And here's a bit more about nulla-nullas, information I'd likely never have looked for if not for a crime novel. ❋ Peter Rozovsky (2010)
Turres sunt fastigiatæ, ultra celsitudinem omnnem, quæ fieri manu possit; itaque mensuram umbrarum egressæ, nullas habent umbras, regum pecuniæ otiosa ac stulta ostentatio. ❋ Unknown (2004)
An exact census was not taken, for with spears and nulla-nullas and big swords, each warrior having the protection of a shield, the treacherous band swept on the deluded guests of their leader, whose hostile yells scandalised the meek phrases and friendly signs of a short hour before. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Several carried weapons — nulla-nullas and wooden swords — and assumed hostile attitudes. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The party on the bank hauls on the line, and in spite of protests and struggling the game is landed, to be chopped and beaten to death with tomahawks and nulla-nullas. ❋ Unknown (2003)
While he was thus defending himself against the spears and nulla-nullas of outrageous fortune, the captain made wide, sweeping movements with the butt of his rifle, and the other man and the boy, the boat being by this time afloat, tugged at the oars. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He carried, somewhat ostentatiously, a tomahawk and a couple of nulla-nullas. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Blacks, understanding their habits, climb particular trees known to be well patronised, and as the birds swoop down to rest, kill them easily with a swoop of a long slender stick, or hurl nulla-nullas into the home-coming flocks, just as they alight. ❋ Unknown (2003)
'Caesar in arma furens nullas nisi sanguine fuso gaudet habere vias'; v. 242, ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)
From prose compare Cic _II Verr_ IV 124 'confirmare hoc _liquido_, iudices, possum, ualuas magnificentiores ... nullas umquam ullo in templo fuisse', _II Verr_ III 136, _Fam_ XI 27 7 'alia sunt quae _liquido_ negare soleam', and Sen _Ben_ VII 9 5. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)
There was much difficulty in getting the guns through the muddy nullas and up the steep banks, and but for the assistance of the elephants the task could hardly have been accomplished. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
The Bays pursued them for a short distance, but with very little result, the ground being intersected with nullas, and the enemy opening upon them with heavy guns, they had to retire precipitately, with the loss of their Major, Percy Smith, whose body, unhappily, had to be abandoned. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
Our progress was slow, for the banks of the numerous nullas which intersect the valleys had to be ramped before the guns and baggage could pass over them. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
The charge was led by Lieutenant-Colonel Cleland and Captain Neville, the former of whom fell dangerously wounded; but the ground, terraced for irrigation purposes and intersected by nullas, so impeded our Cavalry that the charge, heroic as it was, made little or no impression upon the overwhelming numbers of the enemy, now flushed with the triumph of having forced our guns to retire. ❋ Frederick Sleigh Roberts (N/A)
The castle is on steep crags, with vast nullas in front. ❋ Edward John Thompson (1916)
The day was one of burning discomfort, spent in cracks and nullas, under blanket bivouacs. ❋ Edward John Thompson (1916)
Brock, the Leicestershires 'colonel, where several wide, big nullas met. ❋ Edward John Thompson (1916)
Three well-concealed lines of trenches had been prepared, on small hills and amongst deep nullas, with the water-supply of the ❋ Edward John Thompson (1916)
The bare country was cracked with nullas, some of them deep. ❋ Edward John Thompson (1916)
Cerberus et nullas hodie petat improbus umbras; 25 ❋ Unknown (1912)
The [drummer] from Nulla Septum is [an ANIMAL]! ❋ Ns0u (2016)
[but why] do we [exist]? nulla cur, [man] ❋ Natanik (2013)
