| Everybody, except Sandara who was busy eating some adobo, looked at Hero strangely. |
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| This really ticked off Lisa and she turned around without saying anything else except for a groan or a whine or a sigh every once in a while. |
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| I was not advised of anything except to come back to the House because the session was to continue. |
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| I saw a friend and she had tourtiere for dinner, except without meat and with seitan instead, so it actually tasted good. |
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| Nobody has any statutory power to appoint an executor or administrator of a will, except a testator, sir. |
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| Deep Seeker reported that the wind boxed the compass from every direction except north. |
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| It does nothing except copy a bit of code and has no effect until the box is re-started. |
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| As Nicholas Daniel observed, Poulenc had a sure understanding of wind instruments, composing solo sonatas for each of them, except the bassoon. |
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| I will be leaving on vacation in two days and will not be able to do much else except put down ideas in my traveling notebook. |
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| Lions can also live, with wider ranges, in most habitats except in tropical rainforests and in deserts. |
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| A four horse teem mail stage operated over this route daily, except Sunday, going west one day and returning eastward the following day. |
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| Sandblast cleaning is also recommended except in the cases where heavy sand finish is involved. |
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| Their blossoms can be either single, double, or semi-double, and come in nearly every color of the rainbow except blue and green. |
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| You'll find every shade in the rainbow except blue, including gorgeous blends of two or more colors. |
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| Now kindly buzz off because I have serious work to do and this discussion cannot be productive of anything except raising my blood pressure. |
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| No remnants of these prairies survive, except for linear strips along railways. |
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| At the middle of the 20th century, the Wendish settlement was all but unknown except to a few historians. |
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| With the turn to realism, Shakespeare lost his prominence except for touring foreign actors. |
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| All too often as adults, we cease to give it any attention or value, except at night when we sleep and we dream. |
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| In fact most perching birds lay eggs that are mostly white except for a ring of reddish spots around the blunt end. |
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| As usual, nobody seems to know where the words originated, except that they both grew out of gambling, the race track and general raffishness. |
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| Together, they're a couple of test-lab refugees with little in common except for the three feet of chain that shackles them together. |
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| All would have been well except Emma decided that she had to have something to eat. |
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| The biplane looked much like a Wright Flyer except it had only one propeller and a cross-shaped tail. |
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| But several requests to lay proposals before the bank met with no serious response except that the bank should simply lend more money. |
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| The alley was pitch black except for the reflected glitter of the water on the walls. |
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| There were none, except perhaps the slight lift of an eyebrow as he noticed Cory's gaze. |
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| Spots on all finishes except lacquer can be treated with a cloth dampened with spirits of camphor, essence of peppermint or oil of wintergreen. |
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| Through the village she was silent, except to say that the women needed seed, for their store was very low. |
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| He was naked except for a pair of mustard-coloured jockettes and rubber flip-flops. |
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| The library is open to the public every day except Mondays with late opening hours on Wednesdays and Thursdays until 7pm. |
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| After that, the game could have gone either way, except that Tipperary were again forcing the pace. |
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| The girl is totally madly in love with the boy and the boy feels the same except they're both stupid and scared to tell each other how they feel. |
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| And everybody here belongs to the club except me, and that's all right except for the fact that I'm here. |
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| Is it because, except for the 4 main actors, none of the rest can act to save their roles? |
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| He is dressed sprucely, except for his rubber overshoes, evidences of the chill, watery Parisian spring. |
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| It did not rot, except for the weatherboards on the outside, which had to be replaced from time to time. |
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| In Asiatic Frontier delineations tribal boundaries, except where overridden by political considerations, are apt to be observed. |
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| During a prolonged break in the rains the frogs and toads are hushed, except in jhils and low-lying paddy fields. |
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| Ninety-two percent of this acreage is now in the twelve western states, except Hawaii. |
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| He has remade a whole small shop building in King's Cross into an imaginary reptile house, except there aren't any reptiles in the museum cases! |
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| In some cases, you are acquiring an asset that you haven't inspected, except from the curb. |
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| Males and females live separately, except during the rut, which is in September. |
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| Later, upholstery covered the entire chair, except for the legs and stretchers. |
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| She silently packed away everything except the cotton blanket wrapped around her, a piece of delicious-looking bread, and the emerald. |
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| As a general rule, you should always fasten your top button, except if your suit features soft, rollover lapels. |
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| All of my hardware was detected and set up except my IDE-CDR, which would require a kernel recompile to burn CDs with it. |
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| I do not wish any rituals, except the recitation of the Guru Granth, to follow my death. |
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| Forward of the boilers there is little but scraps of metal, except for the anchor winch, chains and anchors. |
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| All other events on the programme continue except the walking which will recommence when the weather improves. |
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| She looked pretty similar to Amanda, except she had long wiry looking auburn-red hair tied into 2 bunches. |
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| The amount of each nutrient in the supplement was the recommended dietary allowance for pregnant or lactating woman, except for iron and zinc. |
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| The men move and take as at draughts, except that in capturing they move either forwards or backwards like a draught king. |
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| But then again, what would purposeful self-sabotage prove except that his listeners are all just force-fed lunkheads? |
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| They say, except for jobs creation, the economy was firing on all cylinders from July through September. |
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| The building's exterior is largely unchanged, except that the carved mammal heads on the keystones of the first floor windows have been removed. |
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| The skin lesions are nonpalpable macules that may persist for months to years and are typically asymptomatic except for the cosmetic appearance. |
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| I hardly listen to radio in the morning, except to quickly digest the news, much of which is regurgitated from the previous night anyway. |
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| The Mani is a good place to walk at any time of the year, except in the searing heat of midsummer. |
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| It has pure white body feathers except for the black alulae, primary techrices and primary remiges. |
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| The bridge replaces the old North Bridge which has now been closed except for light traffic and pedestrians. |
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| Just about everything should be easily removable except the main propellant tanks. |
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| Essentially this ditches almost all animal agriculture except for beef and dairy products. |
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| First and last can be collected on all bids except kickers, bloncos, and bull solos. |
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| Even though everybody is under 13, the room is quiet except for some tearful whimpers of fear and anticipated pain. |
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| I didn't apply myself, preferring to spend most of high school in a gloom, so I got only average results except in English. |
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| The dialogueless scenario refuses to jell, and is performed by Bebe Neuwirth somewhat unconvincingly, except when she slinkily dances. |
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| There is no release of gases into the atmosphere except through the exhaust stack. |
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| If the weather's nice we hop a few fences and see parts of the park that no one except the forest rangers have visited for a century. |
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| The alkali metals are silver colored except for cesium, which is pale gold. |
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| And marlin, wahoo and yellowfins, there to dine on everything he mentioned except those massive sharks. |
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| No principle or vision is sacrosanct in Washington except its own security and self-interest. |
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| So I don't think you can reform educational institutions in radical ways, except in the wake of a revolution. |
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| 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. |
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| That includes all controls except the trackball, spinner, and three mouse buttons. |
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| I'm not sure if I entirely agree with her views on the country, except to say that we both think it's just amazing. |
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| Shadow detail is terrific, except in scenes meant to be shown in silhouette, where contrast is sharply delineated. |
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| I felt like offering condolences, except the commish has already been through worse. |
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| We use a non-standard signalling on most of our trackage, except for parts that we inherited from another operator. |
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| If you are a person who has had prior unsuccessful experience with Komondors don't buy any Komondor except a puppy. |
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| The bristle and eyelash consist of a rachis void of barbs, except at the innermost base. |
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| The ad is so fun, fast and sexy that I'm a Pepsi convert and I don't even drink cola except now and then with rum. |
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| He spent all his time at the bach out on the deck or in the house reading, except when they entertained. |
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| He was not paid except for tips he could get from spectators by telling hunting stories about some of the falcons on the cadge. |
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| I mean this girl had no makeup on except some lovely kohl around her eyes, and she was just so mesmerizing. |
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| Nothing too frightening happened, except for the fact that he was relieved of fifty euro by two large gentlemen. |
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| This goes a long way towards undermining the railroads and any other public transportation except buses and taxis. |
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| As most of you know, the contestants in a sumo match traditionally fight naked except for a loincloth called a mawashi. |
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| The Cape of Good Hope is a wild, windswept nature reserve that would pass for coastal Kerry, except for the baboons and unusual vegetation. |
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| You go out by melding all your cards except one, and discarding the last card. |
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| I'd like to see it myself, except that someone would probably recognize me and try to knock my block off. |
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| Along the staircase, everything goes black except for a few colored lights here and there. |
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| Such outfits are rarely worn, however, except in association with festivals or for the amusement of tourists. |
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| He would never do anything else except weekends when we'd go party and he would get gooned out of his tree! |
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| Don't lend to a passive holder of real estate, except if it's a hotel, motel, trailer park, or residential care facility. |
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| To go out you meld all of your cards, or all except one, which you discard. |
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| A cold frame in a sunny corner uses no resources except scrap lumber and an old window frame. |
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| Einstein said that ever since the atom was split, the world has changed irrevocably, except the way we think. |
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| There was no trace it had ever existed, except blank plots where the buildings once stood. |
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| Cameras were installed but seem to do little except consistently fail to identify speeding motorists who disregard the red signal. |
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| The rights apply to all persons under 18 except in countries where the age of majority is lower. |
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| Stray cats will not be allowed to sleep in our bed under the covers except at the foot. |
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| The events of his three years on the road, except for a few short asides, make up the plot of the novel. |
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| He ran across the battle field, wielding no weapon except for a small knife. |
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| And conscription was only used to recruit the militia, a reserve army never now mobilized except in wartime. |
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| The male is considered the head of the household, except where it is headed by a divorced or widowed woman. |
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| They have no linguistic relationship to any other language except for a vague similarity to the Athabaskan language. |
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| The ensign is flown from the peak or truck of the mast, except when directed to be flown at hair-mast. |
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| The word may eventually cease to have any real significance, except in a historical context. |
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| He's showing no more interest than before, except for a spark of amusement on his face that's impossible for me to miss. |
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| 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. |
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| It was rather plain, except for a small amulet which hung from the metallic necklace. |
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| The young tarnished plant bugs, called nymphs are similar to the adults except they have wing pads. |
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| The interim order also forbids him from lighting fires on any land except for land that he legally owns by way of a title deed. |
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| She appears to value nothing except publicity, to think of nothing beyond momentary pleasure. |
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| I haven't done anything except costumes for so long that my imagination in that area is atrophied. |
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| Expecting Herbert all the time, I dared not go out, except when I took Provis for an airing after dark. |
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| But finally the state enforced better emissions standards, and the talc disappeared, except for traces here and there. |
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| He was always careful not to touch her, except for his brush, and then with just the gentlest of strokes. |
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| Particles suspended in the cool layer cannot move anywhere except laterally, possibly for several miles. |
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| The skies are quiet except for the occasional sandhill crane and its raucous cries. |
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| They resembled green humanoid lizards, except for the black bodysuits and mechanical claws. |
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| No two spaces have the same dimensions and nothing is repetitive, except perhaps the door openings. |
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| Management loved him, except for the fact that he was always a few minutes late for work. |
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| That might not have mattered, except that they kept me waiting for about 20 minutes. |
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| In record time we had changed and were repacking our bags having to leave behind all except the bare essentials. |
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| All of these tissues, except the salivary gland, are considered necessary for the process of larval molting. |
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| They don't say very much about the cleaning liquid except that it comprises alcohol, tensides, lubricants and odorants. |
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| Can no longer function except to distribute billions of taxpayer largesse to politically connected corporations? |
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| Thankfully he was unhurt except for a cut on his knee, though his bike did land squarely on top of him. |
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| The yapok is a long-legged opossum with a relatively broad snout, and a long, almost hairless, scaly tail except at its base. |
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| It was a complete white-out, except for the ghostlike silhouette of our boat. |
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| No other remunerative work or employment may be undertaken by you except with our written consent. |
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| Employees in foreign banks are not very different except in their manner of deportment and remuneration. |
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| In the beginner's class, students take almost no falls except for simple backward ukemi. |
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| Stone took in a deep breath, but since he didn't have anything to lose except his clothes, he quickly removed his shirt and exposed his chest. |
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| York would gain absolutely nothing in having an airport, except perhaps a huge white elephant that would cost a large amount of money. |
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| Most people avoided the place entirely, except for perhaps the occasional adventurer or scientist. |
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| Actually, for most of the time the path was sound, except for spring-fed squelches. |
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| Not much was visible except the floor plan of a once magnificent house and its outside kitchen. |
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| He hardly ever went outside except to get the newspaper and, once in a blue moon, mow the lawn, and so his skin was milk-white and blue-veined. |
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| Dating is rare among the Karakalpaks, except for those living in large cities such as Nukus. |
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| In many cases it is being done by co-opting both the clergy and the laity, giving them no alternative except to acquiesce. |
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| Our lab manager helpfully suggested we could use regular water and then autoclave it, except that the autoclaves in the building don't work yet. |
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| The flowers remind me most of the glory pea except they are slightly smaller and have the spurs. |
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| The advance on a book, except for a few hundred authors internationally, tends to be not very much. |
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| He was in contention for the Open title, but faded in that strange final round with everyone else, except Whatshisname. |
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| In my dreams, his hair and skin tone are the same as mine, except he has no purple pigments embedded in his pallid white. |
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| He wears check shirts, worked as a cowman all his life, except for his years in the army. |
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| It was about the same size as the ventilation shafts at the school I rescued hostages from as my first mission, except it was round, not square. |
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| Vote-by-mail voters more closely mirror the electorate as a whole in all respects except age. |
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| However, they end up trapping themselves in the garage, without means of escape except for a couple of electric sanders. |
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| Finally, a telegraphic or telex message is not recorded, except by the sending and recipient banks. |
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| Healthcare spending is not promotable as a goal in itself and such spending, except in its preventive or prophylactic aspect, is unrelated to good health, a promotable goal. |
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| The legislature was prohibited from passing acts of attainder, and from instituting any courts, except those which proceeded according to the common law. |
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| That's all fine and dandy, except that it propagates a potentially false story from an unsavory source. |
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| Those who were chosen by God were no better than reprobates except that by his irresistible grace the elect could be brought to hate their sin, as Sir Walter does. |
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| One unusual aspect of this job is that the mat slab was pitched to trench drains everywhere, so power screeds couldn't be used for the placement, except in small areas. |
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| The captain tried to say all the cameras were functional except for the one in the cabin where the body was found. |
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| Chickens require significantly less land, water, and energy than all other meat options except farmed salmon. |
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| The whole continent, except for some semi-inaccessible places in the alps, northern Scotland or Scandinavia, has been groomed and tended by the hand of man. |
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| The exterior walls are of prefabricated wood sandwich panels except at the ground floor and on the gable walls, where the exterior shell is brick. |
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| For Romney and his operatives to find themselves in this situation is inexplicable, except on grounds of heedless greed. |
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| Since they spend many months of the year at sea, the Horned Puffin's diet is not completely known, except that the chicks are fed almost exclusively fish. |
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| Enormously popular, her vitality and stagecraft were underpinned by intelligence, yet all her successes, except in Shakespeare, were in sentimental melodrama. |
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| If you would just like to ask your solicitor, otherwise it will be a lot of going round the houses to achieve nothing except for saving the defendant having to pay something. |
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| The stage is bare except for an image of a god at stage left. |
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| Except for the maddening crowds at every store, and except for the idiots at Roosevelt Field mall and except for the madmen on the road today, it was a stellar day. |
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| Nothing much new here except for the uneasy feeling that my personal life is likely to get some disagreeable publicity soon. |
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| 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. |
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| Or is it just another sheltered workshop which, established with the best of intentions and heavily subsidised, is of benefit to no one except those who work in it? |
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| There is also a network of refuges, in every county except Carlow, some transitional accommodation in Waterford and some limited outreach and settlement support services. |
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| But there is one important thing they do not know, which is what it is like to be anyone except a mandarin. |
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| Most boring bits, at first glance, may look the same except for size. |
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| Finally I managed a smooth getaway and went in to shop, none the worse for the encounter and thinking about how much D.J. looks like her Mama except for that red hair. |
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| Steve taxied the Lightning and did a fast run down the runway and except for a minor hydraulic problem, pronounced the plane to be in fine condition. |
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| Perhaps, except for older Australians, the term wowser is nearly obsolete, as the state fights to keep other addictive mind-altering drugs illegal and difficult to obtain. |
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| In modern times, bronze is an alloy of copper and any metal except zinc. |
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| Mitochondria are found in all cells except the mature red blood cell. |
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| An obstructionist Duma that is in the hands of reactionaries and special interests like the kleptocrats was of benefit to no-one except those parties. |
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| He was pleased to find the club more or less as he remembered it, except that the couch and chairs had been re-covered, and the espresso machine had recently been upgraded. |
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| Services were disrupted during World War I and the interwar period witnessed few new developments except for the introduction of diesel motorships. |
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| In fact, I can't even play a musical instrument except the recorder. |
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| Horizontal sliding windows are like double-hung windows except that the sashes are located on the left and right edges rather than on the tops and bottoms. |
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| The editorial is probably on-target except for one teensy detail. |
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| Not so long ago the sight of a large, brown, hairy tarantula was enough to inspire fear and loathing in everyone except the most ardent enthusiast. |
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| But except for the four lapsed Mormons who attended, they stood alone. |
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| The whole of them were clad like outlaws or rangers of the lands, except for the commanders of each company, and three who rode in the very front. |
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| I got takeaways from the fish and chip shop and ate them in the park with a fellow blogger, and it was lovely, except for the mosquitoes, but I ate way too much. |
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| First, congressionally charter Blue Cross-Blue Shield as a monopoly to provide basic coverage to all Americans, except retirees. |
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| Swimming forward of the bridge, the wreckage resembles that of the stern decks, except that the anchor machinery and forward masts have fallen to the seabed. |
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| It seems self evidently the case that the authors of the plan did not consider any other possibility except the implementation of the Land Securities scheme. |
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| Any person who tries to jump the queue by smiling, gesturing or otherwise trying to attract the bar person's attention will receive nothing except a polite smile in reply. |
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| And for those of us who prefer not to have our food tainted with someone else's tobacco smoke, there will be no smoking in the building, except in the bar. |
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| Clearly, he had nothing in mind except going for the jugular. |
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| You can find these roses in every color of the rainbow, except blue. |
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| I am not sure how helpful that is, except that the communing certainly keeps us from feeling totally isolated in our perplexity. |
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| What is the point of this thick, colourful book, except as a sort of cultural tea bag for the American market? |
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| When the exponent is a prime number, I say that its radical cannot be divisible by any other prime except those that are greater by one than a multiple of double the exponent. |
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| If shopping is your thing there is a lively outdoor market every Thursday and Saturday, as well as the indoor market every day except Wednesdays and Sundays. |
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| That would benefit everyone except Chirac and the other jingoists. |
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| I got two kitchen chairs recently that are pretty nice except for this fabric, so I holed myself up today with some upholstery tacks and my fabric and got to work. |
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| A marker must not move from his position except to observe whether a bowl is likely to become a toucher or to answer a question requiring a closer inspection. |
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| In this case, not a lot has changed in the past millennium and a half, except that we're more likely to be wearied by tedium, ennui or heartsickness than by physical fatigue. |
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| The 83 year old photographer was noted for his striking use in fashion images of women, usually big, blonde and kinkily stylish, often largely naked except for high heels. |
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| The country has absolutely no continuity except in its sexennial collapse. |
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| Face cards count for ten except for the king, which counts for zero. |
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| An abdominal computerized tomographic scan was clean as a whistle except for a fatty liver, and a gallbladder hepatobiliary scan also was negative. |
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| Pit viper snake venoms are hemotoxic, except for some Mojave rattlers. |
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| From the forward cabin many persons never escaped. From the after cabin, so far as we know from the evidence, all did escape except an infirm old man. |
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| The classic Range Rover shape is kept in the new design except that the squareness is softened by some subtle rounding off at the edges and front. |
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| Facades on all sides, except the south, are tripartite with a central projecting section and plain walls rising from a rusticated base and surmounted by a balustrade. |
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| She has kept off alcohol, except for one slip, and that is a great achievement for someone who has suffered alcohol abuse problems for many years. |
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| It was like Thanksgiving, except it was lox instead of turkey. |
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| Andrew set the fundraising ball rolling a year ago, seeking to provide proper facilities for youngsters with nowhere to skateboard except public paths and kerbsides. |
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| He seems perfectly lucid except for the wild statements he keeps making. |
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| It may be an unusual combination, but the two pursuits don't necessarily conflict, except when Ciara turns up for a fashion shoot sporting a few cuts and bruises. |
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| Cost did not come into it, except as a reason to justify inaction. |
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| It made no sense, except maybe as something he could customize as The Bieber Haiku. |
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| At the French court, she was a favourite with everyone, except Henry II's wife Catherine de' Medici. |
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| In other words, all of Devon except for Dartmoor and Exmoor was freed from forest law. |
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| For strong acids and bases no calculations are necessary except in extreme situations. |
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| This area encompasses all the major cities of Scotland, except for Aberdeen and Inverness which are located in the north of the country. |
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| When the sun comes out, it is totally delightful, except for the mosquitoes, and the blackflies, and the deerflies. |
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| The airport buildings were in darkness except for a few dimmish lights in the lounge. |
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| The IIHS says all of the minicars except the Spark and the Mazda 2 earned low ratings for restraints and kinematics. |
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| For I acknowledge none of them to be really a book of mine, except perhaps the Bondage of the Will and the Catechism. |
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| All the legendry, of course, white and Indian alike, died down during the nineteenth century, except for occasional atavistical flareups. |
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| The idea of nonpigs, all things that are not pigs, includes everything conceivable except pigs. |
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| There are no additional complexities to any of these costs, except when it comes to ears. |
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| The Court of Common Pleas thus ceased to exist, except as the Common Pleas Division of the High Court. |
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| They live in all oceans except for the Arctic and Antarctic Circle regions. |
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| Numbers were still always written using Roman numerals, except for some rare occurrences of Arabic numerals during the 15th century. |
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| The law allows information requests to most government departments, except the military. |
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| Episterna and epimera dark brown or black except for yellow vertical stripe on mesoepimera. |
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| All steps and marchings executed from a halt, except right step, begin with the left foot. |
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| With care, all these phases except ice X can be recovered at ambient pressure and low temperature in metastable form. |
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| I couldn't run away from this guy, and I didn't have anything to fight with except an entrenching tool. |
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| The classical orders now became largely decorative rather than structural, except in colonnades. |
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| There was a gathering storm and lots of people were asleep at the switch, except seemingly a former top diplomat James Bartleman. |
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| Qell, he knows all about mineralogy, and geology, and astrology, and every thing a'most, except what he ought to know, and that is dollar-ology. |
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| Of the later South Saxon kings we have little knowledge except from occasional charters. |
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| At the end of June, James Bay was generally open water except for loose ice persisting over its northwestern section. |
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| To the surprise of almost everyone except Heath, the Conservatives won the election, with a majority of 31 seats. |
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| We don't even hear from bumblers at the SEC, except in bumbling testimony before congressional hearings. |
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| Italians have won the UCI World Championships more than any other country, except Belgium. |
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| Learners employing the vowels must not use either the inverted caret v or the dot, except as vowels. |
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| The sources said the mission offered consular services to Mirza, who was not willing to meet anyone from the mission except his lawyers. |
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| We had stopped throwing stones in view of anyone except ourselves years ago, after we saw the looks on the adults' faces when we outskipped them. |
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| In the former Dutch capital of Cape Town, nearly nothing from the VOC era have survived except the Castle of Good Hope. |
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| Almost all of the ships were sunk except for the flagship, Royal Charles, which was taken back to the Netherlands as a trophy. |
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| In platelet agregometer test, GT platelets do not aggregate following interaction with any substance except for ristocetin. |
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| The legislators abolished hereditary offices, except for the monarchy itself. |
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| It is a thing no outworlder may know except those very few who have been involved. |
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| The medieval Cinque Ports, except for the Port of Dover, have all now silted up. |
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| The Russian Katyusha is a multiple rocket thrower of which nothing is known except what can be seen on released photographs. |
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| Attacks further away were repulsed by artillery and small arms fire, except at Beauchamps. |
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| The Dhak or Palas is a familiar wild tree and is common throughout the greater part of India except in drier parts. |
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| The membrane has no hair follicles or sweat glands, except between the fingers. |
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| Each battery-powered people pod looks a bit like George Jetson's egg-shaped sky-car except for the two well-grounded wheels below. |
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| Beckham never personally appeared in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham, except in archive footage. |
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| The Papacy was never on good terms with the Normans of Sicily, except when under duress by the threat of direct military action. |
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| However, in 1547, two fires destroyed much of the town, and in 1571 the Crimean Tatars captured Moscow, burning everything except the Kremlin. |
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| Mr Vholes remained immovable, except that he secretly picked at one of the red pimples on his yellow face with his black glove. |
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| Nothing moves on these playboards except the ball itself which rolls down the inclined playboard by gravitational pull. |
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| The same rules apply to women, except their age of majority is 13 years and a day. |
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| Michael's troubles may be over soon, except that Christal claims to be preggers with triplets. |
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| Some preservings of foods, indeed, can scarcely be done to advantage except on a large scale. |
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| It has a worldwide distribution and is found in temperate and tropical regions of all continents except Antarctica. |
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| Today, all surviving Iroquoian languages except Cherokee and Mohawk are severely endangered, with only a few elderly speakers remaining. |
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| They were pro-life except in cases of rape, incest, maternal life risk, mental health risk, socioeconomic factors, or fetal defects. |
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| In M. laniger the canine and most anterior premolar are more equal than in any other Lermuroid, or indeed than in any other Primate except Man. |
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| So far there are no differences among the protiums extracted at various labs, except for concentration levels. |
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| It lies on 4 miles of pristine beach, and except for maybe a snowy plover or legless lizard, you likely won't see another soul. |
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| Gulf of Mexico except the Noble Clyde Boudreaux which is scheduled to be remanned tomorrow. |
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| There are street performances at Covent Garden Market every day of the year, except Christmas Day. |
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| The binding for the Appleton Alice was virtually identical to the 1866 Macmillan Alice, except for the publisher's name at the foot of the spine. |
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| There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles. |
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| The entire grid, except tail-enders HRT, are taking part in the four-day test. |
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| The King's College London Act 1903, abolished all remaining religious tests for staff, except within the Theological department. |
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| Abundant and of universal distribution in all kinds of situations except muckland. |
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| The diplomats were advised not to interact with any foreign nationals except on official duty. |
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| Rainfall during the summer is extremely rare, except in the far north of the country. |
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| Veronica Petrillo's typical virgin is ironically similar to her streetwise actor, except for a certain added buoyance. |
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| He wore black three-quarter cargo pants with that same strange belt, except his had a chain running from that to his cargos. |
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| After an s elsewhere in a word they are normally unaspirated as well, except sometimes in compound words. |
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| The Germanic Franks adopted Romanic languages, except in northern Gaul where Roman settlements were less dense and where Germanic languages emerged. |
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| The getters that I work for are naked except for their caps. |
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| The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours. |
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| The facade was finished in polished marble and bronze set into limestone, completely plain except for softly, almost invisibly, deckled keystones. |
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| Because it can be turned out mechanically, kitsch has become an integral part of our productive system in a way in which true culture could never be, except accidentally. |
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| Being one of the first railways, many lessons had to be learnt from experience, but not many passengers were killed except by their own negligence. |
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| Humans, meanwhile, retain the theoretical capacity to will justly but, owing to the Fall, they are incapable of doing so in practice except by divine grace. |
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| The item with the siglum NKG Band H refers to the present new edition, except the publication date and edition number are different from that eventually used. |
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| Notable are the ziggurats, large temples with the form of a terraced step pyramid, from which we have practically no traces left except their bases. |
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| For many years, the total valuation of all companies listed on the Kuwaiti exchange far exceeded the value of those on any other GCC bourse, except Saudi Arabia. |
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| Thus the Flemings just have one single institutional body of parliament and government is empowered for all except federal and specific municipal matters. |
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| Indian railway passengers got a major relief yesterday with Railway Minister Mukul Roy announcing rollback of passenger fare hike except for luxury classes. |
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| Leaf plates are less common today, except on special occasions. |
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| No one ascends the mountain through fear of the demon, except an Ojha or sorcerer, who sacrifices a goat at the foot of the hill before he makes the attempt. |
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