Meaning of can't but | Babel Free

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [B2]

Examples

“18th c, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope (later lines), Imitation of Horace, 1852, Charles Knight (collator), Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 4, page 188, But here a grievance seems to lie⟳, / All this is mine but till I die⟳; / I can't but think⟳ 'twould sound⟳ more clever, / To me and to my heirs forever.”

“[…] the man of letters can't but love⟳ the place⟳ which has been inhabited by so many of his brethren, […]”

“I'd weave through the throng — scanning for empties to return⟳ while flirting, sniffing out kids smoking grass and sharing smokes with Ivor and Carl on the door. With a name⟳ like⟳ Carl you can imagine⟳ a six-foot tall and wide bouncer, but Ivor...I couldn't but help⟳ to think⟳ of the name⟳ as belonging to a skinny Welshman getting sand kicked into his face⟳. His name⟳ didn't do him justice — this guy was almost as big as Carl and probably faster with his fists.”

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