absolutely needed;" but in the following sentences _what_ usurps the
place of a conjunction.

Exercise.

In the following sentences, substitute _that_, _but_, or _but that_
for the words _but what_:--

1. The doctor used to say 'twas her young heart, and I don't know
_but what_ he was right.--S.O. JEWETT.

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.

[Sidenote: 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.

Between is used most often with two things only, but still it is
frequently used in speaking of several objects, some relation or
connection between two at a time being implied.

Among is used in the same way as _amid_ (though not with exactly the
same meaning), several objects being spoken of in the aggregate, no
separation or division by twos being implied.

Examples of the distinctive use of the two words:--

[Sidenote: _Two things._]

The contentions that arise _between_ the parson and the
squire.--ADDISON.

We reckoned the improvements of the art of war _among_ the
triumphs of science.--EMERSON.

Examples of the looser use of _between_:--

[Sidenote: _A number of things._]

Natural objects affect us by the laws of that connection which
Providence has established _between_ certain motions of
bodies.--BURKE.

Hence the differences _between_ men in natural endowment are
insignificant in comparison with their common wealth.--EMERSON.

They maintain a good correspondence _between_ those wealthy
societies of men that are divided from one another by seas and
oceans.--ADDISON.

Looking up at its deep-pointed porches and the dark pl