Admit that a woman, when she becomes a wife does not become a mere nonentity, or I leave you to journey alone.'

Harrison was, as always, the lank and cadaverous nonentity, the man of negative suspicions and infinite reserves.

The elder girls were domesticated and acquainted now at Outledge; there were several matronly ladies with whom the whole party was sufficiently associated in daily intercourse for all the air of chaperonage that might be needed; and one assistant pupil, whom, to be sure, the young ladies themselves counted as a most convenient nonentity, was left in nominal charge.

In other words, they were dismissed as curious nonentities, of no real significance to the running of the body.

Plays by people who never got into any schedule of English letters that ever was planned, dramatic nonentities, stage innocents massacred in their cradles, if only they were published in quarto I find room for them.

Jim Driscollthat pitiful nonentity, with his stout mistrustful commonplace wife!

His performances in debate are no concern of mine, for I am speaking of conversation only; but most Members of Parliament will agree that he is the best companion that can be found for the last weary half-hour before the division-bell rings, when some eminent nonentity is declaiming his foregone conclusions to an audience whose whole mind is fixed on the chance of finding a disengaged cab in Palace Yard.

A second attempt to prove the historical nonentity of Dr. Faustus was made at Wittenberg, in the year 1683.

What in Dryden or Otway might be the force of originality may be safely taken as the drift of the age in these imitative and floating nonentities.

The assertion of their absolute reality, on the other hand, involves us in sheer absurdities (that is, it necessitates the assumption of two infinite nonentities which exist, but without being anything real, merely in order to comprehend all reality, and on one of which even our own existence would be dependent), in view of which the origin of so peculiar a theory as the idealism of Berkeley appears intelligible.

Anyhow, I quite agree with Juke that it is comic to see poor little nonentities like Frank Potter caught in it, tangled up in it, and trying to get free and carry on as though it wasn't there.

Jim Driscollthat pitiful nonentity, with his stout mistrustful commonplace wife!

And what self-complacent claiming of remote, powerful ancestors who had founded their families, when those ancestors would have disclaimed them as puny nonentities.

There she was, clever, independent, successful, holding her own in the world, earning her living, fascinating a crowd of people, whilst we poor respectable nonentities sat pretending to despise heras if we were not waiting until some man in want of a female slave should offer us our board and lodging and the privilege of his lordly name with 'Missis' before it for our lifelong services.

Hermia, his mad vagabond Hermia, was ready to tie herself for life to that automatic nonentity at Westport who trailed, a patient shadow in Hermia's swirling wake.

He is a bombastic mutt, a windjammer nonentity, a false alarm, and an encumberer of the earth!" "Would you mind writing all that down for me?" "Why in the world" "He's my husband, and I should like to use it on him some time.