It depends upon a specific contagion;occurs most frequently during childhood and adolescence, though no age is exempt from it;and affects the system but once; a peculiarity to which an exception is very rare, proved by the few instances of the kind which have been recorded.

" "I think, Tommy," I said, "that we must make an exception in the case of Mr. Latimer.

If the Emperors made an exception to their tolerant policy in the case of Christianity, their purpose was to safeguard tolerance.

[Footnote 2: An exception was made in favour of commodities from the Levant seas, the West Indies, and the ports of Spain and Portugal, which might be imported from the usual places of trading, though they were not the growth of the said places.

The only case that offers an exception to this rule arises when it is necessary to make a remark that is in some way improper.

The timber is universally bad and small; a few misshapen gum trees on the immediate banks of the river may be considered an exception.

The exceptionally cold spell of 1894-95 may be quoted as quite an exception to the general rule, and the heavy loss to growing fruits was as great a surprise as it was a loss.

"2. Never suffer an exception to occur until the new habit is securely rooted.

As it is, there is no man now living who at the same time writes prose and verse so well, with the exception of Mr. Southey (an exception, we fear, that will be little palatable to either of these gentlemen).

Nor do his octave stanzas in praise of rural life form an exception to this statement; for these are imitated from Poliziano, so far as they attempt pictures of the country, and their chief poetical feature is the masque of vices belonging to human nature in the city.

True, we have the highest sanction for the maxim that no man can serve two mastersbut if "corporations have no souls," analogy would absolve Congress on that score, or at most give it only a very small soulnot large enough to be at all in the way, as an exception to the universal rule laid down to the maxim!

" "I have seen at least fifteen droves of 'human cattle,' passing by us on their way to the south; and I do not recollect an exception, where there were not more or less of them chained together.

So are, and constantly have been, with scarcely an exception, all the members of both Houses of Congress from the slaveholding States; and so are, in immensely disproportionate numbers, the commanding officers of the army and navy; the officers of the customs; the registers and receivers of the land offices, and the post-masters throughout the slaveholding States.

True, we have the highest sanction for the maxim that no man can serve two mastersbut if "corporations have no souls," analogy would absolve Congress on that score, or at most give it only a very small soulnot large enough to be at all in the way, as an exception to the universal rule laid down to the maxim!

To maintain my position, that the Constitution is anti-slavery in its general character, and that constitutional slavery is, at the most, but an exception to that general character, it was not necessary to take either of these grounds; though, had I been disposed to take even the higher of them, I should not have lacked the countenance of the most weighty authorities.

Almost without an exception they had struck out roots, and never ceasing, day or night, to grow, they were already mostly of the height of a man.

Of these forty-six words, seven are always singular, if the word one is not an exception; namely, each, either, every, neither, one, that, this: and nine or ten others are always plural, if the word many is not an exception; namely, both, divers, few, fewer, fewest, many, several, sundry, these, those.

That to Oldham may be an exception; but, even there, he rather strives to do honour to the talents of his departed friend, than to pour out lamentations for his loss.

Every one augurs favorably for himself, and vainly imagines that he shall be an exception.

Yes; with the exception (if it be an exception) implied in the answer to the next question.

I consider, therefore, that an exception must be made to the rule of using "An" before words beginning with a vowel in cases where the words are pronounced as if beginning with a consonant, as "one," "use," and its derivatives, "ubiquity," "unanimity," and some others which will no doubt occur to your readers.

And the first official report declares that it would not be difficult to assign a motive for the insurrectionists, "if it had not been distinctly proved, that, with scarcely an exception, they had no individual hardship to complain of, and were among the most humanely treated negroes in the city.

"I know you have ever avoided shows and triumphs," he said; "but I wish I could induce you to make an exception in favour of this tilting-match, and consent to be present at it.

Marsh was an exception to the prevailing American rule, which for the most part changes their diplomatists with the change of President.

The minister peremptorily refused to make her an exception to his ordinary practice.