nothing but• They saw nothing but a dim grayness, or was it blackness?• His death was nothing but an absurd, ludicrousaccident.• They did nothing butargue for the whole journey.• You could walk from there till your feet ached, and still you'd see nothing butherring.• Indeed I was forgetful, pathologically so, and for this too I felt nothing butremorse.• At one time we had about eighty people here who did nothing but research into various family genealogies.• Charles, by contrast, had known nothing butrestriction and discipline.• Nora objects, it's been nothing butringingphones and boilingkettles, doorbells and toilets, since you began.• There was nothing butsalad to eat.• This car's been nothing but trouble.