(_b_) Copulative, after _not only_.
Then arose not only tears, _but_ piercing cries, on all sides.
--CARLYLE.
(2) _Subordinate conjunction_: (_a_) Result, equivalent to _that_ ...
_not_.
Nor is Nature so hard _but_ she gives me this joy several times.--EMERSON.
(_b_) Substantive, meaning _otherwise_ ... _than_.
Who knows _but_, like the dog, it will at length be no longer traceable to its wild original--Th.o.r.eAU.
(3) _Preposition_, meaning _except_.
Now there was nothing to be seen _but_ fires in every direction.--LAMB.
(4) _Relative p.r.o.noun_, after a negative, stands for _that_ ... _not_, or _who_ ... _not_.
There is not a man in them _but_ is impelled withal, at all moments, towards order.--CARLYLE.
(5) _Adverb_, meaning _only_.
The whole twenty years had been to him _but_ as one night.--IRVING.
To lead _but_ one measure.--SCOTT.
AS.
332. (1) _Subordinate conjunction_: (_a_) Of time.
Rip beheld a precise counterpart of himself _as_ he went up the mountain.--IRVING.
(_b_) Of manner.
_As_ orphans yearn on to their mothers, He yearned to our patriot bands.--MRS BROWNING.
(_c_) Of degree.
His wan eyes Gaze on the empty scene _as_ vacantly _As_ ocean"s moon looks on the moon in heaven.
--Sh.e.l.lEY.
(_d_) Of reason.
I shall see but little of it, _as_ I could neither bear walking nor riding in a carriage.--FRANKLIN.
(_e_) Introducing an appositive word.
Reverenced _as_ one of the patriarchs of the village.--IRVING.
Doing duty _as_ a guard.--HAWTHORNE.
(2) _Relative p.r.o.noun_, after _such_, sometimes _same_.
And was there such a resemblance _as_ the crowd had testified?--HAWTHORNE.
LIKE.
[Sidenote: _Modifier of a noun or p.r.o.noun._]
333. (1) _An adjective._
The aforesaid general had been exceedingly _like_ the majestic image.--HAWTHORNE.
They look, indeed, _liker_ a lion"s mane than a Christian man"s locks.-SCOTT.
No Emperor, this, _like_ him awhile ago.--ALDRICH.
There is no statue _like_ this living man.--EMERSON.
That face, _like_ summer ocean"s.--HALLECK.
In each case, _like_ clearly modifies a noun or p.r.o.noun, and is followed by a dative-objective.
[Sidenote: _Introduces a clause, but its verb is omitted._]
(2) _A subordinate conjunction_ of manner. This follows a verb or a verbal, but the verb of the clause introduced by _like_ is _regularly omitted_. Note the difference between these two uses. In Old English _gelic_ (like) was followed by the dative, and was clearly an adjective. In this second use, _like_ introduces a shortened clause modifying a verb or a verbal, as shown in the following sentences:--
Goodman Brown came into the street of Salem village, staring _like_ a bewildered man.--HAWTHORNE.
Give Ruskin s.p.a.ce enough, and he grows frantic and beats the air _like_ Carlyle.--HIGGINSON.
They conducted themselves much _like_ the crew of a man-of-war.
--PARKMAN.
[The sound] rang in his ears _like_ the iron hoofs of the steeds of Time.--LONGFELLOW.
Stirring it vigorously, _like_ a cook beating eggs.--ALDRICH.
If the verb is expressed, _like_ drops out, and _as_ or _as if_ takes its place.
The st.u.r.dy English moralist may talk of a Scotch supper _as_ he pleases.--Ca.s.s.
Mankind for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, just _as_ they do in Abyssinia to this day.--LAMB.