nihility
Example Sentences
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Eternity is not of longer duration than one second spent in nihility.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
The matter under consideration was how to return Brassfield to his much-to-be-desired nihility: how to recover Amidon from his relapse into occultation.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell
No one has better expressed the anguish of a troubled and despairing soul, such as we find in the old harp-player in Wilhelm Meister, or the splendid nihility of certain poems of Michelangelo.
From Musicians of To-Day by Mary Blaiklock
At the happiest periods of my existence I often became a prey to grim dejection such as nobody could understand but which was caused by the thought of impending nihility.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility.
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous