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    1. As I approached their table one of the ladies gave me a wide smile and asked loudly, 'Just wondering, how do they say “Thank you” in Greek? My husband said before I left that I aught to bring a phrase book, but you'd think they'd all speak English here, wouldn't you?'


    2. I looked at what she was doing and thought I aught to be helping with the war effort as well”, she took a sip of water from a glass by the bed


    3. O‘Connor for failing to live up to his (O‘Connor‘s) politically correct standards of how an African American sports celebrity aught to behave; that is to say, by setting a proper ―example‖


    4. Finding aught, he casts about


    5. The Bible also states that we aught to put a bit in our mouth, like that used on


    6. As Jared was standing like a lion before the bodies of his fathers, praying and warning his people, Satan envied him, and wrought a beautiful apparition, because Jared would not let his children do aught without his counsel


    7. As Jared was standing like a lion before the bodies of his fathers praying and warning his people Satan envied him and wrought a beautiful apparition because Jared would not let his children do aught without his counsel


    8. 9 This man, says Gautama, ‘does not imagine he is aught or anywhere or anything


    9. this utmost resignation of the self brings with it a keener joy than aught else


    10. Our business is to be ambassadors of a spiritual government on high, and we must not immediately concern ourselves with aught but the representation of the will and character of the divine Father who stands at the head of the government whose credentials we bear

    11. " When the apostles heard this, they said among themselves: "Has any man brought him aught to eat? Can it be that the woman gave him food as well as drink?" When Jesus heard them talking among themselves, before he spoke to the people, he turned aside and said to the twelve: "My meat is to do the will of Him who sent me and to accomplish His work


    12. When they had all gathered around him once more, he said, "Before I tell you about this parable, do any of you have aught to say?" Following a moment of silence, Thomas spoke up: "Yes, Master, I wish to say a few words


    13. And while they were afraid to ask aught concerning what he had said, they did recall all of it subsequent to his resurrection


    14. Then Zaccheus stood upon a stool and said: "Men of Jericho, hear me! I may be a publican and a sinner, but the great Teacher has come to abide in my house; and before he goes in, I tell you that I am going to bestow one half of all my goods upon the poor, and beginning tomorrow, if I have wrongfully exacted aught from any man, I will restore fourfold


    15. Let none who are in the city and around about tarry to save aught, neither let those who are outside dare to enter therein


    16. This servant came forward, saying, `Lord, I knew you and realized that you were a shrewd man in that you expected gains where you had not personally labored; therefore was I afraid to risk aught of that which was intrusted to me


    17. 8 A certain amount of both stoicism and optimism are serviceable in living a life on earth, but neither has aught to do with that superb peace which the Son of God bestows upon his brethren in the flesh


    18. The Jews feared to say aught to John or to molest him in any way because he had something of the status of a Roman counselor designated to act as observer of the transactions of the Jewish ecclesiastical court


    19. 2 "Not one of you can do aught to assist your Creator-father in the return to life


    20. And the multitudes of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own, and they had all things in common

    21. Nor aught on earth thy flinty heart can move


    22. But supposing these things are true, what aught those unhappy persons to do who have no marks of regeneration about them, and feel that they are not born again? Are they to sit still in hopeless despair?


    23. As for the sacraments, they really exhibit, but for aught we can gather out of that which is written of them, they are not really nor do really contain in themselves that grace which with them or by them it pleaseth God to bestow


    24. Say: Who then can do aught against Allah, if He had willed to destroy the Messiah son of Mary, and his mother and everyone on earth? Allah’s is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them


    25. On one occasion the Prophet teaches that the reward for good is paradise (3:136), but on another he asks (55:60), “Is the reward of goodness aught but goodness?” He affirms that everything proceeds from the will of God, who knowingly leads men astray (45:23), but in a latter chapter, he says the opposite: that every man is responsible for his own acts and deed


    26. “You came very close, you must see yourself as the only real and aught else as illusory and transient


    27. that trapping a wild animal using steel traps and snares is something that could be made into something romantic! The idea…of an animal caught in a trap… slowly freezing to death, taking days to die… or chewing off the foot aught in the trap in order to get free… to live as a cripple and slowly starve because of it… That this is the most noble and honorable profession glorified by all history books


    28. The qualities that give vitality and distinction to drawing must be appreciated by the student himself, and may often assert themselves in his drawing without his being aware that he is doing aught but honestly copying


    29. ), aught else than Extinction (fqora<), a death like that which animals have died on this globe since the beginning


    30. For aught that the Scripture reveals, Jesus, as a man, might as justly have been required to endure everlasting suffering—supposing this to have been the legal curse—as that shameful painful death which He actually underwent

    31. There is no evidence whatever that He endured a commutation of the penalty denounced; there is no evidence for aught else than that His Deity gave a 'purging efficacy to the endurance of 'the curse of the law;’ and therefore we are compelled to conclude that the death which Jesus underwent when He 'frustrated him that had the power of death, and gave to them who all their lifetime were in bondage through fear of death, the hope of a resurrection, was death in the general sense of dissolution


    32. The reason for it is found not in nature, nor in law, nor in aught on the level of humanity, or of the creation


    33. * To no Greek readers would the word signify aught else than a place where departed spirits reside


    34. The action of infernal spirits has established all-various foul delusions over the largest portions of the earth, and during the longest spaces of history; so that the question recurs, notwithstanding consolatory reflections of the order above set forth, What will be the doom of those countless millions who have lived under the shades of depraving heathenism, lived in the sin which was the essential element of such heathenism, popular and philosophical, and apparently died in the evil condition which it entails;—those countless millions, of whom not the broadest charity can affect to suppose that they were generally aught else than workers of unrighteousness? Are we compelled to believe, by the New Testament revelation, that all of these, without any further opportunity of knowledge or repentance, will be consigned to irrevocable destruction, and 'perish without law’?


    35. I would not have thee expiate in aught


    36. Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven


    37. If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,


    38. If that his majesty would aught with us,


    39. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is't to leave betimes?


    40. love and aught that comes from life and love,

    41. Or aught that ripens in all these States or North or South,


    42. But I, from the banks of the running Missouri, praise nothing in art or aught else,


    43. Forgive me, fair ladies, if, through inadvertence, I have in aught offended you; for intentionally and wittingly I have never done so to any; and pray to God that he deliver me from this captivity to which some malevolent enchanter has consigned me; and should I find myself released therefrom, the favours that ye have bestowed upon me in this castle shall be held in memory by me, that I may acknowledge, recognise, and requite them as they deserve


    44. On her left hand she bore a hawk, a proof to Don Quixote's mind that she must be some great lady and the mistress of the whole hunting party, which was the fact; so he said to Sancho, "Run Sancho, my son, and say to that lady on the palfrey with the hawk that I, the Knight of the Lions, kiss the hands of her exalted beauty, and if her excellence will grant me leave I will go and kiss them in person and place myself at her service for aught that may be in my power and her highness may command; and mind, Sancho, how thou speakest, and take care not to thrust in any of thy proverbs into thy message


    45. He was rather too indulgent in humouring her caprices; not from affection, but from pride: he wished earnestly to see her bring honour to the family by an alliance with the Lintons, and as long as she let him alone she might trample on us like slaves, for aught he cared!


    46. "Is there aught ails th' victuals?" he asked thrusting the tray under Heathcliff's nose


    47. I thought he had not heard aught, so I told him the rumour


    48. "Th' divil's harried off his soul," he cried, "and he may hey his carcass into t' bargain, for aught I care! Ech! what a wicked un he looks girning at death!" and the old sinner grinned in mockery


    49. aught I know, are still, farmers in the country, not above forty miles from


    50. An you be the king's messengers (God shield His Majesty!) you shall not want for aught































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    Synonyms for "aught"

    aught cipher cypher goose egg nada naught nil nix nothing null zero zilch zip zippo

    "aught" definitions

    a quantity of no importance