Our electronic search ended in nought but disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slumdog Millionaire Wins All The BAFTAs. All Of Them.] Reference

I can make a nought, which is not asy, being roond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870] Reference

I've never heard her called nought but Bess, you see. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Daughters] Reference

He started and gazed around "Solitude!" cried he, with a faint smile; "nought is here, but Wallace and his sorrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Chiefs] Reference

I ask thee to say nought, that is all, and to shelter the maid, who hath been as thine own daughter, yet a little longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference

All the previous corruption sagas have come to nought, which is partly why many Nigerians are cynical about the anti-corruption moves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-10-01] Reference

Yet nought is vain which gratitude inspires!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 128] Reference

Where nought is to love, Thou art kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of St. Teresa] Reference

I see, my second is "nought," and what is my first?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fruits of Culture] Reference

Interest as cause of variation, 131 in representation of "nought," 296, 297.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference

Every figure tells; -- the figure 'nought' especially, puts an extra thousand on the whole quantity!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master-Christian] Reference

Protracted deliberations on this scale pretty much ensure that we have gone beyond 'nought' and passed into negative territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Rachel was playing, as many did in her day, on the similarity of sound between "nought," nothing, and "naught," good-for-nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada] Reference

And nought but complaints through the forest arose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

The tranquil steers shall nought but garlands bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference

For in one hour are so great riches come to nought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

Danes and Two hundred years from nine-nought-nought.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Humorous History of England] Reference

Where nought is the same but the wide-spreading sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

And, when there's nought to govern, thy fame springs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

They had nought but old cares and new sorrows to sing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

Till he e'en got the ague, still nought could prevail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

Let its waves be my mourners; nought living will weep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

There nought sounded harsh but the school-calling bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

She holds it as nought compared with the one she loves.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

And this is nought but common life, which everybody finds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

Those brave labors and that noble life was not for nought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

But I can see nought for it but to look out for a job elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

For America, might is right and ethical principles matter nought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Memories Of 9-11] Reference

For if this council or this work be of men, it will come to nought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 51: Acts The Challoner Revision] Reference

A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference

Do you think we have nought to do but to open the door for such raff as you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference

"The Spirit of the Lord breatheth upon it," and it is surely brought to nought.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

And unto those so boldly I dare say that nought but truth John Fox cloth here bewray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry] Reference

And setting nought by the honours of their fathers, they esteemed the Grecian glories for the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 46: 2 Machabees The Challoner Revision] Reference

Kieswetter has edged Sean Ervine on nought straight to first slip, where James Vince puts down the simplest of chances.    From Wordnik.com.  [County cricket – as it happened] Reference