13 examples of nugae in sentences

You must know he is just now diverted from the pursuit of BELL LETTERS by a paradox, which he has heard his friend Frend (that learned mathematician) maintain, that the negative quantities of mathematicians were merae nugae,things scarcely in rerum naturâ, and smacking too much of mystery for gentlemen of Mr. Frend's clear Unitarian capacity.

Once, when Mr. Seward was going to Bath, and asked his commands, he said, 'Tell Dr. Harrington that I wish he would publish another volume of the Nugae antiquae; it is a very pretty book.'

'It is his son,' she writes, 'who published those very curious remains of his ancestor [Sir John Harington] under the title Nugae Antiquae which my father and all of us were formerly so fond of.'

"The strange stories which Lucian here mentions may certainly be numbered, with all due deference to so great a name, amongst the nugae canorae of old Homer.

nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin^, platitude, niaiserie^; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae [Lat.]; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock

Epiphilledes hae sunt ut merae, nugae.

But these are most erroneous paradoxes, ineptae et fabulosae nugae, rejected by our divines and Christian churches.

What shall I say, then, but to every melancholy man, "Utere convivis, non tristibus utere amicis, Quos nugae et risus, et joca salsa juvant.

The following story, told of Domingo, occurs in Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Harington's Treatise on Playe, 1597, printed in the Nugae Antiquae, edit.

HARINGTON'S Nugae Antiqua, xxxv.

165, n.. 3; Goldsmith's projected Dictionary, ii. 204, n. 2; Gordon Riots, iii. 428, n. 4, 435, n. 2; Grub Street, had never visited, i. 296, n. 2; Hamilton, W. G., character of, i. 520; Harington's Nugae Antiquae, iv.

Nugae Antiquae, iv.

SEWARD, William, F.R.S., account of him, iii. 123; Batheaston Vase, perhaps wrote for the, ii. 337, n. 2; Harington's Nugae Antiquae, suggests a motto for, iv.

13 examples of  nugae  in sentences