2. At the first stroke of the pickax it is ten to one but what you are taken up for a trespass.—Bulwer.
3. There are few persons of distinction but what can hold conversation in both languages.—Swift.
4. Who knows but what there might be English among those sun-browned half-naked masses of panting wretches?—Kingsley.
5. No little wound of the kind ever came to him but what he disclosed it at once.—Trollope.
6. They are not so distant from the camp of Saladin but what they might be in a moment surprised.—Scott.
PREPOSITIONS.
458. As to the placing of a preposition after its object in certain cases, see Sec. 305.
Between and among.
459. In the primary meaning of between and among there is a sharp distinction, as already seen in Sec. 313; but in Modern English the difference is not so marked.