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* At sea, it was usually ejected from siphons, although earthenware pots or grenades filled with it or similar substances were also used.
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At the Greek's journey to Troy, Artemis becalmed the sea and stopped the journey until an oracle came and said they could win the goddess ' heart by sacrificing Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter.
At the northern part of the Gulf of Bothnia the water is no longer salty and many fresh water species live in the sea.
At, the Channel Tunnel possesses the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, although the Seikan Tunnel in Japan is both longer overall at and deeper at below sea level.
At the end of glacials with sea level rapidly rising, corals become major sinks for Carbon dioxide as the reefs grow up to the new sea level.
At right is displayed the web color light sea green.
At sea, warships and troop carriers were painted in dazzle patterns that were highly visible, but designed to confuse enemy gunners as to the target's speed, range, and heading.
At first, the danger to a battle fleet was considered only to exist when at anchor, but as faster and longer range torpedoes were developed, the threat extended to cruising at sea.
At its source, the river is at an elevation of above sea level.
At the end of the 18th century it became fashionable for wealthy people to spend the Summer by the sea.
At Cofete on the western side of JandÃa a remote and imposing house-Villa Winter-looks out to sea across wide and generally empty beaches.
At the bottom of the sea, Godzilla recovers and roars over Mecha-King Ghidorah's body.
At sea naval defeats against British fleets at Lagos and Quiberon Bay in 1759 and a crippling blockade forced France to keep its ships in port.
At low tide, the West Winner sandbank is visible, extending a mile out to sea.
At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, inland transport was by navigable rivers and roads, with coastal vessels employed to move heavy goods by sea.
At age eleven he went to sea with his father.
At the northern end of the sea, more than 10, 000 square kilometres of land in Atyrau Province have been flooded.
At sea, the sail enabled longships to travel faster than by oar and to cover long distances overseas with far less manual effort.
At the bottom of the trench, where the plates meet, the water column above exerts a pressure of, over one thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level.
At the entrance to the sea, a flood protection system called Maeslantkering has been installed ( completed in 1997 ).
At his command a storm arose and covered the sea.
At its edge, sea, slush, and ice mix, surrounded by fog.
At first the French and English crusaders travelled together, but the armies split at Lyon, as Richard decided to go by sea, and Philip took the overland route through the Alps to Genoa.
At standard temperature and pressure, radon forms a monatomic gas with a density of 9. 73 kg / m < sup > 3 </ sup >, about 8 times the density of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level, 1. 217 kg / m < sup > 3 </ sup >.
At and was
At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.
At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
At the heart of all of this was the square, which one such traveler declared to be `` as spacious, as pleasant and aromatick a Market as any in the Universe ''.
At the moment he was excited about his son's having received the Prix De Rome in archaeology and was looking forward to being present this summer at the excavation of an Etruscan tomb.
At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??
At this period the thirty-year old Helion was ranked `` as one of the mature leaders of the modern movement '', according to Herbert Read, `` and in the direct line of descent from Cezanne, Seurat, Gris and Leger ''.
At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.
At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.
At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:
At this, the students let out a yell, knowing full well the actual frontier was beyond the town of Kehl.
At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.
At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).
At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.
At Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.
At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.
At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.
At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.
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