Chief of these was the Know-nothings who stood for what they called Americanism, and raised an opposition to Catholicism.
She laughed softly to herself now at some of the idle nothings said to her by Adrian Carr, and she never once gave a thought to Wyndham, who had also been at Lords.
After a few desultory nothings had been exchanged between the two, Carr alluded to Wyndham's engagement, and offered him his congratulations.
I am going, if not too lazy, to note down the everyday nothings of my life, and see what it looks like.
While Gontran was talking soft nothings to Louise in a half-whisper in a corner, Bretigny conversed with her in a serious fashion, and allowed himself to be slowly vanquished, allowed this fresh love to inundate his soul like a flowing tide.
At Lady Hubert's there was no tension, and the agreeable nobodies who found their way in were not made to blush for the agreeable nothings of their conversation.
The Duchess had paused in her farewellnothings with Sir Wilfrid to observe her friend.
The trade innothings going on over the said green silk was very brisk indeed; but disregarding the buzz of tongues near at hand Fleda's quick ears were able to free the barrier and catch every one of the quiet tones beyond.
Conversation might be pleasant,--but it must be something different from the noisy cross-fire of nonsense that was going on in one quarter, or the profitless barter of nothings that was kept up on the other side of her.
The next day Marie carried into Blanche's room the things which Germain had brought from Paris; an infinite quantity of those charming nothings invented so that rich men may more easily spend their money.
Ah, a single smile from Blanche is worth all the sweet nothings of these ladies.
In these unnoticeable nothings are completely dissolved such feelings as resentment, humiliation, shame.
A good traveller is something at the latter end of a dinner; but one that lies three-thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousandnothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten.
I had rather have one scratch my head i' th' sun When the alarum were struck than idly sit To hear my nothings monster'd.
This was the remnant of the Know-Nothings of 1856.
I meant her to pour, with her dear Welsh accent, some foolish nothings into my ear.
I knew,--but was ashamed to own it, because I had previously scorned what I called the dream-nothings of mere sentiment.
I did not say much to Sibyl,--one cannot very well whisper sentimentalnothings in the ear of one's betrothed when she is eating ortolans and truffles.
I confess to the being curious; did you hear the whisperednothings of the Colonel as he left me?
What a flattering tongue is yours, Sir Tilton; but I shall not be astonished at any outpourings of that sort from you; considering you have come from Haughton Hall, and the practice you have had in soft nothings while there.
What nothings are we before the least of these stars!
The newspapers that for months had been padding out vapid nothings became intense with the activities of a nation back to the collar.
There radiated from the corners of his eyes towards his temples those little lines that sailors often have, "horizon tracks," she called them; but to see them deeply marked while he mouthed earnest nothings with Laetitia!
How is this sensitiveness stupidly spent on nothings to be accounted for?
The way Rossetti kept the clothing and all the little nothings that had once belonged to his wife revealed the depths of love--or the foolishness of it, all depending upon your point of view.
At times she lets drop hints of knowledge concerning little nothings that are none of hers, just to mystify folks.
In the North-West the Know Nothings were swept into the anti-slavery movement in 1854 without retaining their organization.
The anti-slavery delegates of eight Northern states bolted the convention, and eight months later the Republican wave swept the Know Nothings out of the North.
The charges they brought against naturalization abuses were only too well founded; and those against election frauds not less so--though, unfortunately, the Know Nothings themselves followed scandalous election methods in some cities.
Frieda presented me, and she smiled, graciously, saying a few bright nothings about the heat, after which she rejoined her companion, a rather tall and gawky youth.
Some demigod whispering soft nothingsto a daughter of men.
He inspected orange peel ill, so that, whether the Know-nothings had come in or not, he would have gone out.
Because they are great men and really accomplished, they can say nothing with a grand air; and these grand nothings of theirs allure us just because they are nothings and make no demands upon our intelligence.
The plan of the Know-Nothings was to prevent an election in the Senate and then block a joint session of the two houses.
For many years he had been a persistent and unsuccessful knocker at the door of city, county and state Whig conventions, and when the Know-Nothings appeared he turned to them to back his ambition.
But these valueless nothingshave become relics; this little room a chapel, this table an altar.
From this moment the conversation did not languish, fed, as it was, by the thousand nothings around which the halo of poetry has been thrown by the author of the Journal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nothings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
