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 the moment of crisis it had no more depth than an old school tie.

At law school, the same.

At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.

At the beginning of the school year, the new students don't eat the cereal right away, but within a short time they are eating it voraciously.

At twelve, he was accepted into Mikhail Botvinnik's prestigious chess school, though Botvinnik made the following remark about the young Karpov: " The boy does not have a clue about chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession.

At Mulhouse high school he got his " Abitur " ( the certificate at the end of secondary education ), in 1893.

The school taught only reading, writing, and spelling and he left this school at the age of 10. At age 13, his uncle, Reverend Tillotson Bronson, invited Alcott into his home in Cheshire, Connecticut to be educated and prepared for college.

At Athens he became head of the Peripatetic school and lectured on Peripatetic philosophy.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1541 the priory's endowment went towards the foundation of a free grammar school, King Henry VIII Grammar School, the site itself passing to the Gunter family.

At the time he was a student, the influence of Origen was still felt in the traditions of the theological school of Alexandria.

At the age of nine years, Bernard was sent to school at Châtillon-sur-Seine, run by the secular canons of Saint-Vorles.

At some community colleges, the partnering four-year institution teaches the third and fourth year courses at the community college location and thereby allows a student to obtain a four year degree without having to physically move to the four-year school.

At the age of sixteen, he left school and went to live with his widowed childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.

At Public School 179 in Manhattan, the boy's artistic abilities were recognized and he was asked to draw all of the school posters during his years there.

At smaller party cells, secretaries were regular employees of the corresponding factory / hospital / school / etc.

At the primary school level Corsican is taught up to a fixed number of hours per week ( three in the year 2000 ) and is a voluntary subject at the secondary school level, but is required at the University of Corsica.

At Francis C. Hammond High School in Alexandria, Virginia, he did poorly academically, having little interest in school work, but was popular with other students, and after leaving decided that he wanted to study painting at college, thereby beginning his studies at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1964, where he was a roommate of Peter Wolf.

At that time, a friend " Swede " Hazlet was applying to the Naval Academy and urged Dwight to apply to the school, since no tuition was required.

At West Point, Eisenhower relished the emphasis on traditions and on sports, but was less enthusiastic about the hazing, though he willingly accepted it as a plebe ; he was also a regular violator of the more detailed regulations, and finished school with a less than stellar discipline rating.

At the age of five, Deng was sent to a traditional Chinese-style private primary school, followed by a more modern primary school at the age of seven.

At the school, he founded the Emerson Comedy Workshop, a troupe that continues on-campus as of 2011.

At the University of Bologna, from its founding in the 12th century until the end of the 20th century, the only degree conferred was the doctorate, usually earned after five years of intensive study after secondary school.