51 adverbs to describe how to buts

If she left her house for any errand, (locks were but seldom used in Innisfield,) she would often on her return find a leg of mutton, a basket of apples or potatoes, or a sack of flour, conveyed there by some unknown hands.

If Kelson might, in ordinary circumstances, have wondered at the motive for his friend's proposal, which was but thinly disguised, he was in too happy a state of preoccupation to trouble his head about it.

He called to him until he grew hoarse, but fruitlessly.

A kind of shiver ran over Lavretsky's limbs, and the word "Liza!" escaped all but inaudibly from his lips.

Perhaps you know nothing of him but professionally.

The original Italian scenes from which the French farce is taken belonged to that impromptu Comedy, 'Commedia dell' Arte all' Improviso,' which so far from being printed was but rarely even committed to writing.

'I believe you are acquainted with my friend William Gifford?' 'By reputation,' I said, 'but not personally.'

It all seemed a splendid martial sight; but afterward, comparing this force with the army into whose front we were to blunder unwittingly, we thought of it as a little handful of toy soldiers playing at war.

No doubt it has a long life before it on the plane of popular melodrama, but scarcely, one hopes, on any higher plane.

I speak strongly, but deliberately.

MEPHISTOPHELES We have on oath but duly to attest That her dead husband's limbs, outstretch'd, repose In holy ground at Padua.

I cannot but earnestly implore the friends of the government to leave no art untried, by which we may hope to succeed in our design of extending the power of the licenser to the press, and of making it criminal to publish any thing without an IMPRIMATUR.

I call myself the member, although falsely, but expressly for the respect of the court menials, and in order to escape scoffing and insult.

Last night thou didst not close thine eyes in sleep, But wand'redst forth in the murky night, alone. JASON.

Therefore, if Her Majesty would but graciously be pleased to think a hardship of this nature worthy her royal consideration; and the next Parl[ia]m[en]t, in their great wisdom, cast but an eye towards the deplorable case of their old Philomath that annually bestoweth his poetical good wishes on them: I am sure there is one ISAAC BICKERSTAFF, Esquire, would soon be trussed up!

Turning off from the road, we followed the narrow track over the rustic bridge, and were received anything but hospitably by a huge white dog.

"There is no question of Baron Benoni here," said the count severely, but hurriedly.

Others possess it in a very remarkable degree as to forms, places, &c., and but imperfectly for other things; others, again, never forget names, dates, or figures, yet cannot repeat a conversation the day after it took place; while some few have the doubtful happiness of forgetting nothing.

" Mary complied; but not at all impetuously.

Not only are the effects of this growing body of social and legal restrictions shown directly by their constant violation, generally by the inferior and the poor, but indirectly in their strain on the nervous system; by the irritation and impatience that they generate, and which, under certain conditions cause acts of violence.

I have been further informed by the angels, that these spheres, because they flow from every part of a man (homo), and are abundantly continued around him, conjoin and disjoin two married partners not only externally, but also internally; and that hence come all the differences and varieties of conjugial love.

The little maids tried to be polite, but irrepressibly.

He had to choose his future course, and there were many causes pushing him all but irresistibly into an attitude of rebellion.

"Sit down, John dear," said Mrs. Buzzby in kind but commanding tones, when she got her husband fairly into his cottage, the little parlour of which was instantly crowded to excess.

He knew that Hugh was a lad of spirit,that in scholarship he was by no means a dunce; and as long as there was no positive tendency to vice, he thought but lightly of his boyish peccadilloes.

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