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Example sentences for "but yet"

  • Yet will I woe for him, but yet so coldly, As (heauen it knowes) I would not haue him speed.

  • Not so: but yet So false that he grieues my very heart-strings Ho.

  • It was cold comfort I presume, but yet I derived some slight peace of mind from the contemplation of it.

  • I feel that I should be reduced to panic; but yet I am not.

  • I have doubted your story that you are from another world," he said at last, "but yet upon no other grounds could your ignorance of the ways of Pellucidar be explained.

  • He had not owned to himself that he cared for this woman more than for others around him; but yet he thought often of the time when he might see her next, and made, almost unconsciously, little cunning plans for seeing her frequently.

  • The great tragedian hisses out a positive whisper, made with bated breath, and produced by inarticulate tongue-formed sounds, but yet he is audible through the whole house.

  • Mr Harding could not really bring himself to think that she would do so, but yet he could not deny that circumstances made it appear that the man's company was not disagreeable to her.

  • It would be too much to say that Mr Slope was lost in love, but yet he thought, and kept continually thinking, that he had never seen so beautiful a woman.

  • Hereupon the signora laughed; not loud, indeed, but yet audibly.

  • For that which now torments me to rehearse: I kill'd a man, whose death I much repent; But yet I slew him manfully in fight, Without false vantage or base treachery.

  • Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed.

  • Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my very heart-strings.

  • Thy grave admonishments prevail with me: But yet, methinks, my father's execution Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.

  • And so he did; but yet I like it not, In that he wears the badge of Somerset.

  • True; and thou seest that I no issue have, And that my fainting words do warrant death: Thou art my heir; the rest I wish thee gather: But yet be wary in thy studious care.

  • Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little Than fall and bruise to death.

  • Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind; but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman.

  • At nine o'clock in the evening, but yet in the full glare of the sun, we arrived at Krisuvik.

  • But yet I could not sleep; the cold wind, blowing in upon me through the air-holes, chilled and wetted as I already was, kept me awake against my will.

  • It's a good thing to have a gift, but yet better to have two.

  • Surely it would be showing more manhood to adopt the dangerous side, that of disbelief; I almost resolved to do so--but yet in a question of so much importance, I ought not to be guided by vanity.

  • LXVI "But yet, because the Christian paladine Has sinned against his heavenly Maker less, He only for three months, by will divine, Is doomed to cleanse himself of his excess.

  • A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.

  • But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish creature.

  • I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am.

  • Thy graue admonishments preuayle with me: But yet me thinkes, my Fathers execution Was nothing lesse then bloody Tyranny Mort.

  • And so he did, but yet I like it not, In that he weares the badge of Somerset War.

  • Comen I wol, but yet in swich disioynte I stonde as now, that what yeer or what day That this shal be, that can I not apoynte.

  • This Troilus, with herte and eres spradde, Herde al this thing devysen to and fro; And verraylich him semed that he hadde The selve wit; but yet to lete hir go 1425 His herte misforyaf him ever-mo.

  • Thou hast taken against me a most iust exception: but yet I protest I haue dealt most directly in thy Affaire Rod.

  • Why I should feare, I know not, Since guiltinesse I know not: But yet I feele I feare Oth.

  • Some bloody passion shakes your very Frame: These are portents: but yet I hope, I hope, They do not point on me Oth.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but afterwards; but alas; but also; but for; but for all that; but his eyes were; but neither; but not being able; but now; but our; but she could not; but should; but something; but the greater part; but the greatest part; but they; but they could not; but this; but was; but when; but when they are; butter them; buttered bread; came west; offer sacrifices; part payment