For nothing could be easier than to cheat Lorna about the cost, until time should come for her paying me.
I was half inclined to jump in and swim through such glorious scenery; for nothing used to please me more than swimming in a flooded river.
Then, as for her snubbing you, if her character was like mine, that ought to go for nothing, for I snub all the world; but this is a little queen for politeness.
Yes, the trifle of twenty sous; and then it is for nothing," cried Pique-Vinaigre.
It's all one, if the Martials are scoundrels enough to drown some one, they are not fools enough to do it for nothing.
Certainly, if this is to be the Reign of Mind, it is idle to repine, and kick against the pricks; but is it true that all these qualities of action that are within me are to go for nothing?
Verily, I cannot guess, for nothing is on that eagle face either of pain or pleasure, but rather of fear, agitation, bewilderment.
The idea of rambling up into our own mountains charms me, for nothing suits my disposition so well as that kind of solitude.
The ascendant wife seldom tells her husband in so many words that his opinion in the house is to go for nothing; she merely resolves that such shall be the case, and acts accordingly.
The absolute material which the American publisher sells, he takes, or can take, for nothing.
And now you won't frighten me like this again about your morals for nothing?
The fact of her having lived with Fawley goes for nothing.
Anty was dying: she would have had her trouble for nothing; and that hated Barry would gain his point, and the whole of his sister's property, in triumph.
On my sacred word of honour as a gentleman, Lord Ballindine, he offered to poison Anty, on condition he got the farm round the house for nothing!
Albinia had never seen him so much incensed, for nothing makes a man so angry as to have been alarmed; and he was doubly annoyed when he found that she thought Sophy too unwell to be left, as he intended, to solitary confinement.
I should have come to the same conclusion without her showing how much this plan cost her, for nothing can be plainer than that while she continues subject to these attacks, she must have some retreat.
It is only an hour to bed-time, and you would only tire yourself for nothing.
For why, this would bring the wisdom of the court into question, as if we had took you up for nothing, and dealt wrongfully by you.
Pull away and save tide, for nothing is so dear and precious as time; therefore we will be sure to put it to a good use.
Good God, thou knowest my courage, for nothing can be hidden from thee.
I only wish for your friendship; but I do not want you to give it to me for nothing.
I felt ashamed, for nothing so confounds a libertine as modesty in the mouth of poverty; and not knowing what to answer I took my leave.
If a painter could be dispensed from making his works beautiful, every man might be an artist; for nothing is easier than to fashion ugliness, and brush and canvas would be as easy to handle as mortar and trowel.
This is the present state of our politics, which is our present state; for nothing else is thought of.
All the unpleasantness he and she had gone through over Tryst and that Gaunt girl must not go for nothing!
This meeting was terrible after all those years, for nothing in the world was so terrible as a scene.
Are my twenty years of care to go for nothing, against this modern spirit?
We got it for nothing," Lily explained triumphantly on the occasion of Honora's first admiring view.
It's all French, with mirrors and big white panels and satin chairs and sofas, and a carved gilt piano that she got for nothing from a dealer she knows; and church candlesticks.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for nothing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
