The late addition to the buildings is very noble; but the galleries where they sell their petty merchandise nothing so stately as ours at London, no more than the place where they walk below, being only a low vault.
He was not very old, being only a little over fifty, but he looked much older.
It seemed as if they regarded their own children with a kind of contempt, as being only fit to grow up to be the servants of the children of such people as Rushton and Sweater.
This man was about forty-five years old, but very short for his age, being only a little over five feet in height.
Being only two in number, the lodgers had three bedrooms to choose from.
He was a good ten years younger than I was; and, being only a journeyman, his worldly station was below mine.
He must have forgotten that part of his duty--or being only a beginner, he may well have been ignorant of it altogether.
Being only a mile off, John proposed to me that we go over and tackle them for something to eat.
I was exceedingly happy when I found she was a near neighbor to me, being only a few steps across the street.
I tried to get up through the roof--it being only a foot above my head--but failed.
Toyah was then one of those terrible wicked infant towns, it being only a few months old and contained over a dozen saloons and gambling halls.
Lad, being only a dog, was abundantly possessed of all six.
Being only a dog, Wolf was too wise to complain of life.
The Mexican trogon is much smaller than the former, being only a foot in total length, of which the tail occupies nearly eight inches.
Among the winter inhabitants of Mexico, one of the handsomest is the scarlet tanager--a small bird, being only six or seven inches in length.
Being only a normal boy, he had never so much as heard of psychology.
But, being only a dog, it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.
And, being only a dog, he knew no better way of finding him than by this everlasting and aimless search.
Being only a real-life dog and not a story-book detective, it occurred quite naturally to Buff that where Trent had so lately been, he would in time be again.
He was much younger than she, being only seventeen, while she was twenty-three.
It may be necessary to explain here, that although Amy called Mrs Foster "mamma," she was in fact not related to her at all, being only an adopted daughter.
Guy Foster, who, being only a few paces ahead of the boys, had overheard the remark, spoken as it was in rather a loud key.
Had Peekins been a little dog without a soul, capable of wagging his tail and fawning, Denham would have patted him, but, being only a boy in blue with a meek spirit, the great man paid no attention to him whatever.
In this the actuality of matter is denied; while Plato makes it equivalent to space it is only the place, the negative condition of the sensible while it possesses a being only as it receives in itself the ideal form.
The so-called objects exist only in our notion, and have a being onlyas they are perceived.
Here the passiveness in respect of quality is the same as activity, it being only a diminished activity.
Hanson, instead ofbeing only thirty, declared that he was thirty-seven the fifteenth of February.
For a young man, being only twenty-two years of age, who had been kept from the light of freedom, as much as he had, his story was thought to be exceedingly well told throughout.
Being only twenty-eight, he may yet make his mark.
They alleged also that the affair was in itself of no moment, being only a barren island with a well or two.
He little thought that we understood what he said; but I was not slack in telling him, that he need not be so loud, for they had no king in Holland, being only governed by a count, or rather that they governed him.
But I found him in much perplexity, fearing the coming of Sultan Parvis to court, he being only at the distance of eight coss, anxiously desiring leave to kiss his father's hands.
The small intestine is long, measuring 7 feet 4 inches, while the caecum is short, being only 8 inches long.
The lumbar vertebrae are fewer than in any other Cetacean, being only two.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being only" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
