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Example sentences for "except they"

  • For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

  • Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

  • And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not.

  • But always I hold me at this sure ground, that I am never bound in conscience to obey the ordinances of the church, except they be evidently lawful and expedient.

  • It is not enough for warrant of our practice that we do those things which are indifferent or lawful in themselves, except they be also expedient to be done by us according to the Apostle’s rule, 1 Cor.

  • Wherfore it shall suffice to haue set downe so much of their demeanour, and so much as is euen enough to cause them to looke with somewhat more conscience into their dealings, except they be dull and senselesse.

  • Tudfall, and therein is a church, but without anie parishioners, except they be sheepe and conies.

  • But as we vtterlie want the first sort, except they be brought vnto vs: so it happeneth sometime, that the other two are ingendered and seene at home amongst vs.

  • Ilets annexed to the same, as the Calfe of man on the south, the Pile on the west, and finallie S.

  • Ireland can readilie saie whether they be fish or flesh, for although the religious there vsed to eat them as fish, yet elsewhere, some haue beene troubled, for eating of them in times prohibited for heretikes and lollards.

  • The school of Shammai said, “they must not give skins to a tanner, nor articles to a strange laundress; except they can be sufficiently done while it is yet day.

  • They must not fry flesh, onions, and eggs; except they be sufficiently fried while it is yet day.

  • The school of Shammai said, “they must not spread nets for beasts, nor birds, nor fishes, except they be netted while it is yet day.

  • Tudfall, and therein is a church, but without anie parishioners, except they be shéepe and conies.

  • Let the Bishop read this to the Elders, that they may warn the members of the scourge that is coming, except they repent.

  • Wherefore they shall be High Priests who are worthy, and they shall be appointed by the First Presidency of the Melchisedek Priesthood, except they be literal descendants of Aaron, 16.

  • The inhabitants are Portugals which haue commandement from the king to trafike neither with Englishmen nor Frenchmen for victuall or any other thing, except they be forced so to doe.

  • Ech one of these Magistrates aforesaide may both lay euill doers in prison, and deliuer them out againe, except the fact be heinous and of importance: in such a case they can do nothing, except they do meet al together.

  • It is impossible to keep men together in one religious denomination, whether true or false, except they be united by means of visible signs or sacraments.

  • Further, no one thing is made of two, except they be in some way mingled.

  • For this reason, just as it is not given to the unbaptized, so neither should it be given to the adult sinners, except they be restored by Penance.

  • And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

  • And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not.

  • Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

  • And how shall they preach, except they be sent?

  • They are not made very fast but lightly tyed to, or else set in a nocke, that vpon small occasion the arrowes leaue these heads behind them: and they are of small force, except they be very neere when they shoote.

  • For in counsel, it is good to see dangers; and in execution, not to see them, except they be very great.


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