all that was seen above the surface of the soil sinking gradually below it, Till naught remains the saddening tale to tell Save home's last wrecks, the cellar and the well. [6]
- An I rack him to death and he confess not, it will peradventure show that he had indeed naught to confess--ye will grant that that is sooth? [5]
- She hasn't held her tongue for naught, and it's only fair to do as she's done all along, and hold ours. [11]
- Her conscience smote her that she should use such churls; but she gave it comfort by the thought that while serving her they could do naught worse; and her cause was good. [11]
- Keep in thy heart the joy of life and the truth of love, and the White Omen shall be naught to thee. [11]
- It was fortunate he no longer wished to wed Hornecht's daughter; it could have led to naught save trouble. [10]
- For a moment he could do naught but gaze at Lempriere. [11]
- From me she has naught to fear. [11]
- True, this something had naught in common with the brilliant spectacles of which there was no lack during this month of June; on the contrary, it was very quiet here. [10]
- Zaida was gone--I had brought food and a balass of water to her door those many times; there was naught to do, since she was gone--" Suddenly David took a step nearer to him and looked into the sullen and drooping eyes. [11]
- Chaudiere was far from anywhere: it knew little of the world, and the world knew naught of it, and this was a large problem for the Cure. [11]
- He cared naught for the succession, but there was ever with him the remembrance of Guida Landresse de Landresse, and what touched Philip d'Avranche he had come to associate with her. [11]
- Here are a few specimens of his pleasing _audacities_:-- "There is plenty of wild azote and carbon unappropriated, but it is naught till we have made it up into loaves and soup. [6]
- Men, who no feeling for the art had, laid me ever hindrance in the way and made naught my desire --sometimes by excuses, often by force. [5]
- There was naught else to foretell. [5]
- This was to continue to paralyze the usefulness of the church, to set at naught her mission, to alienate those who most had need of her, who hungered and thirsted after righteousness, and went away unsatisfied. [9]
- Yet you, whose cold heart knows naught of love, with my kiss still on your lips, disdain what I offer, from hatred of the hand to which I owe it. [10]
- We learn naught but that we get by the telephone from Camelot. [5]
- There was naught but kneeling and retiring. [11]
- She had arrived at that point where naught was to be gained by further concealment. [11]
- He was young, and tall and strong, had a hot temper, knew naught of human nature, was possessed by a pride more masterful than his wisdom, and a courage stronger than his tact. [11]
- All his plans and prophecies had come to naught. [11]
- He went dreaming about, thinking only of his fairy and caring for naught else in the world. [5]
- Among them was a woman who already was ill of a fever, and knew naught of what passed round her. [11]
- Spirit of dreams, a vision Well hast thou wrought for us; Fold high the veil Elysian, The past held naught for us; Years, what are they but spaces Set in a day for me? [11]
- They'll give ye a pretty tale,--the factors,--of a land of milk and honey, when it's naught but stripes and curses yell get. [9]
- Then she said: "Carnac's been here, but that has naught to do with what I said. [11]
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