She was certainly the handsomest woman in the room with the exception of the actual Queen Alexandra, who was always the most beautiful and distinguished wherever she was.

" I mentioned, as an exception to his theory, the codfish, which is esteemed a very savoury dish by my countrymen, but which no one ever regarded as very fragrant.

This is according to all past history: and do not, therefore, count upon an exception in your favour, that would be little short of the miraculous.

Is man the sole exception from her laws?

" "It is a thousand pities that Mr. Clay, in his compromise, neglected to make an exception against that article.

Nor could M. de Chauxville take exception at young Cyril Squyrt, the poet.

They have made an exception for the Prophet, as male offspring, the only blessing of marriage appreciated by Arabs, was withheld from him.

Unless she be a hunchback, an unmarried royal princess is almost as great an exception as a white raven or a cat without a tail; a primadonna without a husband alive, dead, or divorced, is hardly more common; and poor girls marry to live.

Sith my demaund so far surmounts your art, Ye ioyne exceptions on the other part.

For that, indeed, is actually for the most part the casethough not of course without exceptions among certain sections of the population.

He considered that the ways of the Gods are not as our ways, and that it is rather the rule than the exception with them to accomplish their designs in the most circuitous manner, and by the most unlikely instruments.

Impartiality, however, does not seem to be regarded as a duty in itself, but rather as instrumental to some other duty; for it is admitted that favour and preference are not always censurable, and indeed the cases in which they are condemned are rather the exception than the rule.

With a few exceptions like the Hale-heal group above under Verbal Families, most verbal families of straight English or of Germanic- Scandinavian-English descent are easily recognizable as families.

Its habitat (with the exceptions above noted) is in freshwaterusually in ditches or slowly running streams.

It may be mentioned, perhaps, that the corn laws had, in fact, been treated as a necessary exception by many of the leading exponents of the principles of free trade.

Norbanus the consul had always been devoted to the trumpet, and as he had practiced assiduously in this pursuit he wished on this occasion also to play the instrument just about dawn, when many persons were already near his house This proceeding threw them all without exception into confusion, just as if the consul had imparted to them some warlike signal; and they were also disturbed by the falling of the statue of Janus.

With her keen sense of the ridiculous and her knowledge of character, Ninon went over the play with Molière to such good purpose that the edict of suppression was withdrawn, the opponents of the comedy finding themselves in a position where they could no longer take exceptions without confessing the truth of the inuendoes.

Christianity is no exception amid the general order of nature.

Who could know, after all, that there were no exceptions amongst slaves?

She Stoops to Conquer (1773), by Oliver Goldsmith, and The Rivals (1775) and The School for Scandal (1777), by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, are the chief exceptions before 1890.

What had been the exception during the sixteenth century became the rule two centuries later.

"Holman suggested that the word of the wizard men might not be infallible, and lest we have some one who ran the gauntlet under false colours we had better move on so as to keep the exception out of danger.

The science of embryology shows that this rule holds good without exception throughout the whole range of the animal world, including man; and botany shows the same principle at work throughout the vegetable world.

Under this view of my duty I directed the issuing of the order which will be laid before you by the Secretary of the Treasury, requiring payment for the public lands sold to be made in specie, with an exception until the 15th of the present month in favor of actual settlers.

" Avec qui le campagnard s'entretenait-il?À quel sujet a-t-il témoigné de l'inquiétude?Comment les taupes sont-elles nuisibles?Les citadins sont-ils généralement très ferrés sur les choses de la campagne?Celui dont il est question faisait-il exception à la règle générale? 150.