Exceptions

Examples

• His services, with rare exceptions, grow less valuable as he advances in age and nervous strain breaks him down. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• All the apes had hair upon theirs but the black men were entirely hairless, with very few exceptions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• With some exceptions, presently to be given, I fully admit that this is the rule. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Or must we admit exceptions? Plato. The Republic.
• The exceptions occurring among Brahmins or Mahometans or the ancient Persians, are of that sort which may be said to prove the rule. Plato. The Republic.
• She forbears to judge them as a whole, but she has her exceptions whom she admires--Louis and Mr. Hall, and, of late, yourself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In a rough way and with many exceptions, democracy compels law to approximate human need. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• True, holy father, said the knight; but the devil is apt to keep an eye on such exceptions; he goes about, thou knowest, like a roaring lion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Yet some striking exceptions there are among us, from the fact that the negro is naturally more impressible to religious sentiment than the white. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In every case there is the rule and there are the exceptions. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The austere system of morality has, accordingly, been adopted by those sects almost constantly, or with very few exceptions; for there have been some. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• One of the exceptions proving the rule may perhaps be met in Edison, though all depends on the point of view. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And even to this are there not exceptions? Plato. The Republic.
• There are a few exceptions, but they are such as can give no interruption to any important branch of inland commerce of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Characters there may be more than human, who are exceptions--God may save a man, but not his own strength. Plato. The Republic.
• These exceptions I loved: they grew dear as friends. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• All things outside his own tribe were his deadly enemies, with the few exceptions of which Tantor, the elephant, was a marked example. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This constancy, however, is not so perfect as not to admit of very considerable exceptions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I make no exceptions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Yet he made exceptions to his own rule. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The exceptions consisted of a few high-born females, who, panic-struck, and tamed by sorrow, had joined him. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I am one of the exceptions, and _being_ one, must do something for myself. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The exceptions mentioned prove the rule. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mrs. and Misses Sykes, far from being exceptions to this observation, were pointed illustrations of its truth. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The exceptions are few, and most of them can be explained. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They must generally, too, though there are some exceptions to this, belong to resident members of the society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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