Christian females were exposed to his lusts, as well as to the brutal violence of his colleague Maximian, but they were not selected as Christians.
The actions of Maxentius were those of a cruel tyrant, but not those of a persecutor: the Christians, like the rest of his subjects, suffered from his vices, but they were not oppressed as a sect.
But they were not authorized to indulge the condemned criminal with the choice of his own execution, or to pronounce a sentence of the mildest and most honorable kind of exile.
Tillemont, and the other friends of Constantine, who are offended with the air of Paganism which seems unworthy of a Christian prince, had a right to consider it as doubtful, but they were not authorized to omit the mention of it.
I sent some of the former out to hunt, but they were not successful.
Without intending it, we dispossessed the natives of the ground which they had occupied before our arrival, but they were not offended.
We passed during the day through some low bushes of cypresses and other stunted shrubs, but they were not so thick as to impede our heavy drays, by the weight of which every tree they came in contact with was brought to the ground.
He told me he could not find any other of his deputies--he had sent for several of them, but they were not at home, or something of that kind.
But they were not opposed to the railroad company?
Yes; well armed, that is all right; but they were not.
There were gay birds and beautiful animals, but they were not such as he had been accustomed to see.
A high wall of rocks, encompassed us on either hand, but they were not such as would have resulted in a volcanic country from a valley fissure.
But they were not to hurt it, but to divert its incredibly automaton-like attention.
These mushrooms had the same savor, but they were not coarse or stringy or tough like the giants.
They could have been cries of human beings, perhaps, but they were not cries of pain.
But they were not of the seed of those men by whom salvation was brought to Israel.
And the men rowed hard to return the land, but they were not able: because the sea tossed and swelled upon them.
But they were not used by us for fighting--only for digging extra trenches near the château in case the front battalions had to fall back.
The Bedfords were rather better off, their trenches in the wood being on rather higher and sandy ground, but they were not dry by any means.
But they were not wanted as such, and the following day was fairly quiet as far as trench fighting was concerned.
But they were not disturbed, and rested till noon on the 12th, when dinner was eaten, and after it, at 1 p.
But they were not always at drill, though they had so much of it.
But they were not prepared to commit actual suicide, and did not want to go to Mahomet's Paradise just yet.
They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.
The electric lights burned there as late as the ladies and their friends might desire; but they were not allowed to burn in the smoking-room after eleven.
The younger military men saw something very serious in it, and would have liked to take hold of it vigorously and stamp it out promptly; but they were not in authority.
The knights at Rome might still advance sums to such communities, but they were not in this case tax-farmers.
They might be citizens there, but they were not citizens at Rome.
The earliest Romans known to us erected no images or temples, but they were not long in creating them.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us they would have continued with us: but that they might be made manifest how that all are not of us, they all went out.
But they were not likely to attack the cibolero unless a goodly number of them were together.
The arches were designed to be fitted with self-acting drop gates; but they were not a success, and were only put into place on the Rosetta branch.
There were storms and daily difficulties, but they were not serious.
He could see clearly that conditions might come about whereby he could not have her, but they were not in evidence as yet.
There might be charming characters outside the pale, but they were not admitted to association or sympathy.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but they were not" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
