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Example sentences for "but none"

  • In solemn grim repose they lay; but none of them held the bright figure in rose-satin he sought.

  • There is a slight probability I may have had at some past period," said Leoline, sighing; "but none that I ever knew.

  • We all five went into the room, but none of the others at first said anything.

  • We were prepared for some unpleasantness, for as we were opening the door a faint, malodorous air seemed to exhale through the gaps, but none of us ever expected such an odour as we encountered.

  • As yet we have passed only a few open boats, but none of them had on board any box or package of anything like the size of the one we seek.

  • All the time he listened intently for any sound which might indicate that the sailor or another were approaching his cabin; but none came to interrupt his work.

  • Tremblingly Kaviri tottered to his feet, calling to his people to come from their huts; but none responded to his summons.

  • But none did so; instead, they drew away as he approached, and presently the whole pack moved off into the jungle, and Tarzan was left alone once more upon the beach.

  • They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

  • They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

  • But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

  • You can go alone if you want to, but none of it for mine.

  • The men looked at each other and nodded as if to say, "I told you so," but none ventured to speak.

  • Rumors of high words between the showman and Snowden were rife, but none appeared to know anything definite as to what had really occurred.

  • But none of his later achievements can in any degree compare with what he did in a cellar in Salem, at twenty-eight years of age.

  • As might have been expected, the independent movement produced a number of competent local leaders, but none of national importance.

  • They make provision for growth, but none at all for shrinkage.

  • Ali stood for a long while at the door, but none opened to him; and at last he gave a thundering knock that awoke all the men and they said, "That is Ali of Cairo's peculiar rap.

  • I have heard great store of women's verses; but none pleased me save three sets of couplets I once heard from three girls.

  • Ford's son, who is to be our solicitor), to fee some counsel in the Admiralty, but none in town.

  • Thence walked with Fenn down to White Hall, and there saw the Queene at cards with many ladies, but none of our beauties were there.

  • If there be a fairer than her, I wot not; but none so fair have mine eyes looked on.

  • It was certainly a hard task, but none of them complained.

  • We had several times passed over crevasses, but none of any size.

  • But none of us was exactly in training after the long five months' sea voyage, so that the pace was not great.

  • A few minor geographical discoveries were made, but none of any great importance.

  • Many other women possessed more regular features, but none of them had a greater power of seduction.

  • They were told that everything was going on well, and that shortly their wishes would be accomplished; but none of the servants were allowed to enter the room.

  • There were a few amulets in the sarcophagus, but none of any special worth or significance.

  • We called up the servants, one by one, and asked them if they knew anything of some articles placed in a drawer in the boudoir; but none of them could throw any light on the circumstance.

  • I waited and waited, expecting every instant to hear the command to turn up the light; but none came.

  • But none of the passions are reasoned, and I do not try to account for my literary preferences or to justify them.

  • We had been very happy at Columbus, as we were apt to be anywhere, but none of us liked the narrowness of city streets, even so near to the woods as those were, and we were eager for the country again.

  • But none of Hawthorne's fables are without a profound and distant reach into the recesses of nature and of being.

  • I have heard most of the great orators of the world, but none of them produced such an immediate and lasting effect upon their audience as Wendell Phillips.

  • In subsequent years I have received several very large retainers, but none of them gave so much satisfaction as that dollar and seventy-five cents, which I had actually earned after having been so long dependent on my father.

  • In her subsequent career in this country and abroad she had to her credit three matrimonial adventures and two divorces, but none of her husbands were of the common lot.

  • His position in the Senate was a masterful one, and on the platform most attractive, but none of his speeches appear in the schoolbooks or in the collections of great orations.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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