not
/nɑt/ conjunction C2- And not. · I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.· He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
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The news of the arrival of the Pharaon had not yet reached the old man, who, mounted on a chair, was amusing himself by training with trembling hand the nasturtiums and sprays of clematis that clambered over the trellis at his window.
“No, no, my dear Edmond—my boy—my son!—no; but I did not expect you; and joy, the surprise of seeing you so suddenly—Ah, I feel as if I were going to die.”
Spencer what made them red and she said she didn’t know and for pity’s sake not to ask her any more questions.
“How could that bring me into trouble, sir?” asked Dantès; “for I did not even know of what I was the bearer; and the emperor merely made such inquiries as he would of the first comer.
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