naught

• The burst of speed was for naught, they went the slower thereafter, and coming to a long, bleak hill, crept up it like tortoises--but without protecting shells. —  The Long Roll
• But if these are stark naught, and less than naught, there are other questions pertinent to the time, nay, which the time forces upon us, and about which we should be well agreed. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
• But, as a rule, Lamb's essays are neither unsound nor improper; none the less they are, in the judgment of some, things of naught--not only lacking, as Southey complained they did, 'sound religious feeling,' but everything else really worthy of attention To discuss such congenital differences of taste is idle; but it is not idle to observe that when Lamb is read, as he surely deserves to be, as a whole--letters and poems no less than essays--these notes of fantasy and artificiality no longer dominate. —  Obiter Dicta Second Series
• Ye have set my authority at naught, and wrought sedition in this realm. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
• And man shall set thee at naught, and curse his days--defying and bearing rule over thee. —  The Secret of the Creation

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