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 this date, it seems probable that the name of Serge Prokofieff will appear in the archives of History, as an effective Traditionalist, who was fully aware of the lure and danger of experimentation, and used it as it served his purpose ; ;

At the 14th Party Congress ( 18 – 31 December 1925 ) Kamenev and Zinoviev were forced into the same position that Trotsky had been forced into previously ; they proclaimed that the center was usurping power from the regional branches, and that Stalin was a danger to inner-party democracy.

At the same time, diseases, especially typhus were a constant danger to the encamped armies outside the fortress, and often forced a premature retreat.

At the same time, Goldstein's actions were praised by the some extremist settlers ; Yochay Ron said that he " felt good " when he heard the news, and stated that Jews were " at war with the Arabs " and " all Arabs who live here are a danger to us ... they threaten the very existence of the Jewish community on the West Bank.

At the White Tower, Liandrin tells Egwene and Nynaeve that Rand and his friends are in danger.

At the time of his accession, the Roman Empire was in serious danger from several incursions, both within and outside its borders.

At the time, Foucault engaged in homosexual activity with men whom he encountered in the underground Parisian gay scene, also indulging in drug use ; according to biographer James Miller, he particularly enjoyed the thrill and sense of danger that these activities offered him.

At the same time, French officials realized that the Habsburg empire of Austria was no more the danger it had been in the heyday of the Habsburgs, back in the 16th and 17th centuries, when they controlled Spain and most of Europe and presented a formidable challenge to France.

At times he appears motivated by financial gain and shows his readiness to put companions in danger in order to protect himself.

At the time Britain was concerned at the danger of Russian expansion as China weakened, and Ardagh argued that his line was more defensible.

At tea with Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, Miss Spink spies danger in Coraline ’ s future after reading her tea leaves, and gives her a stone with a hole in it for protection.

At a national and international level, cultural resource management may be concerned with larger themes, such as languages in danger of extinction, public education, the ethos or operation of multiculturalism, and promoting access to cultural resources.

At a moment when Britain was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with France, it was impossible for the ministry to ignore the danger, recently emphasized by the fact that the independent constitution of 1782 offered no safeguard against armed revolt.

At the story's beginning, Lestat is constantly bothered by a foreboding that his friend is dying or in some mortal danger.

At their new home, unlike their time in the Big Woods, the family meets difficulty and danger.

At signs of danger a mother will signal the young who will " play dead " to the extent that a fox will believe them to be dead and leave them, thinking it can return to eat them later.

At first Caesar personally tried to stem the retreat, but then realised the potentially disastrous danger his army faced and instead began to co-ordinate the withdrawal of his army.

At the 50-minute hearing in 2000, Chapman claimed that he was not a danger to society.

At 22: 14 AT ( 01: 14 UTC ) the flight crew made a " pan-pan " radio call to ATC Moncton ( which handles trans-atlantic air traffic approaching or departing North American air space ), indicating that there was an urgent problem with the flight, but not an emergency ( denoted by a " Mayday " call ) which would imply immediate danger to the aircraft, and requested a diversion to Boston's Logan International Airport, which at that time was away.

At 4 – 8, the Jets were in danger of finishing below. 500.

At SNL, Short helped revive the show with his many characters for the show's tenth season ( the last one produced by Dick Ebersol ), which was in danger of falling in quality, thanks to the departures of Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo, so Ebersol decided to fill his cast with experienced actors and comedy performers in order to keep the show alive ( Lorne Michaels would attempt the same thing in season 11, with disastrous results ).

At the same time, the UAW was in danger of being torn apart by internal political rivalries.

At the first sign of any danger, the parents force their young into tall grasses to hide.

At the service, attended by more than 100 colleagues and friends, CIA Director William H. Webster eulogized Buckley, saying, " Bill's success in collecting information in situations of incredible danger was exceptional, even remarkable.