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1. The result? Naught! All men seem to be enchanted by Mandy, especially Themis! As about me, at a moment someone speaks up and says he remembers me from elementary school - so, my age is revealed before everybody! Later on, Themis suggests our going on an excursion on May Day and all the married hens (who, as usual, have formed a ring around him) hasten to enter themselves for it
2. He couldn’t help but find it amusing that so recently he embraced hope, and now there was naught but hopelessness
3. It would have all been for naught, though, as the creature readied talons and teeth for the kill
4. And naught but ghosts surrounded her now
5. “Want a cuddle, love?” Coal purred at one stocky bloke with naught but a stubbly beard
6. Victory was snatched at heavy cost, but a victory that can be attributed alone to Providence; for had the morale of the enemy been less impaired by starvation and disease, or had the fleet remained in Santiago Harbour, the amazing valour of the American soldiers must have gone for naught, and a reverse been entailed
7. naught in his cupboard but a pinch of tea and a bare mixing of meal,
8. For ye mind that the wee Lord had naught but a manger
9. Fawkes plot which had come to naught full seven years before, did the
10. declared that naught indeed could come from meddling with luck saving
11. He was probably the most dangerous man Ursempyre could indeed face; even more dangerous than the Castigator, who was a tyrant and a heartless man, a man that cared for naught but power and its exertion over men
12. All he had been planning was for naught
13. Hilderich was so excited with each new little discovery that he seemed unperturbed by the fact that like all living things, they needed food and water, and they had found naught
14. If only Enkele were still alive, he would taste the changing age, and know that it wasn’t all for naught
15. 52 And Judah answered his father, saying, Was it for naught my brothers Simeon and Levi killed all the inhabitants of Shecheme Surely it was because Shechem had humbled our sister, and transgressed the command of our God to Noah and his children, for Shechem took our sister away by force, and committed adultery with her
16. Is it then for naught that they have done all this?
17. 37 And now therefore my Lord and king do not kill the people of Egypt for naught; note that slave is still confined in the house by the captain of the guard his master, in the house of confinement
18. Naught to a hundred in a blazing five point seven seconds
19. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth
20. 52 And Judah answered his father saying Was it for naught my brothers Simeon and Levi killed all the inhabitants of Shecheme Surely it was because Shechem had humbled our sister and transgressed the command of our God to Noah and his children for Shechem took our sister away by force and committed adultery with her
21. 37 And now therefore my Lord and king do not kill the people of Egypt for naught; note that slave is still confined in the house by the captain of the guard his master in the house of confinement
22. A deep laugh sounds, “Child it would change naught save you, to know all the meanings of what has been written
23. apparently been for naught
24. And all for naught, eh?"
25. Hinduism This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you
26. of the Society of Folk, of all that These would share with ye; though saved within this sacred writ, ‘twill come to naught unless I go
27. I take it on quite willingly so ye may know of Mother Earth, of the Society of Folk, of all that These would share with ye; though saved within this sacred writ, ‘twill come to naught unless I go
28. They both still had their lives and liberty; Weasel and Stoat had been thwarted; and the Thief Master’s attempt to control him had come to naught (assuming that he had been involved at all, which now appeared to be very doubtful)
29. say that time is money; the Oriental says that time is naught; it is a difference in the point of view
30. He sums it up by saying that Nirvana is ; and that if it were not, naught else could be
31. naught to learn which He does not know-- aye, neither on this Earth, nor in
32. “But, the intellectual and the talented that are capable of experiencing the richness of life without wealth have come to naught,” the seer said, pained at that thought
33. Lodged at the Tihar as a lifer, Suresh had realized that the reprieve he got would come to naught if he were to carry the baggage of guilt well into his life
34. “After all, the accumulated millions with a miser add up to zero, and likewise, the moolah with a spendthrift comes to naught in the end
35. You have set at naught all my counsel, and you have rejected my reproof, and because of this rebellious attitude it becomes inevitable that you shall call upon me and fail to receive an answer
36. Not for naught had he gained access into darksome cults, had harkened to the grisly whispers of the votaries of Skelos under midnight trees, and read the forbidden iron-bound books of Vathelos the Blind
37. But Conan doubted, for once, in a gold-barred cage in an Hyrkanian city, he had seen an abysmal sad-eyed beast which men told him was an ape, and there had been about it naught of the demoniac malevolence which vibrated in the shrieking laughter that echoed from the black jungle
38. He would leave it behind him, would quit the armed camps and the steppes, and put a thousand miles between him and the blue mysterious East where the most basic laws of nature could be set at naught, by what diabolism he could not guess
39. 'Nay! They found naught! And drove the chief from the city with threats and curses! But—' he drew closer to Conan and shivered—'something else was found! At the edge of the desert, beyond the houses, there is a clump of palm trees, and within that grove there is a pit
40. and thought that there was naught amiss,
41. There was naught of zest or joyful abandon in that dance
42. Do not fear; naught can harm you here
43. But that too came to naught when I
44. I complained about the specific instructions I was given on a piece of paper, which did not request three helpings, but my complaints went for naught
45. days? Her contented smiles told me naught
46. but naught just hath not been the same
47. It stole all that they had built, all that they had worked for; wiping away a lifetime as though it never even happened, as though every hard earned moment was for naught
48. She could feel his confidence unbounded, but all for naught
49. Her perilous journey of the night had been all for naught
50. The fact was he had changed his plans, and now all her preparations were for naught