The ribbon of the older one had been removed, and the nurse would have been distracted, but for Phebe's almost miraculous instinct.
I have had all your memories in charge, and now I must not only forget for myself, but for you as well.
He pretended to be good, but for sure, he was bad as ever he could be.
I must have got very red in the face, but I spoke steadily, and told them I had no call to be a judge of others, but for my own part, it was a matter in which I had no clearness.
There may be roads for them that know that country well; but for my part I had no better guide than my own nose, and no other landmark than Ben More.
But for all I was so young, I was wiser than say my thought.
In a moment more I should certainly have swooned away in his arms, but for an interruption from the outer world, which brought me to myself again.
It might have never entered my head, but for a conversation we had together some time since.
And likely enough I would have abandoned any further trial, but for Lizzie's ridicule, and pretended sympathy; asking if the strong John Ridd would have old Betty to lean upon.
But for a time I was very bashful, shaking when called upon suddenly, and blushing as deep as a maiden; for my strength was not come upon me, and mayhap I had grown in front of it.
I knocked at three doors, one after other, of lobbies going out of it, where I had formerly seen some officers and people pressing in and out, but for my trouble I took nothing, except some thumps from echo.
At last I got to my spy-hill (as I had begun to call it), although I never should have known it but for what it looked on.
But I knew the reprieve would be but for a short time, and though I had no wish to die, I must confess that I rather wished the ordeal over and the peace of oblivion upon me.
But for a matter of forty or fifty yards there is, I believe, no animal on earth that can overtake him.
But for answer I rushed upon him, striking him with the butt of the rifle.
But for you I should be lying dead, or terribly maimed down there at the bottom of that awful ravine at this very moment.
It is not for myself," continued Count Zellerndorf, "that I crave your gratitude, but for my emperor.
But for you we should have been hanged a year ago--without your aid we should never have been able to escape from the fortress of Lustadt or cross the border into Austria-Hungary.
But for him I should doubtless be dead by now, or once again a prisoner at Blentz.
His next work, Le Maire du palais, was played in 1825 with less success; but for it he received the cross of the legion of honour.
He had wished to go to Cambridge, but for a Roman Catholic this was then impossible.
But for those, on the other hand, who see in the writer's own words in xx.
But for those to whom I have transferred the fatal gift; who never sought it; who unknowingly received a curse of which they had no warning, and which they had no power to shun; can I do nothing?
Jimmy's mouth opened, but for once no sound issued.
He started back, but for an instant, heedless of the scurrying snow and biting cold, he faced the sky.
But for a poor boy not to covet all the nice things which would make life so pleasant, if he had them, seemed next to impossible.
I could not avoid the reflection that but for Desiree we would never have seen the cave of the devil and the Children of the Sun; but I said simply and clearly: "You win, madame.
Desiree stumbled and would have fallen but for my outstretched arm.
We had no food; but for that I would soon have been myself again, for, though my wounds were numerous, they were little more than scratches, with the exception of the gash on my shoulder.
Raffles said never a word, but for a moment did as he was bid; and the unshaken flame of the candle was testimony alike to the stillness of the night and to the finest set of nerves in Europe.
But for my misgivings upon this point I might have extracted some very genuine enjoyment out of the next few days.
The tradesman had a disappointed face, but for a moment it brightened as he expatiated on the value of that ring and on the price his people had accepted for it.
In a week or ten days Raffles was to write to me at the Richmond post-office, but for at least a week I should be "on my own.
But for once he did look as though bed was the best place for him; and I used the fact as an argument for my own retention in defiance of Dr.
But for an exquisite refinement of accent, an urbane courtesy, and an ease of manner that could change in a moment to insolence, a superficial observer might have taken them for a couple of bankers.
Indeed, but for a host of motives of this kind, how explain why women are nearly always the first to betray the secret?
Many other things I could now say of him, relating either to his most generous mind in his prosperity, or dejected estate in his worst state of poverty, but for brevity's sake I shall now pass them by.
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