Nothing-but Sentence Examples

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  • He did nothing but hide the truth from you.

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  • That's right - nothing but honest work.

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  • He had nothing but ambition.

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  • She had done nothing but cry, complain and faint since this ordeal had begun.

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  • His expression revealed nothing but shock.

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  • I resolved to remain calm for her sake and talked of nothing but positive certainty of our escape.

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  • He said nothing but let his eyes do as they pleased.

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  • I see nothing but Gabriel's human weakness for a creature he should've let die-dead.

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  • Ahead was nothing but a narrow dirt road lined with mature Oak trees and brush.

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  • Darkyn's mate said nothing but managed to shake her head.

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  • I came to Atlanta with nothing but the clothes on my back.

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  • He saw nothing but a distant beach and the ocean.

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  • First it was enough for a hand, but nothing but dust was within reach.

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  • Hannah saw nothing but the gilded world around her; she had no idea about the dark underside to the Immortal world.

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  • He said nothing but pushed at the door.

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  • He could do nothing but continue to fight.

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  • Embarrassed, she didn't notice her right foot reaching nothing but air until she toppled backwards.

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  • The next few days will be nothing but feasts and parties in celebration of our marriage!

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  • He said nothing but continued at a quick pace.

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  • I got nothing but time.

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  • I'm nothing but a joke to you, am I?

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  • They could do nothing but give up all their goods and money.

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  • There's nothing but evil outside of here.

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  • The entire bed smelled of nothing but her.

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  • In other cases the reduction goes much further, till the endodermis eventually comes to surround nothing but an intercellular channel formed in place of the stelar tissue.

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  • The study of simple organisms, many of which consist of nothing but a little mass of protoplasm, exhibiting a very rudimentary degree of differentiation, so far as our methods enable us to determine any at all, shows that the duties of existence can be discharged in the absence of any cell-wall.

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  • Thus, while one village would produce nothing but felt shoes, another would carve sacred images (ikons), and a third spin flax only, a fourth make wooden spoons, a fifth nails, a sixth iron chains, and so on.

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  • Beneath him was originally nothing but a huge void with muddy black water at the bottom, in which his image was reflected, becoming ultimately solidified into P'tahil, his son, who now partakes of the nature of matter.

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  • This is a highly ingenious hypothesis to explain the discrepancies of the text, but is, after all, nothing but hypothesis.

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  • If these be too luxuriant, they yield nothing but leaves; and if too weak, they are incapable of developing flower buds.

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  • Splendid banquets lasting far into the night, private and intimate conversations between the princes who had only just emerged from a mortal struggle, seemed to point to nothing but peace and friendship in the future.

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  • This vessel is nothing but a split between the right and left folds of the mesentery, and its cavity is thus a remnant of the blastocoel.

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  • For that system still seems to recognize a generic substance as the core of the individual, whereas, according to Cousin's rendering of Abelard's doctrine, " only individuals exist, and in the individual nothing but the individual."

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  • He demanded the re-establishment of the constitution of 1848 in its entirety, the whole constitution and nothing but the constitution.

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  • The chief divergence is in the presence of silver and copper objects, but the great quantity of gold is the most striking fact, and to say that there was nothing but gold seems merely an exaggeration.

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  • The tables were now completely turned, and we hear of nothing but defeat and disaster for the besiegers till their final overthrow.

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  • Of the stage nothing but cuttings in the rock for foundations are visible.

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  • Before the end of the year he was forced to admit that the cause of the French monarchy was hopeless so long as the king and queen of France were nothing but captives in their own capital, at the mercy of an irresponsible mob.

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  • After bidding their family farewell they were carried to the sepulchral cave, nothing but a bowl of milk being left them.

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  • In reply, Graslin (De l'Iberie, Paris, 1839), maintained that the name Iberia was nothing but a Greek misnomer of Spain, and that there was no proof that the Basque people had ever occupied a wider area than at present; and Blade (Origine des Basques, Paris, 1869) took the same line of argument, holding that Iberia is a purely geographical term, that there was no.

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  • At present I read nothing but Italian, which I am immoderately fond of, particularly of the poetry..

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  • Up to that time Defoe had written nothing but occasional literature, and, except the History of the Union and Jure Divino, nothing of any great length.

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  • Julian afterwards sent Oribasius to restore the temple; but the oracle responded to the emperor's enthusiasm with nothing but a wail over the glory that had departed.

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  • The Maltese relied on the Roman Canon Law, the English on the common law of England, Scots or Irish had nothing but the English law to fall back upon.

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  • When it subsided the ship was still afloat, but she was nothing but a gutted hull lighted by a dying glare, and she fired no more.

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  • Before 1769 Bangkok was nothing but an agricultural village with a fort on the river bank.

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  • Reduction of the fibula till nothing but its lower extremity remains.

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  • In fact the proved tendency for the gas to pass into the " normal state " in which there is equipartition of energy, represents in this case nothing but the tendency for the translational energy to become dissipated into the energy of innumerable small vibrations.

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  • The castle, of which nothing but the earthworks and foundations remain, is famous as the scene of the imprisonment of Mary queen of Scots from September 1586 to her trial and execution on the 8th of February 1587.

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  • If what is real in things is ultimately nothing but their relations, and if relations are inconceivable apart from the relating mind, what is this but the dissolution of the solid ground of external reality which my consciousness seems to assure me underlies and eludes all the conceptual network by which I try to bring one part of my experience into connexion with another ?

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  • Passing by these contentions as unmeaning or irrelevant and seeing nothing but irreconcilable contradiction between the conceptions of the world as immutable law and a self-determining subject pragmatism (q.v.) seeks other means of vindicating the reality of freedom.

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  • From this time, until the French Revolution, the ancient democratic institutions of the city remained nothing but a name; the rights of the community were exercised by a municipal aristocracy, who held all power in their own hands.

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  • Of the ancient kasbah nothing but the walls remain, the old buildings having been demolished to make way for barracks for the French troops.

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  • The allies were still resting in fancied security, dispersed throughout widely distant cantonments; for nothing but vague rumours had reached them, and they had not moved a man to meet the enemy.

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  • Had Queen Victoria died without issue, this prince, who was arrogant, ill-tempered and rash, would have become king of Great Britain; and, as nothing but mischief could have resulted from this, the young queen's life became very precious in the sight of her people.

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  • But it does not prove that I am nothing but soul.

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  • The enterprise was hazardous, since democracy had hitherto brought nothing but ill to Rome.

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  • Disunited, we can hope for nothing but stagnation, misery and ruin.

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  • The tavern remained the same, having changed nothing but the bush.

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  • Before he was fifty years of age he became "fond of nothing but good cheer and sleep."

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  • It was nothing but pure jealousy that guided her thoughts – and fear of losing him.

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  • He could think of nothing but Katie and his ultimate failure.

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  • My own endeavor would be nothing but calculative facticity.

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  • No, I see no finery about you; nothing but what is perfectly proper.

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  • These isolated babies hear nothing but the crying of other newborns.

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  • You keep talking about him as a government, but he is nothing but a common swindler.

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  • The poor man could do nothing but dress himself and go sorrowing on his way.

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  • I will never let anyone say anything bad of Sonya, for there is nothing but good in her.

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  • The look she gave him revealed nothing but exasperation.

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  • He hacked him apart until there was nothing but pulp.

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  • Dusty said nothing but drew abreast of him.

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  • He drove them through back roads and alleys to ensure no one followed before taking the highway and exiting into a direction that appeared to be nothing but desert.

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  • The children were all elementary age, their dismembered bodies nothing but carnage.

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  • Martha said nothing but tears streaked her cheeks.

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  • Cynthia turned away, saying nothing but snuggling the white owl to her bosom.

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  • After Tess broke their engagement - at the last minute - there had been no reason for him to hold his end of the bargain... nothing but integrity.

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  • It was nothing but pure jealousy that guided her thoughts – and fear of losing him.

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  • Rather than dread at what lie ahead of him, he felt nothing but anger.

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  • She brought nothing but terror.

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  • Speechless for a long moment, she did nothing but stare at him.

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  • He was distracted by the feel of both after so long with nothing but stone walls beneath his fingertips.

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  • Gabriel said nothing but pinned him with a glare that had killed a few men outright.

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  • She stopped at the edge, where the trail was nothing but mud.

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  • She held the hand of the man before her, walking on a dead planet of nothing but rocky hills, dried streams, and cracked earth.

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  • He said nothing but dropped into a fighting stance.

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  • He said nothing but let her strike several times before shifting to the offensive.

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  • The training had been nothing but politely professional, as if she were another student.

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  • It was a planet, dusty red, as if it were nothing but dry desert.

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  • He said nothing but withdrew a communications device and began issuing calm commands to his men.

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  • There was nothing but a gaping chasm where the temple had been.

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  • None of their words registered, nothing but the sick feeling at the pit of his stomach.

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  • At first she said nothing but when he tried to rise, she grabbed his wrist and held it, her long nails cutting into his flesh.

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  • I would insist the father be nothing but a sperm donor.

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  • George, I have a small black box about the size of your hand with nothing but a keypad in it.

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  • She had nothing but Jack.

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  • Lana said nothing but touched Jack's scruff, nervous around all the people.

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  • While they took away the fatigue and gave her energy, she could think of nothing but chocolate sundaes and pickles.

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  • The newscast gave no details of the shooting and a call to the hospital netted nothing but a tired sounding know-nothing switchboard operator.

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  • It was nothing but a long rope with a piece of broomstick tied to the bottom, but it was functional.

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  • Besides, there was nothing she could do at this point – nothing but pray.

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  • On the other hand, I have nothing but great memories of this house.

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  • Lori wanted nothing but a cup of coffee, so Carmen went to the snack room to get one.

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  • She remained in the bathing chamber until the hearth was nothing but embers.

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  • He said nothing but shifted to hold both her hands in one of his.

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  • Through the mistresses Memon kept and shared with his men, Taran had learned of nothing but a desire for gold and magic waters.

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  • I know you fear nothing but the underground, and I will send you there for all of eternity if you refuse my command!

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  • As much despair as she felt for each of the forty-three deaths, there would be nothing but doom, disease, and death for her people if she did not stay alive.

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  • Memon's son can be nothing but twisted, like the father!

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  • She darted and danced away, focused on nothing but the two torches marking her chance at freedom.

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  • It was a despair he'd felt in the catacombs, when he'd seen nothing but death as his fate.

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  • Taran had spent half his life in this place with nothing but darkness and Jame, his friend.

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  • Lately, he'd been thinking of nothing but Rissa.

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  • He thought of nothing but saving her, of looking again into her teal eyes.

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  • It was his responsibility and, Alex being the person he was, could do nothing but step up to it.

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  • Temper abandoned her then, leaving nothing but weakness and shame.

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  • He needed her and she had done nothing but argue with him and make his life more complicated.

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  • Every move was calculated, and yet he gave the impression that he had nothing but time.

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  • Sure, and I was nothing but a temporary diversion - a local hick to provide you with entertainment.

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  • My father started out with nothing but a brilliant mind, like yours.

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  • You lived for nothing but revenge.

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  • It was hard to keep her eyes from drifting downward, to the body that was nothing but muscle under taut bronze skin.

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  • She's done nothing but ride his coattails.

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  • Darian was armed with knives and a short sword for the hunt; Xander used nothing but his hands and fangs.

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  • Xander had been nothing but tender, even knowing she was probably going to betray him.

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  • For a long moment, there was nothing but Jessi.

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  • The last straw that determined action was the discovery of a paper docketed " Not to be opened till after my death," which was nothing but a railing accusation against herself.

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  • To many critics it seemed that she had said her whole say and that nothing but replicas could follow.

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  • That so clear-headed a man could have credited the lies of Oates and the other perjurers is beyond belief; and the manner in which he excited baseless alarms, and encouraged fanatic cruelty, for nothing but party advantage, is without excuse.

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  • In Plotus, the snakebird, the pyloric chamber of the stomach is beset with a mass of hair-like stiff filaments which permit nothing but fluid to pass into the duodenum.

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  • They contain nothing but meditative lyrical pieces, almost any one of which is typical of the whole, though there is considerable variation of merit.

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  • No prayer arises within his work on their behalf, and nothing but unalloyed triumph is displayed over their doom.

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  • Miller discovered that they undergo a metamorphosis, and that the minute worm-like lamperns previously known under the name of Ammocoetes, and abundant in the sand and mud of many streams, were nothing but the undeveloped young of the river-lampreys and small lamperns.

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  • For the latter they have nothing but condemnation, but the former they acknowledge as part of the divine order of the state, while the y complain that the priests have prostituted their office for lucre.

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  • The szlachta, who had had a "King Log" in SigisWladlsmund, were determined that Wladislaus should be laws " a King Bee who will give us nothing but honey" - 1632-1648.

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  • Here congregated hundreds of the younger szlachta, fresh from their school benches, whence they brought nothing but a smattering of Latin and a determination to make their way by absolute subservience to their "elder brethren," the pans.

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  • The bodies were formerly exposed to view; but the pilgrims who now pass through the galleries see nothing but the draperies and the inscriptions.

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  • The more powerful creatures in a state of nature are accustomed to kill a prey too large to be devoured at once, and to return to it again and again, long after it has become putrid; the smaller forms, for the most part, devour nothing but small creatures immediately after they have been captured and killed, and consequently in an absolutely fresh condition.

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  • God is certainly in the truest sense nothing but the primeval Being; but He reveals Himself in a variety of emanations and manifestations.

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  • In relation to the earliest social stage, we need consider nothing but the amount of labour employed in the production of an article as determining its exchange value; but in more advanced periods price is complex, and consists in the most general case of three elements - wages, profit and rent.

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  • Despite all the protests and negotiations of Laynez, the pope remained obstinate; and there was nothing but to submit.

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  • An only son, late born, seeing no companions of his own age, hearing nothing but the voices of his parents and the hymns and prayers in the little Calvinist chapel, Arany grew up a grave and gentle, but by no means an ignorant child.

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  • At one time a well-known theatre, it had degenerated into a disreputable haunt where nothing but the lowest melodramas were played.

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  • They ate in silence, with hoods so drawn over their faces that they could see nothing but what was on the table before them.

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  • Of the glorious liberty of the children of God he had nothing but a mere presentiment; he looked for it only in the world beyond the grave, and under the power of the Gospel he counted as loss all the world could give.

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  • Not very long ago Pan-Germans were paying much attention to the German settlers in the Brazilian province of Rio Grande do Sul, where large villages spoke nothing but German, and German, as the only language known on the spot, had become the tongue in which municipal business was transacted.

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  • The difficulties of exhibiting and maintaining it are probably far greater now than they were in the apostolic age; and as nothing but a present divine support can enable us to overcome these, so, when they are overcome, a testimony is given to the fact that God is with us."

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  • His definitely expressed view was that psychical activity is " nothing but a radiation through the cells of the grey substance of the brain of a motion set up by external stimuli."

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  • But if a philosophy makes force an attribute of matter only, as his does, it will recognize nothing but matter possessing force, and will therefore be materialism as well as monism, and in short materialistic monism.

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  • So Avenarius (q.v.) was no materialist, but only an empiricist anxious to reclaim man's natural view of the world from philosophic incrustations; yet when his Empiriokriticismus ends in nothing but environment, nervous system, and statements dependent on them, without soul, though within experience, he comes near to materialism, as Wundt has remarked.

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  • In support of this view, he said that bodies are not substances, though substantiata; that their apparent motion and resistance are results of the passions of their monads; that their primary matter is nothing but passive power of their monads; that the series of efficient causes between them is merely phenomenal.

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  • According to this alternative, then, there is nothing but mental monads and mental phenomena; and Leibnitz is a metaphysical idealist.

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  • On Schelling's idealistic pantheism, or the hypothesis that there is nothing but one absolute reason identifying the opposites of subjectivity and objectivity, Hegel based his panlogism.

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  • Like Leibnitz, he proceeds from the fact that our perceptions are sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious, to the inconsequent conclusion, that there are beings with nothing but unconscious perceptions; and by a similar non sequitur, because there is the idea of an end in will, he argues that there must be an unconscious idea of an end in instinctive, in reflex, in all action.

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  • He agrees with Fechner and Wundt that there is no substantial soul, and that soul is nothing but the mental states, or rather their unity--thus identifying it with Kant's synthetic unity.

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  • Phenomenal Idealism In Germany Phenomenal idealism is the metaphysics which deduces that, as we begin by perceiving nothing but mental phenomena of sense, so all we know at last from these data is also phenomena of sense, actual or possible.

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  • Now, Kant and his followers start from this second and narrower meaning, and usually narrow it still more by assuming that what appears to the senses is as mental as the sensation, being undistinguishable from it or from the idea of it, and that an appearance is a mental idea(Vorstellung) of sense; and then they conclude that we can know by inference nothing but such mental appearances, actual and possible, and therefore nothing beyond sensory experience.

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  • But he does not agree with Hume that mind is nothing but sensations, ideas, and associations, but with Kant, that there are higher combinations.

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  • But when we look for the evidence of any such will beyond ourselves and our experience, we find Wundt offering nothing but an ontological " ideal " of reason, and a moral " ideal " requiring a religious " ideal," but without any power of inferring a corresponding reality.

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  • But natural realism, as finally interpreted by Hamilton, was too dogmatic, too unsystematic, and too confused with elements derived from Kantian idealism to withstand the brilliant criticism of Mill's Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865), a work which for a time almost persuaded us that Nature as we know it from sensations is nothing but permanent possibilities of sensation, and oneself only a series of states of consciousness.

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  • Though again in the Transcendental Dialect he spoke of pure reason conceiving " ideals " of noumena, he did not mean that a noumenon is nothing but a thought arising only through thinking, or projected by reason, but meant that pure reason can only conceive the " ideal " while, over and above the " ideal " of pure reason, a noumenon is a real thing, a thing in itself, which is not indeed known, but whose existence is postulated by practical reason in the three instances of God, freedom, and immortality.

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  • I have nothing but argument to offer touching this matter, having never met with any person in Persia or the Indies to inform me when the compass was first known among them, though I made inquiry of the most learned men in both countries.

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  • Northern and eastern Europe is inhabited by a larger form (P. major), which differs in nothing but size and more vivid tints from that which is common in the British Isles and western Europe.

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  • In the spring of 1583 she retained enough of this saintly resignation to ask for nothing but liberty, without a share in the government of Scotland; but Lord Burghley not unreasonably preferred, if feasible, to reconcile the alliance of her son with the detention of his mother.

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  • It was an artificial union, between which nothing but consummate tact and statesman- the Dutch ship could have rendered permanent and solid.

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  • As these flakes readily split open, when a piece of this iron is broken rupture passes through them, with the result that, even though the graphite may form only some 3% of the mass by weight (say to% by volume), practically nothing but graphite is seen in the fracture.

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  • Modern philosophers seem inclined to think that personal identity arises from consciousness, and consciousness is nothing but a reflected thought or perception.

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  • He did his best to get at the real facts, and after a number of conferences with the leaders became so convinced that nothing but a separate administration of the two countries would restore tranquillity that he promised to use his influence with his father to bring about that object - on receiving assurances that the personal union under the house of Orange would be maintained.

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  • The older Protestantism uncompromisingly judged the monastic ideal and life to be both unchristian and unnatural, an absolute perversion deserving nothing but condemnation.

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  • The houses are built round a central courtyard, and present nothing but bare walls to the street.

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  • The word " Induction," which occurs in only three or four passages throughout all his works (and these again minor ones), is never used by him with the faintest reminiscence of the import assigned to it by Bacon; and, as will be seen, he had nothing but scorn for experimental work in physics.

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  • Paul of Samosata represented the high-water mark of Christian speculation; and it is deplorable that the fanaticism of his own and of succeeding generations has left us nothing but a few scattered fragments of his writings.

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  • The heights between the lower Neckar and the Main form the Odenwald (about 1700 ft.); and the Spessart, which is watered by the Main on three sides, is nothing but a continuation of the Odenwald.

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  • The reaction came suddenly in Salem, and in May 1693 Governor William Phips ordered 1 There is nothing but tradition to identify the place of execution with what is now called Gallows Hill, between Salem and Peabody.

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  • The paper, whose motto was "Our Country, our Whole Country, and nothing but our Country," was full of spirit and intellectual force, but Newburyport was a sleepy place and the enterprise failed.

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  • Such a peace, giving Sparta everything and Athens nothing but Sparta's bare alliance, was due to the fact that Nicias and Alcibiades were both seeking Sparta's friendship. At this time the Fifty Years' Truce between Sparta and Argos was expiring.

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  • The emir of Sokoto held the position of religious as well as political head of all the lesser states of Northern Nigeria, and in response to friendly overtures on the part of the British administration had declared that between Sokoto and Great Britain there could be nothing but war.

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  • The occasional visitor to the tomb is reminded by its inscriptions of the many virtues of the dead man while he yet lived, and is charged, if he be come with empty hands, at least to pronounce the funerary formula; it will indeed cost him nothing but the breath of his mouth !

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  • But the whole Assyrian history of Ctesias is nothing but a fantastic fiction; from the Assyrian inscriptions we know that the Assyrians never entered the eastern parts of Iran.

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  • The idea of a Spanish marriage excited the wrath of Knox, whose interviews with Mary did nothing but irritate both parties and alienate the politicians from the more enthusiastic Protestants.

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  • The so-called "Norwegian anchovies" imported into England in little wooden kegs are nothing but sprats pickled in brine with bay-leaves and whole pepper.

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  • In such a condition of affairs it is hardly surprising to find that the great and stern Teacher congratulates the poor and has nothing but pity for the rich; that He has no interest at all in comfort or property.

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  • It is rather due to an overpowering sense of the value of organization - a sense that liberty can never be dissevered from order, that a vital interconnexion between all the parts of the body politic is the source of all good, so that while he can find nothing but brute weight in an organized public, he can compare the royal person in his ideal form of constitutional monarchy to the dot upon the letter i.

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  • They saw in him a pious man, an esteemed professor, who had done nothing but propose a discussion on the notoriously intricate subject of Indulgences, peremptorily ordered to recant and to remain silent.

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  • The same English prejudice which made a landlord of the zamindar could recognize nothing but a tenantat-will in the ryot.

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  • He has nothing but contempt for the Epicureans, and cannot forgive their neglect of literary style.

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  • Aiming at a currency to consist largely of specie, he caused the payment of these claims to be received and imported in specie as far as possible; and in 1836 he ordered land-agents to receive for land nothing but specie.

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  • The sensory judgment then, which is nothing but a belief that at the moment of sense something sensible exists, is a proof that not all judgment requires conception, or synthesis or analysis of ideas, or decision about the content, or about the validity, of ideas, or reference of an ideal content to reality, as commonly, though variously, supposed in the logic of our day.

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  • Logical inference never goes through the impossible process of premising nothing but ideas, and concluding that ideas are copies of things.

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  • He starts, that is in logic, with conceptual units apparently self-contained and admitting of nothing but external relation, but proceeds to justify the intrinsic relation between the matter of his units by an appeal to the fact of the coherence of all contents of thought.

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  • It gives nothing but the barest facts, excepting three anecdotes about his infancy, his school days and his marriage.

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  • Meanwhile, Mehemet Ali had scornfully rejected the offers of the Porte; he would be content with nothing but the concession of his full demands - Syria, Icheli, Aleppo, Damascus and Adana.

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  • The Monophysites, who like the Greeks knew themselves simply as the Orthodox, were grievously persecuted by the emperor Justinian and the graecizing patriarchs of Antioch, because they rejected the decrees of the council of Chalcedon, in which they - not without good reason - saw nothing but a thinly veiled relapse into those opinions of Nestorius which the previous council of Ephesus had condemned.

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  • Bochart was a man of profound erudition; he possessed a thorough knowledge of the principal Oriental languages, including Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldaic and Arabic; and at an advanced age he wished to learn Ethiopic. He was so absorbed in his favourite study, that he saw Phoenician and nothing but Phoenician in everything, even in Celtic words, and hence the number of chimerical etymologies which swarm in his works.

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  • Tobias's dog indeed does nothing but accompany his young master on his journey to Ecbatana and back.

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  • The greater part of the plain is open and uncultivated, and presents nothing but barren downs; but corn is grown in considerable quantities in the northern portions of it, and there is no doubt that the whole is readily susceptible of cultivation.

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  • But the third, inflicting heavy penalties, with death on a third conviction, on those who should celebrate mass or even be present at it, showed that the reformer and his friends had crossed the line, and that their position could no longer be described as, in Knox's words, "requiring nothing but the liberty of conscience, and our religion and fact to be tried by the word of God."

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  • We complain of the unjustifiable odium which has been cast upon us by interested and dishonest persons, under the cloak of religion, whose testimony is believed in England to the exclusion of all evidence in our favour; and we can foresee, as the result of this prejudice, nothing but the total ruin of the country.'

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  • Revealed religion had been declared to be nothing but a republication of the truths of natural religion (Matthew Tindal, Christianity as Old as the Creation), and all revelation had been objected to as impossible.

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  • The Baluch is still essentially a robber and a raider (a trait which is common to all tribes), and the history of Baluchistan is nothing but a story of successful robberies, of lawless rapine and bloodshed, for which plunder and devastation were accounted a worthy and honourable return.

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  • So, too, in the order of knowledge there is nothing but sense and the force of reason maintaining its tension and connecting sensations and ideas in their proper sequence.

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  • This work, which embodied the results of many years' research, was distinguished by its strict adherence to the scientific method of investigation by experiment, and by the originality of its matter, containing, as it does, an account of the author's experiments on magnets and magnetical bodies and on electrical attractions, and also his great conception that the earth is nothing but a large magnet, and that it is this which explains, not only the direction of the magnetic needle north and south, but also the variation and dipping or inclination of the needle.

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  • Many strange places with stranger names are visited, some of them offering obvious satire on human institutions, others, except by the most far-fetched explanations, resolvable into nothing but sheer extravaganza.

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  • Winter, having secured nothing but vain promises from the constable, returned to England about the end of April, bringing with him Guy Fawkes, a man devoted to the Roman Catholic cause and recommended for undertaking perilous adventures.

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  • He, one of the greatest monarchs in Europe, habitually wore plain Cracow cloth, drank nothing but water, and kept the most austere of tables.

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  • For these last pursuits Leonardo had nothing but contempt.

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  • Adopting the Kantian standpoint that we can know nothing but phenomena, Lange maintains that neither materialism nor any other metaphysical system has a valid claim to ultimate truth.

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  • Vauquelin, maintained that Scheele's new acid was nothing but impure acetic acid.

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  • When Livingstone began his work in Africa the map was virtually a blank from Kuruman to Timbuktu, and nothing but envy or ignorance can throw any doubt on the originality of his discoveries.

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  • Thus, while nothing but leakage occurs the uniform horizontal line is continued.

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  • Lord Brougham, in delivering the judgment, speaks of the " common law prevailing for 1400 years over Christian Europe," and (p. 137) says that " nothing but express enactment can abrogate the common law of all Christendom before the Reformation of the Anglican Church."

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  • I must beg your pardon that 'tis I that send you this ungrateful account; but I thought it my duty to let you know it, so that you might act accordingly, being in myself fully satisfied that nothing but the greatest candour imaginable is to be expected from a person who has of all men the least need to borrow reputation."

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  • There is no reason to suppose that the central apical plate of certain free-swimming crinoids has any more to do with the distal foot-plate of the larval Antedon stem than has the so-called centrodorsal of Antedon itself, which is nothing but the compressed proximal end of the stem.

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  • Neumayr adduced the Triassic sea-urchin Tiarechinus, in which the apical system forms half of the test, as an argument for the origin of Echinoidea from an ancestor in which the apical system was of great importance; but a genus appearing so late in time, in an isolated sea, under conditions that dwarfed the other echinoid dwellers therein, cannot seriously be thought to elucidate the origin of pre-Silurian Echinoidea, and the recent discovery of an intermediate form suggests that we have here nothing but degenerate descendants of a well-known Palaeozoic family (Lepidocentridae).

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  • Since this must have, on our theory, enclosed the parietal canal from the anterior coelom, it is possible that the genital products were developed from the lining cells of that cavity, and that the genital pore was nothing but its original pore not yet united with that from the water-sac. The concrescence of these pores can be traced in other cystids; but as the genital organs became affected by radial symmetry the original function of the duct was lost, and the reproductive elements escaped to the exterior in another way.

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  • But the vikings were now showering such blows on the northern states that their unhappy monarchs could think of nothing but selfdefence.

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  • The first was that they ignored the rights of the commonssave indeed that they got their ordinances confirmed by parliamentand put all power into the hands of a council which represented nothing but the baronial interest.

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  • Mary Stuart returned to Scotland with nothing but her brains and her charms on which to rely in her struggle with her people and her rival.

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  • Passed by the Commons, it was thrown out towards the end of the session by the Lords; and the government acquiescedperhaps could do nothing but acquiescein this decision.

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  • From 1216 we have nothing but Ramsay, Stubbs, Longmans Political History and monographs (some of them good), until we come to Wylies Henry IV.

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  • The anchorage, about a mile from the town, in 4 to 6 fathoms, is nothing but an open roadstead.

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  • There is more force in the charge that his Hellenic sympathies prevented him from seeing the innate weakness and mutual jealousies of the Greek states of that period, whose only hope of peace and safety lay in submitting to the protectorate of the Roman republic. But if the event proved that the liberation of Greece was a political mistake, it was a noble and generous mistake, and reflects nothing but honour on the name of Flamininus, "the liberator of the Greeks."

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  • There is the Famine steppe (Bekpak-dala), while in the Ak-kum steppe, which surrounds Lake Karakul, large areas consist of nothing but sands, partly shifting.

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  • At but one remove by birth from southern Europe and the East, he was an Englishman in nothing but his devotion to England and his solicitude for her honour and prosperity.

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  • A second and still more influential embassy having been sent, Elohim again appeared by night, and this time permitted Balaam to go on condition that he said nothing but what Elohim bade him say.

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  • Covered with snow for the greater part of the year, and growing nothing but lichens, mosses and some scanty grass, the South Shetlands are of interest almost solely as a haunt of seals, albatrosses, penguins and other sea-fowl.

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  • But ideas themselves are, he reminds us, " neither true nor false, being nothing but bare appearances," phenomena as we might call them.

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  • By imbuing Frenchmen with such a mutual hatred as nothing but the arm of despotic power could control the Reign of Terror rendered political liberty impossible for many years.

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  • This Paley and Bentham (after Locke) interpreted as merely the effect on the will of the pleasures or pains attached to the observance or violation of moral rules, combining with this the doctrine of Hutcheson that " general good " or " happiness " is the final end and standard of these rules; while they eliminated all vagueness from the notion of general happiness by defining it to consist in " excess of pleasure over pain " - pleasures and pains being regarded as " differing in nothing but continuance or intensity."

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  • Early in the 19th century all their positions on the mainland were relinquished, and they retained nothing but the island of Ste Marie on the east coast.

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  • Thus at the end of the 5th century the Roman empire was nothing but a heap of ruins, and fidelity to the empire was now only maintained by the Catholic Church; she alone The clergy survived, as rich, as much honored as ever, and more and the powerful, owing to the disappearance of the imperial barbarofficials for whom she had found substitutes, and the tans.

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  • The treaties of Blois occasioned a vast amount of diplomacy, and projects of marriage between Claude of France and Charles of Austria, which came to nothing but served as a prelude to the later quarrels between Bourbons and Habsburgs.

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  • Under the harsh tyranny of Spain, Italy was now nothing but a lifeless corpse; young vigorous Germany was better worth saving.

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  • The Spaniards had no longer any hope of adding Luxemburg to their Franche-Comt; while the Holy Roman Empire in Germany, taken in the rear by Sweden (now mistress of the Baltic and the North Sea), cut off for good from the United Provinces and the Swiss cantons, and enfeebled by the recognized right of intervention in German affairs on the part of Sweden and France, was now nothing but a meaningless name.

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  • His first preceptors were nothing but courtiers; and the most intelligent, his valet Laporte, developed in the royal childs mind his natural instinct of command, a very lively sense of his rank, and that nobly majestic air of master of the world which he preserved even in the commonest actions of his life.

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  • Darmstadt and Saxony, which he attached to France under the name of the Confederation of the Rhine; but the treaty of Presburg gave France nothing but the danger of a more centralized and less docile Germany.

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  • On the following day, in virtue of a divinely induced forgetfulness, Ptolemy recollected nothing but the loyalty of the Jews to his throne.

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  • The Arabic " Book of Maccabees " contained in the Paris and London Polyglotts, and purporting to be a history of the Jews from the affair of Heliodorus (186 B.C.) to the close of Herod's reign, is historically worthless, being nothing but a compilation from i and 2 Macc. and Josephus.

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  • In neither province is the soil naturally fertile, and nothing but the untiring industry of the inhabitants, favored by the rivers which traverse the province from the table-land of New Castile and the numerous small streams (nacinlientos) that issue from the base of the limestone mountains and by the numerous torrents from the Pyrenees, has converted them into two of the most productive regions in Spain.

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  • Their name of ricos /zombres, which first appears in written documents of the 12th TheNobles, century, has been credited with a Teutonic origin, Ricos but it was in all probability nothing but a romance Ilombres.

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  • Fecundation would under such conditions be impossible, and without this the eggs of a resultant queen will produce nothing but drones.

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  • In course of time it dries up, leaving nothing but a brown scale adhering to the bottom or side of the cell.

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  • The Bad Lands are essentially nothing but fresh-water mud excessively weathered and eroded.

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  • The rectilinear rays, which we have considered above, but which have no real existence, are nothing but the paths in which the light waves are transmitted.

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  • The soldiers and captains of the Byzantine garrisons were equally Armenians and Syrians, in whom the sight of a crucifix or image set up for worship inspired nothing but horror.

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  • A snake which she had fashioned for the purpose stung the god, who sent for her as a last resort in his unendurable agony; whereupon she represented to him that nothing but his own mysterious name could overcome the venom of the snake.

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  • The distinction between phenomena and noumena is, therefore, nothing but the expression of the distinction between understanding and reason, a distinction which, according to Kant, is merely subjective.

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  • He was a keen sportsman and would spend many days at a time pursuing chamois or steinbock in the Alpine fastnesses of Piedmont with nothing but bread and cheese to eat.

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  • She had nothing but charisma and the knowledge the Black God was fond of her.

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  • He released a deep breath and rose, aware the birth of a new god and discovery of a powerful Oracle indicated nothing but more trouble to come.

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  • He honored nothing but laws from the time-before-time, deals he made and the occasional Demon Laws, which he authored.

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  • Nothing was stopping her from talking to him – nothing but fear.

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  • The dhjan had known nothing but war for over half his life, since exiled with his sisters to the tiny moon across the galaxy from his home of Anshan.

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  • They were magnificent, wearing nothing but snug, dark pants.

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  • Since then, he'd known nothing but war, been driven by nothing but revenge, fury, and the elusive glimmer of hope that he might one day feel as he had sitting with his mother and sisters on that hill above his rightful home.

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  • Her feet literally inches from the floor, she could do nothing but endure his onslaught.

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  • She waited for more to his explanation.  He said nothing but followed a trail she couldn't see.  A startled bird with three wings darted with a squawk from a tree overhead.

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  • Her soft, forlorn words sounded like a farewell.  "This is killing me," he muttered.  He strode to her, wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her.  She yielded more easily in the dream than she ever had in real life.  Her soft, warm lips welcomed him hungrily, and he lost himself in her sweet musk, warm skin and honeyed taste.  He didn't want to leave; he wanted to spend the rest of his life making love to her on the beach.  He wanted to feel his skin pressed against hers and for her to run her fingers through his hair before scraping her nails down his back.  He wanted to take her every way he could imagine, until they lay spent and panting on the beach, until nothing but their entwined bodies and souls remained of their world.

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  • Besides, there was nothing she could do at this point – nothing but pray.

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  • As the chief of the spies in this hemisphere, she'd been in a lot of really bad situations with nothing but her charm and mind control to keep her safe.

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  • Her own death stared at her through golden eyes, and she had cared for nothing but feeling his hot skin against hers, sating the ache of the sacred hollow between her thighs, and cooling the lightning burning in her blood!

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  • His own upbringing did nothing but convince him that Oracles in general were never to be trusted.

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  • This may have been driven by simple political absolutism, in which nothing but the whole goal would suffice.

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  • But I get annoyed by blogs whose comments boxes are nothing but mutual affirmation.

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  • The raw material of pre-existence is not boundless nothing but boundaryless everything.

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  • Years later I wrote myself a starring role in a Footlights sketch as a pirate captain who did nothing but lurch about shouting orders.

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  • Or you may prefer to do nothing but lean back admire the fabulous ornate ceiling!

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  • Below is the code listing where the device is nothing but an 80 byte chunk of memory.

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  • Are you really nothing but a pair of dirty, smelly conmen with the mental capacity of a dried cowpat?

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  • He had nothing but a wide expanse of black ministerial cloth, unrelieved except by an equally monotonous array of white cravats.

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  • Why has man just these species of animals for his neighbors; as if nothing but a mouse could have filled this crevice?

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  • Development Officer Margaret Case who nominated the pair has nothing but praise for their selfless dedication to helping others.

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  • Without it, the ancient and imposing edifice opposes to the shock of revolution nothing but the dead weight of its loose parts.

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  • But any attempt to make things erotic or exciting are impeded by Sharon's ridiculous performance which ultimately arouses nothing but derision.

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  • The obligatory femme fatale is more pretentious than devastating and Mr. Big turns out to be nothing but a total pinhead.

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  • After the last molten flow came nothing but sulfurous fumes from a pressurized underworld.

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  • A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus.

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  • In the final analysis, vital force, reason or anything are nothing but different aspects of the one and same supreme godhead.

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  • The 24 year old wore nothing but a huge diamond necklace and showed off her new black hairdo.

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  • Actually the Club was delighted too because having a major honey pot for M.G. enthusiasts next door could be nothing but good news.

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  • He will be a completely gross, vulgar farmer, totally inattentive to appearances, and thinking of nothing but profit and loss.

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  • Spam, spam, nothing but spam ' Spam ' is the Internet term for unwanted junk e-mail.

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  • At its most extreme consciousness is said, by reductive materialists like Francis Crick, to be nothing but physical brain changes.

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  • The vast majority of commercial Neds are paid, and some do nothing but NED work.

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  • Do you not know that, in moments of such rapture, lovers see and feel nothing but love?

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  • You can't have moral debate when the cornerstone of that debate believes in nothing but his own ineffable rightness.

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  • Emily looked around, trying to find the source of the laughing, and saw nothing but powdery sand, and oases.

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  • She was wearing nothing but a " cutty sark ", a short shirt or chemise made of Paisley linen.

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  • We have no sense organ for perceiving energy itself, our sense organ for perceiving energy itself, our senses tell us of nothing but matter.

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  • We have no sense organ for perceiving energy itself, our senses tell us of nothing but matter.

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  • The prisoners, wearing nothing but cut-off denim shorts and/or cowboy boots work in the quarry, overseen by equally scantily clad armed guards.

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  • The rest of us could rely on nothing but whispered rumor, adding to an already towering myth.

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  • Attila the Mom 23-6-2006 " Cats are nothing but vicious, destructive vermin " .

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  • It was nothing but hot air from liberal windbags.

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  • Then they lost "sci," and had nothing but "ens" ("that schrew, Riches and geir").

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  • According to VelleIus Paterculus and Pliny, he was a hypocrite and cared for nothing but amassing wealth.

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  • Moreover, if a minority involved an abeyance of the royal supremacy in the ecclesiastical sphere, it must do the same in the temporal sphere, and there could be nothing but anarchy.

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  • De la Mettrie worked out a materialistic doctrine of the origin of things, according to which sensation and consciousness are nothing but a development out of matter.

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  • A few of the mouths of the smaller canals are kept open so as to receive a limited supply of water at the rise of the river in May, which then distributes itself over the lower lying lands in the interior, almost without labour on the part of the cultivators, giving birth in such localities to the most abundant crops, but by far the larger portion of the region between the rivers is at present an arid howling wilderness es dotted with tels or ruin-heaps, strewn in the most part with broken pottery, the evidence of former habitation, and bearing nothing but the camel-thorn, the wild caper, the colocynth-apple, wormwood and other weeds of the desert.

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  • She is described as "not one of the handsomest women in the world; she is of a middling stature, swarthy complexion, long neck, wide mouth, bosom not much raised, and in fact has nothing but the English king's great appetite, and her eyes which are black and beautiful, and take great effect."

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  • While Burke and Fox and so many great statesmen proclaimed the consequences of the collision with America, Gibbon saw nothing but colonies in rebellion, and a paternal government justly incensed.

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  • Doubtless in the poems of writers like Martial this deification was nothing but fulsome flattery, but in the case of the provincials it was a sincere tribute to the impersonation of the Roman Empire, as the administrator of good government and the peacemaker of the world.

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  • The kohl or black powder with which the modern, like the ancient, Egyptian ladies paint their languishing eyelids, is nothing but the smeeth of charred frankincense, or other odoriferous resin brought with frankincense, and phials of water, from the well of Zem-zem, by the pilgrims returning from Mecca.

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  • Along with Kai and Bedwyr (Bedivere), Peredur (Perceval), Gwalchmai (Gawain), and many others, we have such figures as Sgilti Yscandroed, whose way through the wood lay along the tops of the trees, and whose tread was so light that no blade of grass bent beneath his weight; Sol, who could stand all day upon one leg; Sugyn the son of Sugnedydd, who was "broad-chested" to such a degree that he could suck up the sea on which were three hundred ships and leave nothing but dry land; Gweyyl, the son of Gwestad, who when he was sad would let one of his lips drop beneath his waist and turn up the other like a cap over his head; and Uchtry Varyf Draws, who spread his red untrimmed beard over the eight-and-forty rafters of Arthur's hall.

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  • Villehardouin does not in the least conceal the fact that the pope ("l'apostoilles de Rome," as he calls him, in the very phrase of the chansons) was very angry with this; for his own part he seems to think of little or nothing but the reparation due to the republic, which had loyally kept its bargain and been defrauded of the price, of the infamy of breaking company on the part of members of a joint association, and perhaps of the unknightliness of not taking up an adventure whenever it presents itself.

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  • Preaching once more was based on the Bible, which was expounded with force and earnestness, and though throughout the century there remained a good' many pulpiteers who produced nothing but solemn fudge, the example and stimulus given by Wesley and Whitefield were almost immeasurably productive.

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  • He appealed to the popular conviction that the proper object of sense is the sole reality, although he despaired of getting men to give up their belief in its externality, and asserted that nothing but prejudice prevented them from doing so; and there is little doubt that, if it had ever occurred to him, as it did to Berkeley, to explain the genesis of the notion of externality, he would have been more hopeful of commending his theory to the popular mind.

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  • At one time a wellknown theatre, it had degenerated into a disreputable haunt where nothing but the lowest melodramas were played.

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  • Psychological idealism assumes without proof that we perceive nothing but mental objects, and metaphysical idealism draws the logical but hypothetical conclusion that all we can know from these mental objects of sense is mental objects of knowledge.

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  • He thought that we perceive nothing but ideas both of primary and of secondary qualities, and yet that somehow we are able to infer that, while our ideas of secondary qualities are not, those of primary qualities are, like the real qualities of external things.

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  • Berkeley saw the inconsistency of this position, and, in asserting that all we perceive and all we know is nothing but ideas in " mind, spirit, soul, or myself," has the merit of having made, as Paulsen remarks, " epistemological idealism the basis of metaphysical idealism."

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  • This first position is psychological idealism in a new form and supported by new reasons; for, if experience derives its matter from mental sensations and its form from mental synthesis of sensations, it can apprehend nothing but mental objects of sense, which, according to Kant, are sensible ideas having no existence outside our thought, not things in themselves; or phenomena, not noumena.

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  • The consequent loosening of the ties between the individual provinces of the Church and the Apostolic See, combined with the capricious policy of the court at Avignon, which often regarded nothing but personal .and family interests, accelerated the decay of the ecclesiastical organism, and justified the most dismal forebodings for the future.

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  • The wolf story again recalls the tales of werewolves so common among Slavonic peoples, and there is much probability in Schafarik's conjecture that the Neuri are nothing but the ancestors of the Sla y s.

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  • The rejection of Mr Birrell's bill in 1906 by the House of Lords was accordingly accompanied by denunciations of that body from Dr Clifford and his followers; but as year by year went by, up to 1909, with nothing but failure on the part of the Liberal ministry to arrive at any solution of the education problem, - failure due now not to the House of Lords but to the inherent difficulties of the subject (see Education),-it became increasingly clear to the public generally that the easy denunciations of the act of 1902, which had played so large a part in the elections of 1906, were not so simple to carry into practice, and that a compromise in which the denominationalists would have their say would have to be the result.

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  • If my reasoning elsewhere in this book is correct, we are moving toward a future where there will be nothing but healthy, well-developed, rich countries with modern infrastructure.

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  • It is nothing but downside for them.

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  • I did nothing but explore with my hands and learn the name of every object that I touched; and the more I handled things and learned their names and uses, the more joyous and confident grew my sense of kinship with the rest of the world.

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  • I have done nothing but select and cut.

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  • The "Iliad" tells of almost nothing but war, and one sometimes wearies of the clash of spears and the din of battle; but the "Odyssey" tells of nobler courage--the courage of a soul sore tried, but steadfast to the end.

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  • Many people have thought that any attempt to find the principles in her method would be nothing but a later theory superimposed on Miss Sullivan's work.

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  • She has talked about nothing but the circus ever since.

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  • For weeks we did nothing but talk and read and tell each other stories about Christmas.

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  • It was nothing but excitement from first to last--drives, luncheons, receptions, and all that they involve when you have an eager, tireless child like Helen on your hands.

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  • We talk and plan and dream about nothing but Boston, Boston, Boston.

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  • One farmer said that it was "good for nothing but to raise cheeping squirrels on."

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  • He gazed into the cellar from all sides and points of view by turns, always lying down to it, as if there was some treasure, which he remembered, concealed between the stones, where there was absolutely nothing but a heap of bricks and ashes.

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  • When I crossed Flint's Pond, after it was covered with snow, though I had often paddled about and skated over it, it was so unexpectedly wide and so strange that I could think of nothing but Baffin's Bay.

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  • He was free, he had nothing but his aim to consider, and he reached it.

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  • Either this look meant nothing but that as long as one has eyes they must look somewhere, or it meant too much.

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  • My father talks of nothing but marches and countermarches, things of which I understand nothing; and the day before yesterday during my daily walk through the village I witnessed a heartrending scene....

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  • Rostov saw nothing but the hussars running all around him, their spurs catching and their sabers clattering.

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  • At that moment he was clearly thinking of nothing but how dashing a fellow he would appear as he passed the commander.

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  • All the same, I love and value nothing but triumph over them all, I value this mystic power and glory that is floating here above me in this mist!

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  • Above him there was now nothing but the sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it.

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  • But even it does not exist, there is nothing but quiet and peace.

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  • She said nothing but looked about uneasily as if in search of something.

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  • Everywhere Bonaparte was anathematized and in Moscow nothing but the coming war was talked of.

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  • She lay on the sofa with her face to the wall, fingering the buttons of the leather cushion and seeing nothing but that cushion, and her confused thoughts were centered on one subject--the irrevocability of death and her own spiritual baseness, which she had not suspected, but which had shown itself during her father's illness.

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  • She said her only consolation was the fact that the princess allowed her to share her sorrow, that all the old misunderstandings should sink into nothing but this great grief; that she felt herself blameless in regard to everyone, and that he, from above, saw her affection and gratitude.

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  • They are like wolves whom nothing but flesh can appease.

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  • The caleche flew over the ground as fast as the horses could draw it, but for a long time Count Rostopchin still heard the insane despairing screams growing fainter in the distance, while his eyes saw nothing but the astonished, frightened, bloodstained face of "the traitor" in the fur-lined coat.

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  • And he vividly pictured to himself Natasha, not as he had done in the past with nothing but her charms which gave him delight, but for the first time picturing to himself her soul.

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  • He well knew that nothing but confusion would come of this battle undertaken against his will, and as far as was in his power held the troops back.

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  • Natasha looked at her with eyes full of tears and in her look there was nothing but love and an entreaty for forgiveness.

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  • I too should wish nothing but to relive it all from the beginning.

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  • He tried to avoid his old acquaintances with their commiseration and offensive offers of assistance; he avoided all distraction and recreation, and even at home did nothing but play cards with his mother, pace silently up and down the room, and smoke one pipe after another.

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  • You ca n't have moral debate when the cornerstone of that debate believes in nothing but his own ineffable rightness.

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  • He does nothing but wander about in a self-reflexive manner that says as much about the movie as it does him.

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  • Sudden splurges of activity after long periods as a couch potato are better than nothing but far from ideal.

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  • To his new colleagues he could offer nothing but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

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  • Tell her to bring nothing but what is strictly necessary, above all no diamonds or trinkets of any value.

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  • These boards have become nothing but turgid rubbish, no wonder people left them and others hardly drop in anymore.

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  • Attila the Mom 23-6-2006 " Cats are nothing but vicious, destructive vermin ".

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  • They are nothing but an excuse to erode our democratic rights and hard won liberties.

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  • We 're going to eat nothing but mutton and drink nothing but the sour, fizzy, local brew made from yak 's milk.

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  • I’m trying a new diet. My breakfast is going to be nothing but fruit for the next month.

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  • Work has been nothing but unmitigated chaos since last week.

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  • Her despicable behavior earned her nothing but some time in jail.

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  • The anxiouschild did nothing but cower in the corner of the noisy classroom.

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  • All Coffee Tables is an online retailer that sells nothing but coffee tables.

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  • This is a great way to shop if you want to watch nothing but infomercials all day long.

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  • Then this website is for you since they offer nothing but opportunities in the entertainment industry.

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  • Of course, if nothing but a very large monitor will do but it's outside of your budget, you can always keep your eyes open for sales.

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  • John Ulzheimer's insightful new book You're Nothing but a Number can be purchased through Amazon.com.

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  • Instead, they multiply and grow stronger as they work their way up the food chain as that creature is devoured by another or the planet and nothing but death is the outcome.

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  • The real back-breaking work is when you need to re-arrange entire rooms with nothing but your own muscles.

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  • While many different retailers offer one or two products that are green, there are also a few that are dedicated to offering nothing but green products for your home.

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  • A cabinet designed to hold nothing but items needed by the household for health reasons, such as apothecary products, were common in most households before bathrooms moved indoors.

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  • Wearing nothing but Laura Mercier products for a couple weeks straight, I put the claim to the test!

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  • Because of this, he has to invent his own devices and work his way into and out of trouble using nothing but his gadgets and his mind.

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  • Spending a quiet moment alone doing nothing but breathing and relaxing your body will lower your heart rate and make it easier to focus and handle challenging situations.

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  • Learn to sit quietly for fifteen minutes a day and do nothing but breath in and out.

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  • However, in the 1980's, when heavy metal was the music of the day, Motley Crew's Girls, Girls, Girls video featured nothing but strippers in birthday suits sliding down dance poles.

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  • When you are trying to get more probiotic foods in your diet, the idea of nothing but yogurt may not be appealing. other foods which contain these helpful bacteria are, for the most part, readily available.

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  • She recommends eating nothing but raw foods until your evening meal, at which you may eat a cooked vegetarian meal.

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  • Another way some people ease into this diet is by eating nothing but fresh fruit for breakfast.

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  • When you consider you'll be choosing the most important dress you'll ever wear, you'll want nothing but the best.

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  • The post, which has since been removed, also talked about how Barker lost his mother at an early age and wants nothing but the best for his children.

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  • Though her part in Boogie Nights wasn't a large one, she made a big impression by appearing on screen in nothing but a pair of roller skates.

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  • You have to believe that Simon would be nothing but brutally honest with him, even if he is Barack Obama.

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  • Paula has come out wishing Ellen the best and saying nothing but nice things about the show.

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  • All joking aside, you can bet Tiger wishes it was five years from now and this whole scandal was nothing but a nightmarish memory.

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  • The perfume photos were done after Aniston appeared on the cover of GQ wearing nothing but a necktie.

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  • These dogs eat nothing but the food being tested for six months.

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  • Since we picked her up, she has done nothing but scratch herself all over.

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  • Hello,It may be nothing but my Shih Tzu/Maltese puppy is acting strangely.

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  • However, if his favorite color is green, you don't have to buy nothing but forest green shirts.

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  • You don't have to conform to uniform rules of dressing and wear nothing but blue, gray and black all the time.

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  • Men's fishing shorts are perfect for any outdoor activity, keeping you comfortable, dry, and cool as you spend hours doing nothing but what you want to do.

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  • In fact, iconic rebels such as James Dean flaunted their rebellion by wearing nothing but their tee-shirts out in the open during the 60s.

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  • It's a way of living that offers nothing but benefits last will last for years to come.

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  • Even if no one but you ever sees your sleepwear, you can rest easy - quite literally - in the fact that you settled for nothing but the best.

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  • Tracking sleep patterns can be beneficial, even if the data shows nothing but improved sleep.

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  • There are enough theme parks in Orlando, Florida to fill an entire vacation with nothing but thrills and excitement.

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  • Cake Mania is nothing but pure fun, plain and simple.

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  • With all the free educational video games to play online, the argument that video games cause nothing but harm to our children really does not hold up.

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  • My old female roommate (who chronically plays nothing but Mario Party games for fear that everything else is too hard) actually picked this one up after watching me play and she loved it.

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  • He bears a striking resemblance to a Greek god, with long flowing blonde hair and wearing nothing but a white thong.

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  • The tasting was completely blind, and we knew nothing but the shape of the bottles.

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  • Steve Jobs and the rest of the Cupertino team at Apple know their stuff when it comes to marketing, so expect nothing but the best for the iPhone's sophomore entry.

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  • The person must take nothing but water and abstain from exercise for 12 hours before the glucose is given.

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  • Some people believe that origami should be "pure," involving nothing but the folds of the paper.

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  • Just two months after giving birth to her second child in 2005, Heidi was strutting her stuff down the runway wearing nothing but a skimpy thong!

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  • Many people are uncomfortable with the idea of a naturist beach; they believe that they will see nothing but supermodel bodies and that they will be sized up and sneered at.

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  • You'll be eating nothing but non-fat yogurt for weeks to come while vehemently avoiding the beaches.

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  • There is even a shopping site called All Wrapped Up that sells nothing but hooded towels.

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  • One picture shows her wearing nothing but a gold thong.

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  • Naturally, the swimsuit editions of Musclemag feature nothing but swimwear while also focusing on the fit women who wear them.

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  • Each year, the magazine features some of the most beautiful women in the world covered in nothing but paint.

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  • Gone are the days where kids were found playing in the sand in nothing but a diaper.

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  • These individuals are not concerned about jokes or cautionary tales; they are proud and having a great time rather than covering up and eating nothing but carrot sticks in the hopes of becoming "acceptable".

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  • Renovere Raincoats carries nothing but stylish raincoats for the woman who prefers colorful outerwear designed to keep her warm and dry.

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  • Swing Skirts sells nothing but flirty little skirts that are perfect for swing dancing.

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  • Nearly every personals site is free to join, so you lose nothing but your time in joining all of them and after a while you can decide which ones give you the most pleasure and stop participating in the others.

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  • That's simply talking about appearances, though, and as an emo person of any gender will tell you is that to simply dress emo makes you nothing but a poser.

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  • As long as you remember that people are more than the color of their skin and that a true romance requires mental and spiritual as well as physical attraction, finding that special someone of whatever race will bring nothing but joy.

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  • While the ring will not be authentic, so long as the spirit behind the proposal and the relationship is genuine, the ring will symbolize nothing but the best intentions of the happy couple.

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  • Meisner reports that the close encounter with the specter has led to nothing but bad luck ever since.

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  • However, eating at fast food restaurants or stocking your freezer with nothing but microwave dinners can get quite expensive.

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  • Additionally, people who are highly sensitive to sunlight will do nothing but burn under the intense focus of UV rays common in solar beds.

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  • These companies do nothing but process rebate applications and other related promotional materials for their clients.

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  • While it may seem like a good idea to do nothing but work, eat, and sleep, you'll eventually tire of this lifestyle and slip back into your old habits.

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  • Trying to live on an overly strict budget is about as effective as trying to lose weight by eating nothing but celery sticks and diet cola.

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  • Invented in 1935 by Paul Sperry, the first boat shoe was molded with nothing but an ordinary sneaker, rubber and a razor blade.

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  • The boots are lined with leather, too - perfect for those who expect nothing but the best from their $2950 boots.

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  • Love To Know Soap Operas would like to thank Ashley Jones for taking the time to chat with us and to wish her nothing but good luck in her future endeavors.

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  • Very fine lines placed close together will blur into each other, making the letters look like nothing but smudges.

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  • So far, it is nothing but speculation and urban legend, however some doctors take the claims seriously and are conducting further research.

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  • So why settle for a watch that does nothing but tell time?

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  • The names and addresses on the seed file may be company employees, individuals, or specialized companies that do nothing but track mailing list usage.

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  • It's not difficult to identify so-called "programs" and "systems" that will do nothing but rob you of your hard earned money if you simply use common sense.

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  • It's no surprise, then, that a necklace made of nothing but Swarovski is a pretty pricey proposition.

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  • Sure, drink nothing but tea made from some obscure Chinese herb for a week and you'll lose plenty of weight.

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  • It follows the principles of eating nothing but foods in the raw, whether juiced or as whole food, for at least 7 days while consuming water to maintain hydration.

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  • To follow this diet successfully, you need to consume nothing but raw vegetables and water.

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  • If nothing but chocolate will do, have a bite or two.

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  • Some children seem to live on nothing but air and love.

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  • Producers make Greek yogurt by straining the whey out of regular yogurt, leaving nothing but the thick, creamy solids.

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  • Eating less salt and fat has nothing but upsides for your health.

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  • In some states, it has corporate-owned storefronts that offer nothing but Titan non-standard coverage.

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  • In six different prints, the men's collection offers nothing but the finest Egyptian cotton-blends and a variety of prints.

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  • This Vancouver based company, run since 1997 by Rita Meir and Diane Lockerby, uses nothing but the natural best when coming up with their elegant and simple designs.

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  • There is only one review of this gown, but the review offers nothing but the highest praise and coupled with a four out of five star rating, enthusiastically endorses the purchasing of this product.

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  • There are some occasions when nothing but extreme fantasy lingerie will do, and many retailers know it and thus make anything and everything available so you can have the maximum enjoyment.

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  • Thongs - Kiniki thongs range from traditional to nothing but a pouch in front and few strings on the sides and back.

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  • A great place to begin shopping online is Simply French Knickers, a British company that makes nothing but French knickers.

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  • Stockin Girl does nothing but sell legwear--from functional to slinky.

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  • The set includes half a dozen songs from the MACHINA/The Machines of God album and feature nothing but Billy and his guitar.

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  • Rhapsody's streaming radio channels are free of ads and DJs, so you can enjoy hearing nothing but music.

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  • For these drinks you would want to have some good quality brands on hand because when there is nothing but ice and booze in the glass the true nature of the alcohol shines through.

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  • This popular child's game requires nothing but a large indoor or outdoor space.

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  • Alexander Dane (Alan Rickman) can't forget he's a classical actor and has nothing but contempt for the fans' worship of his character the alien Dr. Lazarus.

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  • Viewing unauthorized clips usually net you nothing but bad quality.

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  • In fact, since the web was developed as an essential tool that helps people communicate important information to one another, it could be argued that the web is nothing but a giant set of blogging resources for teachers.

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  • The low price is not a reflection of quality, as the product has nothing but five-star reviews from customers.

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  • There is nothing but beautiful scenery to enjoy while enjoying lunch or dinner.

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  • He wore nothing but sweatpants, and his exposed upper back drew her attention.

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  • She breathed in nothing but water and panicked, clawing at the arm wrapped around her.

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  • With nothing but her troubled thoughts, the cold rain, and a lonely room in the bed and breakfast down the road, she didn't feel like leaving just yet.

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  • She saw nothing but death and the darkness in every soul she ran across.

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  • The old man said nothing but shook his hand.

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  • Nothing was stopping her from talking to him – nothing but fear.

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  • There was no sign of the gentle man who made love to her last night, nothing but the cold, stony features of death.

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  • She registered nothing but darkness and cold for a while before the cold began to fade, and the night behind her eyelids lightened.

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  • Following him was Kris, dressed in nothing but judo pants, as if Ully had dragged him straight out of bed.

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  • She.d brought him nothing but pain, and now her family had taken Kris from him.

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  • Jetr said nothing but offered a small bow of his head.

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  • Since meeting you, I've felt you were nothing but a curse.

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  • I remember nothing but blood and death.

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  • He cares for nothing but himself.

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  • You're nothing but a rapist!

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  • The Palenque builders apparently used nothing but stone tools in their work.

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  • In the olive there is great variety of kinds, and the methods of cultivation differ greatly in different districts; in Ban, Chieti and Lecce, for instance, there are regular woods of nothing but olive-trees, while in middle Italy there are olive-orchards with the interspaces occupied by crops of variotis kinds.

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  • It is one of the strongest instances furnished by history of the fascination exercised by an idea that the Italians themselves should have grown to glory in this dependence of their nation upon Caesars who had nothing but a name in common with the Roman Imperator of the past.

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  • It is a problem for empiricism; given a world where nothing but phenomenal sequences exist, to account for moral ideals.

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  • According to this writer, existence is nothing but a becoming, and matter is simply the momentary product of the process of becoming, while force is this process constantly revealing itself in these products.

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  • The interfascicular cambium may form nothing but parenchymatous tissue, producing merely continuations of the primary rays.

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  • His generosity in assisting poor students exhausted a considerable fortune, and at his death he left nothing but his books and clothes.

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  • He wrote nothing but a critical examination of the story of Don Carlos, but he returned to Germany a master of his craft.

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  • In Valencinia there is nothing but a circular opening without furrow.

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  • Until the German occupation nothing but an insignificant village existed at Dar-es-Salaam.

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  • They were, as Milton said, " faithful and freeborn Englishmen and good Christians constrained to forsake their dearest home, their friends, and kindred, whom nothing but the wide ocean and the savage deserts of America could hide and shelter from the fury of the bishops."

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  • Unless you want to look as if you left home in nothing but a shirt, make sure your skirt falls to a comfortable length for you.

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