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Example sentences for "nothing came"

  • The suggestion had come from Birchall; but Beethoven's demands for an honorarium was thought too large by the English publisher, and though Beethoven modified them, nothing came of the project at the time.

  • But as Herr Maelzel did not appear at the last meeting arranged for, nothing came of the matter, the propositions made to the former not having been accepted by him.

  • Nothing came of the matter, as we shall see later.

  • Several attempts were made to interest the French government in his invention, but although certain commissions reported favorably on his ideas, nothing came of them for a time.

  • Nothing came of all this, and debts began to press heavily on this most improvident of men.

  • Nothing came of this correspondence, and Wagner was fated not to enter Paris till some time later, and then to find it a city of continual disappointment.

  • Nothing came of this correspondence, and Wagner's "Rienzi" was not permitted to astonish the Parisians.

  • Nothing came of this complaint of Sir Dace Fontaine's.

  • Nothing came of the interview; nothing but fresh mystification.

  • Searching here, inquiring there, nothing came of it: Roger seemed to have vanished into air.

  • Nothing came of the project, but a year later he was still ruminating upon it and declared that he should not be truly happy until he was again making verses.

  • Nothing came of the suggestion; it was only a passing tribute to the abstract goodness of matrimony.

  • So nothing came of the negotiations except the preparation of a stage version of 'Don Carlos' for the Hamburg theater.

  • Though there were the reaching of an island in the river by means of a boat and a certain amount of fortifying, nothing came of the affair and at 1 p.

  • The 15th, Saturday, brought orders to be ready to march at a moment's notice but, as often happened, nothing came of it.

  • On the 24th two companies were sent off in a hurry to intercept some of Stuart's cavalry said to be in the vicinity of Edward's Ferry; nothing came of the effort more important than the capture of two negroes.

  • For the present, however, nothing came of these overtures; and when the French discovered Walpole's presence at Vienna, Metternich begged him to leave.

  • The climate and natural products, the genius of its writers and the spirit of its religion--nothing came amiss to his voracious intellect, which assimilated the most diverse materials and pressed them all into his service.

  • Nothing came of these plans; but it is clear that, even when Napoleon was face to face with formidable foes on the Vistula, his thoughts still turned longingly to the banks of the Ganges.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about that; cattle ranch; for use; getting through; nothing against; nothing but; nothing could; nothing doing; nothing doubting; nothing else; nothing for; nothing further; nothing had; nothing left; nothing less; nothing loath; nothing much; nothing remains; nothing short; nothing was; nothing worth; political necessity; remarkable degree; slender pedicels; stone fence; these principles