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 a few valleys, the mountain area proper is suitable only for grazing in the foothills and steppes ; adequate soil and rainfall, however, make cultivation possible.

Except for the Saar this area more or less corresponds with the modern use of the term.

Except for actual residents of Fair Oaks, very few locals even know it exists as a separately-counted area.

Except in the downtown area, 1st Avenue and the Cedar River tend to run diagonally instead of along the cardinal directions.

Except for a few cold winter months, white egrets can be seen frequently in the area.

Gunnison described the area as follows: Except three or four small cottonwood trees, there is not a tree to be seen by the unassisted eye on any part of the horizon.

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Except for the Tournaisian, all these rocks are within the Ardennes geological area.

Except for a short area south of Osnabrück, which belongs to the Bundesland of Lower-Saxony, the whole forest is part of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Except for the elevated area of Erigavo district where rainfall records indicate an annual average of up to 800 mm ( see " Cal Madow " topic ), rainfall generally does not exceed 150 mm in most of the region.

Except for the three and a half years he spent at Phillips, he lived for most of his life in a small, wooden-frame house on Utopia Parkway in a working-class area of Flushing, along with his mother and his brother Robert, whom cerebral palsy had rendered physically challenged .< ref name =" artinfo. com ">

Except along the coastal area, hilly and rolling land characterized the provincial terrain.

Except these border mountains most of the province is a flat plain area.

Except for a historic stone church built in the late 19th century, the North Grenville Archives, and a brickyard, the area is composed of mainly of farms and homes set in a mixture of farmland and cedar forest.

Except for elements acting as a protective screen, the division withdrew to the St. Avold area for rest and rehabilitation.

Except for the driest parts of Tasmania and a small area of the Monaro between Cooma and Nimmitabel, the Hunter Valley is the southern limit of rich " black earths " ( actually black cracking clays ).

Except for the tri-annual reports on development of human rights policies, that Member States have to submit to the Secretary General since 1956, the Human Rights Council UPR procedure constitutes a first in the area.

Except for the resort area near the dam, most of the property around the lake is private.

Except for a small number of descendants there are no members of the Dharug tribe now living in the area.

Except where the James River continues to define a boundary between the West End and Southside, drawing a theoretical line between quadrants of the metropolitan area is not well defined as one moves away from the city.

Except for one son and daughter, Driskill's family remained in Bienville Parish, and his descendents still live in the area.

Except for a brief period of " privatisation " by Oliver Cromwell in order to pay for the civil war, the area remained the personal property of the monarch until the reign of George III when control over all Crown lands was handed over to Parliament.

Except for Cranbrook Rural District ( previously part of the Ashford constituency ) the area had formed part of the constituency of Tonbridge prior to 1974.

Except for living in Texas for a short time in 1974, and two summers ( 1977, 1978 ) spent employed as musicians at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, the Vincent family used the Greentop area as home base.