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Example sentences for "for aught"

  • But, for aught I see, fortune has used us both alike: I have a strange kind of mistress too in court, besides her I am to marry.

  • Any amount of stores would be destroyed, some thousand of rifles, and, for aught I know, all those waggons with tarpaulins over them are full of cartridges.

  • We will fall back now," Chris said, "for aught we know a party of them may be working round somewhere to take us in rear.

  • But, for aught he knew, she might be afflicted by every vice to which a woman can be subject.

  • In his heart he believed Mr. Emilius to be an impostor, who might, for aught he knew, pick his pocket; and Miss Macnulty had no attraction for him.

  • For aught he knew, Lady Eustace might bring an action against him for breach of promise, and obtain a verdict and damages, and annihilate him as an Under-Secretary.

  • Here is your master, Sir Geoffrey, dead, for aught ye know or care.

  • The confidence, for aught I know, may be well enough chosen, for your divines (always under your favour) have proved no enemies to such matters as I am to treat with you upon.

  • Still, that may be all, for aught that we have yet seen.

  • I mentioned that Abraham Thornton was said to have come to this country, 'and [I added] he may be living near us, for aught that I know.

  • So that, for aught we know, all we see, hear, and feel may be only phantom and vain chimera, and not at all agree with the real things existing in rerum natura.

  • Virgil knew it, and practised both so happily that, for aught I know, his greatest excellency is in his diction.

  • Horace, for aught I know, might have tickled the people of his age, but amongst the moderns he is not so successful.

  • Little can be said in excuse for the general; perhaps he was afraid it might give offence to the allies, among whom, for aught we know, it may be the custom of the country to believe a God.

  • I am glad to hear that in the world I am as kindly spoke of as any body; for, for aught I see, there is bloody work like to be, Sir W.

  • Surely this is true; true of every organic thing, animal and vegetable, and mineral too, for aught I know: and so we must soften our sadness at the sight of the universal mutual war by the sight of an equally universal mutual help.

  • For aught I am aware of, he may know a great deal about them all, and, like a wise man, hold his tongue, and give the world merely the results in the form of general thought.

  • For aught I am aware of, he may know nothing of mathematics or chemistry, of comparative anatomy or geology.

  • That if Hereward meant to keep the king's peace, he might live in Bourne till Doomsday, for aught he, Gilbert, cared.

  • King Malcolm, and Donaldbain, and, for aught I know, Harold and the Godwinssons, if he bid them take up the quarrel.

  • As I am a knight myself; and were as well used, too, for aught I saw.

  • He may, for aught I know; but I don't think it's likely.

  • For aught we know the ould lady was thravellin' incog--like me.

  • After their horse will come the little devil-guns that they can drag up to the tops of the hills, and, for aught I know, to the clouds when we crown the hills.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for ever; for half; for his hard heart; for that; for the following reasons; for the last time; for what; forbid them; force equal; force the; forced labour; forced upon; fore long; foreign minister; foreign parts; forgive those who trespass; form column; former experience; former journey; former lives; former navigators; former volume; former years; fortnight later; forward movement; forward policy