单词 | nihility |
例句 | The writers whom it ridicules, have sunk into nihility. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Out of those eyes and that long, thin face stared death; not hot, sudden death, but nihility, cool, deliberate, that waited for one! A Breath of Prairie and other stories Nor is there any one, I suppose, who has passed the meridian of life, who has not at some moments felt the nihility of all things. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life We treat it as a positive nihility, "a barrier from which all our batted balls of being rebound." Memories and Studies It was not, however, in order to arrive at that state of delicious, intellectual nihility, thai we had gone to mysterious Whitechapel. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 No one has better expressed the anguish of a troubled and despairing soul, such as we find in the old harp-player in Wilhelm Meister, or the splendid nihility of certain poems of Michelangelo. Musicians of To-Day I never can forget the blank nihility of all existence that dreadful moment when I stood fumbling for what was not. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 But nihility is inconsistent with the existence of living, reasoning—I know not what to call them—uniting in themselves, in a state of commenced synthesis or imminent dissolution, all the antagonistic attributes of being. System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery A man who once takes such a jump at nobility, Must not mince the matter, like folks of nihility, But clear thick and thin with true lordly agility. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes —I replied with my usual forbearance.—Certainly, to give up the algebraic symbol, because A or B is often a cover for ideal nihility, would be unwise. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works There are many things on the Earth, which would be nihility to the inhabitants of Venus—many things visible and tangible in Venus, which we could not be brought to appreciate as existing at all. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 At the happiest periods of my existence I often became a prey to grim dejection such as nobody could understand but which was caused by the thought of impending nihility. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola When we reach the latter, we feel an almost irresistible inclination to class it with spirit, or with nihility. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Eternity is not of longer duration than one second spent in nihility. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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