nothing

"Nothing is bad for one," answered Soames. 🔊

I found in the preface no clue to the labyrinth of contents, and in that labyrinth nothing to explain the preface. 🔊

But, "I," he summed up, "owe nothing to France." 🔊

They seemed to fall into two classes: those who had little to say and those who had nothing. 🔊

I tried not to, I knew there was nothing to laugh at, my rudeness shamed me; butI laughed with increasing volume. 🔊

"You must admit there's nothing Miltonic about him, Soames." 🔊

It was maddening to think that he, who had so much to tell, might tell nothing. 🔊

Soames said nothing, but cruelly did not cease to look at me. 🔊

Better say nothing at all, I thought. 🔊

How is it that the author, though I have here mentioned him by name and have quoted the exact words he is going to write, is not going to grasp the obvious corollary that I have invented nothing? 🔊

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