nihil
Example Sentences
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De mortuis nihil nisi bonum is a lovely motto.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2018
He once wrote, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.”
From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2016
This emergence of subjective feelings from physical stuff appears inconceivable and is at odds with a basic precept of physical thinking, the Ur-conservation law—ex nihilo nihil fit.
From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: Of the dead say nothing unless it is kind.
From Slate • Aug. 2, 2012
Item arabit in estate 3 acras et de beneerthe 3 rodas ut in hyeme, set nihil arabit de filsinger�e.'
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul
