cept

 Not a word cept she going now, her things in the car.

To Be A Child (Part II of III) 2009

nope, take it from a southerner, one thing it ain't is gubbamint, that's just damn wrong. maybe gummin, or gumint, or g'min, but ain't no ubba in no word cept bubba

Anarchy Or Irony? The Veneer of Rebellion BikeSnobNYC 2009

They've drawed im a snoike, all 'cept' is 'ed, d'ye see?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891 Various

Mr. Bludoffski, kindly 'cept' shurances of my -- rhic!

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

Dey look jes 'like anybody else,' cept'n it's jes 'cloudy and misty like it goin' to pour down rain.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

"No, ma'm, she never did have any and her mother and father died when she was little and she was brought up in France in a convent 'cept'n she wasn't a Catholic."

Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman Emma Speed Sampson 1907

"I cain't tell ye nuttin '' cept'n 'a lie!" he moaned.

The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Thomas Dixon 1905

She never said anythin '' cept 'Good mornin', Ike, 'an' I sez 'Good mornin', Mrs.Gwyn. '

Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897

"Mebbe we're a little alike in that respec '," Captain Leezur assured him deliciously; "'cept 't he ain't nigh so ongodly as I use' ter be."

Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

In the kitchen, the colored folk gathered around the fire, grumbling at the unseasonable coldness of the weather, and predicting a hail-storm, and telling each other that they never "'sperienced" such weather this time o 'year,' cept 'twas that spring Old Marse died -- when no wonder,

The Missing Bride Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859