248 examples of nothingness in sentences

And now in his ears were cries and groans and other hateful sounds, and to his nostrils came a reek of sweating flesh and the scent of trampled grass; while the moon's tender light showed faces wild and fierce, that came and went, now herenow there; it glinted on head-piece and ringed mail, and flashed back from whirling steela round, placid moon that seemed, all at once, to burst asunder and vanish, smitten into nothingness.

But it is his weakness to be proud; he derives, from a comparison of his own extraordinary mind with the dwarfish intellects that surround him, an intense apprehension of the nothingness of human life.

The Splendour flushed through the limbs of Adonais, and so became eclipsed,faded into nothingness.

This affirmation springs directly out of the consideration just presented to usthat even the leprous corpse does not, through various stages of decay, pass into absolute nothingness: on the contrary, its constituents take new forms, and subserve a re-growth of life, as in the flowers which bedeck the grave.

Not only that, but the papers in his hand had also faded away to absolute nothingness.

At twilight he had watched the lights spring up one by one, at first like pin pricks in the distance, growing and widening until the grotesque shapes of the buildings from which they sprung had faded into nothingness, and there was left only a velvet curtain of strangely-lit stars.

His head felt oddly light, as if it were full of air, a bubble of prismatic colours that might burst into nothingness at any moment.

The bartender said: "Beware of gnawing the ideogram of nothingness: Your teeth will crack.

The wrecks into nothingness!

He snorted the foolish thought into nothingness and after a glance back to make sure that his companions followed, he resolutely stepped out into the very heart of the man-scent.

She came at last, after crossing a long stretch of nothingness, to the town where Ann had lived, town from which she had gone forth to hear grand opera and find the loveliness of life.

As she walked slowly along she appreciated what Ann had said of the town's being walled in by nothingnessthe people walled in by nothingness.

When the last sound of their marching had sunk into nothingness, Tayoga said: "It was not the will of Tododaho that they should suspect our presence, but I fear that they go to a triumph.

The gray face was enough to bring tears to a woman's eyes, and the lank, ill-clothed form seemed in danger of thinning away to nothingness.

A people then could place its hand upon its title-deeds, and, looking back through half a score of centuries, trace its gradual development from nothingness to power.

ANSELM And you, who heed the colors of this show, Look to your laughter!It doth body forth A Judgment that may take you unaware, Sun-struck with mirth, like unto chattering leaves Some wind of wrath shall scourge to nothingness.

It begins with some grave reflections on the "folly and nothingness of all things human" as exemplified by the death of a king.

And man's first thoughts of the world and the strangely romantic life he is suddenly called up, out of nothingness, to live, unconsulted, uninstructed, left to feel his way in the blinding radiance up into which he has been mysteriously thrust; those first thoughts of his are nowadays being corroborated in every direction by the last thoughts of the latest thinker.

that nothingness of the past,the most probable nothingness of the future!

that nothingness of the past,the most probable nothingness of the future!

And for this very reason, while it is neither pious nor thankful to explain away the words which convey it, while it is a duty to use them, not less a duty is it to use them humbly, diffidently, and teachably, with the thought of God before us, and of our own nothingness.

the dead Ere the first day of death is fled; The first dark day of nothingness.

Darkness, on the contrary, by replunging nature, as it were, into a state of nothingness, and depriving man of the pleasurable emotions conveyed through the organ of sight, was ever held in abhorrence, as a source of misery and fear.

This nothingness, however, together with the phenomena, remain within the boundary of the will to live and are based on it.

What I had felt vaguely before and stifledthe nothingness of life, the inevitableness of satietyI repudiated utterly, now that they were personified in you; I would not recognize the fact of their existence.

248 examples of  nothingness  in sentences