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Example sentences for "but even"

  • Among the half dozen happened to be a certain Jean Baptiste Vandenhuten, a most ponderous young Flamand, not tall, but even now, at the early age of sixteen, possessing a breadth and depth of personal development truly national.

  • I do not see how she can rise to a position, whence such a step would be possible; but even in celibacy it would be better for her to retain the character and habits of a respectable decorous female.

  • He did not again have recourse to wine for curing his griefs, but even in his sober mood he soon showed that the iron of jealousy had entered into his soul.

  • But even if he waited here it was hardly likely that the air would clear before night.

  • But even a baker must be conventional, to get customers.

  • He would have had a day of despair if the news had not arrived during his sweet Sue's presence, but even at this moment he had visions of how Phillotson's failure in the grand university scheme would depress him when she had gone.

  • We buy such stocks, or worse; but even a fundamental acquaintance with the theory of mines would show us that such an investment is usually a bad one.

  • During the same period of persecution, the zealous, the eloquent, the ambitious Cyprian governed the church, not only of Carthage, but even of Africa.

  • But even if he did, it would not concern me, for I am a spinster.

  • It was merely "busy work," to keep them occupied at hard labor; but even then I must have felt some dim sense of the irony of it, for I have remembered it vividly all these years.

  • But even while he sings the song of the Sirens, he still hearkens to the barking of the Sphinx.

  • But even Mr. Trollope does not confine himself to chronicling small beer.

  • So much so that the women have been required not only to afford evidence of a life of leisure, but even to disable themselves for useful activity.

  • But even then I think the whip will be in the overseer's hands, and not in vain.

  • But even in his fear the apostate Presbyterian was unrelenting, unpityingly harsh; he published in his manifesto no promise of pardon, no inducement to submission.

  • But even a single cell lends itself to infinite variety of shape, and we have to penetrate to the very lowest level of this luxuriant world of one-celled organisms to obtain some idea of the most primitive living things.

  • In the lower animals the reproduction is much less disturbed than in the higher, but even in the case of man this law is most strikingly verified.

  • But even at that, escape was possible, for all Cleggett knew.

  • But even as he turned upon his heel to go on deck and give the order, Dr.

  • But even as he gave the order he realized that it could no longer be done.

  • But even so, the past was a cemetery he did not care to have revivified.

  • It was not altogether I who made a brain-sick beast of you, my prince; but even so, I have never been too nice to profit by your vices.

  • But even so, you are not penniless, Count Eglamore, for these jewels here which formed part of your masquerade are of great value, and there is a world outside.

  • But even so he left his chamber and bridal bed and prepared a banquet among the strangers, casting all fears from his heart.

  • Together we ran to the gardens, but even though we scoured the grounds with the entire guard for hours, no trace could we find of the night marauder.

  • But even as hope was at its highest I felt the sudden shock of contact as my head struck the rocks above.

  • But even as the girl, flinging herself sullenly about, returned into the passage, he found himself admiring the resourcefulness of his unknown enemies.

  • But even he can be forgiven for changing his mind in the case of Phil Abingdon.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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