nought
Example Sentences
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Cocoa Fowler runs Food for Nought, which delivers the food parcels to those who need them.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2022
Nought did the wind upon the waves keep her from her course as she rode the billows.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 2, 2014
“Wurr! Thankee kindly. Nought Ioik vedgible soop to keep’n loif in uz moles.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Nought is felt but dullest pain, Pain acute, yet dead; Pain as in a dream, When years go by Funeral-paced, yet fugitive, When man lives, and doth not live, Doth not live—nor die.
From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Nought of all this did we desire of him: in fact, nothing but safe conduct and moderate charges.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward
