What he now has to endure is not adversity, but happiness - yes, dear reader, Mouse is not only 55, but married.
Similarly, the salutation "Dear" is not reserved for people who are dear.
"Sir and dear friend – you are not only an arse, but an arse without music".
"dear @NewYorker: this calvin trillin poem isn't only offensive it's also just... bad," tweeted Karissa Chen, the fiction and poetry editor for Hyphen Magazine.
You were not only a dear relative, but a valued friend.
It turned out that Elton never called me back which made me groan because I had been friends with him and I thought, "Oh dear, where do friendships go?" It's not only that I wanted Elton to do something especially with me, I was sad that the friendship that I thought we had was not worth a return call.
For these efts are nothing else but the waterbabies who are stupid and dirty and will not learn their lessons and keep themselves clean … What was somebody to make of this faux-naif twaddle who was not only not a dear little man, but a girl tall for her age, who had never seen an eft, a vivarium or a stickleback?
The dyspeptically rightwing Evelyn Waugh was not only his favourite novelist but one of his dearest friends.
Leo was not only our partner, he was our sage mentor, and our dear friend.
Her prayers were not only ideological, they were practical, indeed instrumental: "Please help me dear God to be a good writer and to get something else accepted".
