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 point the German ships opened fire with accurately determined ranges for their guns, Beatty's ships were still maneuvering, some could not see the enemy because of their own smoke, and hardly any had the opportunity of a period of steady course as they approached to properly determine target range.

" At this speech he also said: " Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery ...."

At first the crash seemed minor: the vehicles were hardly damaged, no one in the truck was hurt, and Gay and Woodring were uninjured.

At this stage, simply surviving was sufficient for the Dutch, as the English could hardly afford even a victory.

At this point she could hardly bear the burden of her father's unborn child.

At this point the parish records become a shambles, and hardly a birth or marriage was recorded until civil registration started in 1855.

At that point the two had hardly spoken face to face in over six months.

At the tail of the line, the sloop Finch failed to reach station and anchor, and although hardly hit at all, Finch drifted aground on Crab Island, and surrendered under fire from the 6-pounder gun of the battery manned by the invalids from Macomb's hospital.

At the time of his death there was hardly a place in France, Germany, Italy ( especially Venice ) or the Netherlands where his face had not been seen searching for antique gables and sculptured pieces of stone.

At the time, sea levels were higher and the entire Amazonas lowland was a vast expanse of brackish swamp that offered hardly any butterfly habitat.

At the time it was written, politics and religion were still linked very closely in England, and the religious and political aspects of the satire can often hardly be separated.

At the start of Act I she takes the last swig of her tonic before throwing away the bottle, her toothbrush has hardly any hairs left and the lipstick, to use Beckett ’ s expression, is “ visibly zu ende ,” the parasol is faded with a “ mangy fringe ” and even her pearl necklace is “ more thread than pearls ”.

At that time, hardly any living creatures were found in the river.

At the time he hardly spoke one word of English.

At that time there was hardly a Hindu, Parsi or Muslim who could read Roman characters.

At present there is only little public support in Flanders ( mainly around Flemish-nationalistic parties and the Algemeen-Nederlands Verbond ), so there is hardly any public support for the house of Orange.

At the peak of their argument, Stewart says to Remy, " You'd hardly call this a marriage wouldn't you?

At the time, the town was said to be hardly able to afford its annual € 6 million (£ 4. 7million ) fuel bill.

Even at the peak of his success in 1995, journalists reported that during interviews he “ hardly finishes a sentence without repeating the phrase at least six or seven times .” At age twelve he began to learn piano, and was introduced to the art of scat singing at the age of fourteen through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, amongst others.

At 1352 pages and 5. 1 pounds shipping weight, the Cross Reference was hardly a handbook, but it provided the xBase community with an up-to-date, all-in-one reference manual, and addressed one of the major documentation problems that the community was facing.

At £ 42, 000, the R500 EVO was hardly a sales success-it is widely believed that just three examples were sold.

At the time of the film, years before its makeover by Christine Sterling, it was hardly considered to be a proper street, but rather just a dingy, dirty alley.

At the same time, it is also a symbol of Yiddish theatre, though, in fact, it is hardly a typical representative of it.

At the time he sent it to Grimald Walafrid had, as he himself tells his audience, hardly passed his eighteenth year, and he begs his correspondent to revise his verses, because, " as it is not lawful for a monk to hide anything from his abbot ", he fears he may be beaten with deserved stripes.