Citations:besides


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Nay, but do thou come with thy neighbour, Pliable; there are such things to be had which I spoke of, and many more glorious besides.
 * Why, in yonder village — the village is named Morality — there dwells a gentleman whose name is Legality, a very judicious man, and a man of very good name, that has skill to help men off with such burdens as thine are from their shoulders: yea, to my knowledge, he hath done a great deal of good this way; ay, and besides, he hath skill to cure those that are somewhat crazed in their wits with their burdens.
 * They told him, That custom, it being of so long a standing as above a thousand years, would, doubtless, now be admitted as a thing legal by any impartial judge; and besides, said they, if we get into the way, what's matter which way we get in? if we are in, we are in; thou art but in the way, who, as we perceive, came in at the gate; and we are also in the way, that came tumbling over the wall; wherein, now, is thy condition better than ours?


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * Our ship was about one hundred and twenty tons burden, carried six guns and fourteen men, besides the master, his boy, and myself.
 * In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.
 * And thus, having found two or three broken oars belonging to the boat—and, besides the tools which were in the chest, I found two saws, an axe, and a hammer; with this cargo I put to sea.