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 Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.

At the request of Young and Duke, the moonwalk was extended by ten minutes.

At the request of Christian II of Denmark, Dürer went to Brussels to paint the King's portrait.

At his own request Nehemiah is sent to Jerusalem as governor of Yehud, the official Persian name for Judah.

At the same time, Athens's greatest runner, Pheidippides ( or Philippides in some accounts ) had been sent to Sparta to request that the Spartan army march to the aid of Athens.

At the request of his Poznań University professor, Zdzisław Krygowski, on arriving at Göttingen Rejewski laid flowers on Gauss's grave.

At the request of the Huguenots at Metz, he pleaded its cause at the court of King Louis XIV, urging that it should be excepted in the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, but his efforts were unsuccessful, and he joined his father in Berlin.

At the request of the government of Southern Rhodesia, Doke investigated the range of dialect diversity among the languages of the country and made recommendations for Unified Shona.

At the request of the king, he wrote a letter to Pope Boniface on the debated subject of " The Three Chapters ".

At Chiang's request Yan visited Li in order to convince Li not to withdraw from public life.

At the request of then Lt .- Gov.

At the request of the U. S. Air Force he began formalizing his Process Maturity Framework to aid the U. S. Department of Defense in evaluating the capability of software contractors as part of awarding contracts.

At the request of Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris invented the Domain Name System in 1983 and wrote the first implementation.

At Atchison's request, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which embodied this idea, in November 1853.

[...] At my request the publishers are removing what they believe would be considered objectionable, and are placing asterisks to show where omissions have been made.

At the request of Giulietta Masina, trumpeter Mauro Maur played the " Improvviso dell ' Angelo " by Nino Rota during the funeral ceremony.

At the request of emperor Zeno, Theodoric the Great conquered all of Italy beginning in 488.

At North's request, the board disbanded the ICE in 2001.

At the request of Michèle, Papa Doc's widow Simone was expelled from Haiti.

At GM headquarters ’ request, Holden was then reorganised and recapitalised, separating the engine and car manufacturing divisions in the process.

At the request of Azam, Paul Broca, and others, the French Academy of Science, who had examined Mesmerism in 1784, examined Braid's writings shortly after his demise.

At Jackson's request, the United States Congress opened a fierce debate on an Indian Removal Bill.

At his request he was billed as " J. B. Wilkes ", a pseudonym meant to avoid comparison with other members of his famous thespian family.

At the request of Madame d ' Epinay, who was anxious to protect her privacy, however, the police ordered him to stop, and the Confessions was only partially published in 1782, four years after his death.

At the request of his father, Adolf Lorenz, he began a premedical curriculum in 1922 at Columbia University, but he returned to Vienna in 1923 to continue his studies at the University of Vienna.