1 then they would all be without a crust to-morrow except for my money.
2 It was a very ordinary matter and there was nothing exceptional about it.
3 So this man could tell nothing except his asking about the flat and the blood stains.
4 This German was moving out then, and so the fourth floor on this staircase would be untenanted except by the old woman.
5 The policemen left, all except one, who remained for a time, trying to drive out the people who came in from the stairs.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 6 All his clothes were fresh from the tailor's and were all right, except for being too new and too distinctly appropriate.
7 It would have been good-natured except for a look in the eyes, which shone with a watery, mawkish light under almost white, blinking eyelashes.
8 But there seemed to be nothing, no trace, except in one place, where some thick drops of congealed blood were clinging to the frayed edge of his trousers.
9 All neighbours here, almost all new friends, except my old uncle, and he is new too--he only arrived in Petersburg yesterday to see to some business of his.
10 But still you have interrupted me; one way or another, I repeat again: there would never have been any unpleasantness except for what happened in the garden.
11 He had a reddish moustache that stood out horizontally on each side of his face, and extremely small features, expressive of nothing much except a certain insolence.
12 There was nothing in the room except two chairs and a sofa covered with American leather, full of holes, before which stood an old deal kitchen-table, unpainted and uncovered.
13 He was wearing an old and hopelessly ragged black dress coat, with all its buttons missing except one, and that one he had buttoned, evidently clinging to this last trace of respectability.
14 I maintain that if the discoveries of Kepler and Newton could not have been made known except by sacrificing the lives of one, a dozen, a hundred, or more men, Newton would have had the right, would indeed have been in duty-bound.
15 Not only was this "serious business man" strikingly incongruous with the rest of the party, but it was evident, too, that he had come upon some matter of consequence, that some exceptional cause must have brought him and that therefore something was going to happen.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 5: CHAPTER III 16 Later on, when he recalled that time and all that happened to him during those days, minute by minute, point by point, he was superstitiously impressed by one circumstance, which, though in itself not very exceptional, always seemed to him afterwards the predestined turning-point of his fate.
17 Katerina Ivanovna was irritated too by the fact that hardly any of the lodgers invited had come to the funeral, except the Pole who had just managed to run into the cemetery, while to the memorial dinner the poorest and most insignificant of them had turned up, the wretched creatures, many of them not quite sober.
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