All my efforts led to naught. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It was all for naught. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
And naught is left to seek or find of all that I desired. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Road to Paradise] Reference
Deity who hath power over all and from whom naught is hidden, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Avaunt, O Whiteness,463 wherein naught of brightness gladdens sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
But naught is better for generous youth than patience under its cares and miseries. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Now naught is left of Ukraina save her songs – but in that song she still lives, engraved in the heart of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Ukraina, With Ruthenian Poems] Reference
Replied I, By thy life, I am rich in naught save ignorance!’. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
You can try all the campaigns you like - try writing to whomever you like, and it will all end in naught. From Wordnik.com. [Go! Now! Start!] Reference
The only way to make a dukkeripen come to naught is to make another dukkeripen what conterdicks it come true. From Wordnik.com. [Aylwin] Reference
And naught from the English, save a noose. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
Only the king called it "naught" instead of naughty. From Wordnik.com. [The Horse and His Boy]
Etymologically you're right: historically, the word comes from 'naught' + a participial form of 'withstand'. From Wordnik.com. [On postpositions] Reference
Fertile in naught but faking. From Wordnik.com. [An Ode to Hollywood] Reference
That I call naught but scums. From Wordnik.com. [Revised Edition of Poems] Reference
Of the present naught is bright. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Hand] Reference
Is it not to his soul like the waters of Jericho -- "naught," or nothing?. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk] Reference
↑ Pronounced exactly like 'naught', which means 'nothing' in a few phrases: 'I shall stop at naught'. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
"Nay, I have naught for thee this morning," said Mary Antony to the robin; "naught, that is, save spritely conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
With ending lines hands up to my ignorance how else do you pronounce 'naught' other than in the first bit of 'nautical'?. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
None of it was for naught; communication never is. From Wordnik.com. [My Son's Unfinished Life--And Mine] Reference
To swell small things to great; nay, out of naught. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
No! she saw in the child naught but the daily walk. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She said nothing, and nada, and naught, but projected a. From Wordnik.com. [Algae Freunden] Reference
We have naught but this moment merely ourselves to blame. From Wordnik.com. [The Statue of a Writer] Reference
Writ, as they say, I'd believe naught against Mr. Trent. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
But nearly every year, all that potential goes for naught. From Wordnik.com. [The State of Disappointment] Reference
Otherwise, all other efforts on the MDGs will come to naught. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Bredenkamp: Making up for Lost Time: Getting Back on Track to the Millennium Development Goals] Reference
naught, naught, carry the one-how hard is that to remember?. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Nietzsche, C.P.A.] Reference
A rescue plan mounted by Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan came to naught. From Wordnik.com. [What Goes Around] Reference
But their arguments are for naught, the war is now simply indefensible. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Mull: Anti-War, at Home and Abroad] Reference
However, for one reason or another, the experiments all came to naught. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
I was wrestling the thing itself, dominant X, where that stands for true naught. From Wordnik.com. [The Struggle Leaving] Reference
He who undertakes such a task will earn naught but derision and will deserve it!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
From Delphi to iGuide to his son James 'dotcom investments to MySpace -- all for naught. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Wolff: Once Again Into the Breach: Rupert Murdoch Dreams of a Digital Newspaper] Reference
It is naught, it is naught, saith every buyer: and when he is gone away, then he will boast. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
The weakness of my bladder may at some point prove other-wise, but just now I want for naught. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing At All] Reference
Frantz and Desiree talked together in undertones, hearing naught of what was said around them. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Prophets of the downfall of American democracy have seen their dire predictions come to naught. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
How many hearts, how many families where there is naught but ruin, since that word was first heard!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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