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Example sentences for "not indeed"

  • I do not indeed intend in these notes to give a history of the inner life, which I think has been with me extraordinarily dubious, vacillating, and above all complex.

  • The common people eagerly flocked to behold their execution, not indeed to taunt and revile the patient victims, but to secure some relic, however trifling or otherwise disgusting, and to dip their garments in the still-flowing blood.

  • St. Matthew's Gospel, not indeed of the most ancient date, but adorned with very rare and curious illumination, and making an excellent addition to the stores of the library.

  • The hawks are in good condition; not indeed as fat as though they were put up to moult, but with plenty of flesh and muscle, and wind kept good by almost daily exercise.

  • I do not indeed venture to follow Plato in his ontogenetic argument--his claim that the individual computator has had already an individual training in computation.

  • I do not indeed by using this term assume that there are two correlative and parallel selves existing always within each of us.

  • But the four have claims, not indeed of a strong, but of a puzzling kind.

  • Nothing is more agreeable to him than to moralise; not indeed in any dull or crabbed manner, but in a mellifluous and at the same time weighty fashion, of which very few other poets have the secret.

  • Even so primitive man has drawn himself many times over, not indeed on this particular piece of reindeer horn, but on several other media to be seen elsewhere, in the original or in good copies.

  • In all this we have clear evidence of a very inconsistent, savage, materialistic belief, not indeed in the immortality of the soul, but in the continued underground life of the dead body.

  • In this new Edition of the Essay various important alterations have been made in the arrangement of its separate parts, and some, not indeed in its matter, but in its text.

  • A fresh recension of the Memoirs was published, not indeed quite so incorrect as the first, but still largely adulterated, nor was the injustice repaired until 1817, and then not entirely.

  • Him by charity), not indeed by diminishing charity but by destroying it altogether.

  • He hath graced us in His beloved Son"; thus we might say that the light of the sun is infinite, not indeed in being, but in the nature of light, as having whatever can pertain to the nature of light.

  • Hence in such as these the nature and the suppositum really differ; not indeed as if they were wholly separate, but because the suppositum includes the nature, and in addition certain other things outside the notion of the species.

  • Secondly, the intellect stands towards God, not indeed as knowing God as He is, but in its own way, i.

  • One thing may be registered to the credit, not indeed of the dramatist or the poet, but certainly of the man and the Englishman: the generous fair play shown to Philip II.

  • Charnock admitted that his enterprise would have been unjustifiable if it had not been authorised by James; but he maintained that it had been authorised, not indeed expressly, but by implication.

  • There had been, not indeed clamours, but mutterings against him.

  • Babylon is fallen, not indeed in a strictly chronological narrative, for she will again be spoken of as if she still existed upon earth.

  • In this intervening space the leading thought seems to be that of victory, not indeed of victory in the struggle, but of victory which prepares us for it, and fills the mind with hope before it begins.

  • The resemblance is not indeed exact; and were it not for what follows, there might be little upon which to rest this supposition.

  • The person introduced with the words He said unto me is not indeed named, but there can be little doubt that he is the angel spoken of in the Prologue as sent to "signify" the revelation that was to follow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    government owned; little importance; not difficult; not far from the; not fit; not having; not know; not known; not merely; not sure; not true; not with; not without; not yet; notary public; note circulation; note from; noted that; nothing doing; nothing had; nothing less; nothing more; nothing worth; notwithstanding his; special meeting; will talk