"Nada" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pretty name,' said he; 'but it's Spanish more than native. "Aca nada," nothing here,—said the old Castilian voyagers, when they saw no trace of gold mines or other wealth along the coast. That's the story, at all events. But I hold to it that our British John Cabot was the first who ever visited this continent, unless ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... two servants, an old woman and her boy, were the sole occupants of the establishment, and did not appear at all delighted to see us. According to their account, there was nothing in the house to eat; they had no tortillas, no eggs, no chickens, "absolutamente nada" (absolutely nothing). All this was affirmed with the greatest gravity, while a dozen fat fowls were distinctly visible through the open doorway, perched, for the night, among the bare limbs of the jocote trees in the court-yard. I pointed them out to the old woman, ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
... of the god Lugalla (the king) and his consort Shullat, Nur-ilishu, son of Bel-nada, has dedicated to his god one SAR of improved land, for his life (salvation), has devoted it to his god. Pi-sha-Shamash shall be the priest of the temple. Nur-ilishu shall lay no claim to the priesthood. The curse ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... medio dia; que pierde su alegria, i marchitando va la color mudando; o en el campo cual queda el lirio blanco, qu' el arado crudamente cortado al passar dexa; del cual aun no s' alexa pressuroso aquel color hermoso, o se destierra; mas ya la madre tierra descuidada, no l' administra nada de su aliento, qu' era el sustentamiento i vigor suyo; tal esta el rostro tuyo en el arena, fresca rosa, acucena blanea i pura." Garcilasso de la Vega, Obras, ed. ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V3 • William H. Prescott |
