bring to naught
Example Sentences
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Lords, for God's sake, let us not bring to naught the great honour that God has given us.
From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Villehardouin, Geoffroi de
We, armed with powers of penance, might Destroy the rovers of the night: But loth were we to bring to naught The merit years of toil have bought.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Let thy thoughts", he cried, "dwell in Babylon, which in thy wrath thou didst bring to naught.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
So Providence moves on in his mysterious power to bring to naught the grandeur and power of rebellious nations—rebellious to those mighty moral laws which are as inexorable as the laws of nature.
From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John
To bring to naught anything of that nature, he determined to wage war against Yozarro and shatter the opportunity that fortune had placed in the hands of that detested individual.
From Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
