At nightfall he had been able to sneak down a hillside and into the jungle, reeking of death.

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

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

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

At the nadir of that circuit is death.

" At his death, Doubleday left many letters and papers, none of which describe baseball, or give any suggestion that he considered himself a prominent person in the evolution of the game.

At the time of his death on July 11, 1957, his family members were in Versoix.

At noon on 24 June, the temporal dignitaries — the 126 members of both the Senate and magistrates that comprised the court — declared Alexei guilty and sentenced him to death.

At this time Johnson built a larger home in Greeneville ( Eliza had given birth to another son and his mother had moved in with them following the death of his stepfather.

At the Siege of Bayonne in October 1131, three years before his death, he published a will leaving his kingdom to three autonomous religious orders based in Palestine and politically largely independent on the pope, the Knights Templars, the Hospitallers, and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, whose influences might have been expected to cancel one another out.

At last, led to the Hippodrome of Constantinople, he was hung up by the feet between two pillars, and two Latin soldiers competed as to whose sword would penetrate his body more deeply, and finally his body, according to the representation of his death, was torn apart.

At the news of the emperor's death, his son and co-emperor John was murdered by his own troops in Thrace.

At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.

At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.

At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until after Jarry's death.

At his death, his last $ 30, 000, 000 was given to foundations, charities, and to pensioners.

At the very beginning of the book Erich Maria Remarque says " This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it.

At the time of his death, Bosschaert commanded a thousand amateur painters for the production of one floral painting.

At Abbahu's death the mourning was so great that it was said, " Even the statues of Cæsarea shed tears " ( Mo ' ed Katan 25b ; Yer.

At the time of Lerner's death, he had just begun to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera, and was replaced by Charles Hart.

At the time of his death he was married to actress Liz Robertson, who was 36 years his junior.

At his death, the duchy passed to his son-in-law John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg, combining the two territories under a single dynasty and forming Brandenburg-Prussia.

At the time of his death he was working on a translation of the Gospel of St. John into English.

At the time of his death, he was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe.

At Young's death in 1877, he was followed by other powerful members, who continued the practice of polygamy despite opposition by the United States Congress.

At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.

At first I thought he had missed.

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

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 it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

At noontime, remembering what the teacher had said about maybe playing with the kids, Jack stayed close to the schoolhouse while all the other big boys, except Charles, went off out the road to play ball.

At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.

At the moment of crisis it had no more depth than an old school tie.

At the time of his capture Helion had on his person a sketchbook he had bought at Woolworth's in New York.

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 one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.

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 least I had been unable to lay hold on the experience of conversion.

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 Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.

At 2130 hours they had passed through the barbed wire at the point of departure.

At State College, he had no time to walk among the violets on the water's edge.

At least the Union officer had been decent enough to provide a candle.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

At the outset, the Government's spokesman explained that counsel for the Government and for Du Pont had already held preliminary discussions with a view to arriving at a relief plan that both sides could recommend to the court.

At least the moment was postponed when he had to face the mystery of the power tools.