Story-books were so stupid, always stopping at the point where they became really nice; but this picture-story was only in its first chapters, and at last I was to have a chance of knowing HOW people lived happily ever after.
But this, for Mr. Wentworth, could at the best have been no answer, for he did not think his niece pretty.
The Baroness hoped so, but this is not what she said.
She saw that he had come back in the highest possible spirits; but this fact, to her own mind, was not a reason for rejoicing.
Mr. Wentworth would never have risked the intimation that Acton was made, in the smallest degree, of the stuff of a hero; but this is small blame to him, for Robert would certainly never have risked it himself.
He very seldom talked much and sometimes did not even answer Mary's questions except by a grunt, but this morning he said more than usual.
Colin slowly sat up and stared and stared--as he had stared when he first saw Mary; but this was a stare of wonder and delight.
He had intended to stake out generous rooms, but this, compared with the cabin, seemed like a big hotel.
But this madwoman is impertinent and she says anything that comes into her head.
That is true," said the king, "but this is not what I asked for.
But this is not the time or place for us to discuss the merits of our lineages.
But this is my consolation, because to get his relatives and friends out of prison he will perform admirable feats.
This will vary with different natures, but thisis the place where a wise man will dig his cellar.
But this puts an infinitely worse face on the matter, and suggests, beside, that probably not even the other three succeed in saving their souls, but are perchance bankrupt in a worse sense than they who fail honestly.
It is hard to provide and cook so simple and clean a diet as will not offend the imagination; but this, I think, is to be fed when we feed the body; they should both sit down at the same table.
He might be lame in agriculture, but thiskind of thing was just in his line.
I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst.
It seems badly illuminated, but this may be printing.
For the duration of the two chapters in which I dealt with Miss Grant, I totally forgot my heroine, and even - but this is a flat secret - tried to win away David.
In the act of swinging round to the wind she shipped a very heavy sea, which greatly alarmed the artificers, who imagined that we had got upon the rock; but this, from the direction of the wind, was impossible.
But this case is different; Stevenson was not taken and left--it was consistently adhered to.
I had been hopelessly in the wrong before, but this man's menaces were putting me in the right.
We nearly killed you with a stone at the cave," he cried; "but this is better.
But this is such a villainous hole for you to wait in.
But this was as it should be: were not the people now the rulers of France?
The young girl blushed again, but this time a bright smile, fleet and sweet, illumined her dainty face.
When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but thisshall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do.
Some Daguerreotypists, however, use a foot lathe with buff wheels of various forms; but this vice is sufficient for all ordinary purposes.
Some persons pass the paper over the surface of the solutions, thus licking up, as it were, a portion of the fluid; but this method is apt to give an uneven surface; it also rapidly spoils the solutions.
Sometimes the button rest is fixed to a pole, which is screwed to the chair; but thismethod is not so secure and solid as the clip and occupies more room in packing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "but this" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
