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Example sentences for "but from"

  • But from whence, replied my father, have you concluded so soon, Dr.

  • How did they deserve of Thee, to be even without form, since they had not been even this, but from Thee?

  • But whence had it this degree of being, but from Thee, from Whom are all things, so far forth as they are?

  • Too far is this way of my ken: it is too mighty for me, I cannot attain unto it; but from Thee I can, when Thou shalt vouchsafe it, O sweet light of my hidden eyes.

  • The ephors heard the remonstrance, but from day to day delayed an answer.

  • But from a power to obstruct legislative action to the power to originate or propose it, and force the senate to adopt it through fear of the veto of measures the patricians had at heart, was only a still further development.

  • This is all bad, but it springs not from universal suffrage, but from a wrong public opinion, which might be corrected by the press, but which is mainly formed by it.

  • Nor does the cessation of thirst after bathing spring from the different position of the passages, but from a new supply of moisture received into the flesh, and conveyed from thence to them also.

  • He sought to guard the herd; but from my hand A jav'lin struck him in the foremost ranks: He fell, and terror seiz'd the rustic crowd.

  • Rain it did very quickly; but from post to post the horsemen passed, the sternly silent commander speaking only when giving the necessary orders to remedy so far as possible the disaster of the afternoon.

  • Her example was followed by the doctor, not from motives of fear, but from a purpose to join Washington's army as a volunteer.

  • But from what he told thee--" "'T is exactly that which puzzles me.

  • But from ten in the morning till five, or often till six, in the evening, his mind was active in some work.

  • When he was in Paris he received a letter from Parker, to whom he had been obliged to intrust a running address, but from whom he had enforced a promise that there should be no letter-writing unless under very pressing circumstances.

  • I am not from thence, but from Damascus," cried the youth.

  • Neither did these acclamations and shouts of joy come from those alone who scrambled for the money, but from a superior rank of people, who could not forbear applauding Alla ad Deen's generosity.

  • But from Varro we learn that there was an exception to the rule which excluded the goat from the Acropolis.

  • The nearer moon, hurtling suddenly above the horizon and lighting up the Barsoomian scene, showed me that my preserver was Woola, but from whence he had come, or how found me, I was at a loss to know.

  • When you are safe once more at your father's court you may do with me as you please, but from now on until that day I am your master, and you must obey and aid me.

  • But from 1901 came nine years when the critical was, in the main, holding sway.

  • But from that he began indulging in one of those strange impersonal speculations, so uncharacteristic of a Forsyte, wherein lay, in part, the secret of his supremacy amongst them.

  • Easy to get away from people, from London, even from England perhaps; but from oneself--impossible!

  • But from an old print we have given in the Plate, p.

  • This doctrine is foreign to flesh and blood; it is not earthly, but from heaven (Matt 16:17).


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but don; but especially; but few; but for; but has; but have everlasting life; but neither; but nevertheless; but not; but nothing; but rather; but remember; but surely; but the greater part; but the next moment; but they were not; but those; but what; but when they are; but whether; but why; buttered mould; criminal prosecution; good mother; various occasions; wanted very