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 fortress and its immediate vicinity Luxembourg was considered a province of the new Belgian state from 1830 to 1839.

Except for using CMOS circuitry, it behaved identically to the HMOS MC68000, but the change to CMOS greatly reduced its power consumption.

Except for its Latin cognate regnum ( kingdom ) it is cognate with Scandinavian rike / rige,, and, as found in bishopric.

* Except for the Nuorese dialects, Latin single voiceless plosives in intervocalic position became voiced approximants, and single voiced plosives were lost: > ( or rather its soft counterpart ): locum > ( It.

Except for a relatively small portion of its territory along the Syrian border that is a continuation of the Arabian Platform, Turkey geologically is part of the great Alpide belt that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Himalaya Mountains.

Except in The Horse and His Boy, the protagonists are all children from the real world magically transported to Narnia, where they are called upon by the lion Aslan to protect Narnia from evil and restore the throne to its rightful line.

Except in the free trade zone, the UAE requires at least 51 % local citizen ownership in all businesses operating in the country as part of its attempt to place Emiratis into leadership positions.

Except of the much higher magnification and good versatility, an electron microscope with a cathodoluminescence detector will be more complicated and more expensive compared to an easy to use optical cathodoluminescence microscope which benefits from its ability to show actual visible color features immediately through the eyepiece.

Except for its coal, which is no longer economical to exploit, Belgium has few natural resources other than fertile soils.

Except where the Satyricon imitates colloquial language ( e. g., in the speeches of the freedmen at Trimalchio's dinner ), its style is in line with the literary prose of the period.

Except for the three houses of worship within its bounds, Chevy Chase View is entirely residential.

Except for the " 1994 Land-grant colleges " for native Americans, each state must match its Federal cooperative extension funds.

Except for its smaller data and address buses, the 68008 behaved identically to the 68000 and had the same internal organization and microarchitecture.

Except for the Seal of Missouri in its middle, the flag is identical with the Flag of the Netherlands ; this resemblance is not, however, intended to denote any special relation between Missouri and the Netherlands.

Except that the role does not present us a precisely pretty character, its performance merits for Miss Hayward the most respectful applause.

Except for the subspecies bianchii which is largely all-year resident, and subspecies excubitor in the temperate European parts of its range with their mild maritime climate, the species is a short-distance migrant.

* Except for at Hajj, every salah ( each of the five daily prayers ) needs to be made in its regular time.

Except during the early follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, its serum levels are somewhat higher than that of estrone during the reproductive years of the human female.

Except for occasional incursions by corsairs and some severe earthquakes, the island has rarely had its peace disturbed.

Except for its overland link with the province of Albay to the north, it is completely surrounded by water.

Except of the title, Duke of Saxony, Angria and Westphalia, which this younger Duchy of Saxony granted its rulers, even after its definite dynastic partition in 1296, this territory, consisting only of territorial fringes of the old Duchy of Saxony until 1180, had little in common with the latter.

Except for 4 squadrons ( turmae ) all the allied cavalry was on its right when the battle started.