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Example sentences for "but her"

  • But her companion, from an inward and different need of his own, was presently not deterred by her silence.

  • She kept her eyes shut, but her hand, she knew, helped her meaning--which after a minute she was aware his own had absorbed.

  • But her husband's confidence had shorn the meeting of all its terror, and made the road she had to travel easy.

  • But her house, with all its contents, she left to Father Buschman, with the request that he would live in it, at least in summer.

  • Yon bird is but her messenger, The moon is but her silver car; Yea!

  • Let her full glory, My fancies, fly before ye; Be ye my fictions--but her Story!

  • But her constancy's so weak, She's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.

  • And a viewless thing is Love, And a name that vanisheth; But her strength is the wind's wild strength above, For she conquers shame and Death.

  • But her mother's sight was by no means an easy thing to escape.

  • She had L6000 a year of her own; but her husband's debts loomed before her like a mountain.

  • Ten months earlier the amount it stood for had represented the depths of penury; but her standard of values had changed in the interval, and now visions of wealth lurked in every flourish of the pen.

  • But her will-power seemed to have spent itself in a last great effort, and she was lost in the blank reaction which follows on an unwonted expenditure of energy.

  • Princess Tverskaya did not get out of her carriage, but her groom, in high boots, a cape, and black hat, darted out at the entrance.

  • But her face, to which she tried to give a severe and resolute expression, betrayed bewilderment and suffering.

  • The princess had at first been quite certain that that evening had settled Kitty's future, and that there could be no doubt of Vronsky's intentions, but her husband's words had disturbed her.

  • But her health is better--decidedly better.

  • Now poor Elsie was as heart-whole as a girl could be, but her manner of refusing made him think of a number of little signs which looked as if she were the victim of a hopeless attachment.

  • She watched them; but her shiver at the faint sound of her aunt's returning step far away down the stairs showed where her attention was.

  • But her expression, reserved, cold, maddeningly reminding him of a class distinction of which he was as sensitively conscious as she was unconscious--her expression brought him back with a jerk.

  • But her efforts to make herself resigned and contented, to kill her doubts as to the goodness of "goodness," were not successful.

  • But her pleasure in it was shadowed by the remembrance that most of the loveliness was due to Susan's suggestions.

  • But her temper, proud and unyielding, she had from the Coppards.

  • But her eyes, once lifted, were wonderful.

  • He saw the white uplifted form in the twilight, but her he dared not see.

  • But her low, intense tones brought his head lower.

  • Judge not the Church by her feebler servants, Not her foot, but her bosom, is offered to thee, repenting truly.

  • Nay, mother, 'tis not that, I trow, but her father.

  • He was preparing only to bow and pass on, but her gentle "How do you do?

  • But her face, though it was now sensible, was pinched and white, and so drawn with mortal fear that I believed her dying, and sprang to her, unable to construe otherwise the pitiful look in her straining eyes.

  • I do not know how she understood the words, but her face, which had been full of softness, grew hard.

  • But her commendation, though costing her some trouble, could by no means satisfy Mr. Collins, and he was very soon obliged to take her ladyship's praise into his own hands.

  • I knew it myself, as it was known to Miss Bingley; but her brother is even yet ignorant of it.

  • It was drizzling, but her tall, slight figure in the golf cape looked impervious to cold and rain amongst the shivering natives.

  • In marrying her he would be marrying not only her, but her class--his class.

  • But her breathing as she followed sounded laboured; it suddenly seemed pitiful that a woman should be panting after him like that.

  • She's married Peter; but her mind is not settled yet.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but are; but being; but especially; but found; but has; but here; but indeed; but little; but more; but much; but never; but none; but see; but she; but since; but surely; but those; but very; but were; but who; but your; extremely variable; kneel down; recent times; she remained; young officer