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• But, poor things! (4)
• But, mark me, my friend. (10)
• But she . (10)
• But the cloak! (10)
• But they were not true. (9)
• But that is nothing to us. (4)
• But they awake curiosity. (10)
• But was he administering it? (10)
• But the matter does not end here. (4)
• But I always did want to lay just there. (9)
• But he could bear him, or anything, now. (10)
• But, even while he kissed her, he was hardening his heart. (8)
• The French staggered, but still came on. (19)
• But thank you for taking a little interest. (8)
• But I wish to see as much of you as may be. (14)
• Appreciate flavours, but no dwelling on them! (10)
• She suffered no pain, and had but little fever. (12)
• But his requiring to be led out, was against him. (10)
• But I must hasten over these painful recollections. (6)
• But it was not without a pang that I had so decided. (2)
• Nor would she go in to supper with anyone but Winton. (8)
• He is not mine, but he was; and she took him from me. (10)
• But, as with the visits of Immortals, we must be ready to receive them. (10)
• But he spoke almost as rarely of his friends as of himself. (9)
• But one must always try, Monsieur; one must never be content. (8)
• Thorpe would have darted after her, but Morland withheld him. (4)
• But it is not illuminating; it is not the laughter of the mind. (10)
• They strove to rise to their feet, but fell prone in the attempt. (1)
• But when Winton next came up to Bury Street, she was in a quandary. (8)
• He neither spoke nor looked at his enemy, but warily clutched his whip. (22)
• They were infinitely wittier, but so much was heard and may be reported. (10)
• He answered nothing, but looked definitively down at the flowers in his hand. (9)
• But I believe Mrs. Lander may be safely left to look out for her own interests. (9)
• I leave it where I found it, but perhaps that is a good deal for a critic to do. (9)
• I had dined alone, because I arrived late; but at supper I found two other guests. (2)
• But I heard the voice of a woman singing some sad, old, endless ballad not far off. (2)
• What makes my misery now, but to see you there, and know of no way of helping you? (10)
• But Tom Redworth had got fast hold of his wicket, and already scored fifty to his bat. (10)
• Of course we ran the risk of the letter missing you, but the chance was worth a glove. (10)
• But the walls were up, and the studding had already given skeleton shape to the interior. (9)
• But Mrs. John Dashwood was a strong caricature of himself; more narrow-minded and selfish. (4)
• There was no doubt but that George was cast in a less aristocratic mould than his brother. (5)
• Kiomi sat eyeing the wood-ashes, a devouring gaze that shot straight and read but one thing. (10)
• But as he approached, Blink interposed between him and the hat, growling and showing her teeth. (8)
• But the character of Karenin himself is quite as important as the intrigue of Anna and Vronsky. (9)
• I pitied the horse I rode, and the dog at his heels, but for me the intensity was inspiriting. (10)
• He had been a merchant, but his business had failed, and he had left home to begin life over again. (12)
• He meant no harm, meant nothing but good; and he was lighting the most destructive of our lower fires. (10)
• But Jeff had not come to be made use of, or as a jay who was willing to work for his footing in society. (9)
• I was late; I met her walking home by herself, and wanted to walk with her, but she would not suffer it. (4)
• But when Celtic brains are reflective on their emotional vessel they shoot direct as the arrow of logic. (10)
• This stare, which seemed to see nothing, but to be doing, as it were, some fateful calculation, was uncanny. (8)
• The left flank was veiled by woods; to the right also the line was lost to sight, but it extended many miles. (1)
• On tiptoe she entered; the room was before her; but it was some minutes before she could advance another step. (4)
• Curiosity urged me to approach, but a sense of mortification over my ignominious fate bade me restrain myself. (21)
• But experience seems to contradict this theory, or else people often act contrary to their convictions and impulses. (9)
• Having by temperament considerable caution, but little fear, he waited till he heard another, and then got out of bed. (8)
• But the evident pain he inflicted moved his pity, which helped to restore his conception of the beauty of her character. (10)
• I was not her son, but he felt that this was my misfortune more than my fault, and he seemed more and more to forgive it. (9)
• They may have been right or not in this; I will not undertake to say, but that was the business view of the case with them. (9)
• Not sensualism, but sham spiritualism, was the meaning; and however fine the notes, they come skilfully evoked of the under-brute in us. (10)
• But although no man was destined to see this part of their prophecy fulfilled, yet Lord Selkirk, a few weeks later, evacuated Fort William. (19)
• No more wielding of the ugly cudgel; no more flailing with an aching arm; no more broadsword exercise, but a discreet and gentlemanly fence. (2)
• So much amazement had probably never been got before out of the misery inflicted in that place; but their lightness did not at all commend them. (9)
• Beacon disdained to ask an explanation, but he internally lowered his crest, while he continued to look at Fulkerson without changing his defiant countenance. (9)

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Definition of but:

• but, but, prep. or conj. without: except: besides: only: yet: still. | used as a noun for a verbal objection; also as a verb, as in scott’s ‘_but me no buts_.’ | adj. (_scot._) outside, as in ‘but end.’ | but and ben, a house having an outer and an inner room. (0) | but, but, n. same as butt.(0)

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