Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Except for the wine waiter in a restaurant -- always an inscrutable plenipotentiary unto himself, the genii with the keys to unlock the gates of the wine world are one's dealer, and the foreign shipper or negociant who in turn supplies him.

Except for those minutes in her room, he had lost touch with her as a reality.

Except for that one morning.

Except for sophomore center Mike Kelsey and fullback Mike Rice, Meek expects the squad to be physically sound for Rice.

Except for a few months in late 1960 and early 1961, retail farm equipment sales have trailed year-earlier levels since the latter part of 1959.

`` Except for Shabbat, when they are praying all day ''.

Except for AcPO < sub > 4 </ sub >, they are all similar to the corresponding lanthanum compounds and contain actinium in the oxidation state + 3.

Except for one occasion, the Project never played live during its original incarnation.

Except for the flow direction, the Amazon and the Hamza have very different characteristics.

Except for men's and women's meetings, most meetings targeting specific demographics ( including newcomers, gays, and young people ) do not exclude other alcoholics.

Except for the American designs, tank destroyers were all turretless and had fixed or casemate superstructures.

Except for the Chobe, Okavango, Boteti and Limpopo rivers, most of Botswana's rivers cease to flow during the dry and early rainy seasons.

Except for a few primitive types such as sponges ( which have no nervous system ) and jellyfish ( which have a nervous system consisting of a diffuse nerve net ), all living animals are bilaterians, meaning animals with a bilaterally symmetric body shape ( that is, left and right sides that are approximate mirror images of each other ).

Except for this one difference, the first and second Bernoulli numbers agree.

Except for the smaller rivers in the southeast, most of the major rivers and river systems in Cambodia drain into the Tonle Sap or into the Mekong River.

Except for the several relatively good toll roads which connect major cities ( all of them one-lane ) roads are poorly maintained and subject to inclement weather, since only 10 % of the roadways are tarred.

Except for nautiloids ( represented by the modern order Nautilida ) and coleoids ( which had already diverged into modern octopodes, squids, and cuttlefish ) all other species of the molluscan class Cephalopoda became extinct at the K – T boundary.

Except for the House of Braganza ( founded by an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal, who was himself illegitimate ), all current major Capetian branches are of the Bourbon cadet branch.

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

Except for the partnership, all business forms are designed to provide limited liability to both members of the organization and external investors.

Except for the Antikythera mechanism, an " out of the time " astronomical device, development of computing tools arrived in the beginning of the 17th century: Geometric-military compass by Galileo, Logarithms and Napier Bones by Napier, slide rule by Edmund Gunter.

Except for a man of religion ( wadaad ), and they were few in number, all Somali males were considered potential warriors.

Except in the far northwest and south, where its borders converge, Chad's average width is about 800 kilometers.

Except for the Southeast Peninsula which is very dry, mean annual rainfall ranges from about in the coastal areas, to about in the central mountain ranges but, from May to October rainfall is heavier while temperatures are a little hotter.

Caen determined that, " Except in their music, they couldn't care less about the approval of the straight world.

Except for a few basic generalities, such as that the Lycians probably fought in the Trojan War, nothing mentioned by the works produced under the name of Homer, or the other poets, or anything said by Herodotus about Lycians prior to his own time, is generally granted any historical validity.

Except in the Dialogue Mass form, which arose about 1910 and led to a more active exterior participation of the congregation, the people present at the Tridentine Mass do not recite out loud the prayers of the Mass.

Except for a few radical thinkers, the people of the colonies were " on the fence " about independence.

Except for a photo in a few publications, very little is known about it.

Except for three grade crossings in New London, Connecticut ( which are in close proximity to the station ), all crossings feature four-quadrant gates without exit gate delays as well as induction loops to alert Amtrak personnel about trapped vehicles.

Except for a few months as the head of aviation in Mussolini's government in 1922, Douhet spent much of the rest of his life theorizing about the impact of military air power.

Except for Muhammad, there is no one in Islamic history about whom as much has been written in Islamic languages as Ali.

Except for a short monograph written by Arthur B. Emmons in 1886, little was known about Mount McLoughlin's geology until the 1970s.

Except for the bare facts of his life little is known about Deusdedit.

Except for Tromboncino and Cara, who were extremely famous, very little is known about most of these composers ; in many cases only their names survive, and those because Petrucci, the prominent Venetian publisher, included their names in collections containing their music.

Except for about of hill railway, the of Burmese railways is metre gauge.

Except it was Paprocki-who in Gniazdo cnoty was the first of the authors to give this origin of the Jastrzebiec arms, about which it has been told ever since-who dated those origins in the days of Boleslaw the Brave.

* Hersey, Mayo D., " Rolling Friction " Transactions of the ASME, April 1969 pp. 260 – 275 and Journal of Lubrication Technology, January 1970, pp. 83 – 88 ( one article split between 2 journals ) Except for the " Historical Introduction " and a survey of the literature, it's mainly about lab.

Except for the bonds in O < sub > 3 </ sub >, no bonds between carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen atoms absorb in the interval between about 8 and 14 µm, though there is weaker continuum absorption in that interval.

Except for its sister relationship with Tepuianthaceae, little is known for sure about its relationships with the other families in the order.

Except for two sections ( in Springfield between Route 13 and U. S. Route 60 and about a mile between US 60 and Route 265 southwest of Billings ), the road is runs concurrent with other designations for its entire length.

Following a series of screenings which he organised at the National Film Theatre of independently produced short films including his own Every Day Except Christmas ( about the Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market ), Karel Reisz's Momma Don't Allow and others, he developed a philosophy of cinema which found expression in what became known as the Free Cinema Movement in Britain by the late 1950s.

Except the main representative team, Lokomotiv Sofia has a youth academy, which consists of 11 football teams of about 300 children at an age between 8 and 18 years.

Except for deceleration at each end, the A 555 did not have a speed limit, resulting in about 15 km of mostly straight three-lane-road on flat terrain, enabling motorists to drive their vehicles at top speed.

Similarly, several languages around Puget Sound underwent a process of denasalization about one century ago: Except in special speech registers, such as baby talk, the nasals became the voiced stops.