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Example sentences for "but always"

  • Hill, pale from an illness, but always full of fire and resolution, was hurrying forward his massive columns, their eagerness growing as the sound of the battle swelled.

  • She often took me out of my box, at my own desire, to give me air, and show me the country, but always held me fast by a leading-string.

  • I own she came often to my house, but always publicly, nor ever without three more in the coach, who were usually her sister and young daughter, and some particular acquaintance; but this was common to many other ladies of the court.

  • National Convention, but always gave a silent vote to all the atrocious laws proposed and carried by Marat, Robespierre, and their accomplices.

  • Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct,--Never to show the least symptom of resentment which you cannot to a certain degree gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

  • On the contrary, a hundred surmises, humorous or serious, but always extravagant, were afloat in Cedar Camp.

  • The candle guttered and flickered; the embers on the hearth brightened occasionally, as if trying to dispel the gathering shadows, but always ineffectually.

  • History is strewn with the wreck of popular delusions, but always in place of them have come realizations more astonishing than the wildest fancies of the dreamers.

  • There were a great many hard hits given and taken, but always cheerfully, for it was in the cause of our early history.

  • His word and his meaning never shake hands and part, but always go together.

  • Sometime he is a thief, but always a rogue, and in the nature of his profession the shame of humanity.

  • Her husband and she give and take equal liberty, which preserves a perfect peace and good understanding between both, while those that are concerned in one another's love and honour are never quiet, but always caterwauling.

  • He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

  • Then she begged him to be happy with somebody else, but always keep a little corner of his heart for his loving sister Jo.

  • Never lose any time,--I do not think that time lost which is spent in amusement or recreation some part of each day; but always be in the habit of being employed.

  • Never put your hat flat on the brim, as it will spoil its shape; but always hung it up on a peg.

  • A stair carpet should never be swept down with a long broom, but always with a short-handled brush, a dust-pan being held closely under each step of the stairs during the operation of sweeping.

  • Never write a private letter to the editor on the printer's copy, but always on a separate sheet.

  • The distinction between them is never merely numerical, nor merely local and temporal, but always an intrinsic difference: each thing is distinguished from every other by its peculiar nature.

  • Our motive to action is never the knowledge of a true proposition, but always simply a wish, affection, or impulse.

  • A demonstrative and relative particle, variously used, but always giving a certain emphasis to the word which it precedes.

  • On the side of the stronger there have been constant encroachments, effected now by menace and now by cajolery, but always prefaced by the display and the insolence of superior power.

  • He had been out there before, but always chaperoned by Nelly.

  • Other letters rained in on my sister from the eccentric individual, and he sent her almost weekly fresh presentments of his unprepossessing exterior, but always in a bowing attitude.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but always; but especially; but first; but for all that; but have; but made; but much; but must; but not being able; but once; but our; but she was not; but sometimes; but such; but the greater part; but they shall not; but though; but upon; but were; but when they came; but you; butter rubbed; buttered mould; conjunction with; more severe; none conventional short form