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  • This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
  • Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions. The Sun
  • For except it be treacle and mithridatum, and of late diascordium, and a few more, they tie themselves to no receipts severely and religiously. The Advancement of Learning
  • A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
  • They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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  • For a few odd and unsettling moments, the song hovers on its own, left virtually untouched except for the subtle fuzz of static in the background.
  • FK - pressure-cook would be the best way, but you could try boiling it with plenty of water so that it becomes really mushy, then blend it in a mixer to make a thick soup. or you could use a regular slow-cooker that you get in the US, except that it would be a bit time-consuming: Gujarati Dal (Healthy Lentil Soup)
  • Going upmarket, I can go into Dear Soup except on busy days, as the tables are a bit close together and sitting beside a slurper is an ever-present danger. A table for one | 世論 What Japan Thinks
  • $this - > _updated = true; else throw new Exception ( "Invalid server response"); public function setLoginPassword ($login, $password) $this - > _login = $login; PhpBB.com
  • I'd say name it except for your second point, that named Wealden brachiosaurids are plentiful and once better material is described, some would near certainly be synonymized. ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV
  • Nothing much happened except that I discovered the automatic paper towel dispenser and proceeded to contort my body into various positions to get the thing to work.
  • Of course, this kid dreams of a place like this island, where nobody works except to keep house and pick wild blueberries and beachcomb. Diary
  • People are always spouting off with definitive answers about what design is… except that everyone has a different take on it.
  • She's stopped talking except for monosyllables.
  • Except that in Latin a ship's prow was called a rostrum and the plural of rostrum was rostra so they called the speaking platform rostra.
  • Indeed, since entering 2011, I have been cautious; and except for the 14-point, first day of the year "yippee" to 1273, the SPX hasn't really done all that much. Jeffrey Saut: Waiting for a Pullback - Seeking Alpha
  • Excepting his quaint epithets which he affects to render literally from the Greek, a language above all others blest in the happy marriage of sweet words, and which in our language are mere printer's compound epithets -- such as quaffed divine Literary Remains, Volume 1
  • Spin, the tracks were mostly inspired by surfing, except for the instrumental "Lady Dada's Nightmare", which is an homage to Lady Gaga, and the title track, which is about "the world economic crisis. Pitchfork: Latest News
  • As such, hemp is legal in virtually every country on Earth except the United States. Harvey Wasserman: Legal Pot or Bust!
  • The Israelis already possess them, operating disingenuously and outside international norms again, an exceptionalism granted by the United States’ favor andmight. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
  • He never complained, except when he occasionally slipped on muddy cobblestones.
  • This investment trust has delivered exceptional returns over the past few years by riding a wave of mergers, acquisitions and innovation. Times, Sunday Times
  • No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us. 
  • Use hydrogen and halogens as terminal atoms (except for boranes and interhalogen compounds) and then use the least electronegative atom as the central atom.
  • Beyond the point of Fetal viability it becomes illegal except in extreme circumstances.
  • Urban Dictionary definition of "frigging" happened to me today, except it was a work colleague and not Mum. GrodsCorp
  •  Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Though as Richard Nash suggests, we're all indie now (except the big guys), so even the term indie doesn't mean much: Hugh McGuire: Why "Self-Publishing" Is Meaningless
  • With the exception of one guy, whose name escapes me right now, the DJs are a pretty poor bunch too.
  • But without exception, these big operations use leased land, with tenures typically of two to five years.
  • Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
  • He was a powerful monarch, -- so powerful that the Greeks, who had built cities all along the coast of Asia Minor, in the country called Ionia, never spoke of him except as "The Great King. The Story of the Greeks
  • The men never exerted themselves except when hunger prompted, or a spent magazine made the acquisition of "peltries" necessary to barter for powder and ball. The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports
  • Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
  • If you buy into the grave danger proposed exception to jl, I wonder how drunk the guy has to be to constitue grave danger. The Volokh Conspiracy » Chief Justice Roberts Dissents from Denial of Fourth Amendment Case — Again
  • Pisonia has large leaves and could be said to look similar to crotons except without the yellow and red colours.
  • Although he had not howled once, his snarling and growling, combined with his thirst, had hoarsened his throat and dried the mucous membranes of his mouth so that he was incapable, except under the sheerest provocation, of further sound. CHAPTER XVI
  • Nothing was that different from what could be seen in Los Angeles, except that the signs were all in French and there were no SUVs in sight.
  • At least Kant had the virtue of rigid consistency and did not make casuistic exceptions. The Volokh Conspiracy » It’s Official: Kinder, Gentler Military Commissions:
  • With very few exceptions, however, Cabernet Sauvignon was left to command California's highest wine prices, Merlot to swell sales volumes.
  • I am talking about total output and overall patterns here, not exceptions to the rule.
  • He declined to give details on who the passengers were except to say they were from a nursing home in Bellaire, an upscale enclave within Houston.
  • All of the chairs had deep red covers put on them with the exception of the one at the head of the table.
  • The dense thicket of rules and exceptions will drive away, or drive mad, almost anyone else.
  • They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
  • Except for the fact that his hair was a solid black, the thin, slight boy of about fifteen or sixteen bore an uncanny resemblance to Kunihiko.
  • Except for two telecasts by Ed Murrow on his `See It Now "series, back in 1954. I still wonder how those two got through. LASTING TREASURES
  • Occasionally, courts admitted shopbooks as evidence but the exception normally was narrowly applied to circumstances in which the scrivener was not available to testify.
  • Her job was to work the bar on weeknights, except Thursday, and Sunday night, and on Monday to Friday she had to work the golf course.
  • That should have spelled the end of the convertible, except for one thing: The open car with its sun-baked, wind-blown passengers became a symbol of youth, freedom, and sexuality.
  • Soldiers resemble worker termites, except that they have enlarged brownish heads and strong, well-developed jaws.
  • The publication of Quantum Leaps is not a fluke; rather it is an exceptionally clear manifestation of the taint, stigma, and taboo surrounding the paranormal.
  • It had over a dozen different words written on it and all were scratched out except for the last.
  • I do not remember too much about Earl except that he must not have been too bright because he was wearing a black-and-white mackinaw - a heavy coat - in the summer.
  • Subtitling is managed both neatly and completely, except in the concerted passages.
  • The escapement is a conventional in-line Swiss lever type, but with all parts made from plastic, excepting the impulse pin. Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives
  • Despite these unexceptionable advantages, critics have objected to the land tax on the following grounds.
  • In 1867 another visitor, Mark Twain, called Jerusalem “the knobbiest town in the world, except Constantinople.” Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
  • During war, the right of postliminy can only be claimed in the tribunals of the belligerent powers, and not in the courts of neutrals; for by a general law of nations, neutrals have no right to enquire into any captures, except such as are an infringement of their own neutrality. [ The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping
  • His exceptional talent at putting acrylics and oils together on board and letting them ooze is a lesson on how to do this kind of thing and all those kids in ARI-land should get down to the Wynne and check it out.
  • We conclude that similar compositional bimodality among eruptive products of intracontinental volcanoes in volcanic fields may be the rule, rather than the exception.
  • Come ten o'clock in the evening we've generally begun to stretch and yawn, and by ten thirty the house is quiet except for gentle snoring.
  • Promotion in the first year is only given in exceptional circumstances .
  • Constructed to an exceptionally high specification and standard, they have associated mechanical and electrical engineering services.
  • If he has managed to get rid of all the bad news, amounting to £1.3bn of exceptionals, which led to the company reporting a net loss of £1.02 bn, then there should be room for considerable upside in the group's fortunes over the next year.
  • Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception. Buddha 
  • I have seen everything you listed except the department store dummy, but would add paint cans, freon cannisters, old TV's, and other stuff that are hazmat if you try to take them to the dump! One Trigger, Or Two?
  • In modern times, bronze is an alloy of copper and any metal except zinc.
  • Of course, it's not all about the image and the looks (except that, in the case of this particular preening bunch of fops in their heyday, it was almost entirely about the image and the looks).
  • The green flagellates known as ‘the volvocine algae’ constitute a happy exception to this general rule.
  • Most data sets utilized in the study of hereditary diseases are constructed around probands, making correction for ascertainment bias necessary; this set of data is no exception.
  • In many areas, this year's bumper crop means exceptionally high removal of nutrients.
  • Figures like this are exceptional in the extreme and give a completely unrepresentative impression of the national picture.
  • There were no institutions of higher learning except for an obscure agricultural college in Mogilev province.
  • Sunday was no exception as Bell was in the thick of Walter's four bobbles and was credited with a forced fumble.
  • The city is the first thing I see from my bedroom window when I roll up the blinds of a morning, except on those days when it is shrouded in a thick blanket of damp mist.
  • Allen also captured something in Keaton which can't be described except in cliches: kookiness, wackiness, ditsiness. The Guardian World News
  • Cancer cells look too much like normal cells and most cancers (perhaps virally caused cancers are an exception) are probably expressing only genes that naturally are expressed in human cells.
  • I couldn't hear anything except our screams, which ricocheted off the houses and sounded in my ears.
  • Except the Lord keep the city, the _Wakeman_ waketh in vain. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
  • Its practice of paying the men their cash wages only once a month—a violation of Nevada law, which mandated semimonthly pay envelopes—guaranteed that the demand for scrip would remain robust and thus that the company store would continue to do “exceptionally good business with very gratifying profits,” as the Big Six board was informed that summer. Colossus
  • He could not recall Plauen having talked much about the modern Empire, except to label it a weakling, lost in fantasies of its past, battling for life in a hostile age, constantly stalked by hostile intrigues. The Swordbearer
  • Upon all vegetable lakes, except those of madder, they have a destructive effect; and are injurious to gamboge, as well as to those almost obsolete pigments, red and orange leads, king's and patent yellow, massicot, and orpiment. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • Each person's genetic code is unique except in the case of identical twins.
  • There then followed a redetermination of almost all of the other atomic weights arrived at by Stas (with the exception of carbon), and these too, in the majority of cases, were found to require exchanging for more exact values. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 - Presentation
  • This is true with the exception that of "Decorated" architecture there are but few examples, and it is probable that very little new work was done in connection with this cathedral until the monastery became vastly enriched by Abbot Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
  • I don't honestly know why he agreed to do the film, except that all he wanted was a fifteen-minute death scene.
  • None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares. John Halifax, Gentleman
  • Inside the ‘wagon’ it lay bare except for some crates of different things used for casting spells.
  • The second exception comes into play if the rationale underlying the patent holder's argument bears only a tangential relation to the equivalent.
  • Practically any archaeological in exceptional circumstances. inorganic materials survive far ones.
  • It was most of it light stuff that could be carried over from one aircraft to the other, all except one motor generator set that the Dakota had brought for us to take back to Diento; this weighed over a ton and we had to rig the sheerlegs for it. ROUND THE BEND
  • An exception is tartrate crystal deposits that look like granules of white sugar but are tasteless and can easily be removed.
  • But the smallness of the exception made the mystery.
  • It would have been dark except for the light coming from the translucent side panels.
  • Thirty years ago such an observation would have been unexceptional.
  • The room was empty except for a wardrobe standing in one corner.
  • Everything tallied except the intactness of the body, discovered fully clothed and inviolate. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • Don't think you can blame them for seizing contol except I do not think you can blame them for being tired of being used by the remainder of the Republican Party in the North and West for 40 years. Vitter defends Southern influence in GOP, slams Voinovich
  • And I stand here to-day, sir, to say that with an exception, of which I shall soon speak, _to procure such a lawful investigation of the authority under which they claimed to act, was the part I took in that day's proceedings, and the only part_. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
  • The past participle of a transitive verb is always passive except in such forms as _have chosen, had chosen_. Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
  • True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
  • He would certainly be made use of by the officers for the purpose of identifying the companions whom he had betrayed; and I had the best reasons in the world to believe that he would rather assist in the taking of me than in the capture of all the rest of the coining gang put together -- the doctor himself not excepted. A Rogue's Life
  • No. (2) The term spice means any aromatic vegetable substance in the whole, broken, or ground form, except for those substances which have been traditionally regarded as foods, such as onions, garlic and celery; whose significant function in food is seasoning rather than nutritional; that is true to name; and from which no portion of any volatile oil or other flavoring principle has been removed. Home Ec 101
  • Love Israel/Palestine or leave it, like Simone Bitton's politics or not, the film RACHEL deserves to be seen and Cindy Corrie deserves to be heard because, if nothing else, Rachel was an exceptional "girl-next-door. Undefined
  • Your composition is good except for some overcolouring here and there.
  • They didn't see each other very often, except for chance meetings at meal times, when they felt strong enough to go to the mess hall.
  • (Curry here makes an exception for metamathematics.) Philosophy of Mathematics
  • Complexes suggested for Bombay, Calcutta, Jullundur, Kanpur, and Madras would have similar facilities and output, except for product lines specific to certain places. Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
  • Afterwards, Conradt spoke of her team that had exceeded everybody's expectations except its own.
  • The principle of comity is that when one court exercising proper jurisdiction renders an opinion concerning a specific case, then that opinion is binding on other courts to which this same case (same parties, same facts, same issues) is re-presented to a different court under some pretext, except where the second court is exercising appellate review over the first decision. The Volokh Conspiracy » District Court Opinions Precedential Within the Same District?
  • Except that Bainbridge was never quite that neat a writer; elliptical, mysterious and not too hung up on the indispensability of closure, her novels quite frequently seemed to lack an easily decipherable resolution, and be all the more powerful for it. The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge – review
  • With the exception of Jonathan Edwards, Britain had no chance of striking gold on track and field.
  • Put them in an arena, live coverage, president vs. prime minister, king vs. emperor, dictator vs. puppet ruler. It'll be like Unreal Tournament, except more fun.
  • A pretty feeble ruse, perhaps, but it works. which might work except the nobble is pretty damned big ... that's the problems; and then there's writing as avoidance of writing (kinda like this post!): Writer's Block
  • The expression pervading the countenance of the one was vulgarity; of the other, that which is rarely found, except in persons of high birth. Jack Sheppard A Romance
  • I told him the unvarnished truth except for the part about you quivering stark naked with cold in the shower compartment. CORMORANT
  • There is nothing permanent except change. 
  • Aside from switching the order of the first question, this year was no exception.
  • Most of the buildings in the town are modern, but the church is an exception.
  • In London he gradually took over the Underground system and came to control every line except the Metropolitan.
  • I had now no clothes except what I stood up in — the coat badly out at the elbow — an overcoat, moderately pawnable, and one spare shirt. Down and Out in Paris and London
  • This exceptionality allows the establishment of a sort of democracy: we are all equal because we all have the right to break the law’.
  • Exceptions are the zampogna, the musette, and the uillean pipes, which have double reeds throughout.
  • He said that the exceptional permission for the unusual ceremony had been granted because his grandmother had herself served as a Wren.
  • So, if I show a single qualification or exception, then "unmitigated" is incorrect. Sound Politics: A Trifle Overstated, Professor McKay
  • Mr. Masson's discussions of Milton's English are, it seems to me, for the most part unsatisfactory He occupies some ten pages, for example, with a history of the genitival form _its_, which adds nothing to our previous knowledge on the subject and which has no relation to Milton except for its bearing on the authorship of some verses attributed to him against the most overwhelming internal evidence to the contrary. Among My Books Second Series
  • Secondly, he submitted that the case had never been pleaded or presented in the court below as one falling within the exceptional category, nor did the judge purport to find that it did.
  • With the exceptions of the enamel and dentin of the teeth, bone composes the hardest structures in the human body.
  • The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey.
  • Except for being the punchline of a few freshman jokes, being the lone "freshy" on the tennis team hasn't been too bad, either. Paul & Matt's Sports Attack
  • There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke 
  • So, they were asked to evaluate the candidates based on nothing else except their appearance, and the more attractive candidates were deemed... wait for it.... *more attractive*! One reason you might vote for Sarah Palin
  • We don't trade them, except for dried fruits and at times iron and cuprite, but the Lady Ryalth can tell from knowing that prices are changing what else may be affected. The Magi'i Of Cyador
  • I should say that these errors have all been without exception quite trivial in themselves.
  • Two examples, from her impressive "Transformation" disc, are the pianist's soulful performance of Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in F Minor and her sprightly, exceptionally characterful transversal of Igor Stravinsky's Three Movements From "Petrushka," a transcription based on his ballet score. The Fast and the Serious
  • But men are generally not as adventurous with their style as women, so this one might not catch on, except with Will and Shane, the most directional male fashionistas I know.
  • My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.". G.K. Chesterton 
  • A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Leonardo da Vinci 
  • A couple blocks from Baird's museum is The Rosebery restaurant, an exceptionally fine establishment that specializes in grilled sea bass. USATODAY.com - Tiger is buzz of Scotland
  • An exceptionally creepy two-parter begins tonight with various crudely dismembered body parts of young women getting washed up in the Thames or chewed by urban foxes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even Ethiopia, situated on a high plateau, which was cut up by mountains and vast canyons that made internal travel difficult, was accessible only from an exceptionally hot and unpleasant desert coast.
  • All the precious stones, except moonstone, opal and sphene, have at least the hardness of quartz, and can barely be scratched by metals, even by hard steel. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
  • Standards are very much the exception rather than the norm.
  • Last month the senator complicated their task by reiterating his support for some exceptions to a constitutional amendment banning abortion.
  • His staff officers were white except for a black warrant officer, the assistant regimental adjutant.
  • All his family have red hair except him. He is the exception which proves the rule.
  • Nothing was different except for a large mousehole shape gap in the bottom of the awning where the intrepid explorer had made his escape.
  • Exceptional items, joint ventures and impairment of assets were excluded. Times, Sunday Times
  • With the one exception of its monstrous size, there were the characteristics in plain view; -- the convex body, the large head, the projecting clypeus. The Beetle
  • Put all ingredients except mushrooms, pepper and olives into a pan or casserole.
  • I know the west coasters want to keep everyone out of the area except themselves, but I had hoped we had gone beyond the little Scotlander idea.
  • Except as noted below, data on all cause and cause specific child and infant mortality and of age distribution of child and infant mortality were regional estimates or other aggregates.
  • There is nothing intrinsically wrong with, or legally exceptionable about, that.
  • Except the gangster is also forcing money from Jonah and Olaf, forcing the timid men to contemplate killing him to protect Stella and themselves. Night Flights: March 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews
  • The orders Orthoptera and Hemiptera are particularly numerous; as likewise is the stinging division of the Hymenoptera; the bees, perhaps, being excepted. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • He would even abolish all state and local tariffs except property and sin taxes.
  • Much to everyone's humor, Rose amused herself with the gift wrappings and boxes that were trash to everyone else's eyes except her own.
  • Admitting then that gneiss, mica-schist, granite, diorite, &c, were once necessarily covered up, how can we account for the naked and extensive areas of such rocks in many parts of the world, except on the belief that they have subsequently been completely denuded of all overlying strata? X. On the Imperfection of the Geological Record. On the Poorness of Palaontological Collections
  • Self-regulation can work if there is both a default rule urging for its fine tuning (via contract), and a common sharing of values upon which to build the needed exceptions and safe harbours.
  • But this past year has been an especially punishing one for the country, with a drought over the summer leading to an exceptionally meagre yield of wheat, maize, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar-beet - all key crops.
  • We move around every few weeks to a new destination (with the exception of the winter months when we stay in Bonita Springs, FL for several months in a row, with occasional jaunts on the weekends). Zumbox: A Viable Paper Mail Killer?
  • With a few [extremely non-generic] exceptions, namely the ones with maximal isometry groups, one can say definitely whether they are expanding or not. Does Space Expand?
  • No drama of course except for the popping of the exhaust and the head-turning styling of the car.
  • But except for the Florida felines, as far as one can tell, wild cougars no longer live east of the Mississippi.
  • I had never driven a 4X4 before but you don't notice any difference from a normal car except for the height.
  • Allison, of Local Lemons, enjoys foodie life in Berkley (who wouldn't?), away from her family in NYC -- except she cannot get good Italian food or her grandmother's cooking. Archive 2009-04-01
  • The result indicated: all spice materials except hot pepper were antioxidant in lard and peanut oil.
  • The good part about San Cristobal is that the town is in a valley so the whole place is flat except for 3 hills where you do not have to climb. Pedestrian Friendly?
  • Certainly the Cambrian record is deeply biased in favour of shelly fossils, as revealed by the exceptionally preserved Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas, where the vast majority of taxa and individuals were non-biomineralizing.
  • But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes. Wuthering Heights
  • All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. James Joyce 
  • Draperies combined with window shades, valances and ornamentation such as trims can produce an exceptionally well-dressed window.
  • Three or four hundred kilos a year was not an exceptional intake for one family.
  • By parallelizing the requirements to the developed system and the possibilities of the existing client database, we can say that some key basic features already are implemented, except the client per-user name indexing.
  • One exception was the eccentrically named Lary 7, a 55-year-old photographer who has lived in the East Village since 1984. A Frame-by-Frame Show-and-Tell
  • Knowing the results show most are late, we hope less stigma is attached to finishing late, as it is the rule rather than the exception.
  • Banning all cutlery except the spork! Times, Sunday Times
  • At the age of five he showed exceptional talent as a musician.
  • They thought He was a ghost, a phantasm, an apparition, a spirit, anything except their Master.
  • There is no rule without an exception
  • While she is part of an increasing number of African-American women who breast-feed their children, a recent study says that as a black woman, Borget is still the exception and not the norm.
  • No one came round the cells except to push dry bread and water through twice a day and even that varied.
  • The psychological error then consists in externalizing an exceptional experience - which Bergson calls ‘resistance to the resistances’ - into a moral theory.
  • Phil Martin is an exceptionally busy man.
  • The jobs are mainly in administration, but exceptional recruits could in certain circumstances take part in surveillance, counter-espionage and counter-terrorist operations.
  • In connection with an item of Ru ware of the Northern Song dynasty, for instance, which many connoisseurs regard as one of the absolute pinnacles of Chinese ceramic art, the author of the pertinent catalogue entry states that certain qualities of shape and decoration “make it incredibly rare even within this exceptional group.” Archive 2009-08-01
  • If you do, and you are perhaps more familiar with The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril (also featuring Lovecraft), then the aforementioned is very much in the tradition of this book, except Shadows Bend does not suffer from the sometimes tedious diversions in the other book. Superhero Prose Fiction: Related - Shadows Bend
  • Why are the opinions of the exceptionally overopinionated classes so spectacularly important as they must take up valuable space. The Guardian World News
  • All members with the exception of the collar ties and wind braces are mortised and tenoned together with long tapered pins that secure the joints.
  • She was unlike him in every way except for her coal black eyes.
  • In short, our forty-fourth chief executive sought to end America's two-and-a-third centuries as a truly exceptional nation-more patriotic, more dynamic, more enterprising and freer than any other-to turn the republic into a kind of enervated satellite of Western Europe. Forbes.com: News
  • Except that he was not slothful: he had been busy all night. MURDER SONG
  • Smile everyday from today. Nothing really matters except to live or die.
  • Over the years, however, such dramatic action proved to be the exception rather than the rule.
  • Many birds and some antelopes, notably the dik-dik and the saiga, sport noses that give them an exceptional ability to regulate brain temperature and conserve water.
  • It is announced by the horns con sordini, accompanied very softly by held notes in the strings, except viola, pizzicato in the celli, and tympani. Edward MacDowell
  • Half a dozen creatures'manlike except for the snakiest necks either had ever seen-came thundering along the corridor, waving spears and shouting. Fortress Of Frost And Fire
  • Except for calcium and folacin intakes, mean nutrient intakes from food sources met or exceeded recommended levels.
  • The divergence relationship among ursine bears was not resolved with any of the molecular data sets with the exception of the affirmation of the close affinity of the brown bear and the polar bear.

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