Who, excepting the philosophers of Arabia, that had seen the new luminary shine for a few days and expire, but would have disputed the necessity or questioned the design of such a phenomenon?
According to the laws of Romulus and Numa, a husband's authority over his wife was equal to that of a father over his children, excepting only that he could not sell her.
These boats are rowed by four women, and steered by a fifth, without any assistance from the men, excepting in cases of emergency.
There is no mention of such works, it is true, excepting in this one passage of MS.
Excepting for the record of money transactions only very exceptional circumstances would have prompted him to make any written observations on the persons with whom he was in daily intercourse, among whom, of course, were his pupils.
And you must know that the pupil transmits nothing perfectly to the intellect or common sense excepting when the objects presented to it by means of light, reach it by the line a b; as, for instance, by the line b c.
Because nothing is seen of objects excepting their surface; and their edges are lines, in contradistinction to the definition of a surface.
But this invention is of no worth excepting on the smooth and motionless surface of lakes.
Excepting the addition of a few insignificant walls, the state of this interesting part of the church still conforms to Leonardo's sketch; but in the Vestibolo the two columns near the entrance of the winding stairs are absent.
It has the shape of a great horse, excepting that the great length of its neck and of its ears make a difference.
But such an invention does not succeed excepting on a ship like the one on which the experiment was made, and it must be of the same burden and have the same sails, and the sails in the same places, and the size of the waves must be the same.
The texts reproduced on these Plates have however no connection with the sketches, excepting the sketches of clouds on the right hand side.
Every knight in the hall was infected with the same feeling, not excepting old white-headed Duke Namo and Charlemagne himself.
Melissa then summoned by her art a huge palfrey, black as jet, excepting one foot, which was bay.
During all Easter week the peasant has a right to embrace whomsoever he pleases, not even excepting the emperor and the empress.
No one who has been in the Caucasus can be ignorant of the fact that all the families, not excepting even those of high rank, esteem it a great honour to have their children placed out in Turkey.
The sloth and insolence of these priests passes all comparison; excepting their religious ceremonies, in which they chant some prayers and play on their instruments, they do absolutely nothing but eat, drink, and sleep.
Who had visited the place excepting those from whom she and Stormont had fled, did not appear.
Excepting the blow and the kick, this was just what the Otaheitan wanted.
I think that a good many of the beasts are actually in better form than when they started, and that there is no need to be alarmed about the remainder, always excepting the weak ones which we have always regarded with doubt.
To those districts which bordered on the barbarians, (and excepting the third, this was the case with them all,) he gave permission to keep armed forces on their frontiers.
They, excepting the Pentrians, revolt to Hannibal, xxii.
Lycia was given to the Rhodians, excepting the same Telmissus, and the fort of Telmissium, with the lands which had belonged to Ptolemy of Telmissus; these were withheld both from Eumenes and the Rhodians.
Lycia and Caria were assigned to them as far as the river Maeander, excepting Telmessus.
A charge was then given to demolish all the places where the Bacchanalians had held their meetings; first, in Rome, and then throughout all Italy; excepting those wherein should be found some ancient altar, or consecrated statue.
Their orders were to let nobody pass excepting the sick provided with hospital cards and the few persons to whom special authorisations had been granted.
Early the next morning he sent off all the men he had to Lake Winnipeck, excepting one Frenchman, to bring up some things which he had left there in the fall.
Whiting writes, from Detroit: "There is nothing new in the political world, excepting that Michigan has no governor yet, and that the council has authorized a convention to form a State Government next April.
These kept the enemy minutely informed of all movements of the revolutionists, and were, at the same time, the most cruel of America's foes, not excepting the Mohawks.
The only other shoes in the room, excepting those worn by the Americans and some few of the native men, were the proud possession of a tiny girl eight years old.
These southern waters were bluer than any we had seen on the trip, excepting over coral reefs, where the blue changed suddenly to a glittering iridescent green, sparkling and treacherous.
Excepting the Bouncers, who burst out laughing, such a blank now fell on the company, that they might all have been going the way of the Professor, and hailing as he did from the direction of the grave.
The women (excepting Penelope) beguiled the time by talking of Rosanna's suicide.
We discussed family affairs and future plans--always excepting that one future plan which was to end in her marriage.
But, somehow, she failed to make friends among the other women servants, excepting my daughter Penelope, who was always kind to Rosanna, though never intimate with her.
Not a soul was told the girl's story, excepting Miss Rachel and me.
He told me that, during the long years they passed together in the same solitude, they never perceived the isolation from the world in which they lived, excepting when they were absent from each other.
You shall not have them, excepting on that condition, count.
It was evident that her feet, so small that both of them could have been placed in the foot-mark of most women, had never walkedexcepting on carpeted saloons or on the flowery turf of a park.
Lyon went into the battle in civilian's dress, excepting only a military coat.
All inclosures, excepting money, and sometimes including it, were stolen with uniform consistency.
On the twenty-seventh, the whole army, excepting a garrison of five regiments, was ordered forward, General Sullivan leading the column.
Excepting the dreaded recrossing of the mud, I hardly remember how we made our way back; but by one means and another I finally reached Charleston at nine o'clock, about as disreputable-looking a medical man as ever was seen.
Perhaps it would be true to say that, excepting Washington, Jefferson, and Richard Henry Lee, no Virginian of eminence was absent from it.
However numerous may be the testimonies in our favour, she cannot pronounce excepting on the works, or at least, the materials left by the workman.
All correspondence and reading is forbidden, save for the Bible and Prayer book placed at the head of the wooden plank, which serves him for a bed; and relatives are not admitted to see him excepting at the end of the year.
Nothing remains of Mallarme excepting a few cunningly wrought verses, inferior to the clearer and more profound poems of his great master, Baudelaire.
The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown which had not seen the light for twenty years, saving and excepting such truant rays as had stolen through the chinks in the box in which it had been laid by, during the whole time.
Footnote 1: The mockernuts were larger than any other hickories grafted excepting some bitternuts referred to in the next footnote.
Of the above, all are northern varieties, excepting the Stuart, which is a southern variety which has given evidence elsewhere of being able to grow and to bear further north than almost any other southern variety.
Footnote 2: The mockernuts were larger than any other hickories grafted excepting some bitternuts referred to in the next footnote.
