"But nobody knows of its existence except my wife and myself."

Everyone except my wife and child credited me with powers I didn't have.

There was no one present except Wilson and his wife.

It's nothing except a man's wife running off with somebody else.

I wouldn't send anyone to the cavalry except my first wife.

I order everybody except my wife to come out of the water!

You think anyone else'd stay around here that long, except me and my wife?

But in Denver nobody even knew there was a war except my wife.

Except his wife, of course, and she was the one woman he could not have.

Mind you, I do not have the habit of waiting in the car for anybody except my wife.