His talents were cosmopolitan; his tastes international; he had no duties, few pleasures and that entire want of leisure known only to those who have practically nothing whatever to do.

So, with grim determination, he sent to the hammer every article he possessed, till he had literally nothing left but the clothes in which he stood.

He saw virtually nothing of Brodie.

so great and I comparatively nothing.

First he was eager to learn regarding the battle of Oriskany, for those inside the fort knew nothing whatsoever of that disastrous ambush, save such as could be guessed by the reports of the firearms and the bearing of the Indians after they beat a retreat.

There is no breeze and consequently nothing to make our bonny ship move, so she stands still.

" "Positively nothing.

There had been nothing inside but the necklace: not a card, not a scrap of paper.

Nationally nothing.

She wanted to speak to me in confidence, and yet she would reveal to me nothingabsolutely nothing.

Do you happen to have seen or heard anything of her?" "Nothing," the ambassador replied; "nothing personally, at any rate.

I see nothing outside, except a sort of smiling, straw-haired commercial traveller with a notebook open, who says, "Excuse me, I am a faultless being, I have persuaded Poland; I can count on my respectful Allies in Alsace.

When I give way to an impulse to the first, I care for nothing worldly, and am at peace.

Like Cassio, he will remember "a mass of things, but nothing distinctly.

To the credit of the English race nothing so dastardly and vulgar can be found elsewhere in English literature.

"Nothing, Miss Pillbody; decidedly nothing."

The Bible, I say; for the sacred books of the heathen say, most of them, nothing thereof.

"Fortunately nothing.

None marvelled to see that the boat was missing; nothing afloat could live in that seething maelstrom, thickened with melted earth and tangled with fallen trees.

Except, therefore, for one short snatch of song on his part, nothing untoward marked the occasion, and presently we rose, with instructions from Aunt Dahlia to put on festal raiment and be at Market Snodsbury not later than 3.30.

"In the latter we have not merely nothing, to denote what the point should be; but no indication, that any point at all is wanting.

But until my tour began, as I see now, easily enough, I knew nothingliterally nothing at all!

But entails were nothing nowadays.

We've got to make a front-rank team out ofnearly nothing!" "Aren't there any good players who have been holding back?"

"Nothing that I know ofthere is but one antidote, it is said, and that is the rattlesnake weed,the Indians believe it to be a certain cure for the bite, but I don't know it by sight.