Sentence examples for nought but from inspiring English sources

Since history is nought but what historians write, perhaps it will.

He fears that he would hear nought but the voices in his head.

Panesar was trapped plumb in front for nought, but his disappointment would have been overtaken by the joy of taking two late wickets.

These three graces are played by nubile young females; later we see them in nought but a smidgen of body paint, a sprinkling of sawdust.

People have carped about the reception he received when he walked off for his second nought; but what could the crowd do?

Illsley recalls: "I remember calls in the dead of night from some pickets saying: 'We've got here but there's nought but broken windows.'" David (now Lord Huntthoughthishis appointment as coal minister was a prank.

Granted, the weeklysalary won't have the requisite noughts, but the celebrity already possesses the value-for-fame demands.

For I was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars.

Neil Rumming and Kit Poulson, meanwhile, drew on childhood memories for The Baptism and Nought Lovely But the Sky and Stars respectively – Rumming once witnessed a horrendous car crash, while Poulson found as a child what he thought was a UFO.

(lines 44 47) The narrator believes that his child will experience a better life than his own: For I was reared In the great city, pent 'mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars.

There is nought to do but WORK, but how can I work when this awful weakness makes even the pen like a walking stick?