When not in humour, it is well to accept the fact cheerfully.
It simply "moves" on the ocean floor, when not reposing in apparently absolute and unconscious idleness like its distant relative, the star-fish.
The labial palpi are usually large, and the proboscis, when not in use, can be coiled up spirally between them.
When not cropped, it should be a semi-erect ear, but others do not disqualify.
The undercoat should be a waterproof pile, when not removed by grooming or season.
When not excited it is carried gaily, and a little above the level of the body.
Liebhart; and Griffin, when not Welsh, should no doubt be included among inn-signs.
Bolt, when not local (Chapter XIII) is for bold, Leaf is imitative for lief, i.
Gate is the same name, when not local (Chapter XIII).
While one is on the nest, the other, when not in quest of food, is on a tree in the immediate neighborhood, quietly on the alert.
When not pressed to lay, she rambles about with her lord, in close company, until compelled to take the nest.
When not employed in this business, he shows his regard and solicitude by remaining at home.
This is undoubtedly designed as a roosting-place, and is used during the incubating period by the one or the other parent at night, or when not occupied in the procurement of food, or by both when the young have complete possession thereof.
When not foraging, he may be seen upon the topmost bough of the tree upon which the nest is placed, directly above his mate, on the constant lookout for danger.
The lazo, when not used, is tied up in a small coil to the after part of the recado.
When not frightened, they slowly crawl along with their tails and bellies dragging on the ground.
The oily nature of this secretion prevents the tears, when not stimulated by emotion, from overflowing the lachrymal canal.
The stomach has a soft, spongy appearance, and, when not distended, lies in folds.
Sometimes this membrane, when not imperforate, is so thick and strong as to render sexual intercourse impossible, and requires a cutting operation to open the vagina.
When not arrayed in these exotic costumes, everyone wore merely the neng, and perhaps a fillet of twisted cotton about the head.
When not engaged in drawing and oil painting, the young ladies were occupied in sketching from nature, under the superintendence of my sisters, in the outskirts of Edinburgh.
When not drawing, I occupied myself in my father's workshop at the lathe, the furnace, or the bench.
When not engaged in executing other work it was employed in planing the flat cast-iron inking tables for printing machines.
When not in use, and sometimes even then, such tables were protected by coloured linen cloths.
Another serious danger, or, when not danger, at least discomfort, came from the trick which the Tiber has always had of flooding the lower parts of the city.
When not on actual campaign they were drilled once a day, and the recruits twice.
We have as yet spoken only of the removal of parts, when not followed by morbid action: but when the operation is thus followed, it is certain that the deficiency is sometimes inherited.
This fact and the following cases, when not stated to the contrary, are taken from a very curious paper by Prof.
When not building, I have been working at my volume on the volcanic islands which we visited; it is almost ready for press.
O how do children feel who wound the peace of living parents by an unworthy choice, when not a little of my comfort springs from the certainty that the departed would rejoice in mine!
The pride of learning, when not subdued by religion, may help to extinguish that spark.
When not placed in a fruit tree, it is attached by a kind of cordage to the twigs of a poplar or birch tree, or even to a bunch of mistletoe, hanging in mid-air like the car of a balloon.
When not occupied in disbudding fruit-trees, Bullfinches are most frequently observed in tall and thick hedges, either in small flocks as described above, or in pairs.
When not alarmed, it flies slowly and deliberately, and seemingly has neither the inclination nor the power to attack living birds, unless they have been previously disabled by wounds or other cause.
In venerable mansions, when not destructive of convenience, they have a very good effect.
I have already told you that English travellers of this class (I include all the inhabitants of the three kingdoms who have English manners and habits) usually pass their time, when not out of doors, in a common room called the coffee-room.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when not" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
