At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.

At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

At no time does he seem to have proposed marriage, and Mrs. King was evidently torn between a concern for her daughter's emotions and the desire to believe that the friendship might be continued without harm to her reputation.

At the landing she saw Juanita, her face flushed pink with excitement, run down the hall from the kitchen to the front door.

At last he consented to meet her, and following that brief interview Claire wrote him a yet more remarkable proposal:

At their meeting he told her not to bother about `` where '' -- he would attend to that.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

At the inquest she was asked specifically whether she knew anybody her father had bad feelings toward, or who had bad feelings toward her father.

At this moment, Loveless and Means arrived, crashing through the undergrowth with their horses, and distracted her, and she ran off a short distance and jumped into a crevice between two rocks.

At the door she turned back, her Roman nose looking very long now and satiric.

At the end of the half-hour, racking his brains, thinking over and over again of Kitti, her friends, her past, he left the bedroom.

At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.

At the time of her divorce Forbes had promised to pay her a lump sum in lieu of further alimony if she remarried.

At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N..

At the start of her program there were evidences of pique.

At fifteen he didn't care that he had no mother, that he couldn't remember her face or her touch ; ;

He would sit inside the coffee shop and pound a gloved fist upon the table and a girl would hear him and come running, bowing with her running, calling out in her bowing, `` At your service ''.

At his father's urging, Coolidge moved to Northampton, Massachusetts, after graduating to take up the practice of law.

At his father's suggestion as a teenager, Hayek read the genetic and evolutionary works of Hugo de Vries and the philosophical works of Ludwig Feuerbach.

At his father's expense, Gardner trained as a " creeper ", or trainee planter, learning all about the growing of tea ; although he disliked the " dreary endlessness " of the work, he enjoyed being outdoors and near to the forests.

At the Restoration the sequestration of his father's lands was annulled, and in 1665 he succeeded by the death of his elder brother as the 3rd Baronet Gordon, of Haddo and to the family estates.

At his father's deathbed, Bogart finally told Belmont how much he loved him.

At the time of his accession and the elimination of Abu ' l Fazl, his father's chief minister and architect of his eclectic religious stance, a powerful group of orthodox noblemen had gained increased power in the Mughal court.

At the age of 12, he learned to drive the family car and the trucks of his father's grocery business.

At that point Lemmy thought about changing his legal name to his stepfather's surname of Willis, but with his actual father's surname of Kilmister, he decided changing his birth certificate and passport would be too much hassle, so did not bother.

At the time of his father's death, Rajiv was away at a private boarding school for boys: initially at the Welham Boys ' School and later The Doon School, both located in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

At Ramah, Samuel secretly anoints Saul, after having met him for the first time, while Saul was looking for his father's lost donkeys, and treated him to a meal.

At age thirteen, he transferred to a school in Barcelona run by his father's card-playing friend Father Mossen Josep, where he remained for three years.

At the magnificent banquet to celebrate her father's elevation, Anne took precedence over the Duchesses of Suffolk and Norfolk, seated in the place of honour beside the King which was usually occupied by the Queen.

At the outset of his reign, Commodus, age 18, inherited many of his father's senior advisers, notably Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus ( the second husband of Commodus's sister Lucilla ), his father-in-law Gaius Bruttius Praesens, Titus Fundanius Vitrasius Pollio, and Aufidius Victorinus, who was Prefect of the City of Rome.

At his father's death, he received León and Galicia, while his brother Sancho received Castile and Toledo.

Yet his succession was by no means assured: At his father's deathbed in the wilds of Cilicia far from Constantinople, he recognised that it was vital he should return to the capital as soon as possible.

At home he would listen to his father's records of the tango orchestras of Carlos Gardel and Julio de Caro, and was also exposed to jazz and classical music, including Bach, from an early age.

At his father's death in 1239, he inherited large estates from his father around the ancestral seat of Habsburg Castle in the Aargau region of present-day Switzerland as well as in Alsace.

At William's father's death, the provinces had suspended the office of stadtholder.

At the age of 21, he left his father's practice and went to London as a solicitor's clerk.

At the end of the novel, Eric's imminent return precipitates a series of events that result in Frank discovering male hormone drugs in his father's study.

At a battle in January 1079 Robert unhorsed King William in combat and succeeded in wounding him, stopping his attack only when he recognized his father's voice.

At the time of their father's death the two brothers made an agreement to be each other's heir.

At the time of his father's death, Casimir was in Germany at the court of his uncle Hermann II, Archbishop of Köln.

At first Magnus sought revenge against his father's enemies, but on Sigvat's advice he stopped doing so, which is why he became known as " good " or " noble ".

At his father's death in October 1637, he succeeded and his mother took power having been claimed regent.