85. The prepositions without, except, like, and the adverb directly should not be used as conjunctions.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood
I once made a speech at an ice-cream festival amid great embarrassments, and hemmed, and hawed, and expectorated cotton from my dry mouth, and sweat like a Turkish bath, the adjectives, and the nouns, and verbs, and prepositions of my address keeping an Irish wake; but the next day, in the 'Johnstown Advocate,' my remarks read as gracefully as Addison's 'Spectator.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
Some of them laughed a good deal, and talked in high voices, putting emphasis on prepositions, which Miss Mackinstry and the others would never let me do in writing compositions.
"Lady-Betty-Across-the-Water"
Lowell, Orson