Oh, that I had but a little breath in this body o' mine to speak all--speak on, Farmer.
Now, if he had but a-spoke me fair, I would not have gainsaid him: but he falls to swearing, so I bid him open the gate for himself.
He had very little money in his pocket; so little indeed, that after paying for his breakfast (which he was too honest and perhaps too proud to score up to his father's charge) he had but a penny left.
That I had but eyes, to look upon these twin invaders of domestic peace!
If any man among them wanted money, he had but to knock at the door of a dwelling-house, or walk into a shop, and demand it in the rioters name; and his demand was instantly complied with.
Now when the King met his lords in the morning, he always lamented and said, "Oh, if I had but my love with me.
But the ground was hard, almost solid with interlacing roots, and I had but my bare hands!
The result is, that order cannot be had but by subordination.
It is wonderful that a man, who for forty years had lived with the great and the witty, should have acquired so ill the talents of conversation: and he had but half to furnish; for one half of what he said was oaths.
At six in the morning, he inquired the hour, and, on being informed, said that all went on regularly, and he felt he had but a few hours to live.
He knew, or ought to have known, that he had but to acquaint the minister with the fact, to have the thing set right at once; but the minister had found him out, and he therefore much preferred the possession of his grievance to its removal.
But such was Robespierre's wonderful command of self, such was his power of making his inclinations subservient to the ends he had in view that he had butrisen to voice a fresh appeal.
She would--she must--believe that he had but made a semblance of befriending her so disinterestedly only that he might enlist her kindness and regard, and turn them presently to his own purposes.
He had but to betray his brother, and he would be unchained from his torture; he had but to break his word, and he would be at liberty.
He had but to follow that street to his right hand, to gain in a quarter of an hour a sight of the humble dwelling-house in which he had first settled down, after his early marriage, to the arid labours of the bar.
The rabbits about here know me already; and, if I had but a fiddle, I would undertake to make friends with that reserved and unsocial water-rat, on whom Sir Isaac in vain endeavours at present to force his acquaintance.
She went and sat her down beside the Lord, and Ralph doubted not that it was the Queen, whom he had but glanced at when they first made stay before the pavilion.
Had but I that chance of riches and of kingship, for one day, I would give my skin for flaying, and my house to die away.
When I had ten men able to go abroad, our commonwealth was very strong: with such a number I ranged that unknown country 14 weeks: I had but 18 to subdue them all.
In the picture of this remarkable scene in the "General Historie," the savage is represented as gigantic in stature, big enough to crush the little Smith in an instant if he had but chosen.
To range this country of New England in like manner, I had but eight, as is said, and amongst their bruite conditions I met many of their silly encounters, and without any hurt, God be thanked.
If any one wanted to win a smile from her lovely lips, he had but to make way for Lord Arleigh; if any man wanted a kind word, or a kind glance from the beautiful eyes, he had but to praise Lord Arleigh.
The Republic of '48 soon died: his uncle was among the vanquished; and this, to the young man, had but an additional attraction.
However, as he had but a slight opinion of the sincerity of women, he persuaded himself that Mademoiselle de Luc d'Estrelles, when she came to offer him her heart and hand, nevertheless knew he was not altogether a despicable match for her.
The conduct of Camors, if he had but suspected it, would surely have urged him to some irreparable quarrel.
He had but to marry Madame de la Roche-Jugan and adopt her son to banish this care.
I had let her go in order to make the sign language, for I had but a few words of their tongue.
If I had but a Sign,' he said, 'then they would give me my father's place in the Council .
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