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Example sentences for "but must"

  • I cannot tell what the Law, or the Parents of the Lady, will do for this Injured Gentleman, but must allow he has very much Justice on his Side.

  • This, the Justice says, they must expect, since they could not be contented to act Heathen Warriors, and such Fellows as Alexander, but must presume to make a Mockery of one of the Quorum.

  • This Felicity is not the Gift of Nature only, but must be attended with happy Circumstances, which add a Dignity to the familiar Behaviour which distinguishes him whom we call an agreeable Man.

  • The third can not be attained by special legislation, but must be regarded as fixed by the Constitution itself and gradually acquiesced in by force of public opinion.

  • A true revenue reform can not be made in a day, but must be the work of national legislation and of time.

  • Nor can it be controlled by legislation, but must be left to the irrevocable laws which everywhere regulate commerce and trade.

  • It is not men, but the Father of spirits, who will not be pleased with what pleases men, of your own flesh, but must have a spirit to serve him.

  • Now this hourly life-and-death excitement is a keen delight to most wild creatures, but must be peculiarly distracting to the comfort-loving temperament of others.

  • The friendship which you may contract with people of your own age may be sincere, may be warm; but must be, for some time, reciprocally unprofitable, as there can be no experience on either side.

  • He must not, then, be discredited on account of the symbolic system he adopts; but must be allowed to tell his news in his own way.

  • If it be adequate, it will inevitably transcend this; but must not be in hopeless conflict with it.

  • In a series of speeches throughout the country he impressed these views on the people: The United States had no aggressive purposes, but must be prepared to defend itself and retain its full liberty and self-development.

  • Most sincerely do I repent the offence given to your delicacy--But must I, for so accidental an occurrence, be branded by such shocking names?

  • Not a sovereign on earth, if he be not a good man, and if he be of a warlike temper, but must do a thousand times more mischief than I.

  • He cannot be the being to whom the law applies; but must be one that possesses in the highest degree all the characteristics of moral truth.

  • Soul recollects its source and longs to return, but must do and suffer, 436-l.

  • Yet they tould him they would help him, considering his necessitie, but must doe it secretly for y^e former reasons.

  • He who says this, is not to be rebuked by my arguments, but must be overwhelmed with the prayers of the saints.

  • Sinful negligence on the part of these responsible agents cannot, therefore, be charged to Divine Providence, but must be laid at the door of those human agents who fail to do their duty.

  • Furthermore, a quiescent habitus cannot set itself in motion, but must be determined from without; that is to say, in our case, it must be moved by the gratia excitans to elicit supernatural thoughts and to will supernatural acts.

  • The report cannot be made at a special communication, but must always be presented at a regular one.

  • The doctrine that a lodge cannot adjourn, but must be closed or called off at the pleasure of the Master, appears now to me to be very generally admitted.

  • He cannot communicate the degrees, but must adhere to all the established ceremonies--the conferring of degrees by "communication" being a form unknown to the York rite.

  • If the wine is to be fermented, the yeast should be put into it when it is milk-warm; but must not be left more than two nights to ferment, before it is put into the cask.

  • Their drink milk and water, but must not be left to turn sour.

  • Mackarel may be done in the same way, but must not be salted till they are used.

  • Two ounces of garlic or shalot may be added, but must not be boiled in the vinegar.

  • In a month's time it begins to be sharp, but must be suffered to stand a little longer, and then put into a cask, of which the bunghole is to be left open.

  • This is a sign of immaturity and this old and beloved community cannot afford to linger in childhood, but must become a strong adult community of united, alert and active believers.

  • The National Spiritual Assembly must protect the Faith, but must always be fair.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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