Sentence examples for rather, but from inspiring English sources

I have but now returned to England, and to my tranquil pen, after spending six interesting, rather, but scarcely restful weeks in America.

One senior producer who likes Rather but finds him truly strange read the statement and called it "a self-parody," as if "he were our leader".

By James Thurber I have but now returned to England, and to my tranquil pen, after spending six interesting, rather, but scarcely restful weeks in America.

Look up "rathe"; it's not a misprint of "rather" but an archaic word meaning "exposed too early, as in a flower that blooms in still-frigid spring".

Or not lucky, rather, but very shrewd.

The rather (but by far not completely) equal distribution of energy expenditures confirms Smil's finding that energy is the universal currency (Sen, On Economic Inequality, 1973) for people's welfare and can be seen as an indicator of the basic needs of households irrespective of household income.

Rather empty but moving.

Rather suspicious, but probably right.

It is rather exciting but also rather harassing.

He remembered him as "rather quiet" but friendly.

"That dog was rather old, but quite loving," he said.