At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

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 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 dinner the courses were carried in by tall cuirassiers in red capes and black fur caps topped with tufts of feathers, marching in pairs like guards from a stage tragedy.

At his death Fred and Ralph, my husband, were named executors of the estate under the terms of the will.

At the bottom of this change were great strides forward in the technical equipment and technical standards of the historian.

At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.

At that time, during the Civil War, Union muskets were being manufactured in Providence and the drills to drill them were being hand-filed with rattail files.

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

At the end of the run, the strips in the third and sixth positions in each chamber were dried, stained for 1 hr, washed and dried, while the other strips were maintained in a horizontal position at 1-degree-C.

At times, clumps of 10 to 15 closely-packed nuclei were also observed.

At the close of Davis' speech the following preamble and resolutions were read by the president, and on the question of their adoption passed unanimously:

At no time were algae found in the mixed liquor.

At 6 o'clock on the morning of August 12, they were in doubt no longer.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

At each angle of its pitch a big skylight had been fitted into the roof and all these skylights were fitted with systems of multiple screens and shades.

At a ceremony in the reception room of Mayor Richardson Dilworth, the Eagles were honored for winning the championship.

At least 20 other Americans were reported to have been arrested in a mass political roundup.

At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.

At the very least, Marxism had now been born, and " historical materialism " had become a distinct philosophical doctrine, subsequently elaborated and systematised by intellectuals like Eduard Bernstein, Karl Kautsky, Georgi Plekhanov and Nikolai Bukharin.

At birth she was named " Malinalli " or " Malinal " after the Goddess of Grass, on whose name-day she was born.

At first William was seen as a moderate ruler, whose friendship with liberal Britain was symbolised by the recent marriage of his son ( the future Frederick III ) to Queen Victoria's eldest daughter ; their son ( the future William II ) was born in 1859.

* At the Edmonton Valley Zoo in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, twins were born in 2007 and 2008, a single birth in 2009, and twins in 2010 ( one died 9 September 2010 )

* At the Denver Zoo in Denver, Colorado, twins were born in 2008 and quadruplets in 2009.

* At the Red River Zoo in Fargo, North Dakota, twins were born in 2008 and triplets in 2009.

A daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the " Winter King and Queen of Bohemia " for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents fled into exile after the Battle of White Mountain. She was also the granddaughter of James VI of Scotland., At birth, Sophia was granted an annuity of 40 thalers by the Estates of Friesland.

At the end of the 1920s, the carnival samba of blocks of the districts Estácio de Sá and Osvaldo Cruz was born, and in the hills of Mangueira, Salgueiro, and São Carlos, there were innovations in rhythmic samba that persist until the present day.

At this time, the principle of equity was born.

At one point a model of the futuristic park was pushed together against a model of the international park, and EPCOT Center was born — a theme park with the flavor of a World's Fair.

At one time there was an important distinction between French Métis born of francophone voyageur fathers, and the Anglo-Métis or Countryborn descended from English or Scottish fathers.

At that time, the time traveller kills his or her grandfather, and therefore, the time traveller is never born when he or she was meant to be.

At the time of his election, his son Michael was born.

At the time the Hallstein Doctrine was born ( or at least named ), Heinrich von Brentano was the foreign minister, a post that had been recently created, after West Germany largely regained its sovereignty in 1955 — before this, political responsibility for foreign policy had been retained by the chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.

Chasez was born in Washington, D. C. At age five he was adopted by Roy and Karen Chasez.

At the same time it was instituted that the first born of each family should be redeemed ; i. e. they would be ' bought back ' from the dedication to God that would previously have been required of them.

At the Ruskin trial ( see below ), Whistler claimed the more exotic St. Petersburg, Russia as his birthplace: " I shall be born when and where I want, and I do not choose to be born in Lowell ", he declared.

* At the October 16, 2008 Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, then, Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama joked that he was from Krypton, saying " Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger.

" At an irreducible minimum he was born to a Greek family in Bithynion-Claudiopolis, in the Roman province of Bithynia in what is now north-west Turkey, and joined the entourage of the emperor Hadrian at a young age, although nothing certain is known of how, when, or where he and Hadrian met.

At any rate, Marozia married Alberic I, duke of Spoleto, in 909, and their son Alberic II was born in 911 or 912.

At least three children have been born in Antarctica, albeit in stations north of the Antarctic Circle.

" At the same time, The Charlotte Observer called her work " an excellent performance that's soft around the edges " and the Los Angeles Times concluded that Becky is " a part Reese Witherspoon was born to play ".

At this time Norman and his manager Phillip F. Mangano ( born November 30, 1947 ), " came up with a vision to raise up artists to be truly creative and take the message of Christ into a mainstream environment.

At birth, he was given the clan name of Zhao ( the clan name of the royal house of Qin ) inherited from his father and personal name Zheng ( 正 ), because he was born in the first month ( Zhengyue 正月 in the Chinese calender ).