| 单词 | nothings |
| 例句 | That meant I hadn’t hit ’em hard enough to break no fly bones or nothings but I had hit ’em so’s they were gonna be a little dumbstruck. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I listened to him shouting at them that they were lazy good-for- nothings who only wanted to stay in bed ... Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His children hugged him, whispered sweet nothings in his ear, and waited on his every whim and fancy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So as we talked cutely together and batted our eyelashes at each other, all our sweet nothings were accompanied by a constant tearing and grinding. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was as if Bunderson was saying: Go on, nothings really happening, and I don’t much expect it to. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Would it come into the world gossiping and nattering on about inconsequential nothings? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We agreed to stay together, but dates to fancy restaurants, thoughtful gifts, and a constant refrain of sweet nothings didn't allay what had now become my irrational fear about sex. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Neither of us smiled mockingly, or mouthed small insulting nothings to the other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It makes everything on earth fall in love—how the ocean kisses land, how land nestles trees, how swaying trees always whisper sweet nothings into our ears. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Alex rolls his eyes, suddenly imagining twirling around a ballroom while Henry drones sweet nothings about croquet and fox hunting in his ear. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Pretty nothings from an elegant lady who had something beautiful to wear them under. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Nobody, not even Galileo, was better prepared for this new world where nothings became somethings than Kepler. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Did he whisper sweet nothings in her ear?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “You can fight like a lion. Or you can go as easy as lifting a hair from a cup of milk. The nothings, the nobodies—they die easy.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Then turning to her, he said, cheerfully: “And what am I do for you? For at this hour you do not want me for nothings.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I walked in a gray world of nothings. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z If Mr. Gunn wields endless clout, the murmur of sweet nothings is not yet on his vocal menu. Music Review: Operatic Slugger Drives Some Pop 2011-04-03T21:11:49Z Whether rapping in warm monotones or singing sweet nothings, he spoke of women as if he actually liked them or, rather, as if they wielded a very real power over him. A Peek Back at Early Drake on “So Far Gone” 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z There’s a sense that for him all names are equivalent in value, are all collage elements, all “nothings,” or rather somethings, equally useful and even soothing in their sameness. ‘Not Nothing’ Tries to Capture the Artist Ray Johnson 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z He spoke of Dylan’s “sweet nothings and cruel jokes,” and his capacity for fusing “the languages of the streets and the Bible.” A Transcendent Patti Smith Accepts Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Here it’s as if you were hearing Holland speak his sweet nothings in your ear, so intimate you could almost feel his breath against your cheek. ‘Richard II’ Review: A Radio King With a Tottering Crown 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z WhisperingSweet nothings to your glistening eyelids,Am I outspoken compared with you? Carols for Christmas 2010-12-18T00:07:31Z It was Coco Chanel and Vogue, after all, who popularized “the little nothings,” as they were known then, on Oct. Op-Ed Columnist: It Goes With Everything, Even Bad Hair 2012-10-01T03:01:10Z The show started with nothings, but with those nothings it always created stakes. “Bunheads” Adorable Nihilism 2012-07-17T14:22:00Z Try caresses, sweet nothings and … I don’t know … TENDERNESS!?!?!? 11 mistakes you don’t want to make under the mistletoe 2013-12-23T01:00:00Z Tuesday, June 30 will be one second longer than most other days because we are insignificant little nothings being hurtled around space on a rock. Let Neil deGrasse Tyson (and NASA) explain why June 30 will be one second longer than every other day 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z They embarked on a covert romance, stealing sweet nothings during idle moments and kisses in stairwells, so as to not detract from their jobs. At the Opera, a Losing Battle Against Romance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z The dialogue is a volley of sweet nothings that verge on nonsense as passion renders the characters a bit insane. Jonas Kaufmann: Wagner’s ‘Tristan’ Is ‘Like a Drug’ 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Society is collapsing and we’re supposed to admire these beautiful millionaires for singing sweet-and-sour nothings from the safety of their gated communities? Perspective | Imagine there’s no ‘Imagine’ 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Never again would audiences have to read “titles” to explain the action or translate the sweet nothings of lovers. You ain’t heard nothin’ yet: the moment Al Jolson sounded the birth of the talkies 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s that you should remain skeptical of men who stroke your hair and whisper sweet nothings within the first hours of meeting you. Do I take men too seriously when they tell me beautiful things? 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The movie is full of little nothings that can add up to something special. Birdman at Venice: Can an Ex-Superhero Still Fly? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “He was giving me all of these sweet nothings, and I am a sucker for those sweet nothings.” ‘Our Love Is Built to Last’ 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z When Walker talks about sleep he can’t, in all conscience, limit himself to whispering comforting nothings about camomile tea and warm baths. The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z In his physically slightest work, he distracts us with grids of paper towels, stained and splashed with paint: sweet, sophisticated nothings of considerable pictorial power. Art Review: In West Chelsea, Sculptures Speak in Dialects 2010-06-01T22:51:00Z As Cody whispers sweet nothings about spending an eternity with her, Michelle starts freaking out. 'Bachelor in Paradise': Twosomes, Threesomes and a Trip to the Hospital 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Throughout their separation, they wrote to each other assiduously, and they weren't whispering sweet nothings. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z They patted my bruised back and muttered gentle nothings, like a posse of protective big brothers. Modern Love: The View From the Victim Room 2013-06-27T20:45:27Z Who wouldn’t want to live inside his fortress of sweet nothings? Review | Are Ed Sheeran’s songlike secretions actually holding the universe together? 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z He asked her to turn around so he “could see her posterior,” she alleges, and told her “I’m sure you can do sweet nothings when you want to.” The fall of Roger Ailes: He made Fox his ‘locker room’ — and now women are telling their stories 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z In one scene, the tentative lovers are exchanging whispered sweet nothings. Adam Sandler: goofy chipmunk known for fart jokes has a serious side too 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z But this intimacy with mortality lends heft and emotion to one of his penetrating book’s fundamental questions: whether the universe, like life, is anything more than a short interlude between two vast nothings. Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z There were T-shirts splashed with an Avedon portrait of Ms. Versace used in a 1995 ad campaign for the Versace perfume Blonde and little nothings featuring a print of the bottle. No Sex, No Politics, No Risk 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z For a whole 18 seconds, V leaned over and whispered what we can only assume were sweet nothings into Rodrigo’s ear. Best and Worst Moments From the 2022 Grammys 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z A zipper of personal information near the bottom could be programmed with sweet nothings: “Fred. I want to kiss you. Sally.” ‘Times Square, 1984,’ at the Skyscraper Museum 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z These are the kinds of sweet nothings that, if redacted for the purposes of quotation in this newspaper, would leave little more than articles, prepositions and pronouns: “...my...your ... the…” Their marriage was already cracking. With joyless prose about joyless people, Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Here I Am' is kitsch at best 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z That impulse, for finding empty spaces and turning nothings into somethings, stuck with him. With demolition tools in hand, a Seattle artist aims to unlock the city’s cultural potential 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Reliquaries were designed to make something of those nothings by framing them, focusing attention on them and promoting them. Art Review: The Spiritual Network 2011-03-24T22:13:08Z “I find myself running home to your sweet nothings.” The Clock Strikes: Time for Taylor Swift’s New LP, ‘Midnights’ 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The short tunics in cocktail colors like orange and cerise did not quite make it, because the designer needs to cut those little nothings on the bias to make them look womanly and seductive. Special Report: Red Carpet Fading Away 2010-03-08T18:30:00Z For example: Billy Bob Thornton, wearing sunglasses and whispering sweet nothings in his companion’s ear, won for his role as a down-and-out attorney in Amazon’s legal thriller “Goliath.” Golden Globes: Lots of ‘La La’-dee-da, but a wake-up call from Meryl Streep 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Each episode of “Seinfeld” would take various nothings — like waiting for a dinner reservation, forgetting someone’s name— as the building blocks of an episode’s plot. “Bunheads” Adorable Nihilism 2012-07-17T14:22:00Z And then the sweet, lacy nothings went into overdrive. Victoria’s Secret Takes Paris 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z He’s still attuned to the inherent musicality of human speech, but still prone to spouting sweet nothings and sour gripes. Review | Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ is a lonely, predictable wail from the mountaintop 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Because her voice is not ideally suited to whispering sweet nothings, Ms. Elias, even at her most introspective, likes to keep things moving. Review: Eliane Elias Honors Generations of Brazilian Composers at Birdland 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z And as the stranded musicians interact with their hosts, their shared story becomes a tally of sweet nothings, of regretful might-have-beens. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z To give body and shape to these phantoms and airy nothings, Morton packs her book with images — of paintings, creepy spirit photographs, movie stills and even a full-page illustration of Casper the Friendly Ghost. Michael Dirda: Ghosts and ghouls to put a chill in your Christmas reading 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z About half of nothings in particular said they believe in angels, the power of prayer and heaven. Highlights from AP-NORC poll about the religiously unaffiliated in the US 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Though immortalized in art, literature and song, and cherished by lovers who whisper sweet nothings or tearfully part on the privacy of its banks, the river was ecologically dying. Fancy a dip? An Olympic reboot for Paris’ toxic River Seine 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z At dinner, we finally saw other people, most of whom looked old enough to remember a time when the dining room buzzed with coos and sweet nothings. Perspective | I went to a dying honeymoon hotel to mourn the end of my marriage 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Except for my brother’s urgent issues, I recognize that my crazy days are little nothings in the context of a nation on the cusp of implosion. Opinion | This is already a summer I’d like to forget 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z If that sounds miserable, there’s also wine, coffee, food and plenty of places to break up your walk with more desirable activities, like sitting, catching one’s breath and whispering sweet nothings. For Valentine’s Day, see the Sound, the sunset and sea lions on a walk around Seattle’s Sunset Hill 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z But about half of agnostics and those nothings in particular consider themselves “spiritual but not religious.” Highlights from AP-NORC poll about the religiously unaffiliated in the US 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z But he didn’t woo shoppers by whispering the usual sort of sweet nothings about heritage and the aristocracy. Perspective | Virgil Abloh’s wondrous success 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z In it, two trans women alternately caress and shove each other, cooing sweet nothings one moment and cursing the next. Maggie Nelson Wants to Redefine ‘Freedom’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Times columnist Bill Plaschke and I sat next to each other and just kept muttering little nothings, really. First Person: Reminiscing with Kobe after his 60-point game 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z That was how the Hoffmans found themselves on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on New Year’s Eve, surrounded by celebrities and in front of President Bill Clinton, reading their sweet nothings aloud. ‘Dearest Sweetheart’: The passion and poignancy of wartime love letters 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z About two-thirds of nothings in particular consider themselves spiritual, religious or both. Highlights from AP-NORC poll about the religiously unaffiliated in the US 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z "The plan for Valentine's weekend is to send a digital pop-up van around London encouraging people to spread sweet nothings and messages of gratitude to themselves," she explains. Covid-19: Celebrating Valentine's Day during a pandemic 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z But that has not been how so many coaches who whisper little more than sweet nothings in the ears of easily impressed young athletes — and the adults in their homes — see them. Perspective | It’s time for black labor in college sports to demand new ground rules 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z Just click the link and hit refresh to learn sweet nothings. ThisWordDoesNotExist.com is rewriting the dictionary with the help of AI 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Two lovers, on the verge of consummating their desire, exchange what sound like sweet nothings. The Fanciful Flamboyance of “The Aeronauts” 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z While widespread majorities of atheists and agnostics get no fulfillment from religious faith, only 62% of those nothings in particular say the same. Highlights from AP-NORC poll about the religiously unaffiliated in the US 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z He whispers sweet nothings in the boss’s ear and escapes blame. SNYDER: Redskins’ formula works for Allen, but everyone else is on their own 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Over gently swaying acoustic guitar, Alicia and Miguel coo sweet nothings to each other in a gorgeous, timeless melody, the kind of thing that sounds improvised by Keys just sitting at the piano and playing. 50 great tracks for October by Alicia Keys, DaBaby, Angel Olsen and more 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z She would write about taking a walk in the park, having conversations with her mother, and repeat sweet nothings about how much she liked him. Can a computer fool you into thinking it is human? 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z As for what the man she affectionately calls "macho" brings to her life aside from sweet nothings and diamonds, J.Lo joked, "It's baseball. All. The. Time." Jennifer Lopez jokes about Alex Rodriguez being her fourth husband 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z From the El, I could look into other people’s windows, but if I saw them at all, what they were doing mostly were the same kinds of nothings we did in our own apartment. “The El” 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He is a master of efficiency who not only juggles breakfast and sweet nothings, but can take a brand to global fame in just a matter of days. What Apple could teach mom Gwyneth Paltrow about technology | Rebecca Nicholson 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Around the world, people use chocolate treats to express sweet nothings on Valentine's Day. Japan falling out of love with 'duty' chocolates 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z In between sweet nothings, they discussed drug shipments and "non-stop" sales. Crazy moments from El Chapo's trial 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z She alluded to financial incentives and coaching help for principals, stocking her two-page response with assorted sweet nothings. Opinion | If D.C. really wants to improve public schools, treat the principals better 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Trump hollers sweet nothings to the working class while in practice shoveling the nation’s wealth to the wealthiest few. In November, Democrats need to be the third party 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z As couples move from whispering sweet nothings to mounting strategic wedding-planning campaigns, their minds and inboxes will be deluged with checklists and countdowns, vendors and venues. Opinion | The Secret to a Happy Marriage Is Knowing How to Fight 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z On one side of the political divide, Trump antagonists clutched Wolff’s book to their breasts while whispering sweet nothings to the 25th Amendment. Opinion | There is nothing ‘professional’ about this president 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z For the title track, he pitches his voice down as low as Barry White's as he whispers nearly indecipherable sweet nothings. California Sounds: 30 essential Los Angeles records of 2017 – LA Times 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z I'm sure Jared and the other no nothings probably gave the Prince the green light the other day. Saudi Crown Prince’s Mass Purge Upends a Longstanding System 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z In Ashley Madison Angels at Work in London, uncanny 3D models of women whisper robotic sweet nothings from iPads installed in random spots all around the space. Turning the specter of internet surveillance into art 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The gracefully aging lefty is one of the game’s most beloved prototypes, embraced by fans for his cunning mastery of making great somethings out of pitches that appear to be mere nothings. Perspective | Gio Gonzalez is pitching smart, and that should prolong the crafty lefty’s career 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z That said, it’s rarely wise to spend a lot on sweet warm-weather nothings. Languor for Less: 9 Chic Summer Dresses Under $300 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Best to duck his head, mumble nothings and dive into the pool. Michael Phelps wants to talk doping reform now. Will anybody listen? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Or perhaps the point is that they are one and the same—the same sweet nothings. Christopher Strachey’s Nineteen-Fifties Love Machine 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z They are boxed into a corner, on one side the ultra conservatives do nothings, and on the other, people who will start dying for lack of care. Senate Takes Major Step Toward Repealing Health Care Law 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z “I’m sure you can do sweet nothings when you want to,” he said another time. FBI releases documents in Clinton email investigation – campaign live 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z He lays the horse on its back, stretching it, rubbing its tummy, and whispering sweet nothings into its ear. Illustrated Bachelorette Recap: the horse whisperer 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z As Earth rotates in the summer, fireflies whisper sweet nothings to each other in the most beautiful language never heard. How to Talk to Fireflies 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z It fits snugly in the long list of easygoing nothings, the narrative equivalent of a Fruit Roll-Up, designed to be forgotten in as many minutes as it took to watch. 'Now You See Me 2' is more slight than sleight of hand 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z I’d much rather have a boss like this than a boss who is constantly whispering sweet nothings to me and then they stick a shiv in you and you’re out. Exclusive: Megyn Kelly Talks Fears, Courage and Donald Trump 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Indeed, those words coaches whispered into their ears probably really were sweet nothings to get their signatures on letters of intent. Black athletes who power the NCAA machine must demand their just due 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z In a sublime pastiche of a perfume commercial, they pranced around a seashore, while a voice whispered aromatic nothings: “Between desire and reality. Between fact and breakfast.” Terrence Malick’s Quest for Beauty 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Jennifer, a student on her commute home from school, was brought into the studio to sit on a loveseat with the 35-year-old Hail, Caesar! actor while he whispered sweet candy heart nothings in her ear. Watch Channing Tatum Make a Stranger's Valentine's Day Dreams Come True 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z When you whispered sweet nothings in my ear, breath as hot as a Shreveport summer, about Famous Idaho Potatoes and late December in Detroit, I bit. College bowl games are creeping dangerously close to the precipice 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s all underneath her as she pulls them close, holding them tenderly, whispering sweet nothings. “Honey Bunny” 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z And then, in what would emerge as a pattern of indifference toward and disrespect for the law, he dismissed his transgressions as clerical nothings. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z We hear the brush of skin on skin, the sweet and wordless nothings of Anya’s gasps, and the kiss she bestows at the end—a good and naughty deed in a world gone bad. The Attack of the Dull Dinos in “Jurassic World” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z There, names and numbers were drawn out of hats, trainers of Belmont entries uttered mostly unquotable nothings and Bob Baffert beautifully navigated the media siege. A last-person Triple Crown account 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Forget that the National Ski & Snowboard Retailers Association reported that only 2.6 percent of Americans actually downhill ski — or that they did so only about eight days a year when these nothings were first whispered. The best interface is no interface: why we don't always need An App for That 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Carter’s sweet nothings were just what the hawks wanted to hear. Ashton Carter is likely to break hawks’ hearts 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z There may be something other than sweet nothings exchanged between Brady and Suggs. Patriots and Ravens’ Rivalry Includes Plenty of Hostility 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z And just who are the "no nothings" referred to in the first paragraph? Senate Contest in South Dakota Is Free-for-All 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The leaders of China and Zimbabwe whispered sweet nothings about shared history, common foes and future cooperation during a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing this week. Robert Mugabe visits China as critics condemn 'desperate' bid for investment 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Gang members hassle kids their same age even if they’re “neutrons” or “nothings” that are neutral parties to the tense skirmishes that grip these neighborhoods. Scene of the crime: 'It's spreading, spreading more over here' 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Carmelo Anthony passed the last few weeks batting his eyes at one franchise after another, listening to sweet nothings whispered in his ear. With Return of Anthony, Knicks Quietly Edge Ahead 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Just like sugar builds up toxins in the human body, these sweet nothings like “change is easy” build up weaknesses in companies and are toxic to a great culture like Jimmy Beans Wool has. Change Is Tough And Ugly - Now Go Do It 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z They smiled at each other, trading gentle jokes and the political equivalent of sweet nothings. As Liberal Leaders Test Cuomo, de Blasio Stands by Him 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z It gave him not so much a lisp as a consonantal slurp, making gibberish out of his sweet nothings, but talking was never the main thing between them. Robert Coover: “The Frog Prince.” 2014-01-20T05:00:00Z "We can't accept the fact very comfortably that two nobodies, two nothings - Oswald and Ruby - were able to change the course of world history," he told Reuters. The curious and the skeptical mark murder anniversary at Oswald grave 2013-11-25T01:26:52Z But as significant was the constant drip, drip of poison and sweet nothings that served to ratchet up the pressure on opponents and referees, while transmitting messages to his own players. Alex Ferguson: fierce sense of right and wrong led to epic rows 2013-05-08T16:02:00Z Children played in fire hydrant fountains and couples whispered sweet nothings in each others’ ears on park benches. Bioshock Infinite Review Part 1: Somewhere Over the Rainbow 2013-03-26T19:23:25Z The idiots who send a tithe to loud mouth know nothings like Beck and Limbaugh? Sequester Cuts Will Hurt, But When Will We Notice Their Full Impact? 2013-02-25T21:20:26Z Somebody who deserves a car-full of candy hearts and sweet nothings: your IT guy. It's Valentine's Day...go hug your IT guy! 2013-02-14T15:00:22Z It is a huge problem but not of Obama's making - it is still too early to focus on short term spending cuts but sadly the Tea Party know nothings are driving the republican dialogue. America's recovery: Better faster than slower 2012-10-26T15:00:48Z Lovers are expected to swap sweet nothings many times a day and woe betide the clod who forgets a “100-day anniversary”. Love, Korean-style: Two?s company 2012-05-17T15:05:40Z Is it merely soft nothings that the Christ Church undergraduate is whispering to that young lady from Somerville Hall, as they 'sit out' the lancers in the romantic light of several hundred Chinese lanterns? Aspects of Modern Oxford 2012-04-25T02:01:12.193Z But no doubt its fulfilment is, in point of truth, equal to its ever having been given; for angels are airy nothings, and have no existence but in the imagination. A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z He knows no such name: What a world of business, Which by interpretation are meer nothings, These things have here! Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10): The Loyal Subject 2012-03-26T02:00:33.817Z According to Aristotle they were mere nothings of the upper atmosphere, of no more account than the general happenings of the weather. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Lovers entwined on Asunción’s park benches murmur sweet nothings with its high-pitched, nasal and guttural sounds. Memo From Paraguay: In Paraguay, Indigenous Language With Unique Staying Power 2012-03-12T05:22:43Z So is it with the gift of that bright colloquial faculty which bestows such indescribable grace upon the airy nothings uttered in French drawing-rooms. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z Ascending to wider problems, in which way are we to interpret the lifelessness of the greater celestial masses—the giant planets and the Sun; in proportion to which the habitable planets are mere nothings? Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z A good many Osteopaths are becoming disgusted with the big words, technical terms and “high-sounding nothings” used by so many Osteopathic writers. Quacks and Grafters 2012-02-23T03:00:40.650Z Costly toys and embroidered nothings, vinaigrettes and scent-bottles, lay scattered everywhere; and on other tables, on the mantelpiece, on the floor, a litter of similar trifles elbowed and jostled the gloomy tokens of illness. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Such is the power of genius, which "gives to airy nothings a local habitation and a name." The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z From the beginning he had leaned towards the admiral, his elbow upon his knee, his chin propped upon his hand, and his head now and again nodding a thoughtful assent to the admiral's nothings. The Four Corners of the World 2012-01-26T03:00:15.920Z I had been surrounded with fancied beings; with mere airy nothings conjured up by poetic power; yet which, to me, had all the charm of reality. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z Above all, use the best of your intelligence, earnestly, in studying and applying the thousand little nothings that in the aggregate make the perfect reader. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z Girls lose their heads directly one of your sort whispers sweet nothings in their ears. The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 2011-12-25T03:00:12.817Z There are many little nothings by which people always betray themselves, unless they are constantly on their guard; and even then! Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z SHE was talking the most indifferent nothings as they went up the stairs to the dancing-room, a largish space with an encircling gallery. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z After that they were prepared to wash their hands of them and let them hide away and discuss delightful nothings to their own delectation until tea-time. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z The lady of the house is chattering nothings with that queer Californian, who looks as much like a spoiled preacher as anything. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z Just a lot of little nothings—odds and ends that I’ve picked up about the house. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z Great ideas were floating about; the artistic apprehension was needed to give these airy nothings a local habitation and a name; to convert vague suppositions into definite hypotheses. Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley 2011-11-24T03:00:46.350Z I like all the comments it generated from people that assume the OWS people are all out of work, hippies, do nothings, etc. Occupy Wall St.: A Two-Month Scorecard 2011-11-21T17:18:39Z "Moreover, to deny that Space and Time are things, and so by implication to call them nothings, involves the absurdity that there are two kinds of nothings." Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Be something—a genuine reality—not an empty sham—something in power and in position, not one of the nothings who parrot the reigning follies and vices. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z What is another man's slight annoyance is to him the menace of an assassination; another's nothings are his doom. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Ah, a single smile from Blanche is worth all the sweet nothings of these ladies. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z All thanks, say we, to the critic who will pick up such nothings as these; for if he neglects them, they are blindly trodden under foot. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z As nothings they are, then, both equally blank, and destitute of meaning. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Claude himself, however, though frequently gratified, was not deceived; for the sweetest nothings came invariably from the provincial press; and he at least knew too much to mistake a "notice" for a "real review." My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z You see how, on an afternoon taken at random, two nothings had made still denser by a fraction that background of which I was every moment conscious. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z 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. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z Naturally she did not care to have her lustre dimmed and her subtle draperies made to look like faded nothings by the neighbourhood of this bird of brilliant plumage. Pink Gods and Blue Demons 2011-08-31T02:01:22.827Z These “airy nothings” consist of relationships between people. Myth #8: Apple Just Builds A Better Mousetrap 2011-08-29T17:55:31Z It is such a pretty, lively, brisk, frolicsome, p�tillant small-beerish talk, that engages and does not fatigue, and piques appetite yet feeds you with nothings. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z "That's nothing," I had been on the point of saying, but there were no nothings for us. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Meanwhile, real estate agents are standing by to speak sweet nothings into their ears, cooing about the trophy house that ought to serve as a marker of their newfound professional standing. Your Money: Investment Advice for Doctors: First, Do No Harm 2011-08-26T21:28:37Z And right away at the back a beautiful garden was disclosed, in which happy young couples were seen perambulating arm-in-arm, talking soft nothings to each other. The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza 2011-08-19T02:00:16.653Z Fox occupied that two minutes with a rattle of airy nothings which kept Sally busy and her mind off her errand; which may have been Fox's object or it may not. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z After a few desultory nothings had been exchanged between the two, Carr alluded to Wyndham's engagement, and offered him his congratulations. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z Were I able to speak of "mere nothings" I should say that a mere nothing has brought all this about. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z The man in the pulpit, the man in the pew, alike ignored the dead creed, and instead revelled in glib phraseology, in poetical nothings, in much-sounding rhetoric and ecclesiastical show and ritual. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z Who increased my passion by a thousand sweet nothings? A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z The live-oaks did very well as cavaliers bending gallantly to catch the tender nothings of the coquettes. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z 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. A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z Thus they sat, exchanging the airiest of gossip, laughing over mere nothings. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z It would be well for us to remember that we, as well as ancient Israel, fret and fume over a lot of little nothings. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z Nesbit: A plenipotentiary of publicity who takes pretty nothings and makes of them New York Central literary hash. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z The inevitable tendency of the Wright frank talk was from the beginning to discredit the Taft pleasing and evasive nothings. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z Lingering on its banks, they gazed on the full tide, admired the glorious sunset, and breathed over and over again those tender nothings so eloquent in lovers' ears. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z He kept up a quiet flow of nothings until the hill was reached. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z Oh! that I might enjoy those nothings once again in fact, as I can in fancy! Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z All these details Henry Lee trusted to his daughter, and, forgetting the frivolous nothings of yesterday, she rode past the Bat Wing outfit without stopping or waving her hand. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z Tender nothings were the order of the day whenever I found myself alone with Mr. Stephen White. Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z Every single girl except Mary looked a little conscious while Blanche was talking, and I could not help wondering if there had not been others besides myself who had been the recipient of tender nothings. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z Financial forecasts are like little gremlins that sit on your shoulders whispering sweet nothings in your ear about upward climbing bell curves. 10 Things I Learned From Failure 2011-04-29T15:39:52Z There were whispered nothings, tender caresses, and loose jests. Corianton A Nephite Story 2011-04-28T02:00:14.830Z "Well, could you imagine old Hermansen on his knees whispering tender nothings to a woman?" Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z A hide-bound programme may be a bad thing, but nothing worse can be imagined than the string of airy nothings which used to do duty for a policy among the latter-day Whigs. Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z While she babbled nothings to me, I wondered that I could ever have thought otherwise of her than I did to-day. The MS. in a Red Box 2011-04-07T02:00:20.313Z Ethereal things may at least be thus real, divided under three heads—Things real—things semireal—and nothings. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z But when Mr. Arnold began to exhibit a fondness for her society, and whispered soft nothings in her ear, she says "she absolutely loathed him." Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife 2011-03-10T03:00:49.120Z Her little cajoleries—those small nothings of voice and look and touch—are such subtle tempters for one admired even to homage itself. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z A thousand pardons for my bit of slang; but the fact is, just as one talks French when he wants to say nothings, one takes to slang when one requires to be shifty. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Just a little on to the hall account, and to odd nothings, and there are a few extra gowns in the price of the blue; that will make it right. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z The romantic pair spend all day grooming each other and "tweeting sweet nothings". Love birds to be given 'civil ceremony' 2011-02-07T14:07:30Z "What is it, missy?" asked Durgo roughly, for he was not inclined to waste his time in saying pretty nothings to this Englishwoman, when so much was at stake. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z The little fellow cooed close to her ear; and babbled his inarticulate nothings. The Blind Mother and The Last Confession 2011-02-03T03:00:11.867Z I had been whispering very earnestly, while all my impressive words had been treated as if airy nothings; and more than once I had been most decidedly snubbed. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z The inspector, Murphree said, wrote them up for "100 percent just clerical nothings" and pushed for revocation. Gun dealers often stay in business with new licenses after ATF shuts them down 2010-12-14T05:27:00Z He played him higher up the pitch, usually with a roaming brief from the left and, with some sweet nothings to bolster Modric's belief, saw him blossom. Luka Modric comes full circle and pushes Tottenham to new heights 2010-12-10T22:30:00Z On both sides of the ocean, skeptics have dismissed the leak as sweet nothings directed, above all, at the European Union and the White House. In Czar Peter?s Footsteps 2010-05-30T00:55:00Z The deliberate silence of Brian Moore back then said a lot more than the carefully delivered nothings from the latest graduate of the media training course. In 1991 players gave you nothing, in 2010 they give you even less |Eddie Butler 2010-03-25T15:28:00Z A good many sweet and silly nothings had been exchanged, also promises, and now the boy’s heart was very sore. The Girl From Tim's Place They were not the words of the thoughtless, the lovers of conquest, the distributors of vain compliments, empty nothings, to every woman who was the toy of the hour. By Birth a Lady Bill was grinning and asking "if it hurt much" and telling me that I could see better after a little and lots of other sympathetic nothings. Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. They talked of nothings, as usual, and he stole covert looks at her face, noting how the sea winds played havoc with her loosened hair. Rockhaven "I suppose, like the rest of us, you have come to hear Lady Medenham's latest prodigy?" he said, after the usual polite nothings had been said. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Mere nothings! for 'tis clear your neighbour gains Far more than he by all this piety. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise And yet here I am, pencil in hand, jotting down the nothings of the moment, and with every prospect of continuing to do so for two weeks at least. Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth Then he begins to mutter wild nothings to himself. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York 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. A Top-Floor Idyl She shut her eyes and tried to think of quiet nothings, and after much tossing she dropped off to sleep. The Shadow In this contest of wit and airy nothings I soon found myself as far out-distanced as the others were outstripped by Colonel Burr. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois "What nothings we are," he murmurs, "before the least of these stars!" A Day with Lord Byron On the one hand, they were, like the heathen gods, “nothings;” on the other, their empty shadowiness itself fitted them to be a Divinely appointed means to call sins to remembrance. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews Some demigod whispering soft nothings to a daughter of men. A Top-Floor Idyl Things have a way of beginning casually, so casually that you think they are bound to spin themselves out into airy nothings. Leerie The difficulty, of course, was to withdraw without settling anything definitely; but some other people came in, and I murmured polite nothings about ‘thinking it over,’ and beat a retreat. The Daughters of a Genius His vanity was secretly wounded that this man of the world, with his prettily-dressed nothings, should at once have become a greater favorite than he with his tiresome solidities and all his historical luggage. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Those debatable nothings are of great service to Englishmen who meet as mere acquaintances; they relieve the awkwardness of looking out for a topic, and they are better than the eternal question of the weather. One Of Them We say to one another all manner of things—sweet nothings, but they fill my mind with a sort of ecstasy. Black Diamonds I guess maybe he don't likes nobody shall make nothings mit him. Little Aliens The weak fritter away on nothings the driving force of this priceless instinct; this instinct that has raised us from primeval slime to the mastery of the world. The New Warden I saw once a cabin-boy hanging on to the jibboom of an English brig, the True Blue, knocked, jibboom and all, to ten thousand nothings. Toilers of the Sea I thought you would not get such goot boots for nothings. On the right of the British line In comparison with all these beautiful sublimities, Mount Ætna, the elephant, the man-of-war, Leviathan swimming the ocean-stream, Saturn with his ring, and with his horrid hair the comet—might be all less than nothings. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) My mamma's back needs the most of it, und in front it don't fits very good, only that makes mit my mamma nothings. Little Aliens They had a very passion of amusing themselves with nothings. Pierre and Luce Because she was perishing to have Mr. March again begin where he had left off, she conversed with the Fairs longer than ever and created half a dozen delays out of pure nothings. John March, Southerner The awful shapes, the struggles of demoniac men, the processions of strange and beautiful forms, which had visited him in his delirious visions,—all these were airy nothings; but the cave was real. Cudjo's Cave The other dancers in twos and threes passed from the room in search of quiet corners, in which to whisper nothings. Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time "That don't make nothings mit mine friend," said Morris; "he likes ham." Little Aliens A true woman, the evocation of these tender nothings, intimate and familiar images of daily life, moved Luce sometimes to tears. Pierre and Luce Merely a mysterious holy of holies and good of goods, which does everything and nothings means nothing and requires nothing—is nothing. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II It is not in vain that I return to the nothings 72 of my childhood; for every one of them has left some stamp upon me or put some fetter on my boasted free-will. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers A quaint mirror, easy-chairs and sofas, and a hundred nothings, which always add an indescribable charm, were all massed in this room. Home Life of Great Authors I should never leave nobody have nothings what you gives me 'out they pays me good. Little Aliens There he was all day long close beside Mimi, or at her horse's bridle, with confidential chat about a thousand things, with eloquent nothings, and shy glances, and tender little attentions, and delicate services. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia The Father is He from whom went forth the Monad and the Spark of Light, and before this all the Worlds were dark nothings. The Gnôsis of the Light Señorita Diane was exceedingly loquacious: her little tongue wove in and out of the new idiom with surprising facility, forever wagging in a low, sweet babble of nothings. Clark's Field A thousand naughts are not a feather, When in a sum they all are brought; A thousand idle lads together Are still but nothings joined to naught. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 She won't," he broke out ecstatically, "have nothings else to do. Little Aliens Many applauded with patronic warmth And empty commendation, and no scorn Curled his proud lip, not one defiant word Echoed their nothings into transient life. Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems After his wedding day, a man usually tucks all the flattering adjectives and tender nothings in his vocabulary away in a pigeon-hole and marks them "Not to be opened until widowerhood." A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl She never had time for naps or odd moments of indolent nothings. Clark's Field There's nothing great, there's nothing wise, Which idle hands and minds supply; Those who all thought and toil despise, Mere nothings live, and nothings die. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 He says like that: all those mans what couldn't to catch nothings und couldn't to hit nothings. Little Aliens I am going, if not too lazy, to note down the everyday nothings of my life, and see what it looks like. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III They said, however, a variety of agreeable nothings, and I am to see the count to-morrow. A Diplomatic Adventure She spent a lot of money merely for the sake of spending it, buying nothings of all sorts to give away or throw away. Clark's Field Such a case is, I hope, purely fictional, but there ought to be some exceptionally good reason for divulging the sweet nothings that go to make up the typical love-letter. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements "She looks like she knew a awful lot, but she don't know nothings 'tall." Little Aliens And afterwards I would spend long hours in recalling and analyzing those nothings, questioning their nothingness, making out of things too submerged and impalpable for the rough drags of recollection, promises and indications. The Passionate Friends She caught fragments of what they were saying, fragments of the usual prattle, the same nothings that they said every day, accompanied by the same vague laughs. The Benefactress They seemed to care warmly for one another, yet quarreled like children over nothings. Clark's Field I tell you no man living would have the courage to breathe airy nothings into your sister's ear more than once.—Here's two kisses. Kildares of Storm Like the wide thorny leaves whence the mother root threw Up its crown of rich purple, bejewelled with dew, These feathery nothings, barbed, sparsely, with seeds, Must struggle for life with the brambles and weeds. Phemie Frost's Experiences It isn't a question of his poverty; your father has money enough: it's a question of his social quality, and of all those little nothings that make up the whole of happiness in marriage. The Quality of Mercy We must stay home and be nothings until the end and then take what’s left––joyfully, gratefully––oh! At the Crossroads Silvia sat by our bedroom window twittering soft, cooing nonsensical nothings to Diogenes, who was clasped in her arms, his flushed little face pressed close to her shoulder. Our Next-Door Neighbors Dolores was carefully fighting for time; she wished to dissect the feeling of the crowd before her, and while she spoke her irrelevant nothings, her keen eyes roved over every face. The Pirate Woman They talked airy nothings that conceal the thoughts. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life Such things have only to be faced to be seen as nothings. Love and Lucy Thus much concerning us and our pastimes, from which it will have appeared that the gentlemen at Vichy pass half the day in nothings, the other half in nothing. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 Each was conscious of a dynamic something in the air; their minds had a frank understanding while the talk skipped in and out among nothings. The Man Who Wins "It isn't so easy to say airy nothings to an artist, when you know him behind the scenes," Beatrix said, suddenly shifting the talk back to the point of departure. The Dominant Strain She was thinking chaotic, rebellious, ridiculous nothings, punctuated with uneven ragged thoughts about matching gloves to gowns or getting potted goose livers at the East-Side store Trudy had just recommended. The Gorgeous Girl "Now you go flirt with some my girls," she said, "and don't bother your old head about nothings!" Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas On and on they walked, Lamont whispering soft, sweet nothings into her foolish ears, until they had left most of the throng far behind them. Jolly Sally Pendleton Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife OUR love was all arrayed in pleasantness, A tender little love that sighed and smiled At little happy nothings, like a child, A dainty little love in fancy dress. Silhouettes In fact, soft nothings are fittest for the ear of a lady. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue And we think of the places which were once blank, mere misty nothings to us. Lotus Buds "They are, perhaps, only unsubstantial froth, mere puffs of air, vapoury nothings." Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India "Some poor little boys and girls has no mothers and ganfathers, and no stockings and shoes, and no nothings," said Baby solemnly. The Adventures of Herr Baby No nearer something, by a jot, Rise an infinity of nothings Than one: take Euclid for your teacher: Distinguish kinds: do crownings, clothings, Make that creator which was creature? Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning His successor was Sydney Sonnino, perhaps the most upright, rigid and taciturn man who has ever had to receive foreign diplomatists and discourse sweet nothings in their ears. England and Germany The difficulties in the way of the exchange of those sweet nothings that lovers love to dwell upon and the impossibility of any hoped for end to their love making intensified their passion. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main It was all in shadow, and full of shadowy nothings, all dark. Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India And the devil knows what beside—Magnanimity and sacred fire, indeed!—Very magnanimous sounds, but pompous nothings! The Fall of British Tyranny American Liberty Triumphant They offered a selection of ginger-nuts and fancy biscuits, and the best silver cream-jug, and murmured some polite nothings on the hackneyed subject of the weather. The Madcap of the School It afterwards required no great stretch of the imagination to give to these "airy nothings a local habitation and a name." Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton She could remember ever so many things, nothings, things that made a little difference in the dull, dull cloudy sky of a neglected wife. The Marriage of Elinor He was just in the mood, also, to listen to pretty nothings from a pretty girl's lips, to hear her sing, perhaps to walk slowly with her by and by in the sunshine. Frances Kane's Fortune He accosted both ladies after his usual gay fashion, and talked for a while about nothings and as if he cared about nothing. Say and Seal, Volume II It was not far, and talking of nothings the two strolled that way. Nobody What silly nothings these two young people uttered as they made the circuit of that long wood-bordered mill-pond need not be recorded. Uncle Terry A Story of the Maine Coast While they went through the formalities of checks and wraps, she talked foolish nothings. The Readjustment He had even said tender nothings to Jean Roland and expressed an eager desire to see her in Louisville, where she was to visit before returning to Detroit. The Comings of Cousin Ann All Dalton's resolutions of silence, all his resolves melted into airy nothings at the sound of that sweet soft voice. The Buccaneer A Tale Lois walked to the door, murmuring nothings about the weather, the charm of the flowering yards in the Lane. Otherwise Phyllis For a few minutes they talked conventional nothings, as is the custom of those who meet only occasionally. One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford The noise and the greyish vapour were nothings out in that vast veldt, but they meant the exit of a man from the troublous scene. The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War In regard to the doing of such things, or rather of such absurd and inconceivable nothings, omnipotence itself possesses no advantage over weakness. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory There are a thousand and one nothings he may say at this time. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Irene moved mechanically through the airy mazes of the dance, straining her ear to catch the mellow voice which uttered such graceful, fascinating nothings to Salome. Macaria The great trees, such as beeches, elms, oaks and cedars, could coil and curve their branches without the thought of being cut down for a sidewalk, or trimmed until they were frivolous nothings. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation A few more sweet nothings, and, quite enraptured, he returned to his dull office routine. Through Finland in Carts And then we will no more be rack'd With inward striving, and demand Of all the thousand nothings of the hour Their stupefying power; Ah yes, and they benumb us at our call! Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold What a sad mummery of lisping nothings was my speech—and what a vanity was my attire! The Panchronicon Evelyn had just filled his cup; and being in no mood to interrupt her exchange of light-hearted nothings with George Rivers, she glanced across at Wyndham, who promptly understood the situation and the mute request. Captain Desmond, V.C. Besides all this, Mr Snapley was a miserable monopolizer of pompously advanced nothings. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. For a moment they stood thus, held in warm embrace, muttering those sweet nothings which to lovers mean all the world. Through Finland in Carts If the fame of Pythagoras had rested on such "airy nothings," it would have melted away before the time of Plato. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Mark had hoped more from the beginning of this speech than the conclusion quite bore out, but it was delightful to hear her talking something more than society nothings to him. The Giant's Robe The bride's mother, shaking hands and saying pleasant nothings to the first of her departing guests, looked at Mr. Gray reproachfully. The Girls of St. Olave's Their realities were smiles, sighs, 221 glances,—the thousand and one nothings that make up the joys and agonies of a lover’s existence. The Wall Between Shall the princes and monarchs of the earth wade through seas of blood for a corruptible crown; and wilt thou permit thyself to lose the incorruptible, or barter it for some perishable nothings of earth? The Faithful Promiser The thousand and one acts, and little, airy nothings, had given her a suspicion of the truth long since, but she had never felt certain of it. The Riflemen of the Miami It would be a bold young man who whispered sweet nothings into her ear; they'd sound so very foolish.' The Explorer The debt which society owes to them is that eternal succession of gay nothings which keeps London in a whirl till the grouse are ready for the sacrifice. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Pathetic things, heroic ones, nothings; all ending off in the story of a farewell letter, treasured many years, lost on a journey…. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life The childish and ever-baffled chase of these filmy nothings often seems, for one of sober years in a sad world, a trifling occupation. More Trivia Meanwhile, silly nothings were demoralizing the heart of my good Suzette. A Village of Vagabonds Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.—Richter. Pearls of Thought The lower lip of that small mouth which had been used to laugh at such foolish nothings, and which now so easily drooped to grieving, fell open as he looked. A Sheaf of Corn There were little things, little nothings, but in thousands. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 The specialist’s view of the world logically narrows itself down to a race of nonentities for nothings. The Lost Art of Reading It is very true that the multiplication of littles may amount to much; but not so the multiplication of nothings. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark A gurgling sound fell upon his ear, and he saw, lying contentedly upon his bed, babbling inexplicable nothings, waving meaningless gestures, rosy, happy, a baby—Melissa's baby. A Tar-Heel Baron The little fellow cooed close to her ear, and babbled his inarticulate nothings. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time He had simpered and said his little nothings so like an ordinary gentleman during their ride, that his present brusqueness was quite a relief to her. The Bertrams Auntie Alice had lately got into the habit of taking him of a morning, walking him about in her arms, crooning sweet nothings over him in her soothing voice. Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls But he did even his nothings in a strenuous way, and on occasion could make gallant fight against the elements themselves. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Polly lost no time in polite nothings, but asked, at once, about the conditions at the mines. Polly's Business Venture What soft nothings men had said of sleep! A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time For the next fifteen minutes Sir Lionel stood his ground, saying soft nothings to Miss Todd, and then he also became absorbed among the rubbers. The Bertrams He had fired at a few nothings, and during a spell of silence he was amazed to hear on his left a chattering in a strange tongue. The Kangaroo Marines You have not come to chat about nothings.” The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War Rousseau has not been particularly fortunate in the preservation of the "local habitations" he has given to "airy nothings." The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 They are atoms, nothings, minute fragments deriving in general from the disintegration of comets. Astronomy for Amateurs The soft nothings they had rehearsed would seem very hollow after the mutual reproaches they had just exchanged. A Patriotic Schoolgirl To dignify the malicious intentions and idle nothings of an evil mind by carrying them further is an expression of degeneracy that is urgently in need of active disinfection. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies There are only two families in the world,—the have somethings and the have nothings. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote Over this was a curtain of snow flakes, delicate as those aerial nothings of the sky, and more durable than any fabric known. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch His play of mind was unhappily without a subject, and to be witty on nothings puts a strain on wit. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Madeleine was listening with patient courtesy to the meaningless nothings of the one lady, and the stereotyped insipidity of the other. Fairy Fingers A Novel Diana was standing with her arms thrown round Baron's neck, whispering sweet nothings into his twitching ear. A harum-scarum schoolgirl Sometimes it was a demonstration of the priceless value of “nothings”; sometimes it was a naive suggestion that no house could afford to be without an “Art”-rocker with Arr Noovo insertions. Iole She might be a bon camarade, so free is she from the airy little nothings of society that puzzle scholarly men. Floyd Grandon's Honor Then my housekeeper hurries him in from his walk or his sun-bath, and puts him, brushed and manicured, on my desk; and Celia and I whisper fond nothings to him. Once a Week Our minds can rove whole days about vanity, about fancies, dreams, nothings; but you neither like to admit nor retain the knowledge of God in your mind, Rom. i. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Instead of trying to stretch it, and make it greater, they make it smaller deliberately; they put it back into the cases of their wafer box, nourish it only on faded trifles, on dry nothings. En Route She is a child of God, she says, and therefore He will not be hard upon her for little nothings. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow In other words, they are no sounds, but mere nothings; the analogy, in that case, of Abstract Limitation. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy All talked at once without disturbing the king, who now whispered soft nothings in the ear of the countess. Under the Rose They declared themselves, the next morning, far too weary to put in a single stitch; and occupied themselves chiefly in looking out of the window and exchanging airy nothings with customers. The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Open-mouthed, they watched, while in the arms of the little old gentleman she laughed, cried, and uttered broken nothings quite unintelligible to anybody. Carl and the Cotton Gin Nothing—eternal nothing—of these nothings All are a lie—for all to them are much! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry 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. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers But, without further preface, I will begin with one of the nothings. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 He tried to say some pleasant comforting nothings, and found it delightful to see her face clear into smiles and her blue eyes look into his so confidingly. Marcia Schuyler At last she gasped out, “Oh, father, what nothings we are!” Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler That is all very pretty, and sounds pre-Napoleonic, but we cannot all swallow sweet, cantish little nothings in place of food and wages. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century How much two girls can laugh together over a thousand such humorous nothings! Debts of Honor For, as my ingenious friend Attilius pleasantly said, 'It is better to do nothing than to be doing nothings!'' The Book-Hunter at Home Miss Jemima had wept until her eyes were mere nothings, while her nose, coming gallantly to the front, had assumed an undue prominence. Plantation Sketches They tried to be casual, engaged me in desultory nothings. Question of Comfort The people were not to be deceived by platitudes about "strategic purposes," or empty nothings about "a campaign to nullify it." Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death They spoke in kisses, in caresses, in little murmured nothings, as lovers will till the end of time. The Highgrader Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first? Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record As I stood outside the building waiting for a friend, the congregation came out, and I heard the usual interchange of verbal nothings. Men in the Making There is nothings worth doing that I have not done.' Despair's Last Journey He delights to operate, and exercise His power by mere nothings. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon Not by his word, not by his actions, but by the subtle nothings that, having no name, yet are, and go to make up the dreaded whole, has this thought been forced upon her. Molly Bawn A few more simple nothings spun out the conversation for ten minutes. Olive A Novel Then I find once more a heap of nothings that I had ceased to think about, and that recalled a heap of things to my mind. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. Paul answered that she was a little angel, and she told him a parcel of nothings which under fair and reasonable conditions would have bored his head off. Despair's Last Journey It is very amusing to note the pile of nothings that these persons heap up under the name of "guiding points" in relation to Fiddles. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators How wonderful is the power of genius which can not only "give to airy nothings a local habitation and a name," but fix them as realities in our memory forever! The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner "Certainly," said Julian carelessly, as if he were saying the lightest of nothings; "but I think you will find that I could have answered you quite as well." Patsy Sweethearts, he supposed, talking silly nothings as they were driven through the Park. The Brand of Silence A Detective Story "Walked all the way from Corgarff Castle?" he abruptly asked, preparing the way, with the usual nothings of conversation. The Black Colonel To his gay nothings, nothing was replied, Or something which was nothing, as urbanity Required. Don Juan It's quite completely furnished With affection's choicest store, Sweet nothings by the bushel, And kisses by the score. The Princess of the School He sat still And gazed with delightfully friendly eyes into Miss Maliphant's pleased countenance, and anon skipped across room or lawn to whisper beautiful nothings to Miss Kavanagh. April's Lady A Novel Captain Wilson, hot with the combined effects of exercise and wrath, continued the pursuit, but the pause to say sweet nothings to the second in command was fatal to his success. The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant Although natives of the two rival cities of Persia, yet without any particular previous cause, and by a combination of those nothings which give rise to most friendships, we became inseparable companions. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan The gentlemen stood before them, paying compliments, cracking jokes, and uttering airy nothings. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) We will just be happy!” she said coaxingly; and Ned assented, only too thankful to banish anxiety for a few hours, and to talk sweet nothings among the flowers. A Houseful of Girls Little Mrs Thornton prattled of cheery nothings at the other end of the table, and Jack Melland, turning towards his companion, remarked formally— “I—ah—I think we have met earlier in the day!” The Fortunes of the Farrells She twisted her fingers together, and stammered incoherent nothings. Etheldreda the Ready A School Story A short pause ensued, after the vicar had thus spoken; none of us cared, for the moment, to pass on to the empty nothings of every-day talk. She and I, Volume 1 He cost me not five franc; for, when I remember, he ate nothings—he starve himself.” Roger Ingleton, Minor Dicky and Dilly were still sufficiently newly married to be more or less independent of other people's society, and they kept up a continuous undercurrent of lover-like confidences and playful nothings all the time. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton "Ha, there you are, you cantankerous little fabrication of nothings!" The Galaxy Primes She mentioned mere nothings, connecting opinion with opinion, just to talk, to kill time, or avoid other topics. The Argonauts Flowers, photographs, books, music, and all those delicate nothings, which people generally tender as souvenirs for other people’s acceptance, she had in abundance. She and I, Volume 1 Mrs Ingleton, ill herself, was far too painfully absorbed in her boy’s danger to lend an ear to the tender nothings of her sympathetic kinsman. Roger Ingleton, Minor The idea that for so many hours the conventional smile must be upon our brow, and the conventional nothings upon our lips, is depressing in the extreme. Belles and Ringers They all always talked, she had talked, about such things as if they were mere nothings. The Coast of Chance Hippy declared that it had made the bend to be near Emma and murmur sweet nothings in her ear. Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods She seldom laughed—I hate to hear girls continually giggling and guffawing at the merest nothings so long as they proceed from male lips! She and I, Volume 1 I am giving to airy nothings a local habitation and a name. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians He made the prelude as light as a moonbeam, but there was thunder in the air, the clouds floated away, airy nothings in the blue, and then celestial silence. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques When destiny protects us, happiness is composed of a thousand charming nothings that the hearts of others cannot understand. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II The words were mere nothings, but they carried the man's purpose of kindness—carried it steadily, tirelessly. Son of Power The artist, facing an audience which seems incapable of differentiating between æsthetic and ethical values, tends to become a preacher of sonorous nothings, and the actual moralist-propagandist finds his way into art well greased. A Book of Prefaces But instantly she recovered and went with severe decorum, saying quiet nothings to Hugh as he followed, until at the sick-room door again she turned. Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi In playing with the children, in dreaming aloud, in talking seriously, sometimes in a little discussion or backbiting, in laughing, and exchanging those nothings which charm, we know not why, the hours glide away. The Friendships of Women But I am not of the world's people, if thee means the flaunters of various colors and loud-voiced nothings. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. There was a little stir among the "best people of the County"—a renewal of the chatter, high-pitched, pleasant nothings, and side remarks, in careful undertones. Red-Robin We debated the social nothings Men take such pains to discuss; The thunderous rumors of battle Were silent the while for us. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. "Your opinion has the merit of sincerity," she said, "although, looking back upon a—a certain day, I can't help but wonder whether you haven't been guilty of mouthing pretty nothings for my poor ears." Then I'll Come Back to You The spring and sureness, the poise of these light nothings make them a flight of birds. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance They said that I was a 'coward—dared not face a set of shadows, figments of the brain, empty nothings.' The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 To his gay nothings, nothing was replied, Or something which was nothing, as Urbanity Required. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 Should I be following in his footsteps, when I was dressing and dancing and talking nonsense or nothings and getting so tired that I could do nothing but sleep all the next day? Daisy in the Field That is, when Captain Percival did not talk; for he talked nothings. Daisy Was he contending about airy nothings without local habitation or a name? Our Unitarian Gospel White Mountain murmured a few sweet nothings into her innocent ear and anchored her firmly to a stake. I Married a Ranger I foresaw nothings at the moment, but ludicrous mistakes and embarrassment. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 At first the conversation consisted mostly of tender nothings: "He" certainly called her "Darling!" A Popular Schoolgirl Of course much may be said upon the solemn nothings which have occupied diplomatists; much historic truth may be adduced to show that diplomats have often proved to be what Carlyle calls "solemnly constituted impostors." Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Becky Sharp, perched among the fragrant blossoms, crooned soft nothings to herself. Judy Wallace was talking again about unimportant nothings, Garton was answering him in monosyllables and striving to see the way, to find out the thing which he must do. Under Handicap A Novel It is a melancholy thing to see a man retired from business with literally nothing to do but fritter away his time on nothings when he might be employed at something absorbing and useful. The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence Who went into the Abbey Church, I should like to know, and sat in a pew for ever so long, and looked tender nothings? A Popular Schoolgirl And as he shuffled back and forth the thin lips muttered foolish nothings, with here and there a tremulous oath. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady And man goes on, devouring his three poor meals a day, and babbling the meaningless nothings he has learned by rote. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays In the wagon the Lark had slipped down, and now lay upon his back, staring at the dim, swirling stars and babbling incoherent nothings. Under Handicap A Novel The ladies worked away at airy nothings, and the gentlemen, Squire included, smoked cigars and pipes, all talking of the stirring events of the past, and forecasting the pleasures of the near future. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life This great quality—the opposite of distrust and timidity, the ally of courage, the adjunct of a buoyant temperament—is not fed upon airy nothings. Practical Essays The social aspirant should cultivate the art of saying polite nothings acceptably. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Life is an epileptic fit between two nothings. Public Speaking Captains O’Brien and Kelly were already waltzing with the two Misses Bankes, and whispering delightful nothings into their curls as we entered. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses I'll pour the sweetest nothings you ever heard into your ears. Sally Bishop A Romance A word and a look of hers, to one and the other, made all smooth; and they went on again talking, of happy nothings, till it was time to separate for the night. Hills of the Shatemuc To talk of immaterial existences, is to talk of nothings. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Even the elephantine Johnson, congenitally incapable of airy nothings and prone always to "make little fishes talk like whales," disported ponderously in the 'Idler' and the 'Rambler.' Inquiries and Opinions They were talking of each other, those intimate nothings that mean a breaking down of distance and a rapidly growing familiarity. The Witness And so lusty was this pride she had deemed half-dead that beside it all her former enthusiasms seemed to fade into ghostly nothings. What Necessity Knows Such scenes should have more effect on them than all the fine sermons on the vanities and nothings of life ever preached. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 To say that the human soul, angels, God, are immaterial, is to say, they are nothings, or that there is no God, no angels, no soul. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 I fancy I write that letter,—a marvellous composition of commonplace nothings. Uncle Max They could not do or say aught that was vulgar or at variance with the kindnesses of life—those tender nothings which make up so large a something in the account of every day's existence. Turns of Fortune And Other Tales Then this—then that—and by and by a tiny heap of nothings, that implied reserves. The Vehement Flame It was such a sluggish life of nothings, she thought,—even when Jane had brought her chair close to the window where the sunshine came in broadest and clearest through the buttonwood-leaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 His poet's pen, his painter's pencil turned them to shapes, and gave to airy nothings a local habitation and a name. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 The trials of life had suddenly dwindled into mere nothings, and life's long years appeared as but a moment in the Glass of Time, while earthly joys seemed trivial and shallow and meaningless. Jerusalem "We must go home," said the triumphant beauty, after hearing a few of those half-whispered nothings which are considered of such importance in a lover's calendar; "the dew is falling, and I may catch cold." Turns of Fortune And Other Tales He was certainly pleasant to talk to; she had never met a refined man of the world before, and Captain Bertram was handsome to look at, and had a charming way of saying charming nothings. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town "Nobody's saying anything, Miss Watkins," roared Mitchell; "we are all talking airy nothings just to pass the time o' day." The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary Cool neglect, insulting compassion, lying promises, evasive and complimentary nothings—these will be his portion. Side Lights And yet it is one of these nothings which are noticed by those who notice such nothings. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 And thus, my dears, may life be squandered away, in a succession of busy nothings. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories There may be some to whom a description of the nothings of our life will be as flat as the nothings themselves—but I am not of that party. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary She still felt the tingle of his lips upon her hand, and still smiled at the airy nothings he said. The First Soprano How nothings that, to whom my Country owes, The great renown and name wherewith she goes. The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) But these points, and many others, may go as, comparatively, nothings. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians It was easy for an imagination like his to be wrought upon so as to give to "airy nothings," to the "thousand phantasies that crowd into the memory," the character of special revelations from heaven. The Life of Columbus Here I am, gentlemen, do not encumber me with your departmental jargon of palpable nothings. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon I don't want a display of pretty nothings. Looking Seaward Again They had no love for nothings in labor; they had no wish to make their fellows' wage envelopes smaller, but they were determined to make their own larger. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Then a walk down the street, a talk of mere wordy nothings, but of deep and tender looks. The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors The long-faced, too much sanctified female, doling out fixed quantities of monotonous nothings, is an abomination, and is calculated to drive man into chronic debauchery. Windjammers and Sea Tramps What were these petty matters—mere nothings—in the scale as against peace, the cheerfulness of the soul in the joy of the services and the fulfilment of the task of praise? The Cathedral The nothings, or somethings, which form the staple of the book, are not laboured; and they are presented without the semblance of pomp or pretension. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings It was useless to loll about the English bar where she kept the cash-drawer; it was useless to whisper sweet nothings into her ear; it was more than useless, it was foolish. The Goose Girl The imagination must be sensitized ere it will take the impression of those airy nothings whose image is traced and fixed by appliances as delicate as the golden pencils of the sun. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays In this sportive way she ran on, saying all kinds of lively nothings; while we drank our coffee out of Saxon porcelain which would have shone on the table of a crowned head. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 There are charlatans and know nothings in every pursuit, but in mine they effect so seriously the temporal and may be eternal welfare of mankind that their existence is awful to contemplate. Three Months of My Life A single couplet of Gifford's was more damaging than all Walpole's petulance: "See Thrale's grey widow with a satchel roam, And bring in pomp laborious nothings home." Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings It was she who had whisked the blood in two large earthenware pans, and she had thought that she would never get finished, since mademoiselle was for ever calling her away for mere nothings. Abbe Mouret's Transgression To his gay nothings, nothing was replied, Or something which was nothing, as urbanity Required. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time He was hoarse from shouting replies to Tishy's airy nothings, all winged with his name, and all, he felt, addressed as much to the public as to him. Mount Music Fairly tumbling forward from the door, Mrs. Heth gathered her daughter in a convulsive bear-hug, murmuring ecstatic nothings. V. V.'s Eyes Genius is creative and inventive; it has insight, it has imagination, it "bodies forth the forms of things unknown," and "gives to airy nothings a local habitation and a name." Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters The Duchess had paused in her farewell nothings with Sir Wilfrid to observe her friend. Lady Rose's Daughter "Will you come and look at our tapestry?" said Aldous to his neighbour, after a few nothings had passed between them as to the weather and her walk from Mellor. Marcella So what was the use of fighting which of two nothings was the greater? Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) But others have been heard to whisper nothings which are sweet. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 4, 1891 I'le sell my Copyhold, for since there are such excellent new nothings, why should I labour? is there no Fairy haunts him, no Rat, nor no old woman? Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 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. Lady Rose's Daughter Does not the Peace, and Calm, and Security, and Bliss that comes to you with this Realization, far more than counterbalance the petty nothings that you have discarded? A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga It is because "nothings grow something"; the words make a mist about the thing. The Jesus of History We debated the social nothings We bore ourselves so to discuss; The thunderous rumors of battle Were silent the while for us. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell When he talked it was usually with Lady Dalrymple and Minnie: and with these the conversation turned always upon glittering generalities, and the airy nothings of pleasant gossip. The American Baron He walks, himself a ghost, among the ghosts of the past; and these "airy nothings" nod and smile, and shake hands, and say: "Yes, we are ourselves." Strange Visitors She takes possession of some large warrior who has lately arrived from the battle-fields of Umballa or Meerut, and she chaperones him about the rooms, staying him with flagons and prattling low nothings. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series O bluebirds and bobolinks! what would be May Without your glad presence,—the songs that you sing us, And all the sweet nothings we fancy you say? Voices for the Speechless It's no use expecting a gang of rivet-heaters from Clydebank to form an elaborate outpost line, just because you whispered a few sweet nothings in the dark to your leading section of fours! The First Hundred Thousand But though, doubtless, soft nothings may set your heart beating, Yet they're awfully cold for the people outside. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 17, 1891 And perhaps, if a clergyman really has no message to deliver, his best course is to utter a jargon of nothings. Famous Americans of Recent Times His shapely clothes bore neither fraternity pin nor society button; his face was comparatively inexpressive; to her attempts at making him chatter, he returned but polite nothings. The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant Some of those airy nothings, without a local habitation, who are always to be found flitting about the mansions of the great, now lounged into the room; and soon after Adelaide made her entrée. Marriage This is only an illustration; it was so in a hundred little nothings during the day. Four Girls at Chautauqua Sometimes, at night, nothings condensed into flame come and laugh at us. The Man Who Laughs But here were no polite nothings being mouthed. Starr, of the Desert And hints to noble lords and nurses: True histories of last year's ghost, Lines to a ringlet, or a turban; And trifles for the Morning Post, And nothings for Sylvanus Urban. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829 And she told her mother of the gifts she was bringing home, the little nothings given her by the guests. Ships That Pass in the Night While I was listening to these scraps of salutation, Müller was murmuring tender nothings in the ear of the fair Marie, and Madame Marotte was pouring out the coffee. In the Days of My Youth She had come back a bit tired out by the thousands of little nothings she had already done. The Inferno He saw the three stand and talk for perhaps two minutes; commonplace, early-acquaintance nothings, he judged from their faces and actions. Starr, of the Desert I carried her fan, and indulged in a sigh, And whispered sweet nothings when my loved one was nigh. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland Though the days flew by, days filled with the busy nothings of prosperity, they bore no meaning. The Morgesons Are they not airy nothings, "born of romance, cradled in poetry, thinking other thoughts, and doing other deeds than ours?" In the Days of My Youth So he prattled nothings while he meditated; and you would have thought that he cared for the nothings. Overland Were the poor fisherman in their toil alone real, and the rest airy nothings to whom Sicily gave a local habitation and a name? Heart of Man He gets soon fed up on cold nothings. Wee Macgreegor Enlists I wished it to drop and blot out the vague nothings under it. The Morgesons He would feed and sleep, and grow stupid and stolid, heavy and dull, and bring forth emptiness and nothings with solemn effort and dignified sweatings. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio They showed me the treasures of their bachelor life, the family photographs and the various little nothings which link isolated lives to home and love. The Lady and Sada San A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration These seem like little incidents, light as airy nothings, but they come back to memory in the twilight of life when other and greater events are all forgotten. The Gentleman from Everywhere For it was some such nothings as those which follow that first brought Helene and me into one way of thinking, though by paths very devious indeed. Red Axe I should have no objection to meditating after this manner for a page or two, as well as further hinting what important nothings sparkled upon Doctor Dastick's piazza that pleasant summer night. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 Thus all the little sweet nothings that would look merely silly on paper, and sound foolish to other ears, yet so precious to them, passed from one to the other as they went. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio "Weak things," "base things," "things that are despised," "things that are not," mere nothings; among these he discovers the operating agents of the mighty God. The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index The dealers in rich goods, elegant trifles, costly nothings, all knew her well. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Neighbor chattered nothings to neighbor in low tones. The Eyes of the World You can whisper sweet nothings to her across the sounding sea, and bid her "sleep well" over leagues of primeval forest, and through the stoniest-hearted city her soft voice will find its way. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays |
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