So much the professor took in with his initial glances, but then he left Waldo and his brother to look more closely, himself giving thought to the being whom they had so happily saved from the whirlpool.
But then behind me I heard the rustle of some great beast that had scented me, and was coming to attack through the thicket, and so I had other matters to think upon.
But then, above the noise of the ceremonial, there came the rushing sound of wings, and from out of the sky there flew one of those great featherless man-eating birds, of a bigness such as seldom before has been seen.
You set up Atlantis for a mistress, and served her well; but then, you have had no Phorenice to tempt you into change and fickleness.
But then, when we had lived there a year and a half, I was no longer just a little kid.
But then, those of us who were young enough to believe it was really ours in the first place, were young enough to forget our loss easily.
But then, clabber was more of an "eat" than a drink.
But then, as we grew older, we all got to acting so much alike that Mama and Papa couldn't tell which one of us the mule had kicked.
But then, that was regarded as play since it involved only recreation and had nothing to do with work which could in any way produce anything of value.
But then if this be so, what becomes of all the martyrs at the stake, and the victims of Red Indians, and other poor folk over whose sufferings and constancy we have wondered?
It sounds grotesque when put down in black and white; but then it would have sounded equally grotesque a year ago if he had said that he would build up a huge practice in a twelvemonth.
But then I knew by experience that that genial loud-voiced John-Bull manner of his COULD conceal many things.
She had also an uneasy feeling that she ought to scold Anne for apologizing so well; but then, that was ridiculous!
To be sure, they seem contented enough; but then, I suppose, they're used to it.
If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
I'm sorry I've vexed you; but I'm GLAD I told her just what I did.
There's to be no more of such praying as I heard last night.
If I hadn't seen the White Way of Delight and the Lake of Shining Waters it wouldn't be so hard.
All these things might be alleged against Lydgate, but then, they are the periphrases of a polite preacher, who talks of Adam, and would not like to mention anything painful to the pew-renters.
It was natural that others should want to get an advantage over him, but then, he was a little too cunning for them.
But then, again, he had seen them when they didn't; and he wondered if it was only in the evening that arms were taken, or only between husbands and wives and relatives.
But then they're the only words I know--how to speak.
He had never questioned it, except when he read books; but then, they were only books, fairy stories of a fairer and impossible world.
But then, may not I be peculiarly constituted to write?
The first time I went out, I presently discovered that there were goats in the island, which was a great satisfaction to me; but then it was attended with this misfortune to me - viz.
He said that was big enough; but then, as I had taken no care of it, and it had lain two or three and twenty years there, the sun had so split and dried it, that it was rotten.
Well, but then it came on strangely, if God has made all these things, He guides and governs them all, and all things that concern them; for the Power that could make all things must certainly have power to guide and direct them.
In the middle of this discourse we heard some of them awake, and soon after we saw two of them on their feet.
His culture and refinement of manner struck her with wonder, and she asked him to tell her his history; but then he suddenly grew very grave, and she forbore pressing him.
But then again I persuaded myself that it could not be so.
But then again a memory emerged from that chamber of his soul which still he held sacred; and Bertha's deep-blue eyes gazed upon him with their earnest look of tender warning and regret.
But then, if they arst me to explain the blessed thing?
He was disposed for a time to sit in the refreshment shed waiting for them, but then it occurred to him that so he might get them both at close quarters.
But then it was covered by the occult influence of her who was referred to in confidential talks, secret communications, and discreet whispers of Royalist salons as: “Madame de Lastaola.
The request had sounded pathetic, almost sacredly so, but then it might have been the exhibition of the coolest possible impudence.
But then apparently he couldn’t bear this one out of his sight.
She just comes a little above my shoulder, but then I was always a long thing.
It wasn’t a very large world, but then it was most choicely composed.
But then it was observed of the Swedes that they were home-sick; for the greater part of their forces sailed eastward along the land in the night, and did not stop their course until they came home to their houses.
But then it happened, according to the proverb, that every one has a friend in the midst of his enemies.
But then it came to pass, what so often happens when a foreigner is raised to higher power and dignity than men of the country, that many envied him because he was so favoured by the king, and also not less so by the queen.
In the morning there was also the most excellent entertainment; but then it went on as usual when people have drunk too much, that next day they take care not to exceed.
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