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 Irenaeus ' 2nd-century reference to many in the church speaking all kinds of languages ' through the Spirit ', and Tertullian's reference in 207 AD to the spiritual gift of interpretation of tongues being encountered in his day, there are no other known first-hand accounts of glossolalia, and very few second-hand accounts among their writings.

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 the Southeast Peninsula which is very dry, mean annual rainfall ranges from about in the coastal areas, to about in the central mountain ranges but, from May to October rainfall is heavier while temperatures are a little hotter.

Except during ascent or descent, the fully closed circuit rebreather that is operating correctly uses no or very little diluent.

Except for the very largest tsunamis, the approaching wave does not break, but rather appears like a fast-moving tidal bore.

Except for the Portovenere and Portofino promontories, it is generally not very jagged, and is often high.

Except for the town of Republic, the county is very sparsely populated.

Except for a set of reprints of his academic works, Watson burned his very large collection of letters and personal papers, thus depriving historians of a valuable resource for understanding the early history of behaviorism and of Watson himself.

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

Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, rigid articulations permitting very little movement.

Except when hill-soaring ( exploiting the lift close to the up-wind side of a hill ), these are generally very unprofitable positions for glider pilots to be in.

Except for very few grandfathered customers, Bell has monthly data transfer limits for all of their tiered Internet services.

Except for a photo in a few publications, very little is known about it.

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 for its size and electric drive, the system layout was very similar to the S5W reactor used in most nuclear-powered submarines at the time.

Except for river valleys and the often very narrow coastal strip, the land is hilly.

Except for its northernmost part, the quarter Friedrichstadt ( established in the end of the 17th century ), today's " Kreuzberg " was a very rural place until well into the 19th century.

Except for the higher mountains where the climate is cooler but very wet, Roraima has an equatorial climate.

Except for the very first delivery order, all U. S. military-issue M4 and M4A1 carbines possess a flat-top NATO M1913-specification ( Picatinny ) rail on top of the receiver for attachment of optical sights and other aiming devices — Trijicon TA01 and TA31 Advanced Combat Optical Gunsights ( ACOG ), EOTech 550 series holographic sights, and Aimpoint M68 Close Combat Optic ( M68 CCO ) being the favorite choices — and a detachable rail-mounted carrying handle.

Except for very light aircraft, trim tabs on elevators are unable to provide the force and range of motion desired.

Except for a very brief period in February 1985, if neither team had reached the $ 1, 000 goal after ten questions the value of each question was doubled to $ 200.

Except for duller coloration and smaller scale size, it appears very similar to the Asian arowana, S. formosus.

Except for the far west which was part of the island of Tenochtitlan, the Peñón de los Baños and a couple of very small islands in-between, the territory of the borough was covered by Lake Texcoco from the pre Hispanic period into the colonial period.