This plain, would then be nothing but an immense cemetery, on which would repose the mortal remains of thousands of extinct generations.
Most had counted upon witnessing the spectacle of the casting, and they were treated to nothing but smoke.
My good friends," said he, with his most bewitching smile, "this is nothing but a misunderstanding.
If the plainest evidence in the world pointed one way, and if nothing but Rachel's word of honour pointed the other, I would take her word before the evidence, lawyer as I am!
In the third place, those notes are of my making; there is nothing but my assertion to the contrary, to guarantee that they are not fabrications.
That is nothing but a stone we found right out here in our own garden.
If you look at a mowing-machine, you will see it is nothing but a lot of shears.
He isnothing but a puffed-up balloon, held down by his big feet.
You've lost your place; you'll never see your friends here, and you're nothing but a drudge!
And let me tell you, scholars, that I asked Rebecca to stand by the pail only to break up this habit of incessant drinking, which is nothing but empty-mindedness and desire to walk to and fro over the floor.
Nothing but an order from a superior would retain me in Paris.
Since I became an abbe I dream of nothing but battles.
I first put on the armor when I was twenty, nothing but a lad; but I could take the pressure up to seventy pounds even then.
He's a flapdoodle; nothing but a kind of a sort of a pain.
Further than this there was nothing, nothing but a vast, illimitable plain of green--the open Pacific.
Nothing but a change of climate, said his doctor, would put him out of danger.
And presently Barrett perceived that he had merely reproduced in a cable, as far as possible, the conditions of the overhead wires, which are separated by nothing but air.
Nothing but a language of noise could convey the proper impression.
Trust innothing but in Providence and your own efforts.
Madame de Lieven sought an audience, and appeared to be verging towards confidential topics; whereupon the Queen, becoming slightly embarrassed, talked ofnothing but commonplaces.
She remembered, too, that Albert had always disapproved of exaggerated manifestations of feeling, and her one remaining desire was to do nothing but what he would have wished.
I took after it; but when I got to it it warn't nothing but a couple of sawlogs made fast together.
Every night we passed towns, some of them away up on black hillsides, nothing but just a shiny bed of lights; not a house could you see.
I see it warn't nothing but a dictionary, so I laid my hand on it and said it.
If not, it is a hundred to one that your marriage will lead to nothing but misery.
I stayed two days with my father, and heard of nothing but Gusef.
This applies to a blade of a propeller or air-screw, which is nothing but a revolving surface set at angle of incidence, and which it is impossible to construct without a good deal of detrimental surface near the central boss.
Among practical men the idea prevails that Government can do nothing but "keep the peace.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nothing but" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
