Sentence examples for but rather a lowly from inspiring English sources

The feminist credentials of Suffragette are not difficult to ascertain – Mulligan doesn't play one of the Pankhursts, but rather a lowly footsoldier called Maud – but it is in Madding Crowd that Mulligan shows her cards.

Exactly how a royal jelly diet stimulates the formation of a large, fertile queen rather than a lowly worker bee has remained elusive.

But hark, a lowly toad-like healer from a far-off land ministering with unorthodox spells has been discovered by his princess in a Harley Street basement.

But a lowly and yet mysterious carrier pigeon may have them baffled.

"I said, 'I don't know who you think I am ­ but I'm a lowly assistant professor at a far-away university,'" McFaul recalls.

Although he was not the CIA spymaster that Korshakov took him for, nowadays McFaul is anything but a "lowly" figure ­ as his colleagues attest.

Personally, I have never been a big fan of Garmin interfaces; who am I though but a lowly gadget blogger.

Turns out J.R. Paterakis is anything but a lowly doughboy.

I said that I would like to adopt his ideas at Ford, but I was a "lowly" grade eight analyst.

I was but a lowly enlisted man and last I checked, officers are to be held to a higher standard.

The truth was, he looked on it as a rather lowly job and couldn't understand what a thrill it was for a small child.