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Short "hint"

Except or apart from. Used to connect two statements or phrases when the second one adds something different or seems surprising after the first one.

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  • ‘They’re but at long bowls yet, ’ cried Kennedy, in great exultation, ‘but they will be closer by and by.
  • I shall never laugh but in that maid’s company; —but, indeed, she is given too much to allicholy and musing.
  • We shall live again, Werther, ” she continued, with a firm but feeling voice; “but shall we know one another again?
  • “Not in the least,” replied Miriam, smiling, but deeply blushing; “it is our mother country, and I have always been taught to love it, but¾”
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  • The group on the "butte" (small steep mountain with a flat top) made him the "butt" (laughing stock) of their jokes, "but" (except that) he did not laugh.
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