All this day soldiers going up and down the towne, there being an alarme, and many Quakers and other clapped up; but I believe without any reason: only they say in Dorsetshire there hath been some rising discovered.
But Frances thought: "If only they wouldn't come quite so often--if only I could have my children sometimes to myself!
If only they hadn't grown-up; if only they could have stayed little for ever!
Within limits everybody is more than willing to help the world along, if only they can be convinced that what they are asked to do will help.
Ask them the reason why they will not, and they know none, only they have no desires.
So they called to know the matter, but there was none to answer; only they heard a groaning.
Meanwhile the syndicate were about the maddest lot of men in the district, and vowed all sorts of vengeance on Brunsen and his companions, if only theycould be caught.
I would resign Bratley altogether and stay at home now to help father and mother, only they won’t hear of it—at least mother won’t, though I think father would like to have me here with him.
It was certainly not love, not even the beginning of that; but it was the kind of dangerous interest children feel in things mysterious, out of reach, yet within reach, if only they dared!
It had always seemed to them that if only they had a chance of putting directly what they thought, the other side must at heart agree, and only go on saying they didn't out of mere self-interest.
If only they could be relied on, if only they would stand together!
Do you know, I believe lots of people who stop to think resent these tyrannies of the body, only they don't mention it because it's the sort of thing that makes people blush!
If only theywould be tactful and careful, if only they would be understanding and kind.
Men seemed always to be wanting freedom, only they had so many different ideas of what freedom was.
And there was a boy, and another lady with a baby--only they lived in Honolulu, so probably I couldn't find them there now.
If only they'd settle things and announce the engagement, once for all," murmured Jimmy to himself, more and more frequently these days.
I know them by heart--only they're all gay and lively, and twinkly-toe dancy.
Only they 'aven't got a fair chawnce even to agitate fur their rights.
The niggers are better runners than they are, and more at home on the ground, and they could catch up to them at once, only they like to tackle their enemies at a distance.
There's a narrow flight of steps leading down close to the face of the cliff, and it's lit every few yards by big square holes, only they're most of them grown over and choked by creepers.
Our fellows below in the boat," said Lynton, "only they wouldn't be singing.
Olathe, only they won't find you there," and she laughed, a bit nervously though.
Only they didn't come into the yard to say it amongst us religious folks.
Which the Walterses could of dreened theirn too, only they'd ruther hunt ducks and have fish frys than to dig ditches.
Each one on em tries to find out something good to say about Hank, only they wasn't much they could say.
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