It was but # 22_SON_03_04 # [It was] but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 
it was but # 43_JOH_02_09 # When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: [but the servants which drew the water knew;] the governor of the feast called the bridegroom,