Excepting

Examples

• He had no weapon, excepting a poniard at his belt, which served to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It drew together all the known world, excepting only the western Mediterranean, into one drama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have read him all, excepting only the last little sentence, and he wishes me most particular to write again what larks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The pause in the tournament was still uninterrupted, excepting by the voices of the heralds exclaiming--Love of ladies, splintering of lances! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• No one, excepting myseln, can ever know what honour, an' what love, an' respect, I bear to Rachael, or wi' what cause. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to themselves and God. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She then said to her train, Retire, excepting only Elgitha; I would speak with this holy Pilgrim. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Not a soul was told the girl's story, excepting Miss Rachel and me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• With all organic beings, excepting perhaps some of the very lowest, sexual reproduction seems to be essentially similar. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Then who so blest and happy as Mrs John Rokesmith, saving and excepting Mr John Rokesmith! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He can never act by selection, excepting on variations which are first given to him in some slight degree by nature. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The ladies withdrew to the drawing-room; and the gentlemen (excepting Mr. Franklin and Mr. Murthwaite) returned to their wine. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I had taken leave of all my friends, excepting Clerval, who spent the last evening with us. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I have little of importance to say, lady, answered Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert, excepting the confirmed tidings of a truce with Saladin. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He was coming back again at evening, they were all dining together, and he had booked seats for the party, excepting Birkin, at a music-hall. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Was there one of the family, excepting Edmund, who had not in some way or other continually exercised her patience and forbearance? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• All the Jumbos were ruined, excepting No. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We have all been more or less to blame, said he, every one of us, excepting Fanny. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Excepting inequality of fortune, and perhaps a little disparity of age, I can see nothing unsuitable. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Excepting yourself and your brother, I do not know his equal for temper. Jane Austen. Emma.
• A companion grill to this is of the same design, excepting that it is furnished in single heat only and lists at a somewhat lower price. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• However, it has nothing to do with the present subject, excepting that Miss Summerson looked so like it at the moment that it came into my head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The women (excepting Penelope) beguiled the time by talking of Rosanna's suicide. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• These men stirred not, excepting now and then, under the direction of one who seemed their chief, to shift and replace the ready fuel. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• This case would be represented in the diagram, if all the lines proceeding from (A) were removed, excepting that from a1 to a10. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• My behaviour, during the very happy fortnight which I spent with you, did not, I hope, lay me open to reprehension, excepting on one point. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I can't call nothing to mind about her that I know of excepting her name. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• She was certainly one of the best mannered women in England, not excepting even those of the very highest rank. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

Edited by Alison