Such thyngs are swayd by chaunce: And naughts more arrogant than Ignorance.

"I lack only one of having a hundred," said a student after an examination; "I have the two naughts."

Dear Sarah,I found my way to Northaw on Thursday and a very good woman behind a counter, who says also that you are a very good lady but that the woman who was with you was naught.

Logging is a most important use to which the Columbia River is put, and when immense masses of timber come thundering down the Dalles, at a speed sometimes as great as fifty miles an hour, all preconceived notions of order and safety are set at naught.

There is on the Quai of St Lucia a restaurant where naught but fish is served, but that is so well dressed and in such variety that amateurs frequently come to dine here on maigre days; for two carlini you may eat fish of all sorts and bread at discretion.

There was naught in it that he should not have readit was but to tell him that the French were upon him, the posse comitatus of seven counties were rising, and so forth.

Thousands of Christians once lived in caves of the rocks around this mountain, which then was covered with chapels and gardens: at the present day naught but scattered ruins remain to prove the truth of these statements.

One military leader after another has usurped the Government in rapid succession, and the various constitutions from time to time adopted have been set at naught almost as soon as they were proclaimed.

The hasty color, true and fine, was like a spell against enchantment; it was the drop that tested the virtue of this chemistry and proved it naught.

For a while it was well attended, and I hoped to be able to benefit in some measure the poor and despised colored children, but the parents interested themselves very little in the undertaking, and it shortly came to naught.

I had spent my time, wasted my substance for naught, and was now returning to my dependant family,that, with myself, had been stripped of nearly every means of comfort and support.

Was his great effort to come to naught?

Nor shall their labor be for naught, nor the reward of their sacrifice fail them.

A pain the guilty never make us know, In all the miseries they cause below; A pain which they in every triumph feel, A humbling sense no glory yet could heal, The want of conscious worth, the poignant thought, That inwardly sets all pretence at naught!

He was a big Hie'land laddie, and he wore naught but his kilt and his semmethis undershirt.

On the outer end of that line snaked a sixty-foot stick, five feet across the butt, but it came down to the chute head, brushing earth and brush and small trees aside as if they were naught.

Intellectual pleasures were naught to him but fountains of ennui, and being a very honest, frank sort of a person, he took no pains to conceal the fact, and it ruined his chances with Miss Henderson, at whose feet he had more than once laid the contents of the deposit-boxesfiguratively, of courseas well as the use of his stables and himself.

The plan drawn up by the congress was not approved by the colonies, so the scheme of union came to naught.

"Silence, you good-for-naughts!" said a third voice sternly.

Thus ever varying all things seem "Fickle as a changeful dream;" And naught is left of that gay train, My gentle bird, but thy sweet strain.

But, like all their dreams, this came to naught.

It has nothing to do with emotion: it exposes the chemistry of a tear, the mechanism of laughter; but of sorrow and happiness it has naught to say.

It was rendered possible only by the temper of the people and by the peculiar circumstances which also rendered the earlier conspiracies possible; and it came to naught for the same reasons that they came to naught, and was even more hopeless, because it was undertaken later, when the conditions were less favorable.

Artillery accomplishes naught.

Oh for a life of leisure and broad hours, To think and dream, to put away small things, This world's perpetual leaguer of dull naughts; To wander like the bee among the flowers