5443 examples of exception in sentences

" "Chopin accorded to me, I may say, honoured me with, a kind of friendship which was an exception in his life.

Both the upper and the lower frame is cast in a single piece, with the exception of the continuations of the upper frame, which support the paddle wheels.

The thickness of the metal of the cylinder is 1-11/16 inch; diameter of the piston rod 8-3/4 inches; total depth of cylinder stuffing box 3 feet; depth of bush in stuffing box 4 inches; the rest of the depth, with the exception of the space for packing, being occupied with a very deep gland, bushed with brass.

They seemed entirely too much at home and too self-conscious to please Van Bibber; but there was one exception.

The one exception was the smallest of them, a very, very little girl, with long auburn hair and black eyes; such a very little girl that every one in the house looked at her first, and then looked at no one else.

She was dressed, with the exception of her shoes.

With the exception of the halfpenny stamp we put on circulars I can think of nothing that has not gone up or, in other words, lost buying power.

Lest you should suppose the book all made up of election addresses I hasten to add that, in the quiet and thoughtful way one expects of the author, the story is a good one, the pictures of a small country town are true to life, and the characters without exception real creatures of flesh and blood.

And here again come allowance and exception for what women can always do when this world-mothering forces an appeal to the strength and authority of man.

With only this last exception the average of the girls and young ladies in the high schools and at this institution of liberal training is substantially higher than that of the boys.

" With the exception of the few who took to whiskey and bad company, all appeared contented, and the better for their sea-holiday.

With the exception of some six words, the sounds Caspar uttered were entirely meaningless.

And it is remarkable that they who saw most of Caspar, and knew him best, were most firmly convinced of his integrity,whilst his traducers were, almost without an exception, men who had never known him intimately.

This arrangement appeared to give him satisfaction; and I fear that it was the most placid period of his painful life; for now, with the exception of the duty he had to perform in the surgery, and which was by no means an onerous one, his whole leisure hours were employed in indulging his passion for reading and translating.

Now and then there is an exception, as was the case with the new-made friend of Teddy.

No sagacious reader of the present book can doubt that this parson, at least, is an exception to the general rule; for he palpably knows more of the world than most men who have made it a special study.

But either people got the Americans wrong or these Holidays were an exception to the general run.

Hence it is true, with hardly an exception, that arbitrary power is abused in proportion as it is desired.

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.

George Gissing was no exception to this rule.

Learned men find no traces of literary, or alphabetical, writing, in the history of the nations, till long after the days of Moses; unless the book of Job may be regarded as an exception.

To this rule, the great Compiler and most of his followers say, that than whom "is an exception.

" or "seems to form an exception;" to which they add, that, "the phrase is, however, avoided by the best modern writers.

This latter assertion Russell conceives to be untrue: the former he adopts; and, calling than whom "an exception to the general rule," says of it, (with no great consistency,) "Here the conjunction than has certainly the force of a preposition, and supplies its place by governing the relative.

EXCEPTION SECOND.

5443 examples of  exception  in sentences