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 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 additions of several plants from his own garden and from North America, Gerard's Herbal is essentially an English translation of Rembert Dodoens Herbal of 1554, itself also highly popular ( in Dutch, Latin, French and other English translation ).

Except for several productions of the Buondelmonte version and a few of Maria Stuarda in Oporto and Lisbon as well as Naples in 1865, the work was neglected until 1958 when a production in Bergamo, Donizetti's hometown, brought the original work into popularity.

Except for featured backgrounds on several collaborations with The Temptations, live album tracks, and some studio LP tracks, Birdsong and fellow member Mary Wilson did not sing backing vocals on the group's later singles.

Except for several years in the early 2000's, during his tenure at Stanford, Rathje lived in Tucson, Arizona.

Except for kitchen staff, trainees who had gone to church that day, and several staff members who stayed behind to keep an eye on camp facilities, close to the entire 600 + member camp were involved in the hiking trip.

Except during a 1990s collector ’ s bubble, the first appearances of several Image Comics characters and newer X-Men have not been as valuable as one may expect for such popular characters because those comics were widely produced.

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.

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 for the 15c value which was in use as late as 1897, the Large Queens had a relatively short life, being replaced in 1870 by the " Small Queens ", smaller stamps of the same basic design, adopted to be able to produce more stamps more quickly.

Except for a relatively small deposit in Germany, distributed to the Tsar's recognized relations, no money was ever found.

Except for the brutalities of the German occupation in Bohemia and Moravia ( after the August 1944 Slovak National Uprising also in Slovakia ), Czechoslovakia suffered relatively little from the war.

Except for the 50a División, made up of relatively inexperienced soldiers, all other divisions were battle-hardened Legionarios, Regulares, African mercenaries from Ifni and Western Sahara, as well as Carlist and Falangist militias.

Except for a few parts of Europe where the winters are relatively mild due to prevailing wind patterns, subarctic regions were not explored until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Except for the LSA's relatively generous MTOW of 1320 pounds, the other countries ' microlight definitions are typically less restrictive, not limiting airspeed or the use of variable-pitch propellers.

Except for the Gigante cultivar, spring-grown kohlrabi much over 5 cm in size tend to be woody, as do full-grown kohlrabi much over perhaps 10 cm in size ; the Gigante cultivar can achieve great size while remaining of good eating quality.

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 the first hour of flight, the signal-to-noise ratio was good.

" Except for this coauthor award, the Motion Picture Academy excommunicated Orson Welles ... as Pauline Kael put it, ' The members of the Academy ... probably felt good because their hearts had gone out to crazy, reckless Mank, their own resident loser-genius.

" Except for its educational division, which still publishes a substantial number of conventional textbooks, Thomson had the good fortune to move into these businesses as customers were demanding electronic delivery of their information ," according to a July 3, 2006 article in The New York Times.

Except those who believed ( in the oneness of Allah ) and performed good work and reminded each other of the truth and reminded each other to be patient.

Dr. Mohsin: Except those who believe ( in Islâmic Monotheism ) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth ( i. e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds ( Al-Ma ' ruf ) which Allâh has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds ( Al-Munkar ) which Allâh has forbidden ), and recommend one another to patience ( for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allâh's Cause during preaching His religion of Islâmic Monotheism or Jihad ).

Norton writes in the introduction, " Except where there are good reasons to think that the first edition does not represent the readings the translators decided on, first edition readings are restored " ( 2005, p. ix ).