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Sentences ending with exception

But your brother's work," he added, kindly, "may be the exception. [10]
I don't think the other profession is an exception. [6]
I realize that that is a large exception. [5]
This was the rule in Carson--any other kind of partition was the rare exception. [5]
The newspapers were pleasant with praises once more, the next day, with one contemptible exception. [5]
That which was originally the rule became the exception. [5]
These vast places of worship were built for ages when faith was the rule and questioning the exception. [6]
The courts, and not provost-marshals, are to decide such questions unless when military necessity makes an exception. [7]
We arrived in Liverpool an hour ago very tired, and have halted at this hotel (by the advice of misguided friends)--and if my instinct and experience are worth anything, it is the very worst hotel on earth, without any exception. [5]
There is at least one distinguished exception. [7]

Short sentences using exception

This was no exception. [9]
Manufacturing England is an exception. [4]

More example sentences with the word exception in them

Indeed, for many years, if there was any exception to the general toleration it was in the social ostracism of those who held and expressed extreme opinions in regard to immediate emancipation, and were stigmatized as abolitionists. [4]
All of them, with the questionable exception of the Springfield tree above referred to, stop, so far as my experience goes, at about twenty-two or twenty-three feet of girth and a hundred and twenty of spread. [6]
She was alone, with the exception of the priest in charge. [10]
Bear Island is, with the exception of the cove into which we had put, as nearly round as an island can be, and perhaps three miles in diameter. [9]
I hope you will remember that, with the exception of your aunt and uncle, you have no better friend than I. [9]
I don't know why marriage should suddenly have become such a mockery and failure in our time, but I know that it is, that ours hasn't been such an exception as I once thought. [9]
From the time when he set out for France in his fifteenth year, with the exception of a short sojourn in Willoughby seven or eight years after, he lived by his wits and by the strong hand. [4]
The two thieves were dressed in the fanciful court costumes of the middle of the sixteenth century, while the Saviour was nude, with the exception of a cloth around the loins. [5]
Ere the moon was high in the heavens, while they were all sleeping, with the exception of Kaschta and Pentaur, the soldier rose softly. [10]
We quitted the train at Oos, and walked the entire remaining distance to Baden-Baden, with the exception of a lift of less than an hour which we got on a passing wagon, the weather being exhaustingly warm. [5]
He was entirely too good-natured to take exception to Ferrol's easy-going admiration of Sophie. [11]
Dr. Hooker attended to this little point for me in Russia, and found no exception to the rule. [1]
The only exception to this is his "Sea Grammar. [4]
The country-side swarmed to the rescue, and the family were saved, with one exception, the master. [5]
I took exception to the introducing of Mr. Cannon as a great financier, as if he were the only great financier present. [5]
If he wants to make himself an exception to the sober people whose cooking will make him long for the maddening bowl, he must bring his poison with him. [4]
But he never thought about her as he had thought of all the young ladies without exception whom he had met in society, nor as he had for a long time, and at one time rapturously, thought about Sonya. [2]
An exception to these in Bavaria is the "Allgerneine Zeitung" of Augsburg, which is old and immensely respectable, and is perhaps, for extent of correspondence and splendidly written editorials on a great variety of topics, excelled by no journal in Europe except the London "Times. [4]
These clients paid their bills, but they were neither large nor influential, as a rule, with the notable exception of the Gaylord Lumber Company, where the matters for trial were not large. [9]
They who repeat the saying that "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country," will find an exception to its truth in the case of Emerson. [6]
The crown of the head, however, offers a curious exception, for at all times it must have been one of the most exposed parts, yet it is thickly clothed with hair. [1]
The others, with the exception of the deaf old dame, had considerately left the room. [10]
And yet, with the exception of my own little speech, which was published in two only of the then five, now four, Whig papers, I do not remember having seen a single speech, or even extract from one, in any single one of those papers. [7]
In fact, with the exception of M. Guizot, no one ever obtained permission of me to publish translations, and I never knew of the existence of them until I read of it in the journals. [6]
My wish is that the department may adopt some proper general rule for such cases, and that Mr. Diller may not be made an exception to it, one way or the other. [7]
You will find that every time, with the single exception of the Nullification question, they sprung from an endeavor to spread this institution. [7]
They are too technical for general readers, but you will make such exception as you require. [6]
The view I take, I believe, is the Common law principle, as to retiring officers and their successors, to which I remember but one exception, which is the case of Sheriff and ministerial officers of that class. [7]
I need not specially mention the other boarders, with the exception of Benjamin Franklin, the landlady's son, who sits near his mother. [6]
Two things he shrewdly noted about that biography; it was placed, out of alphabetical order, fourth in the book, and it was longer than any other with one exception that of Mr. Ridout, the capital lawyer. [9]
Still the mere routinists and unthinking artisans in most callings dislike whatever shakes the dust out of their traditions, and it may be unreasonable to expect that Medicine will always prove an exception to the rule. [6]
The exception, that proves the rule. [10]
Chicago--well, perhaps the Prophet of the Steppes would have made an exception of Chicago, and been cynically delighted to push it on its way of increase, aggregation, and ruin. [4]
He had, he proclaimed, with the exception of Mr. Vane's deplorable accident, never spent a better day in his life. [9]
Besides these cases, pigeons which are sometimes brightly, and almost always conspicuously coloured, and which are notoriously liable to the attacks of birds of prey, offer a serious exception to the rule, for they almost always build open and exposed nests. [1]
That bland, quiet old gentleman, of whom I have spoken as sitting opposite to me, is no exception to the rule. [6]
With the exception of Washington and his mother, no one knew what had happened. [5]
With the exception of this sweet spot, I thought all the little towns and villages we passed wretched- looking in the extreme. [5]
With the exception of these errors, the distinguished guest's statement of the case is substantially correct. [5]
With the exception of the Sidney Dallams and one or two young brokers who occasionally came out over Sunday, her husband had no friends in New York. [9]
With the exception of the monument in Coventry no memorial of the young hero existed. [4]
With the exception of the little Median princess, Charmian had witnessed their birth, and they all loved her dearly. [10]
With the exception of the frog story and the "True Story" most of those included--might be spared. [5]
With the exception of the aunt, beside whom sat only one elderly lady, who with her thin careworn face was rather out of place in this brilliant society, the whole company had settled into three groups. [2]
With the exception of my call at the office of the American Legation, I made but a single visit to any person in Paris. [6]
With the exception of Louisiana, which was absolutely ignorant of American literature and drew its inspiration and assumed its critical point of view almost wholly from the French, the South was English, but mainly English of the time of Walter Scott and George the Third. [4]
Once the memory of it flashed through his brain, but with that exception there was not a moment during these hours which gave him time to think of her. [10]
All the commanders of columns were summoned to the commander in chief's and with the exception of Prince Bagration, who declined to come, were all there at the appointed time. [2]
On the faces of all the Russians and of the French soldiers and officers without exception, he read the same dismay, horror, and conflict that were in his own heart. [2]
With the exception of a wild pond or two, we saw nothing but rocks and stunted firs, for forty-five miles, a monotony unrelieved by one picturesque feature. [4]
With the exception of a conversation club here and there, and a literary club, more or less perfunctory, are they not mostly social clubs for comfort and idle lounging, many of them known, as other workmen are, by their "chips"? [4]
I have repeatedly observed this fact in England; but two gentlemen have lately written to me, saying that they form an exception to the rule. [1]
There is probably not a single exception to this rule in the earth. [5]
Still, almost all my mother's acquaintances, and the younger ones without exception, felt a desire for better political conditions and a constitution for the brave, loyal, reflecting, and well-educated Prussian people. [10]
That report had met with the approbation of all the Whigs, and of all the Democrats also, with the exception of one, and he wanted to go even further than this. [7]
The matter was mentioned to the Emperor, an exception made, and Boris transferred into the regiment of Semenov Guards with the rank of cornet. [2]
Marya Dmitrievna was known to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told good stories about her, while none the less all without exception respected and feared her. [2]
I never published it because I feared my readers might think that I was giving them a typical illustration of American character instead of a rare exception. [5]
If Rachel's saying is true, that "fortune is the measure of intelligence," then poverty is evidence of limited capacity which it too frequently proves to be, notwithstanding a noble exception here and there. [6]
The os coccyx is short, usually including only four vertebrae, all anchylosed together: and these are in a rudimentary condition, for they consist, with the exception of the basal one, of the centrum alone. [1]
But Marion City is an exception. [5]
Indeed, almost every individual among them will feel sure that he or she is an exception to those generalities which apply so well to the rest. [6]
Is there not in this as great an exception to all the hitherto received laws of nature as in the miracle of the loaves and fishes? [3]
In this, and in the fourth month, the cerebral hemispheres are smooth and rounded (with the exception of the sylvian depression), and they project backwards far beyond the cerebellum. [1]
The individual exception in each case did very well as a matter of politeness, but they knew well enough what he meant. [6]
With this exception, if we look to the birds of the world, it appears that their beauty has been much increased since that period, of which their immature plumage gives us a partial record. [1]
That is what I did with Pierre in my first book of fiction, Pierre and His People, but with the exception of Monseigneur Fabre there is no Frenchman in this book who fulfils, or could fulfil, the temperamental place which I have indicated. [11]
He conceived the household, with the exception of the Vicomte, precipitating themselves into his arms. [9]
At my uncle's house that night, with the exception of certain learned and reverend gentlemen, Ann alone was not of gentle birth. [10]
I have less hesitation in unburdening myself of this uncomfortable statement, as on this particular trip I met with more than one exception to the rule. [6]
You have doubtless heard her singing, her harp and lute-playing, but you should know that all the ladies of the Hoogstraten family, with the exception of my mistress, possess a special talent for your art. [10]
In later days he used to say that, with the exception of Cyrus, who had no equal, no man had ever performed so generous a deed as Zopyrus. [10]
Still, it would have been well to make an exception in this one's case, for he was a bitter man, and revengeful. [5]
Since the phrase has gone into the language and was from the very first a popular title, it seems strange that the literary director of the American firm that published the book should take strong exception to it on the ground that it was grandiloquent. [11]
But Herr Pfinzing had done his part, and with the exception of several soldiers in the pay of the city there were few people in sight near the Ortlieb mansion. [10]
His ideal personages had been drawn in such a sketchy way, they presented so many imperfectly harmonized features, that they never became real, with the exception, of course, of the story-teller himself. [6]
This was private ground, and the non-Scotch nationalities, with one exception, discreetly kept still. [5]
There are a great many little creatures,--many small fishes, for instance,--which are literally transparent, with the exception of some of the internal organs. [6]
I did not foresee you, or I would have made an exception. [5]
For more than fifty years after our independence we imported our intellectual food--with the exception of politics, and theology in certain forms--and largely our ethical guidance from England. [4]
To uphold the exhibition of noxious agents in disease, as the rule, instead of admitting them cautiously and reluctantly as the exception, is, as I think, an eddy of opinion in the direction of the barbarism out of which we believe our art is escaping. [6]
I say, without exception, hair and all, he is the whitest man I have ever known. [5]
But there are exception to the rule. [5]
I make an exception to the last assertion, in favour of those who possess a large range of scientific knowledge. [14]
True, with the exception of a few days at Whitsuntide, we had no vacation from Easter until the first of September. [10]
All with one exception declared that he was killed in the battle at St. Heliers. [11]
There is no exception among them to this condition of barbarism. [4]
They are also engaged in the most exciting and adventurous sport--with the exception of aerial warfare ever devised or developed--that of hunting down in all weathers over the wide spaces of the Atlantic those modern sea monsters that prey upon the Allied shipping. [9]
I suppose that doctors, almost without exception, give more of their time and skill in the way of charity than almost any other profession. [4]
The tales and descriptions of that time without exception speak only of the self-sacrifice, patriotic devotion, despair, grief, and the heroism of the Russians. [2]
And he was curious to know whether, amongst American young ladies, Miss Leffingwell was the exception or the rule. [9]
This unshakable, irrefutable consciousness of freedom, uncontrolled by experiment or argument, recognized by all thinkers and felt by everyone without exception, this consciousness without which no conception of man is possible constitutes the other side of the question. [2]
The American Mycetes caraya perhaps forms an exception, as does the Hylobates agilis, an ape allied to man. [1]
This gorge--along whose bottom pours the swift Neckar --is confined between (or cloven through) a couple of long, steep ridges, a thousand feet high and densely wooded clear to their summits, with the exception of one section which has been shaved and put under cultivation. [5]
It was thought best to keep--me perfectly quiet, and strangers and friends were alike excluded from my nursery, with one exception, that my old grandmother came in now and then. [6]
Proves it by being an exception to it. [5]
October outdoors has been an almost totally disagreeable month, with the exception of some days, or rather parts of days, when we have seen the sun, and experienced a mild atmosphere. [4]
Whether he should be removed I give no opinion, but merely express the wish that the department may act upon some proper general rule, and that Mr. Barret's case may not be made an exception to it. [7]
On the seventh ballot, I think, the signal was given to the Nebraska men to turn to Matteson, which they acted on to a man, with one exception. [7]
The speeches were bad --execrable almost without exception. [5]

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