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 periods 1969 – 72 and 1976 – 82, when the Social Democratic party of Chancellor Brandt and Schmidt came in second in the elections, the Chancellor has always been the candidate of the largest party, usually supported by a coalition of two parties with a majority in the parliament.

Except for two scenes in all the novels, all Nexus inhabitants speak English, though they may know other languages or have a planetary accent.

Except: Four Aces or Kings with a pair of 3 ’ s or 2 ’ s, then split off a high pair from the four of a kind, to play two pairs down with a very high pair up.

Except for Legio I to IV, which were the consular armies ( two per consul ), other units were levied by campaign.

Except in the highest grades, the difference in value between the two is minor.

Except for one or two specimens, all fossils found during that time demonstrated a similar morphology.

Except for the largest markets, most cities had only one or two stations.

Except for two cannons displayed on the nearby University of Tampa campus, all traces of the fort are gone.

Except for 1980, the Pinto was available with a choice of two engines.

Except for two Battlestar Galactica novelizations, they were ambitiously conceived, gravitated to the philosophical end of science fiction's spectrum and had limited commercial success.

Except for the United Kingdom itself and Papua New Guinea ( which, before independence, had been administered as two separate territories by Australia ), the Commonwealth realms are former British colonies.

Except for a brief moment when the first story ends and the second begins, the two stories do not interconnect.

Except for the Huzaren Van Boreel, every regiment operates in the armoured role in one of the two mechanised brigades of the Dutch army, using the Leopard 2 main battle tank.

Except for these two, I fully and finally forgive everyone ; may no one be punished because of me.

Except for the second season, the Superman schedule was brief ( 13 shows shot two per week, a total of seven weeks out of a year ) but all had a " 30-day clause ", which meant that the producers could demand their exclusive services for a new season on four weeks notice.

Except for the two rival major powers, Habsburg and Prussia, and the western left bank of the Rhine ( which France had annexed, with tiny Katzenelnbogen ), the other member states or their precursors, making up most of present Germany, had been within Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine.

Except for hybrids between the two scaup species, the most reliable mark is the black bill-tip of hybrids, whereas in the scaups only the very point (" nail ") of the bill is black.

Except them, there are deputies from two other parties and one local coalition.

Except two changes in 1908 when the municipality Rothensee became part of Magdeburg, and in 1944 when Calvörde became part of Haldensleben the districts did not change until a bigger reform in 1952.

Except for the two widest streets, High ( now Market ) and Broad, the streets were named after prominent landowners who owned adjacent lots.

** Except for two round trips on weekdays, all trains are operated in 15-car sets south of Kagohara, where they are joined / separated ; a 10-car train is operated north of Kagohara.

Except for the two original ILR licenses-98FM and FM104-each additional ILR license in Dublin was awarded for a specific format, intending on meeting demands which it was felt that 98FM and FM104 were not catering to.

Except for two lungless species — Atretochoana eiselti and Caecilita iwokramae — all caecilians have lungs, but also use the skin or the mouth for oxygen absorption.

Except for the difference in the number of deputies, the provisions of the federal Constitution applied equally to the national councils of each republic: deputies were elected to five-year terms of office ; the national councils had to hold at least two sessions annually ; and each national council elected its own presidium ( fifteen to twenty-one members in the Slovak National Council and up to twenty-five members in the Czech National Council ), which was empowered to act when the full national council was not in session.