She had showed Peter Cherry's old exercise books: "Look, Peter, how she put faces in the naughts and turned the sevens into little sail- boats!
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
F' instance, in addin' up a colume o' figgers, ef she comes to a aught-which some calls 'em naughts-she'll say, "Aught's a aught," an' Sonny ain't been learned to say it that a-way; an' so maybe when she says, "Aught's a aught," he'll say, "Who said it wasn't!"
"Sonny, A Christmas Guest"
Ruth McEnery Stuart
The particular maxim he cherished was, to stake everything on his making a favourable first impression: after which single figure, he said, all your empty naughts count with women for hundreds, thousands, millions: noblest virtues are but sickly units.
"The Tragic Comedians, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009