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none but

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of none but in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of none but in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of none but in a Sentence

  1. William Shakespeare:

    Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

  2. Alexander Pope:

    The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.

  3. Edith Hamilton:

    None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  4. Francis Quarles:

    If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

  5. John Adams:

    I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule under This Roof!

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    in or of the month preceding the present one
    A ravening
    B arbitrary
    C appellative
    D ultimo

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