Yet "Pashtolik," as they wrote it then, used to be a place of some importance in the Russian times, and even later.
Every favorable higher flat or low saddle among the hills on the right and facing the river (or a slough) is utilized by the natives, but such places are scarce.
Three of us crowd in, leave the few bulkier things we brought along on the beach unguarded, and are driven to the other end of the town, to the Golden Gate Hotel.
Worse than any mosquitoes; like the worst chiggers.
Finding anything below the surface and that even a foot or more, as was actually experienced, means something quite different under these conditions than it might elsewhere.
In two the remains are too fresh yet, but from one secure a good female skeleton, which I pack in a practically new heavy pail, thrown out probably on the occasion of the last funeral.
At the old jail there were two skulls of Indians that were donated.
Our companion, the oculist, rides not with us but in a nice little green canoe with a plaything of a gasoline motor fastened to the backboard, but we all eat and sleep together.
South of second rocky bluff a live camp, and farther down another.
This accomplished man of letters and parts agreed, if in nothing else, in this, with the young fool of quality, that such extreme candour and plain speaking was some subtle Italian way of drawing an admirer on.
And Jock observed nothing at all, being at a stage when man (or boy) is wholly possessed with affairs of his own.
But the chief thing that he impressed on his sister was the necessity of doing nothing by herself.
You have others," she said hoarsely; "I have nothing, nothingbut him.
But she said nothingto throw any light upon the state of her being.
What might be nothingto you or me may be death to that little thing, but it is he that has to go through with it; life is a horrible sort of pleasure, Jock.
Of course, in the way of horses and carriages and so forth, there is nothing that money cannot buy.
But at the moment even Mr. Derwentwater was subjugated by the thrill of sensation and feeling, and found nothing to say.
Perhaps the wisest way would be to say nothing more about it," young Lady Randolph concluded, briskly, with a sudden smile.
There is nothing trivial in the exercise in such a combination.
Evidently," he said to himself, "she is afraid of Sir Tom, and he knowsnothing about this.
She had said nothing that could affect him personally so far as she knew.
Nothing could be more caressing or tender than her manner.
The Residue~ left after treating the gelatine with ether-alcohol is, in the case of blasting gelatine, very small, and will probably consist of nothing but carbonate of soda.
Von Foster's Powder~ contains nothing but pure gelatinised nitro- cellulose, together with a small quantity of carbonate of lime.
It must contain nothing liable to reduce the chlorate.
Thus in their very attitude toward the ills and vexations of life, there appears a most essential difference between Lenau and Heine.
Everyone knew the principal passages by heart, and everyone believed he had a right to be just as melancholy as the Prince of Denmark, even though he had seen no ghost and had no royal father to avenge.
So heiss und stumm, so trübe, Und sternlos war die Nacht, So ganz wie unsre Liebe Zu Thränen nur gemacht.
Another characteristic difference between Lenau's Weltschmerz and Hölderlin's lies in the fact that the writings of the latter do not exhibit that absolute and abject despair which marks Lenau's lyrics.
To this second period Heine's development also shows a general resemblance.
Since the blow I have been bewildered; I see nothing upright.
Nothing touched her there--nothing that Redworth did.
Our English criticized them apart; and that is at any rate to occupy a post, though it contributesnothing to entertainment.
There's no resemblance, and they know nothingof us.
We think it a desert, a blank, whither he has gone, because we will strain to see in the utter dark, and nothing can come of that but the bursting of the eyeballs.
I know nothingto compare with it, for he is a man of warmth.
The long ride, and nightfall, withnothing in view, had obscured his mind to the possible behind the thick obstruction of the probable; again the possible waved its marsh-light.
She would have to go about, a mark for the talkers, and behave as if nothing were in the air-full of darts!
Danvers brought in a dismal tallow candle, remarking that her mistress had not expected visitors: her mistress had nothing but tea and bread and butter to offer him.
It is no sin, I conceive, for even a man of my cloth to watch noble beasts battling for the supremacy, there being, I take it, nothing cruel in such contests.
I'll do nothing of the sort,' and that was the end of it.
Just at that moment there was nothing doing at the combination counter.
Tunwell filled with another ace, and Burbridge got nothing worth mentioning in the draw, so that his three nines didn't look very big to us against an ace full.
And the Evaporation of His Resolution to Have Nothing to Do With Them.
It Referred toNothing Calculated to Disturb Domesticity, but It Came Near Wrecking a Happy Home.
I began to get nothing whatever on the deals of the other fellows, but on my own deals I fed myself hands that actually smelt of brimstone, they were so weird and inexplicable.
The three hotel clerks evidently thought they were pretty well fixed, too, and, although there was nothing frantic about the betting, it was nice and smooth and even, and the pot grew in a way that suited me down to the ground.
It was a six-furlong race, and there was nothing to it but Mint Sauce all the way.
Everyone knows, if he knows nothing else, that commodities have a value form common to them all, and presenting a marked contrast with the varied bodily forms of their use-values.
Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, i.
But the affection of sorrow is actual, and so can be nothing else than the passage to a lesser perfection, that is, the reality by which the power of acting is limited or diminished.
Nothing is either known to us or thinkable by us except will and idea.
Nothing can be capital which is not wealth; only such things can be wealth the production of which increases, the destruction of which decreases, the aggregate of wealth.
Our neighbours have nothing to sell us; but, in any event, one's credit would not be transferable, being strictly personal.
We ask whether this world is nothing more than a mere idea, not worthy of our notice if it is to pass by us like an empty dream or an airy vision, or whether it is something more substantial.
This is the point which consciousness has attained, and these are the principal phases of that form in which the principle of freedom has realised itself, for the history of the world is nothing but the development of the idea of freedom.
In death, what we principally fear is pain; as also poverty has nothing to be feared for but what she casts upon us through hunger, thirst, cold, and other miseries.
A creature whose five senses are always telling him that he is everything and that other men are nothing is naturally idle, ignorant, and pleasure-seeking.
Plenty of rich land to be had for little or nothing is so powerful a cause of population as generally to overcome all obstacles.
Hence, men acting in accord with the dictates of reason desire nothing for themselves but what they desire for all.
You know nothing of mind, replied Hume; you have only a succession of sensations and ideas.
Now, the pleasures of the body are really nothingmore than reliefs from pains of one kind or another.
Still, science teaches us that with all this turmoil and change nothing either of matter or energy is lost, but that it is simply undergoing one eternal round of change.
There is a still lower cloud of course, as ordinary fog is nothing more than cloud, which under certain conditions lies on the surface of the ocean or dry land.
Think of the shadows, so dark that you could seenothing in them.
There is nothing inconsistent in the thought that the sun may have been warmer in a former age than now.
The priest took her place and waited with crossed hands through convulsion after convulsion, each of which was more terrible than the former one until nothing worse could be imagined.
There is nothing more sure than that this Fourth of July slaughter is a branch of war--a terribly crooked branch and a poison one--one that can be easily made to grow into another deadly Upas tree.
I am going to have a little picnic with some boys right here if nothing happens.
There was nothing that pleased him better than being called a trump.
Be assured I shall lay up nothing against you, and I'm not going to be hard with your husbands and lovers either, rest assured I am not.
Nothing but a rose," said Bombs, after he had seated himself leisurely at her side and taken a sip of wine.
They care nothing for fines and even imprisonment is being made delightful for them; but they have a lot of human nature in them and they can be ruled by love as well as the rest of humanity.
There wasnothing in that which appealed especially to his sympathies.
On the contrary Adelaide could think of nothing but the gardener's wife and her lost baby.
I've nothing more to say except that I shall keep an eye on the other fellows while you are away, and that she's heart free to date.
When I was in Turkey, I learned nothing of more interest than that the Sultan had finished his forty days fast at Ramazar and taken a new wife.
I would like nothingbetter than to unite our families--consolidate them, so to speak.
They were discouraging words for the last--almost cruel he thought for him who had known nothing of mother love and very little of parental care.
The Library building was completed and the building on the hill had been going on very rapidly, particularly through the months of March and April, but the pace was nothing to what it was after Mr. Schwarmer's advent.
He at once warned his superiors, but nothing was done.
They were devoid of real Cavalry training, they thought of nothingbut getting off their horses and shooting; hence they lamentably failed in enterprises which demanded, before all, a display of the highest form of Cavalry spirit.
Nothing less could be expected of one whose views on discipline are so extremely strict and whose ideals of loyalty are notoriously so high.
Nothing daunted, French therefore directed his energies to the left.
In spite of these evidences of a soldier's eye for country, there is nothing to show that French had developed any abnormal devotion for his work.
But nothingcould stop the terrific impetus of the charge.
Nothing could prevent Sir George White and his forces from being cooped in either Colenso or Ladysmith.
There is nothing of the iron heel about either his methods or his manners.
Butcher, however, quickly taught his men to beat the enemy at their own game, although nothing else quite so dramatic as the Coles Kop incident is on record.
There is nothingof the jealous and erratic genius about French.
There appeared to benothing in heaven or earth which could prevent huge losses.
It is enough to emphasise the fact that Sir John French is himself no politician and did what he did because his honour demanded nothing less.
Actually nothing ever fell out more happily than this enforced holiday.
There is nothing amateurish or journalistic about his communications from the front.
To this independence of mind, as to nothing else, may be attributed his phenomenal success amid the abnormal conditions of Boer warfare.
I do nothing doubt you have store of thieves; notwithstanding, I fear not my ring.
This is, sir, a doubt In such a time nothing becoming you Nor satisfying us.
Let it be granted you have seen all this, and praise Be given to your remembrance; the description Of what is in her chamber nothing saves The wager you have laid.
Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.
The wrongs he did me Were nothing prince-like; for he did provoke me With language that would make me spurn the sea, If it could so roar to me.
We have th' advantage of the ground; The lane is guarded; nothingrouts us but The villainy of our fears.
Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.
But since the gods Will have it thus, that nothing but our lives May be call'd ransom, let it come.
I am nothing; or if not, Nothing to be were better.
When Tu and Wei were leaving, they begged me to follow them to consult as to the best means of helping you, and with them to depend on I have nothing to fear.
But sure, you know, Billy, as well as me, having fought against and for us, that the King and me are nothing more than two of the finest men that God Almighty ever made.
Nothing but morbid fancy makes you imagine you are in any way responsible for--Drayton's death.
T isn't for nothing that I've been knocking about the country for fourteen years.
Afterward Master Horace was that good and gentle, and she loved him so much, that he persuaded her to say nothing more about it, and to try to live as if it hadn't been.
There was nothing to delay the fulfilment of the engagement thus happily arranged, and at the next full moon Miss King had an opportunity of comparing her bridegroom with the picture which Jasmine had drawn of him.
Without saying so in so many words, I have told her with sufficient plainness that I will have nothing to say to her.
If I were a woman, the object of my heart would be to be your wife, and if you were a woman, there is nothing I should like better than to be your husband.
But please to tell your young lady that, being only a guest at this inn, I have nothing worthy of her acceptance to offer in return for her bounteous gifts, and that I can only assure her of my boundless gratitude.
We are not little men, and there isnothing that we are afraid of except Drink, and we have signed a Contrack on that.
There was no threat of disinheritance, for there was nothing for him to inherit.
I saw it all in my fever-- clear as that flame--there was nothing for us others, but the herb of death.
But I will not roll myself under the machine of existence to gain a nothing every day.
There is nothing that gives more courage than to see the irony of things.
Awfully sorry, though, to have nothing better for you than this, at present.
I'm sometimes tempted to believe there's nothing for some of these poor folk but to pray for death.
It needed constant watchfulness on the part of Lilias to keep the peace; andnothing but her earnest and gentle encouragement would have prevented the girl from giving up, in disgust, the attempt to learn to read.
No; whatever may come upon us now," she added humbly, "nothing can take away the knowledge that it is well with him.
For herself, Lilias would have liked nothing half so well as a renewal of last winter's pleasures; but she was by no means sure that Archie would agree with her.
It would only trouble her; and if I can get nothing else to do, I must keep the children till the `harvest-play' comes.
There is nothing of them left that need hinder you from being happy here again.
So she went to the kirk close at hand, saying nothing to the people who spoke to her of her cousin's return, lest their coming and going might break the Sabbath quiet of her aunt.
Of course, they've got into sophomore year, and there ain't nothing in heaven or earth that they don't know.
But there warn't nothing said to the rest o' the men.
We read, indeed, the prophecies of Merlin, but hear nothing either of his sanctity or his miracles.
Nothing so much excites, encourages, and invites the hearts of men to probity as the cheerfulness of liberty; nothing so much dejects and dispirits them as the oppression of servitude.
I heard much at different times of the intentions of King James and his party, but nothing with certainty.
Tapster, fill this with ale; I grieve to say I can afford nothing better.
At the far extremity of this room was a door which stood ajar, and, stealthily passing through it, I found myself in a room containing nothing but a few raw hides, which rendered the atmosphere nearly intolerable.
I now felt very uncomfortable, not knowing what these savages--for they appeared nothing better--might design against me.
The court was perfectly empty; the moon was shining broadly and brightly upon all around; nothing was to be seen but the tall trees with their long spectral shadows, now wet with the dews of midnight.
Other indications of comfort made themselves manifest as we approached; and indeed, though the place was evidently one of considerable antiquity, it had nothing whatever of the gloom of decay about it.
You know I saw, or fancied I saw, this thing before, and nothing followed.
A narrow slit placed high in the wall admitted a scanty light, but sufficient to assure me that my prison contained nothing to render the sojourn of its tenant a whit less comfortless than my worst enemy could have wished.
There was nothing about them which I could see to intimate whether their object were peaceful or warlike; but I afterwards found that they had weapons enough, though of their own rude fashion.
At length I succeeded in getting over him, and struck him twice more in the face; still he struggled with an energy which nothing but the tremendous stake at issue could have sustained.
At their first pause in the dance, the audience, who had witnessednothing of this description in the amusements of the Ojibbeways, being excited to the highest degree, encouraged the strangers with rounds of applause.
Daniel told him, however, that he thought there would be nothing lost on them, as they would sell better in America than they would have sold in England, and he had better pack them away until they went home.
There wasnothing of low and vulgar appearance in any part of the room; but all had the stamp of refinement and gentility, which stimulated their pride, and they did their utmost.
There was an occasional "she-e" in a lengthened whisper, and nothing more for some time, when at length a gradual and almost imperceptible conversation commenced about portraits and things which they recognized around the room.
Top-coats' are very frequent in England, in America nothing is known higher than an 'over-coat.
I don't know nothing about my father, because he run off when I was about three months old.
I stayed and was sharecropper, and that was when slavery start, for when we got our cop made it done take every bit of it to pay our debts and we had nothing left to buy winter clothes or pay doctor bills.
I don't knownothing 'bout my folks, if I even had any, 'cept mama.
Nothing like that has happened," the voice went on, and, by turning his loose head to one side, the Nodding Donkey saw that a large Jumping Jack was whispering to him.
I hope nothing happens to him until his coat of varnish is hard and dry.
But now, with his Nodding Donkey, Joe thought nothing about operations, or his crutches, or about being lame.
The same may be said of oil, than which, for fish, nothing can be better.
And nothing is more pleasant for the mistress of one of these very small families than to have a friend drop in to lunch, and have a recherché lunch to offer with little trouble.
Filets de sole à la Delmonico," and as nothing to the contrary was said until dinner was over, he ate them under the impression that they were veritable filets de sole.
I have nothing to say against the artistic distractions of the day.
In the recipes I have given nothing is required that cannot be obtained, with more or less ease, in New York.
It has been said by foreigners that Americans care nothing for the refinements of the table, but I think they do care.
Nothing can make a dish of breaded cutlets on which are bald white spots look inviting, or livid-looking fish, just flaked here and there with the bread that has been persuaded to stay on.
But of course nothing was attempted, though it is for their care in seeing that the public was well served that the Gilds are chiefly praised to-day.
The individual knew nothing of obligations due to society.
For being deprived of their real essence they had nothing to recommend them.
The ordinary authorities on Economic history say little or nothing of the non-gildated tradesmen in the towns, though these formed an important portion of the commercial community.
It is to be regretted that nothing remains to show to what extent the abuse had prevailed, nor how far the present effort was successful.
They had tried it many times, they said, but nothing had been on the spot at that time and they had rotated nothing but the air above it from the one time to the other, and the reverse.
But I could see nothing there that was causing them.
A coughing fool can do that too, so long as there is nothing wanting in his upper story.
As soon as they had gathered in a group before him, the nobleman exclaimed: "You have just bid this good-for-nothing farewell.
His intention of communicating with the commandant of the citadel remained unexecuted; for he thought of nothing but his father's anger, of Ruth, his own shame and misery.
There was nothing remarkable to be seen, for the walls were whitewashed, and their only ornament was a garland of lavender leaves, whose perfume Ruth's mother liked to inhale.
His model was beautiful, but he could read nothing in the regular features, except that they were fair, and the lifeless countenance became distasteful to him.
He asked nothing but good pay for blood and toil, good pay, not coppers and worthless promises.
Philip was all and all to himself; caring nothing for others, he did not deem it necessary, that they should share his pleasures.
In the prospect of poverty there is nothing but gloom and melancholy; the mind and body suffer together; its miseries bring no alleviation; it is a state in which every virtue is obscured, and in which no conduct can avoid reproach.
Rather to do nothing than to do good, is the lowest state of a degraded mind.
Unless this can be done, nothing can help us; and if this be done, we shall not want help.
I mentioned the circumstance of the paragraph to him; he said to Goldsmith that he hoped that he had mentioned nothing about Malagrida in it.
I think nothinggrows worse, but all rather better, except sleep, and that of late has been at its old pranks.
But finding nothing better to his purpose, he cut some bristles off his hearth-broom, and enclosed them in a letter to his country enthusiast, who received them with due reverence.
One that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar.
At such a time, in such a place, carried away as she had been by the dramatic picture spread out before her, nothing could have startled her more.
There is nothing sweeter than the swift run of a bass before he turns his minnow and swallows it.
I peered in between every little forest of pikeweed and said, 'Nope, there's nothing there.
It came to the girl then that these gypsies, who had spent all their lives in caravans on land, knew little or nothing of the water, which they had apparently adopted as their temporary home.
There was nothing left for it but to attempt to round out the night with sleep.
To Florence, save for one condition, this prolonged downpour would have seemednothing short of a catastrophe.
Knowing nothing of her thoughts, anxious only for her safety, the boy seized her foot.
Great quantities of dead timber, to say nothing of logs and planks from docks, had been carried away.
And you know well enough that the gypsies can arrange a cozy camp out of less than nothing at all.
Nothing better than planked fish," said Tillie, as she cleaned up the last morsel and sucked her fingers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nothing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
