The pieces are near-identical, excepting the signature buttons on the Chanel suit and a few small tailoring details.
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But then, excepting Strike and his plucky assistant, Robin, almost no one in this story is particularly nice.
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I saw houses, empty and silent, with neither light nor life about any of them excepting one.
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Excepting a relatively small number of children, every illegal immigrant in the U.S. entered knowing they were breaking the law.
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Among the visitors, our friends the Burtons, not excepting Ralph, were represented.
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In the study of poetry I had no teachers, excepting the only teacher capable of giving instruction—Nature.
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With unanimous voice they agreed, all excepting Baron Brunfels, who spoke not.
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Excepting the officers and their servants, scarcely any were capable of doing duty.
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The view over the plain of the Djelish is one of the most splendid I ever beheld, not excepting that from the Alhambra itself.
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British Dictionary definitions for excepting
excepting
/ (ɪkˈsɛptɪŋ) /
preposition
excluding; except; except for (esp in the phrase not excepting)
conjunction
an archaic word for unless
usage for excepting
The use of excepting is considered by many people to be acceptable only after not, only, or without. Elsewhere except is preferred: every country agreed to the proposal except (not excepting) Spain; he was well again except for (not excepting) a slight pain in his chest