Outside of

It never happens outside of the story-books that a baby so deserted finds home and friends at once.

'Don't think of what's past!' said she. 'I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?'

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

A book is a man’s best friend outside of a dog, and inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.