nihility
Example Sentences
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—I replied with my usual forbearance.—Certainly, to give up the algebraic symbol, because A or B is often a cover for ideal nihility, would be unwise.
From Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
At the happiest periods of my existence I often became a prey to grim dejection such as nobody could understand but which was caused by the thought of impending nihility.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
No one has better expressed the anguish of a troubled and despairing soul, such as we find in the old harp-player in Wilhelm Meister, or the splendid nihility of certain poems of Michelangelo.
From Musicians of To-Day by Blaiklock, Mary
Out of those eyes and that long, thin face stared death; not hot, sudden death, but nihility, cool, deliberate, that waited for one!
From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.
Eternity is not of longer duration than one second spent in nihility.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
