Specimens occur here and there considerably below this limit, in basins specially protected from inwashing detritus, or exceptional in size.

To put it briefly, the plays in which Ibsen gets his whole action within the frame of the picture are as exceptional as those in which Shakespeare does not do so.

There had been a spice of romance about their former relations that made her still regard him as exceptional among mankind.

Damp, cold, over-exertion, bad air, bad light, in fact any condition exceptional to normal healthy existence.

Oh, of course, if I had been a big person, a person with a real mindif I had had anything exceptional about meI would have stepped out.

This task they have always conceived in accordance with their political interests; Islâm has had its religious persecutions but tolerance was very usual, and even official favouring of heresy not quite exceptional with Moslim rulers.

I thought this very exceptional at the time; but years afterwards my Indian guide in the interior of Newfoundland assured me that it was a common habit of killing caribou among the big white wolves with which he was familiar.

Doctors, of course, disagree, and the special cases cited triumphantly by either side are ruled out as exceptional by the other.