It only needed a couple ofnoughts in her father's hand to put everything right.
He filled in the figure two below, and straggling noughtsfor the cents.
A Selection of Short Stories, uniform with "Noughts and Crosses" and "The Delectable Duchy.
Noughts and Crosses' is a book of altogether exceptional attractiveness and value.
He spent his time trying to persuade Strang to take an interest in Noughts and Crosses.
Do ye mind the game the wee yins play, ofnoughts and crosses?
Whoever draws threenoughts or three crosses in a line wins, and sometimes it's for lettin' the other have last crack that ye lose.
The other puts a nought in another of the squares, and so it goes on until either three noughts or three crosses are in a straight line in any direction.
Having examined "Noughts and Crosses," we will now consider an extension of the game that is distinctly mentioned in the works of Ovid.
The noughts were plainly merely inserted to fill in unneeded squares, and keep the rest of the figures in their proper relative places when the cypher was written in line.
More especially when we consider that in three places there are actually four noughts in succession; for, of course, no letter is repeated four times successively in any English word, nor in any foreign word that I can imagine.
But let us put down the letters in substitution for the figures, on the supposition that the figures stand for letters in their alphabetical order, leaving the noughts as they are.
Look, and you will see that, counting the noughts in, the letters go in groups of eight, with a semi-colon at the end of each group.
I could only see two noughts among the numbers, so plainly it was a longer message than the one then deciphered--one of sixty-two letters, in fact.
The round noughts in the millionaire's ledger are safe in no sense; the same fluctuation which excites him with their increase depresses him with their diminution.
He is content sometimes with the dead crackle of notes; but far more often with the mere repetition of noughts in a ledger, all as like each other as eggs to eggs.
Well, put me down for one of the noughts this time.
Why, just a four and two noughts will, I think, put him straight," the bearer of the hat replied.
This game is called "Noughts and Crosses," in London, probably from those marks being used in the game.
Noughts and Crosses [Illustration] This game is played on slates by school-children.
The object of the game is for each player to occupy three contiguous places in a row or line with either noughts or crosses, and to prevent his opponent from doing so.
The wise men in a nation are as the units with the noughts in front of them.
The figure one becomes of no more importance however many noughts are marshalled in front of it--though, indeed, in the mathematics of human nature this is not so.
When everything else palled they played Noughtsand Crosses, or Parson's Cat, or Consequences.
He initiated her into the mysteries of "Noughts and Crosses" and they sat with heads bent low over the paper as the schoolmaster came along.
Thus there is no doubt children will continue to play "Noughts and Crosses," though I have shown (No.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noughts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
