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1. She looked too angry to do much of anything except try to incinerate me with her eyeballs
2. The topic of sexuality and aging is often treated with tremendous sentimentality or with derisive humor, and it is hard for some people to conceive of sexual desire and passion among the elderly except in terms of lechery
3. This is a totally overlooked sales technique in virtually all small business shopping systems except
4. It wasn’t much of a graphical enhancer because Ackers looked almost exactly the same as he did on the screen except for a few subtle shifts here and there on his face there wasn’t much that was different
5. There was nothing to do here, really, except sit down at the hotel and watch T
6. Ackers shook his head as he switched off his database and computer, “If Agent Seventy-Seven has nothing to add to this mission except herself, then perhaps we don’t need any more of her help
7. It was almost like a victory parade, except the hero was carried against his will and screaming
8. Everyone was focused on the fight except for Ackers, who turned his head and looked at the sword sticking out of the wall
9. They meet fellow-devotees and withdraw from an interest in worldly matters, except those of the family and close relations
10. The first stage of counseling is to develop a working relationship, except in the case of close relations
11. All except for the enormous tree rooted at the center of Eden
12. Ants like most creatures except man, follow the path of least resistance
13. The old man had a rabbit as a butler, except the rabbit stood on two legs, twitching his whiskers in his little butler outfit
14. The two hour ride to the Gengee waterfront was uneventful except for a huge tie-up as they approached a bridge on the road leading into the city
15. Every bare wall, except in the computer room (he was afraid of shelves falling on his computer) had a bookshelf stuffed with books
16. The main idea is to turn the pile over in such a way that you are turning the layers together except for the center of the pile
17. The mind wants to reject it and turn back time, believe in anything else except the reality it has been presented with
18. The crate really wasn't over four feet except at the very center, where it was five and a half feet high
19. Most of the teacher, except for John and Russ, gaze up with vacuous eyes and gaping expressions, giving one the impression that they could possibly be drugged mental patients who have wandered off from an institution
20. Except that she couldn’t
21. Except for the school uniform you would think you were speaking to an adult
22. Except for the pipes I paid
23. I suspected a Brazilian doomsday system in the kuiper belt, but I have no evidence for anything except that interstellar transmission from the Sol System has ceased, mortal transmissions only a few years before those from the Angels
24. I would have done the same for Will but the problem was that he wasn't interested in anything except girls
25. Except for logistics
26. Except, Johnny then realised that all was not silent
27. except setting all hope upon God and His Word, then the inexplicable
28. He had a screen in his house like he would have had back in Brazil since four hundred years ago now, except that it looked like a crystal ball instead of a screen
29. He was the only runner out and Main Street was deserted except for two forlorn and anxious looking individuals standing outside the offices of the local bank
30. flowing hair, showing the aquiline profile of a true son of the Julian clan, except for
31. i think there is nothing to add, except prayer
32. he smelled again the viscera of sweet perfection, except that in the telling of these
33. Nothing to do except really concentrate on the next batter
34. Except Darklow Garda Station of course and Derek Reilly
35. Except, of course, for the unbending equation, for the balancing highs and
36. Except for one phone call
37. The thug, and I was assuming this was Sammy the Shark, would have cut a ruggedly stylish figure except for the filthy looking street tattoos all over his arms and creeping up the visible side of his face to the left temple
38. "It would have been a bit more sir, except that your associates destroyed a Bechstein model 8
39. The result was rather disappointing: Everybody failed except Mary, who “saw” that the copper statuette of Oros had been moved away from its usual place
40. Bahkmar could never say this, but Moamar looked a lot like the one named Kiethying except for the pin stripes and turban and maybe fifty years
41. They forgot that no mortal can ever enter virtual space save with an avatar or in death, and no Angel can ever enter baseline space except in an android
42. There is no reason why we have a shortage of elders today except for the fact there
43. willing to follow the lead of the shepherds but too often the problem has been that there was nothing (no one) to follow except maybe the man in the pulpit or some godly parent or
44. The hedges are all leafless now, except where an evergreen is to be found
45. Except that it couldn’t be Smiler
46. Conclusion: From now on Themis is not only uninterested in me but he also ignores me completely! A week later I will repeat the magic ritual -in vain; I could as well say the situation is getting worse and worse: Now Themis is courting all women in our class except me, especially when I am present! He is flirting everyone but me! He even arranges outings or day trips with them in such an ostentatious manner that I -as well as the whole gym- can hear everything; needless to say, I am never given the chance to be a member of that enviable party
47. In my rush to get to it before it stops, starkers except for a towel round my hair, I nearly trip up on the bath mat
48. They had often conversed during the fifty year journey, to the point where she was the closest female friend he had ever had except his wives, and maybe a closer friend than Ajeel, his fourth and most distant in age
49. I gave up humming and instead tried to erase everything from my mind except a picture of my mother and father
50. Its appearance changed little from month to month, except when they looped around it two and a half years ago
1. Excepted are only the major
2. They have no manufactures, those household and coarser manufactures excepted, which necessarily accompany the
3. These last, however, must have been purchased, either immediately with the produce of domestic industry, or with something else that had been purchased with it; for, the case of war and conquest excepted, foreign goods can never be acquired, but in exchange for something that had been produced at home, either immediately, or after two or more different exchanges
4. In England they were generally exempted from suit to the hundred and county courts : and all such pleas as should arise among them, the pleas of the crown excepted, were left to the decision of their own magistrates
5. From the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth, too, the English legislature has been peculiarly attentive to the interest of commerce and manufactures, and in reality there is no country in Europe, Holland itself not excepted, of which the law is, upon the whole, more favourable to this sort of industry
6. The wine, brandy, salt, and vinegar of France, were indeed excepted; these commodities being subjected to other heavy duties, either by other laws, or by particular clauses of the same law
7. 15, this indulgence was a good deal abated, and it was enacted, " That no part of the duty called the old subsidy should be drawn back for any goods of the growth, production, or manufacture of Europe or the East Indies, which should be exported from this kingdom to any British colony or plantation in America; wines, white calicoes, and muslins, excepted
8. The revenue of every established church, such parts of it excepted as may arise from particular lands or manors, is a branch, it ought to be observed, of the general revenue of the state, which is thus diverted to a purpose very different from the defence of the state
9. This land tax, as it is called however, is supposed to be one-fifth, not only of the rent of all the land, but of that of all the houses, and of the interest of all the capital stock of Great Britain, that part of it only excepted which is either lent to the public, or employed as farming stock in the cultivation of land
10. According to the estimation, therefore, by which Great Britain is rated to the land tax, the whole mass of revenue arising from the rent of all the lands, from that of all the houses, and from the interest of all the capital stock, that part of it only excepted which is either lent to the public, or employed in the cultivation of land, does not exceed ten millions sterling a-year, the ordinary revenue which government levies upon the people, even in peaceable times
11. “Well anyway we applied for a job and were excepted we had to go for a medical as we had to be physically fit and have perfect eyesight and we also had to be strong
12. In England, for example, when, by the land-tax, every other sort of revenue was supposed to be assessed at four shillings in the pound, it was very popular to lay a real tax of five shillings and sixpence in the pound upon the salaries of offices which exceeded a hundred pounds a-year; the pensions of the younger branches of the royal family, the pay of the officers of the army and navy, and a few others less obnoxious to envy, excepted
13. In what I hoped was a convincing French accent, I admitted to speaking a few words of their lovely tongue and within minutes knew they came from Leeds, owned a dry-cleaning business, were staying in a bloody expensive hotel, thought the food was airy fairy, had tried the paying beach but hoped the free one would be more fun, but it wasn’t because the French are bloody unfriendly – present company excepted – and everything was too bloody pricey
14. hereinafter excepted, has sexual intercourse with a
15. excepted), so after a moment’s reflection he put the key in the
16. French Moniteur only excepted, are the greatestsatire ever
17. This is the academic excepted values: The average density of matter in the Universe today that would be
18. She knows he has excepted that part of her, but she also knows that he thought she had changed for the better last year-which she had, but she can only watch her best friend run around in the spotlight that was rightfully Massie's
19. family excepted; but does this good man deplore, in any shape, that as many precious souls should be sent to hell?
20. mankind was swept from the earth by a flood, Noah and his family excepted; but does this good
21. of mankind was swept from the earth by a flood, Noah and his family excepted; but does this
22. Now, is it not strange that all this should be the state of the fears and feelings of good people, if they believed such misery was to be the portion of the wicked? The whole race of mankind was swept from the earth by a flood, Noah and his family excepted; but does this good man deplore, in any shape, that as many precious souls should be sent to hell? God also destroyed the cities of the plain
23. All here, yourself excepted, saw the King take it, in his carriage in the street, sitting beside the Queen
24. (the baronet excepted, who soon after took Harriet home) had all, on the
25. excepted that it received most of that branch of homage
26. He was alone, if the solitary sentinel who paced the mound be excepted; for the artillerists had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties
27. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law
28. His project meanwhile was very favourably entertained by his auditors and won hearty eulogies from all though Mr Dixon of Mary's excepted to it, asking with a finicking air did he purpose also to carry coals to Newcastle
29. I had now passed near a month in the enjoyment of all the pleasures of familiarity and society with my companions, whose particular favourites (the baronet excepted, who soon after took Harriet home) had all, on the terms of community established in the house, solicited the gratification of their taste for variety in my embraces; but I had with the utmost art and address, on various pretexts, eluded their pursuit, without giving them cause to complain; and this reserve I used neither out of dislike of them, nor disgust of the thing, but my true reason was my attachment to my own, and my tenderness of invading the choice of my companions, who outwardly exempt, as they seemed, from jealousy, could not but in secret like me the better for the regard I had for, without making a merit of it to them
30. Sometimes he would strip me stark naked on a carpet, by a good fire, when he would contemplate me almost by the hour, disposing me in all the figures and attitudes of body that it was susceptible of being viewed in; kissing me in every part, the most secret and critical one so far from excepted that it received most of that branch of homage
31. In all the proclamations of general pardon which I have seen, my name, with a few others, is specially excepted
32. It was obvious that he did not like women, Melanie excepted, any better than he liked negroes and Yankees
33. "My mother is not used to my having visitors who can take any interest in my hobbies," said the Vicar, as he opened the door of his study, which was indeed as bare of luxuries for the body as the ladies had implied, unless a short porcelain pipe and a tobacco-box were to be excepted
34. Lemon's favorite pupil, who by general consent (Fred's excepted) was a rare compound of beauty, cleverness, and amiability
35. Yourselves excepted, of course, ma’am, sir
36. excepted from the category, jealousy
37. The I excepted, the I effaced, the I forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce myself? I am arrested; this Champmathieu is released; I am put back in the galleys; that is well—and what then? What is going on here? Ah! here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And that child whom I
38. The typical investor should not use these investment vehicles (IRAs, 401(k) plans, and Keoghs excepted), the most common of which are municipal bonds
39. During the intervening period I had no time to nurse chimeras; and I believe I was as active and gay as anybody—Adèle excepted
40. He had excepted from the ban:
41. How express what I felt in the presence of this man, awful and cruel for all, myself only excepted? And why not tell the whole truth? At this moment I felt a strong sympathy with him
42. In other words, on learning that the old lady had changed her mind about departing, and was bent on setting out for the Casino again, the whole of our gang (Polina only excepted) proceeded en masse to her rooms, for the purpose of finally and frankly treating with her
43. In the ante-room I met T—vski, a young nobleman of not much information, but of firm, generous character; the convicts excepted him from the hatred they felt for the convicts of noble birth; they were almost fond of him; every one of his gestures denoted the brave and energetic man
44. Lebedeff stamped his feet at his daughters and drove them away if they attempted to join the prince on the terrace; not even Vera was excepted
45. But after all he is half justified; publicity is the lawful right of every man; consequently, Burdovsky is not excepted
46. He was going to add that if they gave an affirmative answer to any question that was put to them they would thereby affirm everything included in the question, so that if they did not wish to affirm the whole of the question they should mention the part of the question they wished to be excepted
47. A woman, in addition to the possibility of serving men by all the means open to man is, by the construction of her body, called and inevitably attracted, to serve others by that which alone is excepted from the domain of the service of man
48. This measure has been thus far pursued for these great purposes; and it has been patiently borne with to this day, by the nation at large, the partial discontents which have appeared in some particular parts of the country only excepted
49. Thus, the fifth clause in the first article of the Georgia deed of cession, dated April 24th, 1802, stipulates: "That the Territory thus ceded shall form a State, and be admitted as such into the Union, as soon as it shall contain 60,000 free inhabitants, or at an earlier period, if Congress shall think it expedient, on the same conditions and restrictions, with the same privileges, and in the same manner, as is provided in the ordinance of Congress of the 13th day of July, 1787, for the government of the Western Territory of the United States; which ordinance shall, in all its parts, extend to the Mississippi Territory contained in the present act of cession, that article only excepted which forbids slavery
50. But, is it not singular that as to the many heroes who have served us during the Revolution, who have now gone to their long home, no notice has been taken of their merits by us, nor any step taken to confer upon them the honor now proposed to be conferred on this officer, whom I acknowledge to be meritorious? We have seen a Greene die, and certainly no man exceeded him in rank or merit, the General-in-chief excepted
1. They fall almost altogether upon what I call luxuries, excepting always the four duties above mentioned, upon salt, soap, leather, candles, and perhaps that upon green glass
2. Pray tell me where in our Constitution the President is authorized to present a plan, a budget, or anything else excepting an annual State of the Union Speech, to the Congress
3. Every citizen, in one way or another, is expected to participate in a constructive manner that accrues to the mutual benefit of every citizen living in a free and open society; that each individual is obligated to lend his or her unqualified, excepting such conditions were that society has spiritually and morally corrupted itself, support in the cause of freedom; and that the general welfare of that society should take precedence over the private belief system of any individual who continues reaping the benefits of living in that society
4. 22 And the king's servants took Abram and his brother, and they stripped them of all their clothes excepting their lower garments which were on them
5. 22 And Pharaoh rose up and harnessed his chariot, and he ordered all the Egyptians to assemble, not one man was left excepting the little ones and the women
6. 40 And when the children of Israel had entered the sea, the Egyptians came after them, and the waters of the sea resumed on them, and they all sank in the water, and not one man was left excepting Pharaoh, who gave thanks to the Lord and believed in him, therefore the Lord did not cause him to perish at that time with the Egyptians
7. 41 Surely not one man of this wicked generation shall see the land from twenty years old and upward excepting Caleb the son of Jephuneh and Joshua the son of Nun
8. 5 For the Lord had told them that they would die in the wilderness, so they all died, and not one had been left of them excepting Caleb the son of Jephuneh, and Joshua the son of Nun
9. 22 And the king's servants took Abram and his brother and they stripped them of all their clothes excepting their lower garments which were on them
10. Folks, the only thing that condemns ya is not excepting Jesus as yer personal Savior
11. 22 And Pharaoh rose up and harnessed his chariot and he ordered all the Egyptians to assemble not one man was left excepting the little ones and the women
12. 40 And when the children of Israel had entered the sea the Egyptians came after them and the waters of the sea resumed on them and they all sank in the water and not one man was left excepting Pharaoh who gave thanks to the Lord and believed in him therefore the Lord did not cause him to perish at that time with the Egyptians
13. 5 For the Lord had told them that they would die in the wilderness so they all died and not one had been left of them excepting Caleb the son of Jephuneh and Joshua the son of Nun
14. Excepting her rigid stance and their armor, the two appeared to be identical
15. 1 The residual teachings of the disciples of Melchizedek, excepting those which persisted in the Jewish religion, were best preserved in the doctrines of the Cynics
16. Excepting Athens, which was more renowned as an educational center, Corinth was the most important city in Greece during these Roman times, and their two months' stay in this thriving commercial center afforded opportunity for all three of them to gain much valuable experience
17. Excepting the visit of Gabriel to Elizabeth and the dream of Zacharias, there was nothing unusual or supernatural connected with the birth of John the Baptist
18. 4 In these early teachings Jesus sought to avoid controversies with his apostles as far as possible excepting those involving wrong concepts of his Father in heaven
19. Excepting oratory, he was the peer of his associates in almost every imaginable ability
20. 5 The apostles all loved and respected Nathaniel, and he got along with them splendidly, excepting Judas Iscariot
21. 3 The one hundred and more evangelists trained during this five months by the seaside represented the material from which (excepting Abner and John's apostles) the later seventy gospel teachers and preachers were drawn
22. 2 No miracles had attended the recent preaching tour through the Decapolis, and, excepting the cleansing of the ten lepers, thus far there had been no miracles on this Perean mission
23. 3 As the evening drew on, they walked about the temple courts in silence, and after Jesus had surveyed these familiar scenes once more, recalling his emotions in connection with previous visits, not excepting the earlier ones, he said, "Let us go up to Bethany for our rest
24. But east to Vilayet, and from the Arctic circle to the lands of Shem, the only inhabitants were roving tribes of Nordheimr, excepting the Cimmerians, settled in the old Turanian kingdom
25. How busy is our submarine fleet, both attack and Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines? Do we need as many FBMs as we have? Do we need a surface fleet? Why not get a commitment with the old Soviet block countries and China, India, Pakistan, Great Britain, France and North Korea to mutually phase out Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles(ICBMs), FBMs and their multiple missile and warhead threats and other nuclear warhead stockpiles? What are the options for defense of the homeland? What missions do the Air Forces air wings cover? For defense only, what components of our Air Force do we keep active? What is the cost of operating these wings, these airbases? What does a defense only Armed forces look like? Can we operate from home with refueling tanker bases in Hawaii and Great Britain and otherwise bring home all military, excepting our embassies abroad?
26. And as if to reinforce his image as an egotistical self-serving monster Stalin even had all of the old Bolshevik leadership from Lenin’s time executed, all excepting himself, of course
27. In the old days of barter, excepting the distortions imposed by those in positions of
28. I have few good things to say about energy connections, excepting
29. Some say his biggest mistake was excepting a challenger so early after he won the belt
30. “Only those who wish to have their faces permanently rearranged, dare to call me by my given name, excepting me mother of course
31. (Excepting FREE CUTTING STEEL where % S is kept high)
32. 5) Ultrasonic testing : Excepting for the initial investment, this testing is
33. The spacious shop was clean and mostly empty, excepting the equipment, which, at first glance, appeared top-of-the-line
34. Rohan, in his dark and dusty robe, had a head as round and as bald as the moon, excepting the tufts of gray hair sprouting around his ears
35. excepting the study of Greek
36. To this day, a majority of the population of SpanishAmerica, excepting only Chile,
37. And, if there is ever anyone who points that finger of blame unpleasantly, and honestly, without making any exceptions…without even excepting themselves
38. Titus handed him the book, “Miss Eleanor never treat a book like that excepting she had a reason to!”
39. Excepting the 'lying spirit’ in Micaiah’s vision (1 Kings xvii
40. We do not learn that any passages excepting these three are cited from the Old Testament writings in support of the modern doctrines
41. Which Farmer-General, carrying an appropriate cane with a golden apple on the top of it, was now among the company in the outer rooms, much prostrated before by mankind--always excepting superior mankind of the blood of Monseigneur, who, his own wife included, looked down upon him with the loftiest contempt
42. I therefore, grateful for the favour that has been extended to me here, and unable to make a return in the same measure, restricted as I am by the narrow limits of my power, offer what I can and what I have to offer in my own way; and so I declare that for two full days I will maintain in the middle of this highway leading to Saragossa, that these ladies disguised as shepherdesses, who are here present, are the fairest and most courteous maidens in the world, excepting only the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, sole mistress of my thoughts, be it said without offence to those who hear me, ladies and gentlemen
43. I know not why I felt a mixed sensation of despair and tenderness, excepting that, ever
44. "No more can I," interrupted Maria, "yet they even expatiate on the peculiar happiness of indigence, though in what it can consist, excepting in brutal rest,
45. fraught with happiness; and on futurity I bestowed not a thought, excepting to
46. in on the tea-board, from which he would scarcely lift his eyes while I poured out the tea, excepting to ask for some brandy to put into it, or to declare that he could not eat
47. opportunity to marry, excepting to a very old man
48. no terror in the frown, excepting when contrasted with the malignant smile which
49. In her case, to talk of duty, was a farce, excepting what
50. witnesses, excepting that of imprisonment in a private madhouse