excep

The No'th had a fine chance, but the carpet-baggers were jes 'blind to everythin' excep 'the negro, an' the po 'white was jes' as shabbily treated by the No'th as he had be'n by the South.

The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

Colonies produced; an 'excep' for bein 'a little wild, ye wouldn't a' asked to clap yer eyes on a promisin'er chap. It was odd he made up t 'me the way he did, me bein' old enough to be his father, a'most, but ye see we was both at Valley Forge together, an 'all men was brothers there.

Far Past the Frontier W. H. [Illustrator] Fry 1913

"I haven't noticed nuthin 'excep' that ye are a bad little gurl."

The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911

You ain't good for nothin 'excep' for your sister who ain't right in her head to feel sorry for you, you loafer an 'scamp!

The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

'It don't mean anything reelly,' was her cheerful conclusion, 'excep' you mustn't get rid of him anyhow, an '' e can do what 'e likes always.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

You can't do any thin 'excep' '-- she stood rigid, with crossed arms --' about me. '

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

I couldna for the life o 'me think what it micht betoken, save an' excep 'a general frenzy had seized upo' man an 'wuman i' the hoose!

Donal Grant, by George MacDonald George MacDonald 1864

-- two gems of Erosite like there never has been in all thees worl 'excep' only two more? ...

The Flaming Jewel 1899

-- two gems of Erosite like there never has been in all thees worl 'excep' only two more? ...

The Flaming Jewel 1899

We never found out ANYTHING about her excep for the whold dead husband thing.

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