"Why did he risk coming on board if he knew everyone was going to die except him?"

Our souls die, thought Patience, except those whose heads are taken.

Then all its lights died, except a small green one, which began to flash.

The next morning, Alice has been calling each person who gets the newsletter, and they have all died that night except one.

In a matter of minutes all the elk were dead or dying except two.

Of his five children born in Scotland all died young except two sons.

The myths tell us they raised a cloud across the land and all peoples died except a very few.

She blew upon us young ones; and all died except we two.

No one cared if she lived or died except her family up north.

Everybody had thought he was going to die after that, except Mona.