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Example sentences for "otherwise than"

  • From these sentiments I will never write to you, if I can help it, otherwise than as to a private person, or allow myself to have been obliged to you in any other capacity.

  • How could you imagine that I could be otherwise than pleased--delighted rather--with your letter?

  • The dresses are not at all in the figure they pretend to in England, being looked upon no otherwise than as downright chambermaids.

  • Can their feelings be otherwise than corrupted, who consider their fellow-creatures as brutes, or treat those as cattle, who may become the temples of the Holy Spirit, and in whom the Divinity disdains not himself to dwell?

  • For it cannot be otherwise than useful to us to know the means which have been used, and the different persons who have moved in so great a cause.

  • Neither is virtue itself a sufficient security in such times, because it is not allowed to be virtue, otherwise than as it hath a mixture of party.

  • All which visible objects are only in the mind, nor do they suggest ought external, whether distance or magnitude, otherwise than by habitual connexion as words do things.

  • Each of those tongues has become the familiar speech of vast regions where the mass of the people are not Arabian, Spanish, or English, otherwise than by adoption.

  • But farther, thou art offended that I should say, "They are deceived who own Christ no otherwise than as he was before the world began.

  • How far it can be relieved, otherwise than by time, is a subject of important consideration.

  • There is no ground for apprehension that our relations with any Nation will be otherwise than peaceful.

  • The gentleman has not seen how to reply to this, otherwise than by supposing me to have advanced the doctrine that a national debt is a national blessing.

  • The first of these principles is, that all popular or constitutional rights are held no otherwise than as grants from the crown.

  • But we are taught, by the doctrine of Necessity, that there is neither good nor evil in the universe, otherwise than as the events to which we apply these epithets have relation to our own peculiar mode of being.

  • The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen.

  • I cannot be otherwise than concerned at being the means of injuring your amiable daughters, and beg leave to apologise for it, as well as to assure you of my readiness to make them every possible amends--but of this hereafter.

  • I am very sensible of the honour of your proposals, but it is impossible for me to do otherwise than to decline them.

  • The guest, however, thought no otherwise than that he was to give up one of his ears, and ran as if fire were burning under him, in order to take them both home with him.

  • The sentries, indeed, thought no otherwise than that he was the young King himself, for he looked so like him, and had wild animals running behind him.

  • They went into the palace, and in the hall there stood a dish, and therein lay the bridal garment looking no otherwise than as if it were made of gold and silver.

  • At this horrible din, the robbers sprang up, thinking no otherwise than that a ghost had come in, and fled in a great fright out into the forest.

  • And again, the scope or purpose of the Spirit of God is not to express matters of nature in the Scriptures, otherwise than in passage, and for application to man's capacity and to matters moral or divine.

  • I think that we can not do otherwise than believe, that he has disregarded that great injunction of the Constitution to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, that there is but one remedy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterwards found; bearing trees; greater variety; human remains; maintain himself; many good; more easily; not necessary; otherwise improved; otherwise known; otherwise mentioned; otherwise provided; otherwise than; otherwise they; otherwise would; passed away; proper amount; public amusement; public justice; railroad officials; received sentence; scarcely daring; send back; theoretical reason; there wasn; warm climate