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Sentences starting with but

But who was Zoug-Zoug? [11]
But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
But I believe ze Baron think Morro good place for them jus' the sem. [9]
But we'll get you--we'll get you, Dolores. [11]
But this time you've said it jest one time too many. [5]
But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.--[This is probably a misprint.--M. [5]
But the rash youth went on in the same tone: "I would worship her gladly, though I have forgotten how to pray. [10]
But while the youth was embracing his great-grandfather, who hugged and caressed him, Nun, with youthful vivacity, was issuing orders to the shepherds and servants: "Let the tent fall, men! [10]
But what would youth be without its extravagances,--its preterpluperfect in the shape of adjectives, its unmeasured and unstinted admiration? [6]
But it's with you--take your choice. [11]

Sentences ending with but

And how gladly would I work for us both--for I am very handy and hard-working, but. [10]
I tried to woo her, but she cut my words short, said I was a noble man, and a worthy suitor but--" "There came the but. [10]

Short sentences using but

But you're right, you're right! [2]
But wait--put out your tongue. [5]
But what about your excellency?... [2]
But I appreciate your delicacy. [9]
But where is your captain? [9]
But bo' could you? [8]
But how about you? [2]
Nothing exists but you. [5]
But I thank you. [5]
But I interrupted you. [4]

Sentences containing but two or more times

I always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
But, as for your advice--Holy Virgin!--I know now less than ever how I am to fare; but I shall soon learn. [10]
But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. [5]
But I pray you, do not accept this law upon my say-so; but diligently examine for yourself. [5]
In comparison with you, Baron, I am but an insignificant man, but noble blood flows in my veins as well as in yours, and I, too, am no coward. [10]
But I accuse you of nothing--nothing but error. [5]
Papa requires nothing, you know, but plain beef and mutton, tea and bread and butter; but a nurse will probably expect to live much better; give me some hints if you can. [14]
I know how you have sacrificed all for me--all but honour--all but honour," he added, a wild fire in his eyes, a trembling seizing him. [11]
He is eleven years of age, of sanguine-nervous temperament, light hair, blue eyes, intelligent countenance, well grown, but rather slight in form, to all appearance in good health, but subject to certain peculiar and anomalous nervous symptoms, of which his father gives this history. [6]
Roaring like a wounded bull, cursing and raging, he laid about him on all sides with his staff, but hit nothing but the ground. [10]

More example sentences with the word but in them

It had no Zulu clicks in it; and it seemed to have no angles or corners, no roughness, no vile s's or other hissing sounds, but was very, very mellow and rounded and flowing. [5]
The voice was youthful, but full of character.--I suppose some persons have a peculiar susceptibility in the matter of voice.--Hear this. [6]
A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
This Alexandria--in her youth as dissolute as she was fair--what is she now but an old hag? [10]
You huddle to yourselves already in all countries, but you huddle to no sufficient purpose, politically speaking. [5]
But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
But you've said yourself, Mr. Crewe, that we've got to deal with this thing practically. [9]
You never spared yourself, but in a big city parish it's different. [9]
Try to compose yourself, and believe my assurances that I like you and that you will find in me a zealous protector and a discreet friend if you will but tell me candidly and fully what are the motives of your conduct. [10]
Not Tardif but yourself is open to the law. [11]
But only put yourself in my place. [10]
But don't expose yourself in any outbreak of eloquence; for, by the mortar in which Anaxarchus was pounded! [6]
General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
But, to guard yourself and another from misinterpretation, you must hear me. [10]
No letters but yours must reach the camp for the next few weeks. [10]
When you lose, you're martyrs; but I don't find that when you win, you look upon the other losers in that light. [12]
But, Lassiter, now you're here I'm glad to see you. [13]
But I'm glad you're going to the Old Mother of all. [6]
Why, he'll read your wrinkles as easy as a book, and not only tell you fifty or sixty things that's going to happen to you, but fifty or sixty thousand that ain't. [5]
But why touch your words with satire? [11]
But I have your word for it, too, and the returning elasticity of spirits which is manifested in your letters. [7]
My bride is your wife, but with this arrow I will win Mena's widow. [10]
And what is your whole human family but a parenthesis in a single page of my history? [6]
But dread of your uncle drove me on, and I had debts to frighten me. [9]
You have had your trials, you have them still; but every gift of man is yours, and every opportunity. [11]
Well, that is your training; it is the training of everybody; but as for me, I thank that incident for giving me a better light, and I have never forgotten it. [5]
You had only your sword and my poor fortune and me then--that is all; but you were a man. [11]
But this time your suspicions happen to be misplaced. [10]
But we know your strength; we know that the small remnant of our nation, which war and pestilence have spared, cannot resist your vast and well-armed hosts. [10]
But what was your steward seeking among the soldiers? [10]
But take down your sign, or never put it up. [3]
He knows that your salvation is now secure, but of course you would like to know it yourself. [5]
But go to your room and think it over reasonably. [4]
I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point, but really I had no idea what a gold-mine I had struck. [5]
But now--now ask your question at once. [10]
I know not your purposes, but I trust you will not push your advantage"--he waved towards our muskets--"against a private gentleman. [11]
But what is your 'pretty conspiracy,' Duke? [11]
But I appreciated your precaution in sending the buggy behind me, although it wasn't necessary. [9]
But where is your pomegranate blossom? [10]
Kandaules may take your place to-morrow, but give hum the strictest orders, and say that the slightest neglect will put his life in danger.--Now depart. [10]
It should be your part to entreat her help for our father and brother; but you must not venture where Caesar is. [10]
Your mouths are your own, and you can blow off to suit your fancy, but if any one thinks I'm a tame coyote to be poked with a stick--! [11]
I didn't know your own Snodgrass, but have had glimpses of him from time to time, and I heard about him all the time. [5]
But you bring your own punishment,' he added, with a wicked smile, 'and you shall pay hereafter. [11]
But it is your own happiness I am thinking of. [4]
Why, nobody but your own family, of course. [6]
No one but your old servant. [12]
But it is your 'noble lady Damia'--that old woman, who has told you what to say. [10]
If you open your mouth against me only once after that time you can't travel so far but I will find you. [5]
But I hope your melancholy bodings as to her early death are not well founded. [7]
Yes, dear, sell your manuscripts, but don't sell your soul. [4]
I will seek your lover, and if I find him he shall know where you are, but I cannot and will not invite him to an assignation here behind my sister's back. [10]
But, pugnaciously as your loud voice summons to the strife, it will never destroy the sacred and venerable things which are worthy to endure. [10]
The soles of your little shoes probably only sing, but they, too, are not silent. [10]
An attempt on your life, great Caesar; but we have him fast! [10]
I can endure your lies, but not your love. [5]
I received both your letters, and although I have not answered them it is not because I have forgotten them, or been uninterested about them, but because it appeared to me that I could write nothing which would do any good. [7]
I have sent your letter and the rules to Hay, but I doubt his modesty. [5]
I saved up your last story to read when the numbers should be complete, but before that time arrived some other admirer of yours carried off the papers. [5]
That should satisfy your justice, but you are merciful for the moment, and you will spare until the time be come, until the corn is ripe in the ear. [11]
Besides, but for your interruption, I should have said nothing about my father. [10]
I am not your inquisitor, but your bishop and your friend, and I am asking for your confidence. [9]
You'd gamble with your immortal soul, but you wouldn't sell it--not for three millions, not for a hundred times three millions. [11]
Remember me to your husband and tell him, his life may be valuable; but ours are not wisps of straw. [10]
I am still your hunter, but in a different way. [11]
I question not your honesty in that; I but warn you, that is all. [5]
But what is your highness's idea for racking the prisoner? [5]
You may shake your head, but I would take your place quickly and with joyous courage. [10]
But how hot your head is! [10]
You are inside, your hands are outside; so there you are; nothing but iron between. [5]
If you let your hand tremble so, we can never get away from them, but if you're only quiet now, we shall do so, easily. [12]
But I vow your hair looks better as it is. [9]
But you hold your grip, and we'll see what can be done. [5]
But I am your grateful servant, anyway and always. [5]
But to please your governor, I will proclaim him. [11]
But in detaching your force the President directs that it be done in such a way as to enable you to hold your ground and not interfere with the movement against Chattanooga and East Tennessee. [7]
But do beg your folks to remember that the Smithfield fires are all out, and that the cinders are very dirty and not in the least dangerous. [6]
But they are your flesh and blood--you must remember that. [9]
They 'll 'crock' your fingers, but they can't burn us. [6]
It will please your father, but are you satisfied? [11]
Caesar has made your father, and your neighbor Skopas, and every free man in the country a Roman citizen; but it is a pity that, while he gave each man his patent of citizenship, he should have filched the money out of his purse. [10]
An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
I saw that your eyes were not opened, but I think I had a certain presentiment, for which I do not pretend to account, that they would be opened. [9]
You must keep your eyes open in a passado with him, but if I can once get to my quarte, tierce, and side-thrust, I have him. [10]
Then this in your eye, that if ye'll bring an army, I'll fight till the skin is in rags on me bones, whin it's only men that's before me; but woman--and that wan! [11]
It is said, your Excellency, that this Moray did not fire the shot that wounded you, but one who has less reason to love you. [11]
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. [5]
We all feel your deep trouble with you; and we would hope, if we might, but your words deny us that privilege. [5]
The tidings of your death can some day repeat the misery I felt in that moment, but nothing else can ever do it. [5]
I fully acknowledge your courage, but at the same time advise you to remember that, though a man proves his courage in action, a woman's is shown in obedience. [10]
In defiance of your command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me, I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first victim. [10]
But take off your coat, Mr. Gridley,--very glad to see you. [6]
But you had your chance with me, and you threw it down like a piece of rotten leather. [11]
You shall have your chance to live, but I shall throw you in the river, and you can then fight the river. [11]
You shall have your Buonespoir, good Rozel; but if he plays pirate any more--tell him this from his Queen--upon an English ship, I will have his head, if I must needs send Drake of Devon to overhaul him. [11]
The captain of your brother Philometor's Philobasilistes is bought over, and will stand by us; but his price was high--Komanus was forced to offer him twenty talents before he would bite. [10]
No one but your brother himself can possibly explain the strange way in which he disappeared. [10]
If you call your bosom friend a fool, and intend it for an insult, it is an insult; but if you do it playfully, and meaning no insult, it is not an insult. [5]
And then there's your big high-sounding millionaire names stuck into your advertisements as stockholders--another card, that--and they are stockholders, too, but you have to give them the stock and non-assessable at that--so they're an expensive lot. [5]

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