"Naught" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... felt rather than made obvious—it was not barbarism, but decadence. And I realized then how close are the two extremes. A reversion to type, merely. And I knew, then, that from the pinnacle of civilization which we of Earth had reached, naught lay ...
— Tarrano the Conqueror • Raymond King Cummings
... forty yard line and Mack Carver's brilliant runback of the initial kick-off reduced to naught! ...
— Interference and Other Football Stories • Harold M. Sherman
... blood ran cold, then burn'd like fire; Venus I felt in all my fever'd frame, Whose fury had so many of my race Pursued. With fervent vows I sought to shun Her torments, built and deck'd for her a shrine, And there, 'mid countless victims did I seek The reason I had lost; but all for naught, No remedy could cure the wounds of love! In vain I offer'd incense on her altars; When I invoked her name my heart adored Hippolytus, before me constantly; And when I made her altars smoke with victims, 'Twas for a god whose name I dared not utter. I ...
— Phaedra • Jean Baptiste Racine
... lined; her eyes were gray, Mirrors of her heart's continuous play; Her head, crowned with a wintry sheet, Had learned naught of this world's deceit. She oft forgot her own in others' trials, And met the day's rebuffs with ...
— Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road • R. Henry Mainer
... croaker, Zachariah. You see naught but the buzzards, when all about you are the newly come birds of spring, the bluebird, the robin, and the thrush. Soon the meadow lark will be in the fields, and the young ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon
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