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 for an abortive royal colony established under Major Claus Paarss between 1728 and 1730, colonial Greenland was administered by companies under royal charter until 1908.

Except in royal or ecclesiastical settings they were considered too precious to cover the floor.

Except for a handful of mote and bailey castles in Norway, built in the first half of the 11th century and including the royal residence in Oslo, the design did not play a role further north in Scandinavia.

Except for this period of Wallachian rule, the town itself was centre of the surrounding royal estates.

Except for Rath, his blood brother, he is the last of the royal line.

Except for the royal city of Amathus, the Kingdoms of Cyprus took part in the Ionian rising in 499 BC.

Except for a few years, a royal couple reigned each summer.

Except for the Tobol, Ishim, and Irtysh rivers ( the Kazak names for which are, respectively, Tobyl, Esil, and Ertis ), portions of which flow through Kazakhstan, all of Kazakhstan's rivers and streams are part of landlocked systems.

Except for the Caledonians, the names may be second-or third-hand: perhaps as reported to the Romans by speakers of Brythonic or Gaulish languages.

Except for reserved names like com. tv, net. tv, org. tv and others, any person may register second-level domains in < tt > tv </ tt >.

Except for reserved names like. com. fm,. net. fm,. org. fm and others, any person in the world can register a. fm domain for a fee.

Except for reserved names like. com. cd,. net. cd,. org. cd and others, any person in the world can register a. cd domain for a fee.

Except for those metals well-known since antiquity, most elements had their names created after modern chemistry was introduced to East Asia in the 18th and 19th century, with more translations being coined for those elements discovered later.

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 the 1988 Cotton Bowl Classic against Texas A & M, the 2008 Hawaii Bowl, and the 2010 Sun Bowl against Miami, names have not been included on Notre Dame's team jerseys since.

Except for the Bruti Bubulci, who may have been a cadet branch of the family, and favored the praenomen Gaius, the Junii Bruti relied exclusively on these three names.

Except for Azur blue, the official names of colours all refer to desert regions.

Except for names, they have not been translated, and the language is unclassified due to lack of data.