Sentence examples for nought but a from inspiring English sources

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.

This incident is a striking and remarkable piece of work.After that one wanders through a bygone age, in which the villain, who said he though he was Sir Walter Raleigh in the past; turns out to be nought but a varlet in a taproom.

Because the truth of the matter is that for those of us tapping on keyboards, stepping on jets, and paying our taxes to the military-industrial-complex, it hardly matters where we source our homespun homilies – they'll still be nought but a sticking plaster on the great festering sore of our Weirdness.

Time was (February-June approximately) that the cherub-cheeked Mill would leap from its straw-bale bunk, clasp a shiny sovereign in its grubby paw and skip down the chilly street to the rumour shop to find nought but a sharp pang of disappointment.

Karunaratne should have gone earlier when he edged James Anderson to second slip on nought, but a simple chance was dropped by Chris Jordan.

So this doesn't fall, for example, at 6 a nought, but that's a really good question.

It appears to me that HM Govt. is already owned by foreign nationals who have nought but the complete demise of the UK as a socio-politico-economic force in the world as their number one goal.

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.

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

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

"I knew I was out lbw on nought, but never mind," said the 32-year-old.