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Example sentences for "quite another"

  • The impression of the sublime may be produced in quite another way, by presenting a mere immensity in space and time; its immeasurable greatness dwindles the individual to nothing.

  • The demand for a ground of knowing has therefore here no application and no meaning, but belongs to quite another class of things.

  • For to him pleasure appears as one thing and pain as quite another thing: one man as a tormentor and a murderer, another as a martyr and a victim; wickedness as one thing and evil as another.

  • My corps is changed, and I am now In quite another mess.

  • That is all very fine," thought Durtal, "but when it comes to putting the advice into practice it is quite another thing.

  • Here we have not a mere manual effort, however admirable; this is not merely a spiritual and truly religious picture such as Roger van der Weyden and Quentin Matsys could create; it is quite another thing.

  • That is quite another thing; they are persuaded that this is the unpardonable sin.

  • Donald Brown in his bachelor apartment in the Worthington was one person, this queer fellow living in a roadside cabin is quite another," suggested Dr.

  • Yes, quite another," Julius murmured, and returned to the porch.

  • It is one thing to make plans; it is quite another matter to carry them out.

  • It is one thing to say "go north," it is quite another matter to hold a steady course in a forest.

  • But at the moment, he must have taken things in quite another way, and have felt rather hurt, not to say more, at the bishop's apparent indifference.

  • But Monnica's reasons were more forcible and of quite another value.

  • This is an inductive inference and its justification is quite another question.

  • But he has overlooked the fact that the reason is quite another thing.

  • It is clear that his hearing now took quite another turn.

  • One finds a complete change of scene and colouring, quite another atmosphere in fact, and yet it is only a scant ten kilometres off the route.

  • In the end, America may have the power to insist upon almost vital conditions in the settlement; though whether she will have the imaginative force and will is, of course, quite another question.

  • Learning a language is one thing and memorising an illogical system of visual images--for that is what reading ordinary English spelling comes to--is quite another.

  • I may as well be very frank with you, and say that I feared you might take this information in quite another spirit.

  • It is an easy thing for a man to theorize in a situation of this kind, quite another to act.

  • It is quite another to see middle age coming on, your principal fortune possibly gone, and avenue after avenue of opportunity being sealed to you on various sides.

  • But, by Jove, I am not so sure that it will be, after all," he added in quite another tone of voice.

  • She's been in sight for the last quarter of an hour, but she's coming along very slowly, and I expect it'll be quite another quarter of an hour before she reaches the beach.

  • To ascend was one thing; to descend, quite another; and in a little more than an hour from the moment of leaving the summit they found themselves once more on the beach and beside their boat.

  • The Lord himself seems to be in quite another part of the field.

  • Mistaken, Prue; my face is turned in quite another direction,' said Dane with a slight glance at his wife which conveyed very merry and sweet private intelligence.

  • Now, to grow a giant no great art is required; but to produce a little man like you is quite another matter.

  • Yes, if one of your learned surgeons was to perform the operation of removing the heart from your body, you would certainly die; but with me it would be quite another thing.

  • The family had but scant sympathy with the force of the Leipsic attraction; their ambitions were set in quite another direction, and all their hopes and plans and wishes were bent to the accomplishment of that one end.

  • For the place was, to her eyes, unique of its kind, her lot having been cast hitherto in quite another class of cafés.

  • This sets the matter in quite another aspect.

  • I venture to think that the clue to the enigma is to be found in quite another quarter.

  • The gardener lives, moves, and has his being in one world; the milkmaid spends her life in quite another.

  • It is even affected by rank and position; the speech of the plough-boy is one thing, the speech of the courtier is quite another.

  • To admire an iceberg in broad daylight is one thing; to be racing on amidst a crowd of them by night is quite another.

  • But that is quite another matter, and is beside our point at present.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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