But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of our visitor’s stick?
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— except for the fact
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Macmillan
— used for joining two ideas or statements when the second one is different from the first one, or seems surprising after the first one
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Usage
13 uses of ‘but’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
1002 uses of ‘but’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
256 uses of ‘but’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
400 uses of ‘but’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle