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Example sentences for "but neither"

  • The pair looked at each other uneasily, but neither spoke a word.

  • Thirlby and Leonard exchanged sad and significant looks, but neither of them went back to see what had happened to her.

  • He had not crossed more than a fourth part of the stream when Doctor Hodges arrived at the wharf; but neither promises of reward nor threats could induce any of the watermen to follow him.

  • At this moment Bernard Dale and Emily Dunstable came up and joined the group; but neither of them had discovered who Crosbie was till they were close upon him.

  • But neither of them then said a word about the letter.

  • You might share it with Elizabeth if you would; but neither yours, nor any other power, foreign or domestic, will avail to overthrow, or even to shake it.

  • I am a friend, but neither a dependant nor partisan, of the Earl of Sussex, whom courtiers call your rival; and it is some considerable time since I ceased to consider either courts or court intrigues as suited to my temper or genius.

  • But neither can we afford to neglect peace abroad while pursuing progress at home.

  • But neither do I believe in the Government flinching from overseeing any work when it becomes evident that abuses are sure to obtain therein unless there is governmental supervision.

  • But neither can we accept the views of those whose only interest in the forest is temporary; who are anxious to reap what they have not sown and then move away, leaving desolation behind them.

  • This is obviously true, but neither can a family be supported on 640 acres of much of the land to which it is proposed to apply the grazing homestead.

  • The heat had not brought her to life, but neither had it developed anything to check farther hope.

  • But neither had I initiated the movement, nor had I any ground for opposing it; I had no choice, but must give it the best help I could!

  • Over his shoulder, every other moment, he glanced at the animal behind him, but neither spoke to it, nor attempted to drive it away.

  • The moral aspect of things is by no means so good; but neither is that without its fair features.

  • But neither, apparently, had he rejected it; still less did he yet at all denounce it with the damnatory vehemence we were used to in him at a later period.

  • But neither did he get actually within the castle, though he might have done so but for a high stone fence, too difficult for him to climb, which runs from the rock along the hillside.

  • But neither he nor any one else could give any testimony elucidating the matter into which I had come to inquire.

  • She gave me sheets and linen immediately; to her I owe my honour; but she has necessarily learned in that way that I have a lover, as I know that she has one; but neither of us has shewn any anxiety to know the secrets of the other.

  • The girl was well enough looking, but neither I nor the officer cared much about her.

  • Before I knew him I was not happy, but neither was I unhappy as I now am.

  • True, most Holy Father, but neither am I going to a ball.

  • Grin and his niece, but neither of them took my fancy.

  • He called attention to the case of Maurandia semperflorens in which the young flower-stalks revolve spontaneously and are sensitive to a touch, but neither of these qualities is of any perceptible value to the species.

  • With Sedgwick he had, in 1831, worked at the stratigraphy of that district, but neither of them had noticed the very interesting surface features.

  • But neither of these suppositions was applicable to the character of the parties.

  • But neither ought it to be imputed to George II that he suffered the laws to be enforced against a person taken in the act of breaking them.

  • But neither can I bear that you should not know it.

  • It certainly was not love, but neither was it hate.

  • I do not mean I should have forgotten him, but neither should I have been troubled when I thought of him.

  • But neither spoke, till he had gained sufficient control over himself to remark without undue rancour: "I did not think you had the wit to influence your brother to this extent; otherwise, I should have cut my travels short.

  • He knew and she knew that I was to be trusted; but neither of them has ever known why.

  • But neither of these ways of separation, whether real or mental, is, as I think, compatible to pure space.

  • The silence grew; Beauty barked, but neither seemed to notice.

  • He had ventured to write his name thrice on her card, but neither of the dances he had claimed was the next.


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