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Example sentences for "that nothing"

  • My lord, replied the vizier, I swear to your highness, that nothing of this has been acted which you seem to reproach me with!

  • They brought a prodigious quantity, which made such a marvellous light as if it had been day, and they were so proportionably disposed,, that nothing could be more beautiful.

  • All that you tell us, sister, says Dinarzade is so curious, that nothing can be more agreeable.

  • But you may be sure of this, Beatrice, and so may my mother, that nothing on earth shall make me give her up--nothing.

  • He had resolved, when first the little infant was given over to his charge, that nothing should be known of her or by her as to her mother.

  • I'll have him so trained before November," said Frank, "that nothing in Barsetshire shall stop him.

  • But this is so opposite or contrary to that which ought to be done, that nothing is more wrong.

  • And, therefore, let each one know, that nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be translated from its own language into another, without breaking all its sweetness and harmony.

  • It is notorious, in point of fact, that nothing is more common than for both houses to sit later than twelve o'clock, for the purpose of completing measures which are in the last stages of their progress.

  • For it happens in oratory, as in life, that nothing is more difficult, than to discern what is proper and becoming.

  • Bullions thinks, and in reality Wright also, that nothing can be a present passive, but what "expresses passively the DOING of the act.

  • Thence weary of losing so much time I to the office, and thence presently down to Deptford; but to see what a consternation there is upon the water by reason of this great press, that nothing is able to get a waterman to appear almost.

  • Lord Shaftesbury observes, that nothing is more cold than the invocation of a muse by a modern; he might have added, that nothing can be more absurd.

  • One day, having, as I thought, nicely calculated so that nothing should go away untasted, to my utter dismay a roast turkey and a pig appeared in all their substantial reality.

  • Daily it is forced home on the mind of the geologist, that nothing, not even the wind that blows, is so unstable as the level of the crust of this earth.

  • In conclusion, it appears to me that nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in distant countries.

  • It is also said that in 1709 there were quantities of dead trees in Sandy Bay; this place is now so utterly desert, that nothing but so well attested an account could have made me believe that they could ever have grown there.

  • And an evident sign of this is, that nothing is so like an old man as a young man drunk.

  • Chrysippus says, that nothing is profitable to the wicked, that the wicked have neither use nor need of anything.

  • The marvel is that nothing came of this, and that he remained the doctor of M.

  • Each body has an opening to itself, which is afterwards walled up, so that nothing is seen.

  • The fact was he had so set his heart upon Sally, and Sally alone, that nothing was to be allowed to baulk him; and his reasoning was purely formal.

  • Adam rested content with the assurance that nothing but an innocent flirtation had been stopped.

  • So that nothing," says he, "could be so opportune as my making an immediate bargain with you.

  • Then, that nothing should be wanting to his triumph, he obtained the consent of the banker to Bertomy's marriage with Madeline.

  • The consequence of this is that nothing is easier than to set up a newspaper, and a small number of readers suffices to defray the expenses of the editor.

  • It may therefore be asserted as a general proposition, that nothing is more opposed to the well-being and the freedom of man than vast empires.

  • So that nothing in nature should be counted mean, which can thus be exalted; but rather be honored, since no object can become so assimilated except by its predetermined correlation to our better nature.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    human sacrifices; minced onion; that all; that case; that country; that direction; that event; that girl; that has; that hath; that have; that head; that hour; that isn; that line; that means; that morning; that nature; that none; that now; that our; that some; that subject; that the; that this; that your