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 the city of Santo Domingo, which managed to maintain some legal exports, Dominican ports were forced to rely on contraband trade, which, along with livestock, became the sole source of livelihood for the island dwellers.

Except for Lutherans and some Anglicans, these churches regard ordination as a sacrament ( the sacramentum ordinis ).

Except for some TV work in the late seventies, Caprino made no more puppet films, focusing instead on creating attractions for the Hunderfossen theme park outside Lillehammer based on his folk tale movies, and making tourist films using a custom built multi camera setup of his own design that shoots 280 degrees panorama movies.

Except for the Cassidys, these are now owned by Castle Hill Productions, with video rights to some licensed to The Criterion Collection.

Except for some English abbreviations, it is not used in any of the better known tengwar modes, but it occurs in a Qenya of the English word nine written in Quenya-mode tengwar.

Except for Viadana's collection, which contained purely instrumental and secular music, these were all collections of sacred vocal works, some with instrumental accompaniment.

Except for certain fertile areas in Hedemarken and Østfold, crops were limited to hardy grains, such as oats, rye, and barley ; and livestock to sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, and some poultry ; in places this was complemented with hunting.

Except for some insects ( for example, ants ), all animals are still hunter-gatherer species, even though many have existed longer than the human species.

Except for the worst months of the construction period, known as the " Speedo " ( mid-spring to mid-October 1943 ), one of the ways the Allied POWs kept their spirits going in the hellish conditions was to ask one of the musicians in their midst to play his guitar or accordion for them, or lead them in a group singalong, or request their camp comedians to tell some rough jokes, or put on a skit.

Except for some scattered oases, these deserts are uninhabited.

Except in the Ninth Circuit Courts, the en banc court consists of all of the circuit judges who are on active status, but it does not include the senior or assigned judges ( except that under some circumstances, a senior judge may participate in an en banc hearing when he or she participated at an earlier stage of the same case ).

Except for suits by incarcerated persons, non-prisoner litigants proceeding in forma pauperis, or ( in some circumstances ) by seamen, U. S. Marshals no longer serve process in private civil actions filed in the U. S. district courts.

Except for the original source material, ( and some of the same authors ) the Decipher game shares no link to ICE's MERP and uses an entirely different rules system.

Except for the Petén region and the Guatemalan highlands, Spanish control over Yucatán itself was effectively in place by 1547 even though as late as 1550, there were only some 1, 550 Spanish in all of the colonial provinces.

Except in fishes and some minor groups, type species are rarely reliably recorded in online animal databases.

Except for some brief instances in the first season, there was no background or transitional music.

Except for the Danube in the south, the city is surrounded by forests and hills which rise to altitudes of over, some of them part of the Swabian Alb.

Except in some special-purpose differentials, there are no other limitations on the rotational speeds of the shafts.

Except for a few statutory exemptions and in some medical cases there is no corresponding defense in English law.

Except for some limestone at the Cerro de Galindo, there are no exploitable minerals in the municipality.

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

Except to some extent in The Martins of Cro ' Martin ( 1856 ) it may be admitted that his portraits of Irish are drawn too exclusively from the type, depicted in Sir Jonah Barrington's Memoirs and already well known on the English stage.

Except for some regional and commuter train services ( including some, but not all S-Bahn systems ), which are second-class only, this distinction exists to this day.