Do we say aught or ought

aught 1392 occurrences

Nails it had also, but so long and powerful that they were more like the talons of an eagle than aught else.

Then, when I knew I had been in every corner and cranny large enough to conceal aught of any size, I made my way to the stairs.

Slowly, as the days slid by, my fear of the Swine-things became an emotion of the pastmore an unpleasant, incredible memory, than aught else.

The light it threw, was extraordinarily powerful; yet its color was so abominably unfamiliar, that such of the world as I could see, showed unreal; more as though I looked out upon a landscape of shadow, than aught else.

For a while, many thoughts crowded my mind, so that I was unable to do aught, save stare, blindly, before me.

"Snort not, my gentle Roger, for I fell in company with him ere he knew aught of theeso thy snort availeth nothing, my Rogerkin.

But its awful prophecy was what affected me most now; for destruction had fallen on something more tender than aught that cabinet held.

It is in communion with the spirits who have lived in the times that are past, and with the starsthose historians of the times to comethat I feel aught of joy.

Each peasant thought a favor was conferred on him if one of Nero's chosen band would accept aught at his hands.

Shall I bid them do aught but cling to the feet of Christ and cry, "If it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt."

At last he said, in a deep, husky voice, "Now, if aught of harm befalls thee because of this day's doings, I swear by Saint George that the red cock shall crow over the rooftree of this house, for the hot flames shall lick every crack and cranny thereof.

This alternative may occupy our Courts of Justice, for aught I know, longer than you or I can hope to live.

One of them, however, seemed actuated by some desperate purpose, and to be regardless of aught else.

God forbid that I ask aught but that you will be my wife.

" "Hast thou aught for me?"

"Hast thou aught new, Gelsomina?" repeated the Bravo, reading her innocent face with his searching gaze.

The man walks the piazza with a step as lordly as the Doge, at his pleasure, and yet none say aught to him!

Nor aught demands but that we loving be, As he himself hath loved us aforehand, And bound thereto with an eternal band Him first to love that us so dearly bought, And next our brethren, to his image wrought.

The earth shall quake, if aught his wrath provoke; Let him but touch the mountains, they shall smoke.

Save me alike from foolish pride Or impious discontent, At aught thy wisdom has denied, Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.

Save me alike from foolish pride Or impious discontent, At aught thy wisdom has denied, Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.

As it is a place, however, which we are very little acquainted with, they may be mistaken, and Lucian may guess as well as ourselves, for aught we can prove to the contrary.

With respect to what is related, I considered it my duty to 'extenuate nothing, nor set down aught in malice;' and with those lighter strokes of Dr. Johnson's satire, proceeding from a warmth and quickness of imagination, not from any malevolence of heart, and which, on account of their excellence, could not be omitted, I trust that they who are the subject of them have good sense and good temper enough not to be displeased.

And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us; neither hast thou taken aught of any man's hand."

While he is present, none of the wealthier guests may pay aught to the shot without much vehemence, without danger of unkindness.

ought 21376 occurrences

Her lips were parted, and she breathed a little faster than so healthy a girl ought to breathe in a state of repose.

He himself sings more like a bird than any other poet, because it never occurred to him, as to Goethe, that he ought to do so.

"I heerd the little ones and some of the old ones tellin' what they was goin' to give Mary Pynchon when she got married; and it set me to thinkin' what I could give her, for I knew if anybody ought to give her anything, it was me.

What ought I to forego?

Ought I that impulse to obey?

Both in feeling and in conduct, habit is the only thing which imparts certainty; and it is because of the importance to others of being able to rely absolutely on one's feelings and conduct, and to oneself of being able to rely on one's own, that the will to do right ought to be cultivated into this habitual independence.

And hence the sentiment of injustice came to be attached, not to all violations of law, but only to violations of such laws as ought to exist, including such as ought to exist but do not; and to laws themselves, if supposed to be contrary to what ought to be law.

We do not call anything wrong, unless we mean to imply that a person ought to be punished in some way or other for doing it; if not by law, by the opinion of his fellow creatures; if not by opinion, by the reproaches of his own conscience.

To give any meaning to Kant's principle, the sense put upon it must be, that we ought to shape our conduct by a rule which all rational beings might adopt with benefit to their collective interest.

Thus, a person is said to have a right to what he can earn in fair professional competition; because society ought not to allow any other person to hinder him from endeavouring to earn in that manner as much as he can.

Have mankind been under a delusion in thinking that justice is a more sacred thing than policy, and that the latter ought only to be listened to after the former has been satisfied?

It has gone into 150 editions in Patagonia, where the editions are very large, and ought to be in great demand in this country.

It is deplorable to think how much the mind is influenced by internal circumstances which ought to have nothing to do with the spirit.

The present inhabitants ought to take comfort from this reflection, but they do not.

We ought to have the best medical advice.'

I ought to have spoken about it to you before; but the subject is a delicate one.

I'll read you the act as it stands, and then tell you how I think it ought to be altered.

Tell me all.' 'He said that you ought to have a changethat you should go south somewhere.'

'And you agree with him that I ought to go away?' 'Is he not the best judge?the doctor's orders!'

" "If people have a certain position, they ought to make up their minds to the duties of their position, whether they are called to them or not.

I ought to keep both eyes tight shut so that I may be contented in that station to which it has pleased God to call me.

Yet she ought to know; for he was Jasper's laboratory servantat

It is very neat and pretty; but they really treat the poor girls as if they ought to be thankful for permission to exist.

"] "And if there be no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected.

and, if convicted of no other crime, though the loyal Brotherhood must and ought to disown his rebellion, and give no umbrage or ground of political jealousy to the government for the time being, they cannot expel him from the lodge, and his relation to it remains indefeasible" The lodge can, therefore, take no cognizance of religious or political offenses.

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