But for theethis! To-night have I burned this gallows, to-night have I freed thy prisoners.

For this reason he purchased a yacht for their use, so that they might not only use it for the purpose of storing the stolen goods, but for the purpose of sailing from place to place under the guise of wealthy Englishmen traveling for pleasure.

But for all that the most interesting thing in the town remains the church.

God's calling is not for the few, but for the many.

It is not for connecting himself with party that a man is denounced in this country, but for daring to connect himself with truth.

My great readiness and eagerness to learn from everybody, and to make room in my opinions for every new acquisition by adjusting the old and the new to one another, might, but for her steadying influence, have seduced me into modifying my early opinions too much.

And there have been always those who, too good-natured to kill the scientific man, have patronised knowledge, not for its own sake, but for the use which may be made of it; who would like to keep a tame man of science, as they would a tame poet, or a tame parrot; who sayLet us have science by all means, but not too much of it.

It was a cheering omen for their start across the Western Ocean, and the invalid Governor found himself a popular man on board, for it was generally understood that but for his insistence upon an immediate trial and sentence, the villain might have played upon some more venal judge and so escaped.

" "I should certainly not have permitted Olive and Cyril to attend the local academy but for your family," said Professor Lord.

His elevation to commanding influence in Congress was very rapid, and but for his identification with partisan interests and a bad institution, there was no office in the gift of the nation to which he could not reasonably have aspired.

Michelangelo remained with him for three years, and although his power and imagination were already greater than his master's, he learned much, and would never have made his Sixtine Chapel frescoes with the ease he did but for this early grounding.

Edella was very near being undone by her sincerity in acknowledging the distinction she paid to merit, or the compassion she felt for misfortunes, in a country where humanity to enemies is looked upon as a crime, friendship to those of the same party altogether unknown, and even common civility never practised but for the gratification of self-interest, or some favourite passion.

At this time the Resolution had a clean bill of health, but for fear lest the heavy rains, to which they were continually subjected, might cause sickness, the ship was constantly fumigated, washed down, and thoroughly dried by means of stoves, as advised by Captains Pallisser and Campbell, with satisfactory results.

" The sufferers, notwithstanding their anguish, raised their voices in a paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer, which they concluded with humbly stating, that they repeated the clause against temptation, not for themselves, but for those who were yet living.

But for a time we have been "Placed far amid the melancholy main," and now we are among our own tea-cups.

He should not, however, search in it for indistinct models, to be pursued passionately, but for the means of realizing himself and his point of view, with its limitations.

The evening paper lay ready cut for him in its accustomed place, but for some five minutes Mr. Taynton did not appear to notice it, though evening papers, on the money-market page, might contain news so frightfully momentous to him.

I'm looking, not for a reprieve, but for release.

Their species are too numerous but for a catalogue.

But for last should then be written next.

She continued to hold the weeping woman's hand in hers, and to look at him; but for a long minute she seemed not even to breathe.

It would undoubtedly have shared the full progress of western Europe from this time on, but for its insularity.

The vital energy, which had been almost extinguished, needed some agitation to revivify its action; but for this she must have perished, not from the disease, which had been already subdued, but from languoras a lamp, not blown out by the wind, but failing for lack of air.

But for my country the war would have been over long ago.

And it is very hard on a fellow; for three parts of my time is taken up by this eternal crammingI should have no heart for it but for herand I can't be going over to Sirenwood as I used to go to Rockpier, while my mother vexes herself about it, in her state.