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

At first I thought he had missed.

At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

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

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

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

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

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 point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

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

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

At first each child should do a kick-up by himself so that the teacher can determine those ready to work alone, and those who need help.

At first Barco was evasive and shifty.

At first the patient felt stronger, and the hemoglobin rose to 13.8 gm., but on Oct. 20, 1958, he complained of `` caving in '' in his knees.

At first I did not know what she meant ; ;

At any rate, Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

At first the kitchen help was tolerant, but ordered their own supply of white bread for themselves.

At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.

At the Fifteenth Anniversary ( 1896 ) as already quoted, Miss Upton projected with force and eloquence the Spelman of the Future as a college of first rank, with expanding and unlimited horizons.

At first glance, not much of a motive for a man of his standing ; ;

At first the Belgian royal family administered the Congo as its own private property.

At the time he was cast, McKellen had never read any of Tolkien's works, but he quickly developed his knowledge of The Lord of the Rings and based his accent on Tolkien.

At the time Tolkien was writing this, the name Finrod referred to the third son of Finwë, and this Finrod had a son Inglor Felagund.

At the time, Tolkien was 16 years old and Edith was 19.

At this time, Shippey shifted from the view of Tolkien as a philologist to a view of a post-war writer, or what he called " traumatised authors ", like Vonnegut and Golding.

At the time that Tolkien debated the usefulness of myth and mythopoeia with C. S. Lewis in 1931, Lewis was a theist, and liked but was skeptical of mythology, taking the position that myths were " lies and therefore worthless, even though ' breathed through silver '".

At once upon his arrival, he telephoned Lady Sybil Colefax who invited them to tea, and then Lewis decided to give a party as a quick way of rounding up his friends.

Having hedged its bets in this way, PHS apparently decided it would be possible to make some sort of determination after all: `` At present radiation levels, and even at somewhat higher levels, the additional risk is slight and very few people will be affected ''.

At Fort Garry some of the Swiss also decided to cast their lot with the United States, and in 1823 several families paid guides to take them to Fort Snelling.

At first, the creators decided the positions of the necessary points to express the outline, eyes, nose, and so on of a certain person.

At conference it was decided that Eugene would return with 28, 000 men to the Lines of Stollhofen on the Rhine to keep an eye on Villeroi and Tallard, and prevent them going to the aid of the Franco-Bavarian army on the Danube.

At this time he decided on the same tactical scheme employed at Crécy.

At that point, other African governments decided to intervene.

" At that time, and in response to a European Council report highlighting Ireland as the most centralised country in the European Union, it was decided that a single County Dublin was unmanageable and undemocratic from a local government perspective.

At 32, despite her clear success in Philadelphia, Beaux decided that she still needed to advance her skills.

At 16 he was mostly self-taught but at this point he decided to take some lessons through correspondence.

At this point Alexander decided to profit from the favourable situation and carve out for Cesare a state of his own in northern Italy.

At Francis C. Hammond High School in Alexandria, Virginia, he did poorly academically, having little interest in school work, but was popular with other students, and after leaving decided that he wanted to study painting at college, thereby beginning his studies at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1964, where he was a roommate of Peter Wolf.

At the First Council of Nicaea in 325 it was decided that all Christian churches would celebrate Easter on the same day, which would be computed independently of any Jewish calculations to determine the date of Passover.

At this meeting, they decided to stage a rising before the war ended and to accept whatever help Germany might offer.

At first he considered a revival of Latin, but after learning it in school he decided it was too complicated to be a common means of international communication.

At DAIMI, the CS department at Aarhus University, three CS students, avid players of XPilot and of Sid Meier's Civilization, which was a stand-alone PC game for DOS, decided to find out whether the two could be fused into an X-based multiplayer Civilization-like strategy game.

1942 At this point, Rommel decided his exhausted forces could make no further headway without resting and regrouping.

At the end of the year, concerned by Francisco Franco's Falangist uprising, ( supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ), Orwell decided to go to Spain to take part in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

At the beginning of July, the governments of both German states decided on the schedule: elections in the GDR would be held on October 14, and a common election for the entire country on 2 December.

At the age of seven she decided to determine how an alarm clock worked.

The Dragon debuted in June 1976, and Gygax commented on its success years later: " When I decided that The Strategic Review was not the right vehicle, hired Tim Kask as a magazine editor for Tactical Studies Rules, and named the new publication he was to produce The Dragon, I thought we would eventually have a great periodical to serve gaming enthusiasts worldwide ... At no time did I ever contemplate so great a success or so long a lifespan.

At this time, they decided to name the large island on which Nootka was now proven to be located as Quadra and Vancouver Island.

At the end of 1959, Reg Hickey decided to retire as coach, making way for Bob Davis, a star in the 51 – 52 Premierships.

At first the king agreed with these changes and enjoyed reasonable popularity with the people, but as anti-royalism increased along with threat of foreign invasion, the king, stripped of his power, decided to flee along with his family.

At the end of the hearing the lords vote on the verdict, which is decided by a simple majority, one charge at a time.