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Sentences starting with nothing

Nothing has befallen your father's younger son; and if I were a philosopher, like Philip, I should be moved to wonder why a man can only be wet when the rain falls on him, and yet can be so wretched when disaster falls on another. [10]
Nothing exists but you. [5]
Nothing that I would not have done for the merest stranger. [9]
Nothing can be worse than what we have to suffer now, so let's make a break for it. [11]
Nothing in this world--and that is just the truth. [5]
Nothing in this world is palled in such impenetrable obscurity as a U.S. Treasury Comptroller's understanding. [5]
Nothing in the world could save the King of England; nor me, which was more important. [5]
Nothing in the world could have made the impulse which moved me more powerful, more masterful, more thoroughly irresistible. [5]
Nothing in this world can save it from being a shabby, poor disgusting performance. [5]
Nothing in the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up the details of a bloody and mysterious murder and writing them up with aggravating circumstantiality. [5]

Sentences ending with nothing

I haven't brought you up for nothing. [9]
But really, when you come to examine it critically, it was nothing. [5]
But for two years, and with leisure, he did nothing. [4]
But in these years he was writing little or nothing. [6]
The late Silas Wright, in a letter to the Chicago convention, contributed his, which was worth something; and I now contribute mine, which may be worth nothing. [7]
Perhaps his patient would try to beat him down, and Doctor Benjamin made up his mind to have the whole or nothing. [6]
And of another world we know nothing. [9]
What's more, he's working for Louis Trudel for nothing. [11]
Also, he was working for Louis Trudel for nothing. [11]
We were among woods and rocks, hills and gorges--so shut in, in fact, that when we peeped through a chink in a curtain, we could discern nothing. [5]

Short sentences using nothing

Can nothing teach you, Carnac? [11]
We said that was nothing. [5]
She said this was nothing. [4]
Nothing there but vacancy! [5]
Nothing can part us. [10]
This was nothing uncommon. [4]
Am I nothing to you--nothing? [11]
Am I nothing to you? [13]
There was nothing to see. [11]
Have you nothing to say? [5]

Sentences containing nothing two or more times

And then he will recall me when I say, "Do you remember that trip we made from Ballarat to Bendigo, when you were nothing but Father C., and I was nothing to what I am now? [5]
We had the whole Pacific Ocean in front of us, with nothing to do but do nothing and be comfortable. [5]
Nothing could be whiter; nothing could be purer; nothing could be saintlier of aspect. [5]
So he asked, while he suppressed a smile: "And if I can foretell nothing bad, but also nothing actually good? [10]
They eat nothing whatever but bread and salt; they drink nothing but water. [5]
A State may well say to the nation, "If you will do nothing for me, I will do nothing for you. [7]
When the forenoon was nearly gone, she recognized with a pang that this most splendid episode of her life was almost over, that nothing could prolong it, that nothing quite its equal could ever fall to her fortune again. [5]
He heard nothing, was conscious of nothing, save his own grim, fantastic imaginings. [11]
Words realize nothing, vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe. [5]
But Paula--you must understand that Paula had nothing, positively nothing whatever to do with the stealing of the emerald. [10]

More example sentences with the word nothing in them

You long for your sister; go to her, I have nothing more to say against it. [10]
If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
I received both your letters, and although I have not answered them it is not because I have forgotten them, or been uninterested about them, but because it appeared to me that I could write nothing which would do any good. [7]
Besides, but for your interruption, I should have said nothing about my father. [10]
For a year your husband has sent nothing of importance. [10]
You are inside, your hands are outside; so there you are; nothing but iron between. [5]
The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
He also was young, but nothing about him suggested power, only self-indulgence. [11]
A good many young people think nothing about life as it presents itself in the far horizon, bounded by the snowy ridges of threescore and the dim peaks beyond that remote barrier. [6]
If you are young Matanesse Van Wibisma, you have nothing to fear from me. [10]
I am not you; I am a physician, one who has nothing to do except to take the field against suffering and death. [10]
And I tell you, once for all, I say thank you for nothing for such friends. [10]
If I were you, De Conte, I would name the emotion; it's nothing to be ashamed of. [5]
Oh, nothing that you would value, maybe. [5]
I hope that you will think nothing of the--the mistake at the gate. [9]
Fust I thot you was deef and dumb, then I thot you was sick or crazy, or suthin', and then by and by I begin to reckon you was a passel of sickly fools that couldn't think of nothing to say. [5]
I would advise you to drop in there some time when you have nothing to do for--five minutes--if you have never been there: It seems to me the noblest monument that this nation has yet erected to her greatness. [5]
There's nothing for you to be scared about. [13]
But--from the way you spoke, I should have thought nothing could have kept you away. [9]
Do nothing till you see me. [11]
Well, just as you say, but I wished to be fair and liberal there's nothing mean about me. [5]
He says: "Don't you play nothing on me, because I wouldn't on you. [5]
I will let you off at twenty-eight per cent.--twenty-seven--even twenty-five if you insist, for there is nothing illiberal about me when I am out on a diplomatic debauch. [5]
I see in you now nothing but Nelly's husband, rolling in gold and silver. [12]
Did Andrew tell you nothing of His life? [10]
And I'm telling you nothing but the unvarnished truth when I say that not one single drop of rain fell on me--not a single drop, sir! [5]
Has Phaon told you nothing about his father's wishes? [10]
It will give you no trouble and is nothing unworthy of you, but it will comfort me. [2]
And you said you loved me, and that nothing could change you! [11]
Papa requires nothing, you know, but plain beef and mutton, tea and bread and butter; but a nurse will probably expect to live much better; give me some hints if you can. [14]
Behave as if you know nothing either," she said. [2]
But of course you know her already," he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with whom he now found nothing in common. [2]
On that subject you know all I have said to you is "justice to all," and I have said nothing more particular to any one. [7]
And now that you have returned to your home in the great city I must write you a few lines of welcome, if nothing more. [6]
I've been onto you for a good while; though there was nothing I could spot certain; but now I've got you, and I'll break the 'perfect friendship' or I'll eat my shirt. [11]
There's nothing behind you except the wildness of youth--nothing at all. [11]
There is nothing you could do to surprise me. [9]
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. [5]
I wonder that you can make yourself contented here with nothing to do. [11]
Should they meet you anywhere, kisses in abundance in fine, wherever you move there is nothing but kisses"--a custom, says this reformer, who has not the fear of Stubbes before his eyes, "never to be sufficiently commended. [4]
I must escort you and Agatha, for nothing unpleasant must happen to her on the way home. [10]
But nothing had yet been said about Biberli. [10]
The examinations of yesterday count for nothing to-day--he makes a new examination every day. [5]
You've had several years of useful work in the Pindar Shops and the Wire Works, to say nothing of a course in biological chemistry, psychology and sociology under Dr. Jonathan. [9]
During the first years of my convalescence I could enjoy nothing save what came or was brought to me. [10]
He spent three years at the University of Aleala, and nothing but good news of him reached her. [10]
If nothing goes wrong, we'll strike the ledge in June--and if we do, I'll be home in July, you know. [5]
There was nothing wrong, and even where mischief was concerned I can term it to-day "harmless. [10]
There was nothing wrong or unseemly in what they said, it was witty and might have been funny, but it lacked just that something which is the salt of mirth, and they were not even aware that such a thing existed. [2]
I wished to write to him, but I am afraid only you would tolerate my writing so much when I have nothing to say. [6]
Suppose I did write eleven books, have you nothing to be grateful for? [5]
Again, old Mr. Wright, who lives up South Fork somewhere, is teasing me continually about some deeds which he says he left with you, but which I can find nothing of. [7]
And Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen, treasurer of the widely known Miles Standish Bicycle Company, was said to have led the cotillon in a manner that left nothing to be desired. [9]
Roaring like a wounded bull, cursing and raging, he laid about him on all sides with his staff, but hit nothing but the ground. [10]
There's nothing I wouldn't do to make you happy--you know that. [9]
Go where you would, you heard nothing else, from morning till far into the night. [5]
This day perhaps would witness the sunset of his life's joy, would drive him forth once more to war--to fight, and do nothing but fight, till death should meet him on the battle-field. [10]
The old palace would still be great if there were nothing of it but the spacious and lofty hall where the durbars are held. [5]
Hang it, he would say to himself, she is nothing but pure intellect anyway. [5]
At first he would not; but when Caroche said that it was only his fun, that he meant nothing against Francois, the young man recited the words slowly--an epitaph on one who was little better than a prize-fighter, a splendid bully. [11]
After that he would have nothing more to do with the family estates. [10]
In sooth, nothing would have induced Kasana to take this step save the torturing dread of being scorned and execrated as a base traitress by the man whom she loved. [10]
In America this would have been a heavy leathern strap; but, all over the continent it is nothing but a piece of rope the size of your little finger--clothes-line is what it is. [5]
Probably, too, it would have afforded still greater consolation to the poor dying woman, whom nothing troubled so sorely as her guilt for the doom of her unfortunate husband. [10]
I said: "It would end our adventures at the very start; and we, being without weapons, could do nothing with that armed gang. [5]
She said she would do her best by him, because, whether he was good, bad, or indifferent, he was the Lord's, and nothing that was the Lord's was a thing to be neglected. [5]
The man, however, would concede nothing but a permission to speak with his captive. [10]
Very likely nothing would come of all this espionage; but, at any rate, the first thing to be done with a man you want to have in your power is to learn his habits. [6]
The College plain would be nothing without its elms. [6]
I said it would be a good idea to get some more garrisons to help him; but they said no, he had nothing to do but hold the place, and he was competent to do that, had done it two years already. [5]
In payment he would accept nothing save the ordinary fees, as though it were some petty case in a county court. [11]
There was nothing worthy of special note in the trip to Frederick, except our passing a squad of Rebel prisoners, whom I missed seeing, as they flashed by, but who were said to be a most forlorn-looking crowd of scarecrows. [6]
There was nothing worth seeing on the Big Ivy way. [4]
It is the worst of policy, to say nothing of its being the worst of art; and life should never be without art. [11]
The Thugs were worshipers of Bhowanee; and to this god they sacrificed anybody that came handy; but they kept the dead man's things themselves, for the god cared for nothing but the corpse. [5]
Don't be so worried about me, dear; I think there is nothing to fear, yet. [5]
She should have worn nothing else but the hue of roses. [9]
It was another world, where sin and sorrow never came; a tranquil place of rest, where nothing evil entered. [12]
Of the numerous works which Hermon completed in the service of the first three art-loving rulers of the new Pergamenian kingdom, Philetaerus, Eumenes, and Attalus, nothing was preserved except the head of a Gaul. [10]
I meant to work this racket more and more, as time wore on, if nothing occurred to frighten me. [5]
He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings. [11]
The law of work does seem utterly unfair--but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. [5]
Tarboe pursued his work at the mills successfully; Junia saw nothing of Carnac, but she had a letter from him, and it might have been written by a man to his friend, yet with an undercurrent of sadness that troubled her. [11]
The poetry of Wordsworth may have suggested the prose of Emerson, but the prose loses nothing by the comparison. [6]
There's nothing he won't do, from biting to bolting. [11]
The story has won the attention and enjoyed the favor of a limited class of readers, and if it still continues to interest others of the same tastes and habits of thought I can ask nothing more of it. [6]
However, the elder woman was sturdy and determined, and sixty years of age; while Melissa feared nothing, and thought herself sufficiently protected when she had arranged her kerchief so as to hide her face from curious eyes. [10]
But a woman--a woman like me--wants to be first, or nothing. [9]
Come weal, come woe, come dark, come light, I have fixed my mind, and nothing shall change it. [11]
Nothing is got without paying for it. [11]
It was now within three-quarters of an hour of noon, and in that house all was as still as before; the Patriarch, however, might be expected to be punctual, and she had done nothing towards dressing but putting on those gilt sandals. [10]
Mr. Martin followed with: "He reported that I do slack the service in the colony, and do nothing but tend my pot, spit, and oven; but he hath starved my son, and denied him a spoonful of beer. [4]
Nothing the matter with your mind. [5]
Pontius had travelled with them from Thebes to Besa, and she had spared him nothing that could punish him for his long absence, and had mercilessly compelled him to listen to all her verses on Antinous. [10]
Sadly, in accordance with the treaty which Monsieur Talleyrand had known nothing about, his Catholic Majesty instructed his Intendant at New Orleans to make ready to deliver Louisiana to the French Commission. [9]
If she is with the right man, near or far is nothing. [11]
To me, preoccupied with the knowledge that the tug would soon be upon us, there seemed nothing strange in the attitude of these two, but Miss Trevor remarked something out of the common at once. [9]
Nothing to interfere with the house of gold. [4]
The atmosphere, charged with presage for him, gave him nothing. [9]
Instead of this, with only a smattering of civil engineering, he is at his mother's house, fretting and fuming over his ill-luck, and the hardness and, dishonesty of men, and thinking of nothing but how to get the coal out of the Ilium hills. [5]

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