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"They set at naught the benefits which flow from the lights of science; they are useless in a battle, for disabling your foe is all that is required.
He fancied he loved those who pitied and caressed him; but, in reality, he lived apart, within himself, loving naught but his comfort, seeking by all possible means to increase his enjoyment.
Her fixed eyes resembled dark, unfathomable depths, where naught was visible save night.
He saw distrust where there was naught but stupor and pity.
The young man could hear naught but his own footsteps resounding on the pavement.
As she had not sufficient life left within her to permit of her avenging her son, she preferred to be entirely dead, and to leave naught in the hands of the assassins but a corpse that could feel nothing, and with which they could do as they pleased.
This room, with its grey walls, whence he could see naught but a bare square of sky, filled him with mournful sadness.
When the company were shouting around him, he heard the great, terrible silence within him; when one of his ladyloves kissed him, when he drained his glass, he found naught at the bottom of his satiety, but heavy sadness.
The first words written on the parchment found in the leaden box were these:THE ACADEMICIANS OF ARGAMASILLA, A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA, ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA, HOC SCRIPSERUNT MONICONGO, ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA, ON THE TOMB OF DON QUIXOTEEPITAPHThe scatterbrain that gave La Mancha more rich spoils than Jason's; who a point so keen had to his wit, and happier far had been if his wit's weathercock a blunter bore; the arm renowned far as Gaeta's shore, Cathay, and all the lands that lie between; the muse discreet and terrible in mien as ever wrote on brass in days of yore; he who surpassed the Amadises all, and who as naught the Galaors accounted, supported by his love and gallantry: who made the Belianises sing small, and sought renown on Rocinante mounted; here, underneath this cold stone, doth he lie.
For all that, he fancied some sage, either a friend or an enemy, might, by the aid of magic, have given them to the press; if a friend, in order to magnify and exalt them above the most famous ever achieved by any knight-errant; if an enemy, to bring them to naught and degrade them below the meanest ever recorded of any low squire, though as he said to himself, the achievements of squires never were recorded.
"If perchance thou art left a widower—a thing which may happen—and in virtue of thy office seekest a consort of higher degree, choose not one to serve thee for a hook, or for a fishing-rod, or for the hood of thy 'won't have it;' for verily, I tell thee, for all the judge's wife receives, the husband will be held accountable at the general calling to account; where he will have repay in death fourfold, items that in life he regarded as naught.
What would the ruffian say, if we, setting at naught, like him, the decencies of social intercourse, were to raise the curtain which happily conceals His private life from general ridicule, not to say from general execration?
'if the authority of the king's officers is set at naught, we must have the riot act read.
"She is a girl and naught else.
'There ain't naught amiss with her rudder,' said the foreman.
"'Sancta Maria!'" ejaculated Father Ambrose, "how prompt to ire are these unhallowed laymen!--But be it known to you, brave knights, that certain murderous caitiffs, casting behind them fear of God, and reverence of his church, and not regarding the bull of the holy see, 'Si quis, suadende Diabolo'---""Brother priest," said the Templar, "all this we know or guess at--tell us plainly, is thy master, the Prior, made prisoner, and to whom?""Surely," said Ambrose, "he is in the hands of the men of Belial, infesters of these woods, and contemners of the holy text, 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets naught of evil.'"
"Nay, there was naught but her, and she was housekeeper;" and of her, reader, I could not bear to ask the relief for want of which I was sinking; I could not yet beg; and again I crawled away.
He had been a bit ailing like the day before, but naught to signify; and when Mr. St.
Marsh End had belonged to the Rivers ever since it was a house: and it was, she affirmed, "aboon two hundred year old--for all it looked but a small, humble place, naught to compare wi' Mr. Oliver's grand hall down i' Morton Vale.
"Naught is your science of man, naught is your science of the stars," said the archdeacon, commandingly.
Naught, nothingness!
Taking, however, his refusal as a temporary dislike for all women save Lygia, and not wishing his own magnanimity to go for naught, he said, turning to the slave,--"Eunice, thou wilt bathe and anoint thyself, then dress: after that thou wilt go to the house of Vinicius."
"When two households in two lordly mansions speak of naught else, and when half Rome is repeating the news, it is not difficult to know," answered Chilo.
If thou art capable of any thought, echoes of our life must strike thy ear, for surely Rome talks of naught else.
Though he has wounded my heart, let him know that for friends this heart has naught but forgiveness."
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