We are only attempting, as I have said, to examine the Scriptural documents, and to draw our conclusions from them as from ultimate natural facts; the causes of the documents do not concern us.
Some islands, or parts of islands, are only tributary to them; others connected by a sort of deferential alliance; and there are communities quite independent, and living under the arbitrary sway of their own chieftains.
And a good many people who flatter themselves they are talking wisdom to me, are only helping me to get at the shelf and the book and the page where I shall find my own opinion about the matter in question.
And now, truly, to save a stubborn spirit, we are only to be sounded, that the application may be occasionally retracted or denied!
Mr. Lovelace, in his last letters, having taken notice of the most material passages contained in this letter, the following extracts from it are only inserted.
The visions of horror, which formerly we evoked in order to terrify the world and to try to conjure them away, are now surpassed; and we are only at the commencement of the war!
We are apt to rely upon future Prospects, and become really expensive while we are onlyrich in Possibility.
The Lovers of Dido and Æneas are only Copies of what has passed between other Persons.
I must, however, observe to the Reader, that above three Parts of those whom I reckon among the Litigious, are such as are only quarrelsome in their Hearts, and have no Opportunity of showing their Passion at the Bar.
Does not this error spring from the fact that we are unconscious of the creative action which conserves us, and that we are only conscious of our existence?
But here we are only discussing a physical good and evil, and one must compare in detail the prosperities and the adversities of this life.
Reason teaches us this by infallible proofs; and in consequence all the objections taken from the course of things, in which we observe imperfections, are only based on false appearances.
The greatest empiricists among usare only empiricists on reflection: when {14} left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
No matter how we feel; if we are only faithful in the outward act and refuse to do wrong, the world will in so far be safe, and we quit of our debt toward it.
These reflections, of course, are only meant to suggest how important it is to view such questions from all sides before being sure that they represent definite progress for humanity.
Such ideas however, are only entertained by those who do not realize the conditions under which they were undertaken or the important results which flowed from them.
The thing hasn't got into the papers: we are only yet in the first stage of finding out what has been actually stolen: it has not been a case in which the police could help.
On being asked to address them, I took their own words for my text, "We are only women," etc.
Documents belonging to it are only found in the particular stratum which is connected with Middle Minoan III.
Crete, although its chiefs, Idomeneus and Meriones, are only of secondary rank among the heroes of the Iliad, is obviously one of the most important of Grecian lands.
Evans, are only to be found in the stratum belonging to the last period of Middle Minoan, their place being supplied by Class B, which occurs only at Knossos.
Positively, Geoffrey, I believe that notwithstanding the fact that we are only in February, the wind blows upon you due south, bringing with it odours of rose and orange-blossom!
I demonstrate to you, beyond all possibility of consoling doubt, that the shreds and strippings of that change you call death, are only so many embryos of new life which you must live, whether you will or no!
Our modern marvels of civilization and progress might seem small trifles after all,--for I believe in our days we are only re-discovering what the peoples of old time knew.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "are only" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
