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Example sentences for "only this"

  • Only this I demand, that we shall be privily lodged apart from any one else, for we wish it that we shall not be known until to-morrow and after this tournament shall have transpired.

  • Lynette said: "That I know not, only this I may tell you: that at the court of King Arthur there would no knight undertake the adventure because I would not declare your name and your degree before the King's court there assembled.

  • Only this covenant I make with thee: suffer these lords and ladies of my court and all of those attendant upon us, to go with me into captivity.

  • Offsprings of this nature are like to be so numerous with me, that I must be forced to send some of them abroad; only this is like to be more fortunate than his brothers, because I have landed him on a hospitable shore.

  • For the soul's fierce cry for immortality is this--only this: Return to me after death the thing as it was before.

  • Only this lady, ma'am--a nurse by profession.

  • Only this, Mother: I have been reading the story of the Order of the Little Sisters of the Poor, and it seems to me so wonderful that everything else, for the moment, seems insignificant.

  • Only this, that our counterparts are in heaven; but there are counterparts and counterparts.

  • Yes, and I shall not tell either of you more of the play, the act will be more interesting, only this, tell Col.

  • Enough said; only this, that her business manager and waiting woman had been sent on to Venice, the next scene of triumph, the morning of the same day.

  • Only this hour," he answered, looking directly into his mother's eyes.

  • Wherefore, still my life hung in doubt before me, not knowing which way I should tip; only this I found my soul desire, even to cast itself at the foot of grace, by prayer and supplication.

  • Only this do all hold fast, that the Supreme Being is to judge[217] our life.

  • P: And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?

  • Thou wilt end for us only this life of the world.

  • Only this wraith-like present; only this moment of decision; Jack and his desperate need the only real things left.

  • Was this, then, what she felt for him--only this?

  • Only this--you saw that I made what you English call a dash for it--for freedom.

  • What's the harm of doing it; only this once?

  • Friends would induce him to spend his evenings at their rooms, or at some public place of amusement, and each time Frank would try to satisfy his conscience with, 'It will be only this once.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    becoming dark; but she did not; her ears; looking animal; only because; only fancy; only found; only from; only give; only half; only remains; only remember; only right; only slightly; only son; only tell; only that; only they; only thus; only two; only what; only when; send them; sharp fire; study medicine; will execute