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 beginning of the Spanish Civil War the colony remained loyal to the Republican government.

At the time of his death, there were no living descendants of Bahá ' u ' lláh that remained loyal to him.

At the Sixth Congress in Moscow, Zhou had given figures indicating that, by 1928, fewer than 32, 000 union members remained who were loyal to the Communists, and that only ten percent of Party members were proletarians.

At the same time, the " kominka " imperialization project was put under way to instill the " Japanese Spirit " in Taiwanese residents, and ensure the Taiwanese would remain loyal subjects of the Japanese Emperor ready to make sacrifices during wartime.

At the time the most expensive Japanese film ever made, it tells the story of Hidetora, a fictional sixteenth-century Japanese warlord, whose attempt to divide his kingdom among his three sons leads to an estrangement with the youngest, and ultimately most loyal, of them, and eventually to civil war.

At the time of the American Revolution, many Native American tribes had long-standing relationships with British who were loyal to the British Empire ( e. g., traders, etc.

At first the King's wound did not appear fatal, but he enjoined all the officers around him, in the event that he did not survive, to be loyal to Henry of Navarre as their new king.

At the same time, however, Epaminondas managed through a series of diplomatic efforts to dismantle the Peloponnesian league: the remaining members of the league finally abandoned Sparta ( in 365 Corinth, Epidaurus, and Phlius made peace with Thebes and Argos ), and Messenia remained independent and firmly loyal to Thebes.

At the same time another warlord loyal to the Emperor, Nitta Yoshisada, attacked Kamakura and took it.

At that time, Texans were loyal Mexican citizens and Bailey took the oath to defend the Mexican Constitution of 1824.

At the time it started on air in 1955, the drama schedule of the BBC was mostly restricted to television plays so that Dixon had little trouble in building and maintaining a large and loyal audience.

At 0145 hours 23 October 1966, he and ten pilots loyal to him took off and flew their RLAF T-28s into exile in Thailand.

At his passing, President Bill Clinton said: " Tip O ' Neill was the nation's most prominent, powerful and loyal champion of working people ...

At the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, the delegates of the Romanian and some German communities voted for union with Romania, the delegates of the Serbian, Bunjevac and other Slavic and non-Slavic communities ( including some Germans ) voted for union with Serbia, while the Hungarian minority remained loyal to the government in Budapest.

At a conference on St Patrick ’ s Day 1922 Wilson advised an increase in the Special Constabulary, but urged that loyal Catholics be encouraged to join, rather than keeping it a purely Protestant body ( Craig did not pass on this recommendation to the Stormont Cabinet ).

At the outbreak of the First English Civil War in 1642, Blood returned to England and initially took up arms with the Royalist forces loyal to Charles I.

At their peak, they enjoyed a loyal fanbase, with several high-quality fansites.

At the start of the French Revolution, the regiment of Dillon remained loyal to the King, except for MacDonald, who was in love with Mlle Jacob, whose father was an enthusiastic revolutionary.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, he remained loyal to the Union.

At this point, territories that Liu Xiu controlled were already impressive, compared to any other regional power in the empire broken apart by civil war — but he still carried just the title Prince of Xiao ( which Emperor Gengshi had created him ) and still ostensibly was controlling those territories as Emperor Gengshi's deputy, even as he was already engaging militarily against some generals ( e. g. Xie Gong-謝躬 ) loyal to Emperor Gengshi ( During this incident, Liu Xiu succeeded to persuade Ma Wu ( 馬武 ), who was the deputy of Xie Gong, to join him .).

" At the heart of this change was an inner cadre of officers known as the Zeppelin Squad or " zepps " who were personally loyal to Hague alone.

At the time of her election, she was regarded as a hard left-winger and is still often referred to by the media as " Red Dawn ", but became a New Labour loyalist and " absolutely loyal to New Labour ", leading Andrew Roth of The Guardian to say she has " changed from ' Red Dawn ' to ' Rosy Pink '"; as part of this change, she has moved from support of CND, the rise of which originally encouraged her into politics, to voting for the renewal of Britain's Trident nuclear defence.

At the beginning of her new life in prison, Krenwinkel remained loyal to Manson and the Family, but in time began to break away from them.

At official functions, islanders raise the loyal toast to ' The Duke of Normandy, our Queen '.

At the Battle of Legnano on 29 May 1176, Frederick I was defeated and, by the Peace of Venice, which took place in 1177, agreed to a six-year truce from August, 1178 to 1183, until the Peace of Constance, where the Italian cities agreed to remain loyal to the Empire but retained local jurisdiction over their territories.