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 Colloquy of Worms in 1557 which he attended only reluctantly, the adherents of Flacius and the Saxon theologians tried to avenge themselves by thoroughly humiliating Melanchthon, in agreement with the malicious desire of the Roman Catholics to condemn all heretics, especially those who had departed from the Augsburg Confession, before the beginning of the conference.

At first, she turned it down, but then reluctantly accepted it.

At age 22, Joe Nanton found his niche in Duke Ellington's Orchestra when he reluctantly took the place of his friend Charlie Irvis.

At his funeral, one grandson recalled that his grandfather " jogged in actual business suits that had been reluctantly retired " and " drove a Chrysler LeBaron convertible, which was outfitted with tattered red upholstery, a roof held together with duct tape ... when it finally fell apart, he replaced it with a Dodge Spirit, which he had purchased used from Thrifty Rental Cars.

At the Qin palace, the king reluctantly orders Nameless killed, being urged thereto by his court.

At his death the collection was inherited by his nephew, who was pressured by Rudolf II, the very acquisitive Austrian Habsburg Emperor, to sell the finest pieces to him, which in 1597 he very reluctantly did, protesting that the price offered for thirty-three works was not enough even for six, and less than he had recently refused from Cardinal Farnese for Dürer's Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand alone.

At the oars were two brothers, tenants of Smith's, who reluctantly rowed the boat six miles on the river, to the sloop.

At the start of the game, Rolf refuses to take Nei along on his mission in fear of her getting hurt or killed, but reluctantly agrees after she pleads with him.

At Karen's insistence, Joe reluctantly asks her whether she and Martha had ever been lovers.

At Against All Odds Tomko cost Christian the world title, then reluctantly aligned with Kurt Angle, following Styles ' example so they could stay partners-with no intention of being a team player to the point of becoming a lapdog again.

At the outbreak of World War I, Nash reluctantly enlisted in the Artists ' Rifles and was sent to the Western Front in February 1917 as a second lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment.

At 1 p. m. the Union infantry reluctantly moved out, abandoning Pritchard's Hill.

At the request of the Choctaws, Gaines led an expedition to scout the prospective Choctaw lands in the Indian territory before the Choctaws reluctantly agreed to emigrate there.

At the end of the weekend they reluctantly agreed it was a mistake and to just be friends.

At his request, she reluctantly agrees to stop disrupting the slave trade on the condition that those already freed are not enslaved again.

At the end of the film, after reluctantly agreeing to let Batman take the blame for the murders committed by Harvey Dent in order to preserve Dent's image as Gotham's hero, Gordon hesitantly destroys the signal using an axe in front of various members of the police force and the press.

At the suggestion of the dedicatee, Brahms reluctantly renamed the sophisticated compositions from " klavierstücke " ( piano pieces ) to " rhapsodies ".

At Dawn's request, Buffy leaves the house and Faith reluctantly becomes the new leader.

At the time Trudy was murdered, Stottlemeyer reluctantly suspended Adrian from duty, though he still remained his friend.

At one point in a club she asks Xavier to get her a glass of milk but then reluctantly leaves when she sees some old friends.

" At first, after the Beach Haven attack, scientists and the press reluctantly blamed the death of Charles Vansant on a shark.

At first these were resisted, but with money needed to finance the purchase of The Dell, Southampton reluctantly accepted an offer of £ 3, 250 from Herbert Chapman's Arsenal in spring 1926, and he was on his way to Highbury.