142 adjectives to describe exceptions

With very rare exceptions the lawns are not well keptone never sees in this country the smooth green turf that one does in England.

With this notable exception, only a few anecdotes, handed down by tradition, escaped oblivion.

Falconer's "Shipwreck" is a clever nautical tract, written in verse,or if it be anything more, it is but the solitary exception which proves and enforces the rule.

With the sole exception of the smoke-hole, the whole thing was so covered with earth, and capped with snow, that, expecting a mere cave, one was surprised at the wood-lining within.

There is an apparent exception to this law in the fact, that, in the British army, the ratio of those who were invalided was 181 in 10,000, but diminished, in the second, third, and fourth years, to 129 in the fifth and sixth, then again rose, through all the succeeding years, to 411 in the twentieth.

The specialists have advanced surgery immensely, but, with many honorable exceptions, they have laid too much stress on their several specialties, making too wide a range of ailments fall within them.

Animals had no votes, although he admitted a partial exception, in that every bull, it had its ballot.

The rest of the characters, with very slight exceptions, remained.

From the commencement of 1851, with but little exception, she was confined to the house, and for a little while to her bed, until the 8th of the Fifth Month, when her sweet and purified spirit ascended to her Saviour, and commenced an eternity of bliss.

THOUGH THE HOOF IN THE HOG is, as a general rule, cloven, there are several remarkable exceptions, as in the species native to Norway, Illyria, Sardinia, and formerly to the Berkshire variety of the British domesticated pig, in which the hoof is entire and uncleft.

We may hear of occasional exceptions to this condition of things, but if these occasional exceptions chance to arise, it is inevitably certain that the owner in the long run will suffer to a greater degree than the player with whom he deals unfairly.

There is no rule," he continued, "that can be laid down on this subject, to which some nations cannot be found to furnish a striking exception.

This species forms a marked exception, creeping lowly, in compliance with the most rigorous demands of climate, yet enduring bravely to a more advanced age than many of its lofty relatives in the sun-lands below.

General Wilson completed the work which the father had begun; and Lord Lumley formed a singular exception to the character of most of his companions.

With a few brilliant exceptions they would collapse too.

The former appeals to irrational prejudice; the latter ignores what we shall presently find to be a fundamental principle of the playwright's artnamely, that, with certain doubtful exceptions in the case of historical themes, he must never assume previous knowledge either of plot or character on the part of his public, but must always have in his mind's eye a first-night audience, which knows nothing but what he chooses to tell it.

At the same time, Ihere are numerous exceptions.

The common name for it is Chiâo, "the Doctrines held by the Learned Class," entrance into the circle of which is, with a few insignificant exceptions, open to all the people.

The characters are well developed, and, with an unimportant exception, there is nothing introduced into the book that is not necessary to the completion of the story.

some Celtic words might be expected, but very few occur; there is, however, one very curious exception to this rule, and for which, I confess, I am unable to account, (though perhaps your correspondent, Rupert C. in No. 342, might,) it is thisthat in Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, or Cant Language, if the words which are evidently figurative be thrown out, nearly the whole of what remain are pure Irish.

They were all of Gloria's "set" with one noteworthy exception.

The last house we called at was in this square, and it was a pleasing exception to the general dirt of the neighbourhood.

The houses of the aristocrats sent us no demonstration of feeling one way or the other, with a single startling and highly dramatic exception.

It is generally supposed, that great grief makes the heart so selfishly absorbed in its own sufferings, as to render it regardless of the sufferings of others; but the conduct of her, who is the heroine of the following tale, will prove to this general rule an honourable exception.

Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection, and who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an extraordinary exception: "There are also angels who do not live consociated, but separate, house and house; these dwell in the midst of heaven, because they are the best of angels.

142 adjectives to describe  exceptions