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 nutmeg was one of the " fine spices " kept expensive in Europe by disciplined manipulation of the market, but a desirable commodity for Dutch traders in the ports of India as well ; economic historian Fernand Braudel notes that India consumed twice as much as Europe.

At the top were noblemen and direct descendants of the original Songhai people, followed by freemen and traders.

At the same time, Islam made its way to Sumatra through Arabs and Indian traders in the 6th and 7th centuries AD.

At first, Dutch traders supplied the equipment, financing, and African slaves, in addition to transporting most of the sugar to Europe.

At first the output was insignificant, but gradually the magnitude of the operations was enlarged until the competition became effective, and steel traders generally became aware that the firm of Henry Bessemer & Co. was underselling them to the extent of UK £ 10 -£ 15 a ton.

At that time the US had competition from British traders on the upper Missouri, who came down from Canada.

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 the same time, they occupied the heart of prime buffalo range and also an excellent region for furs which could be sold to French and American traders for goods such as guns.

At the time British traders still operated by the whim of local rulers and Hastings and his colleagues were unsettled by the political turmoil of Bengal with the elderly moderate Nawab Alivardi Khan likely to be succeeded by his grandson Siraj ud-Daulah and several other rival claimants also eyeing the throne.

At the time of its opening it was considered the height of modernity, but higher rentals within the shopping centre meant that traders turned away from it.

At this time various Japanese traders, hunters, adventurers, priests and criminals made their way to Iwate.

At the same time, Leopold promised Bismarck he would not give any one nation special status, and that German traders would be as welcome as any other.

At first they survived by pirating Spanish ships, eating wild cattle and hogs, and selling hides to traders of all nations.

At the end of the 15th century, the governor of Tripoli ( Lebanon ) Youssef Bek Sayfa established Khan Al Saboun ( the hotel of soap traders ).

At some point in the 7th century, Cham ports in eastern Indochina started to attract traders.

At the same time, Muslim technocrats, bureaucrats, soldiers, traders, scientists, architects, teachers, theologians and Sufis flocked from the rest of the Muslim world to the Islamic Sultanate in Sindh.

At the height of their historic culture, the Mandan were prosperous and peaceful farmers and traders, noted for their excellent maize cultivation and crafting of Knife River flint.

At free fairs, traders, whether natives of the kingdom or foreigners, were allowed to enter the kingdom, and were under royal protection while travelling to and returning from the fair.

At the time, London costermongers ( apple sellers ) were in the habit of wearing trousers decorated at the seams with pearl buttons that had been found by market traders.

At the top were noblemen and direct descendants of the original Songhai people, followed by freemen and traders.

At its north point, nestled the village of Juhu, inhabited by Bhandaris ( toddy tappers ), Agris ( salt traders ) and Kulbis ( cultivators ) and at its south point, opposite Bandra island, lived a small colony of fisher folk and cultivators ( Koliwada ) The inhabitants of Juhu were mainly East Indians and there was a small section of Goans.

At the time of the first contact with Europeans the sultanate of Ternate held some sway over North Sulawesi, and the area was often visited by seafaring Bugis traders from South Sulawesi.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Sorel was the home of fur traders.

At each market the traders would gather and, at a signal they would race to their favoured pitch.