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Example sentences for "yet not"

  • Yet not a few are greedy after this gossip.

  • I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.

  • This is a remarkable depth for so small an area; yet not an inch of it can be spared by the imagination.

  • Her father listened, yet not challenging--only as with a need of some basis on which, under these new lights, his bounty could be firm.

  • Yet not even so might he break them for all his eagerness.

  • Then Agamemnon king of men shuddered, yet not even so did he cease from battle and war, but rushed against Koon, grasping his wind-nurtured spear.

  • There are no more quiet, inoffensive people than these children of rich families, just above the necessity of active employment, yet not in a condition to place their own children advantageously, if they happen to have families.

  • A little waiting time, and they swim into our ken, but in what order of precedence it is as yet not easy to say.

  • Unbeautiful, yet not without a glory superior to that of the Purple Emperor, and the angelic blue Morpho, and the broad-winged Ornithoptera, that caused an illustrious traveller to swoon with joy at the sight of its supreme loveliness.

  • Forthwith To hearing and to sight grateful alike, The spirit to his proem added things I understood not, so profound he spake; Yet not of choice but through necessity Mysterious; for his high conception scar'd Beyond the mark of mortals.

  • Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persussion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting.

  • Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet As he whose brow with homely biggen bound Snores out the watch of night.

  • Thy father bears the type of King of Naples, Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem, Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.

  • But how the fear of us May cement their divisions, and bind up The petty difference we yet not know.

  • Mrs. Martin was early at the schoolhouse the next morning, yet not so early but that she discovered that the new assistant had been there before her.

  • Therefore will I give his life to him, yet not to thee will I give him if I may help it--Lo you, Sweet!

  • Said the carle, grinning, yet not foully: "Guess if I would not rather serve thee!

  • It was with a heavy heart that Lady Florence listened to the monotonous clicking of the clock that announced the departure of moments few, yet not precious, still spared to her.

  • Peeping at me an instant out of their small, red, hardly perceptible eyes, they dropt asleep again; yet not so far asleep but that their unctuous bliss was still present to them, betwixt dream and reality.

  • My position was off the track of Zenobia's customary walk, yet not so remote but that a recognized occasion might speedily have brought me thither.

  • There it was before me, corpse-like, yet not dead; there, as in the haunted study of the wizard Forman!

  • And again I murmured to myself, "Is this the principle of intellectual being, directing or influencing that of animal life; with it, yet not of it?

  • But in what form of question could I lead to the subject, yet not betray my absorbing interest in it?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bright eyes; commonly regarded; could hold; distinctly heard; enabled them; immense quantity; know also; know myself; milk diet; only daughter; part payment; special subject; three hundred and thirty; while longer; wild boar; yet another; yet more; yet not; yet she; yet still; yet the; yet there; yet they; yet this; yet was; yet with