I looked around me for the body, but could see no indication of anything having happened out of the ordinary course.
The squire was indeed ambitious for his son, but could hardly be said to love him, since he was incapable of feeling a hearty love for any one except himself.
Arrived before the farmhouse, he looked cautiously up to the windows, but could see no light burning.
He looked down upon the surging and shouting crowd in Clipstone Street, but could see it only at intervals, owing to the smoke that rolled from the front windows below him.
Reardon had risen and wished to approach her, but could not do so directly.
We staid in Meridian five days, expecting every hour to hear of General Sooy Smith, but could get no tidings of him whatever.
Meantime the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps, under General Hooker, had been advanced from Bridgeport along the railroad to Wauhatchee, but could not as yet pass Lookout Mountain.
It might occasion a renewal of the Civil War, and of all its miseries, but couldhardly be attended with the effects you sanguinely anticipate.
But could he not deliver him, or did the Lord forsake him?
He was forsaken of God; but could not by any means have those sorrows which they have that are everlastingly swallowed up of them.
But could not, in the least, save it; the reverse rather.
Tired and hungry though we were, I was determined to put this story to the test; so Velasquez and I climbed up to the cliffs, and searched all round them, but could find no carving.
I examined some of the dead termites with a magnifier, but could detect no difference in them, excepting that they seemed a little swollen.
Several ants passed it, but at last one discovered it and tried to pull it out, but could not.
At noon we reached the dry bed of a river and crossed it several times, but could find no water to quench our thirst, whilst the sun shone down on us with pitiless heat.
He tried to regain his old anger and hardness in view of her wrongs to him and his, but could not.
I trembled for you last night when it began to rain, but could find no additional covering.
He sent everywhere to seek for him, but could hear no tidings of him; and instead of the joy he felt at having carried on so far the marriage, which he looked upon as his own work, his grief for this accident was more mortifying.
After supper, she asked him again why he was so melancholy, but could get no information, and he determined to go to bed rather than give her the least satisfaction.
After he had waited seven days in vain, he searched through all Cairo, but could procure no intelligence of him, which threw him into great perplexity.
King Saleh, in the meantime, missing the king his nephew, began to be much concerned to know what was become of him; but could meet no one who could give any tidings of him.
I threw myself upon my knees; but could find no peace there as long as I continued proudly obstinate.
In view of that arrangement I urged that they should both go together in the ordinance, but could get no encouragement that it would be so.
I pitied him from the bottom of my heart--but could not, for that reason, quite forgive his incommunicativeness in the matter of the "Last Supper.
Marion rushed toward him, and tried to lift him, but could not.
In the center of this rift I perceived a white spot, but could not, at first, distinguish what it was.
He strained his eyes down the dark pathway, but could see no approaching figure.
Thinking him intoxicated, he tried to rouse him, but could not.
Henfrey had placed his hand upon Mademoiselle's heart, but could detect no movement.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but could" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
