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nothings

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n.1.inconsequential conversation; as, they traded a few nothings as they parted.
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Noun1.nothings - inconsequential conversation; "they traded a few nothings as they parted"
conversation - the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
honeyed words, sweet nothings - inconsequential expressions of affection; "he whispered sweet nothings into her ear"


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In pompous nothings on his side, and civil assents on that of his cousins, their time passed till they entered Meryton.
d'Artagnan had foreseen, began to prefer the good cause to the bad one, and the parliament, rumpish as it was, to the pompous nothings of Lambert's designs.
Yet more than worthy of the love My spirit struggled with, and strove, When, on the mountain peak, alone, Ambition lent it a new tone - I had no being - but in thee: The world, and all it did contain In the earth - the air - the sea - Its joy - its little lot of pain That was new pleasure -- the ideal, Dim, vanities of dreams by night - And dimmer nothings which were real -(Shadows - and a more shadowy light
 
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