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1 There was nothing I could say, except the one unutterable fact that it wasn't true.
2 I think that, except for my presence, he would have taken one short glance beneath our own table.
3 To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
4 They were still under the white plum tree and their faces were touching except for a pale thin ray of moonlight between.
5 But, because the offer was obviously and tactlessly for a service to be rendered, I had no choice except to cut him off there.
6 I must have felt pretty weird by that time because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon.
7 Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.
8 It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.
9 Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
10 There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.
11 She looked around after a moment and told me the girl was "common but pretty," and I knew that except for the half hour she'd been alone with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time.
12 The very phrases were worn so threadbare that they evoked no image except that of a turbaned "character" leaking sawdust at every pore as he pursued a tiger through the Bois de Boulogne.