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Updated: June 29, 2025
I should if ah, those "ifs," those "becauses," and those "buts"! My mind became full of them, they bristled with illnesses and accidents, and I began to weep. My poor little travelling companion began to weep too. Finally we came within sight of Homburg. Twenty more minutes of this turning of wheels and we should enter the station.
A very threadbare lesson, but needing to be often repeated. 'But the Lord was with Joseph. That is one of the eloquent 'buts' of Scripture. The prison is light when God is there, and chains do not chafe if He wraps His love round them. Many a prisoner for God since Joseph's time has had his experience repeated, and received tenderer tokens from Him in a dungeon than ever before.
In fact, there were so many buts and ifs, that, possessed by one of those mad temptations for which there is no word in any language, not even in that of the orgy, he had set out in pursuit of this woman, hunting her down like a hardened Parisian.
"If war must come, I at least wish all renown to yourself. But " "Oh! spare me your 'buts'; the English are always too full of them where her own interests do not appeal to her. She had no 'buts' for war in India or a march into Abyssinia." Alain spoke petulantly; at that moment the French were very much irritated by the monitory tone of the English journals.
"But me no buts, my dear; laugh away just as you like, you will find that the best way to get over me. I really think, though, that you put your services at too cheap a rate." "That makes me laugh again, as it is for you to increase my wages if you like." "I shall take care that it is done."
The shoulders have known no ignobler burden than iron mail, and they will not stoop." "Give me, then, the bag. I will learn the spirit that goeth with burdens that have not honor. It is the spirit that stoopeth the shoulders, I ween, and not the weight; for armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.... Nay, but me no buts, offer me no objections.
"Oh, yes; always /buts/!" "But that there are so many claimants at present whom it is impossible to satisfy; and and but I feel I ought not to go on." "Proceed, sir, I beg." "Yourself!" put in Templeton, drily. "Your relation seems, for the first time, to have discovered how dear your interests are to him."
As they settled themselves for the evening, each quietly and alone after his or her particular fashion of comfort, the "ifs" and "buts" were still buzzing riotously; while the primroses, although forgotten, clung persistently to the frills or coat lapels where the Youngest and Prettiest Trustee had put them.
Do you mean you are going to accept it?" "In a way yes." "In a way? What do you mean by that? I tell you frankly, Paine, if you go to work for me there must be no 'ifs' or 'buts' about it. You'll enter my office and you'll do as I, or the men under me, tell you to do." I was glad he said that, glad that he misunderstood me.
I don't hate Marse Desmit, but I does hate slavery dat what made me his worse'n a pilot hates a rattlesnake; an' I hate everyting dat 'minds me on't, I do!" The black Samson had risen in his excitement and now sat down upon the bench by the other. "I don't blame you for dat, Nimbus, but " "I don't want to heah no 'buts' 'bout it, an' I won't." "But the chillen, Nimbus.
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