Nothing can be more melancholy than these reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of counterfeiters.
Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital.
Everything that a good-for-nothing can do; but I hear him coming, and I will tell you all about it in his presence.
Monsignor," I replied, "nothing can be done well without time, and that is why I have not dared to chew to your eminence an answer to the sonnet which I have written in half an hour.
Nothing can be more provoking to the human temper, nor more dangerous to that cardinal virtue, patience, than solicitations of extraordinary offices of kindness on behalf of those very persons with whom we are highly incensed.
Nothing can be more likely to happen than death to men who go into battle.
Indeed, nothing can be of more moral use than the imperfections which are seen in examples of this kind; since such form a kind of surprize, more apt to affect and dwell upon our minds than the faults of very vicious and wicked persons.
Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the two others are but journeymen, set it to work.
Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician.
Nothing can alter my opinion concerning the pernicious tendency of this example, until I see some man for his indiscretion in the support of power, for his violent and intemperate servility, rendered incapable of sitting in parliament.
Nothing can be directed above the mark that we must aim at: everything below it is absolutely thrown away.
Nothing can be so base and so wicked as the political canting language, "The labouring POOR.
Nothing can be more absurd than to suppose, like the Westminster Reviewer, that thieves steal only because they do not calculate the chances of being hanged as correctly as honest men.
Nothing can possibly be inferred from a maxim of this kind.
Nothing can be more obvious than the explanation of the phenomenon.
Nothing can be easier than to define a number of characters common to all birds; but with crustaceans, any such definition has hitherto been found impossible.
Unless favourable variations be inherited by some at least of the offspring, nothing can be effected by natural selection.
Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.
Nothing can be more fascinating than the simple manners of these kind people, who really love hospitality for its own sake, and make the stranger feel himself welcome.
Nothing can be more dreary and uninteresting than the scenery of this part of the delta.
Nothing can be multiplied by inward action unless it belong to the vegetable kingdom, or the family of sensitive creatures.
Madam," I replied, transported with love and joy, "nothing can be more agreeable to me than this declaration.
If it be the wickedness of some women, nothing can be more unreasonable and weak.
Nothing can be so great and superb as the name I place in front of this book; and nothing more mean than what it contains.
Nothing can be so rude as not to listen to people who wish to speak to us.
Nothing can be more lovely than these summer mornings; nor than the southern window at which I sit and write, in this old mansion, which is like an Italian Villa.
Nothing can be more--" "And their very literature presents itself to my imagination under the same forms.
Nothing can be purer than the Iphigenia; it is as cold and passionless as a marble statue.
We were never weary of admiring the beauty of the nights; nothing can be compared to the transparency and serenity of an African sky.
Nothing can be compared to the majestic tranquillity which the aspect of the firmament presents in this solitary region.
But do not deceive yourself so far as to fancy that I shall sit down and do nothing but lament; no, my heart knows how to act in order to be avenged; nothing can divert me from it; I go to prepare everything.
Yes, I have sworn to kill him, nothing can keep me from doing so.
Nothing can be more unpleasant than the Portuguese spoken by the Congoman.
Nothing can be more substantial than this double testimony, which wears all the semblance of truth.
Nothing can harm, nothing touch us; we are one another's.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nothing can" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
