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I'm a forty-gallon Baptist and the father of sixteen childen, all baptized exceptin 'the last set o' twins, and they'll be put under when the circuit-rider comes around, and what I'm a-goin 'to-tell you is the plum truth, and if any man disputes it thar'll be a vote missin' in his beat at the next election.

With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

"Yes, ma'am," said Ephraim, giving her his gnarled fingers; "I was just sayin 'to Cynthy that I'd ruther shake your hand than anybody's livin' exceptin 'General Grant."

Coniston — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

"Yes, ma'am," said Ephraim, giving her his gnarled fingers; "I was just sayin 'to Cynthy that I'd ruther shake your hand than anybody's livin' exceptin 'General Grant."

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

"Yes, ma'am," said Ephraim, giving her his gnarled fingers; "I was just sayin 'to Cynthy that I'd ruther shake your hand than anybody's livin' exceptin 'General Grant."

Coniston — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

I was about as old as Doc, and we wasn't either of us very chickenish, but I thought Doc was the finest man I'd ever saw, an 'exceptin' what I'm tellin 'you, I ain't ever had cause to change my mind.

Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903

"I reckon I oughtn't ter tell nuthin 'exceptin' ter the officers, but -- but -- I 'lowed leetle Archie's mother would help me some again them bloodhounds o' the law."

The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

But ez for book-readin ', wife an' me aint never felt called on to read no book save an 'exceptin' the Holy Scriptures -- an ', of cose, the seed catalogues.

Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

I ain't hell-bent nowhere exceptin 'to get away from the shell-fire.

WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

Hoboin's all right, exceptin 'for one thing — the girls.

Chapter 46 2010

Didn't know anything about bear when I went into the country, exceptin 'when I was a youngster I'd seen a heap of cinnamons and that little black kind.

Bald-Face 2010