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At home, they are expected to render luster to various occasions by their presence, such as by attending artistic or sports performances or competitions, expositions, celebrations, military parades and remembrances, prominent funerals, visiting parts of the country, enterprises, care facilities ( often in a theatrical honor box, on a platform, on the front row, at the honours table etc.
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At least they hadn't stepped up and asked to see papers in the hated, flat, dialect mispronunciation of Mussolini's home district -- Dogumenti, per favore.
`` At home, yes '', they argued.
At home, he wouldn't even wash his hands for supper, and he wandered around the yard in a pair of sweaty old corduroys.
At the home of a gourmet the new maid was instructed in the fine points of serving.
At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.
At least, I want to find out whether she's home yet or not ''.
At home he had been a clean orderly man, and now he had to hide his annoyance.
At home in his dreary flat, Alex plays classical music at top volume while fantasizing of even more orgiastic violence.
At present the region is home to 14 million people and has 120 million annual visitors.
At age six, young Bronson began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in the center of town but learned how to read at home with the help of his mother.
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 this time Johnson built a larger home in Greeneville ( Eliza had given birth to another son and his mother had moved in with them following the death of his stepfather.
At the age of 13 he entered the Göttingen Gymnasium, residing at the home of one of the professors.
At that time MCP did also sell imported home computers like the TRS-80, the Video Genie, ( another TRS-80 clone ), the Luxor ABC 80 and the Apple II.
* 1974 – At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.
At the time, a key driver for success with a home console was the number of home conversions it had of popular arcade games.
* AB / HR — At bats per home run: at bats divided by home runs.
At that time test-match referees came from the home nation, substitutions took place only if a doctor found a player unable to continue and there were no video cameras or sideline officials to prevent violent play.
The origin of the nickname appears to be a poem entitled “ The Pilgrims At Home ” written by Edwin Fitzwilliam that was sung at the 1907 home opener (“ Rory O ’ More ” melody ).
At one time, dot matrix printers were one of the more common types of printers used for general use, such as for home and small office use.
At this time, the team played their home games at South Side Park.
At home in Haworth Parsonage Charlotte acted as " the motherly friend and guardian of her younger sisters ".
At the center of the city rose the giant ziggurat called Etemenanki, " House of the Frontier Between Heaven and Earth ," which lay next to the Temple of Marduk. He also made The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, for his wife from the mountains so that she would feel at home.
At and they
At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.
At the corroborees, when they get to dancing and sweating, you'll see them rubbing up against a man who's supposed to have a specially good smell.
At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;
At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.
At last they saw Calcutta, largest city of Bengal and the Caravan's destination.
At 2130 hours they had passed through the barbed wire at the point of departure.
At the same time he started walking the streets, peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls, storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like, how they moved.
At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.
At the moment, Barco's back was to the road so he didn't see the detectives close in on his convertible which, in their quest for the stolen lap rug, they proceeded to search.
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 a nod of his head they let go, turning to cup their ears against the icy slipstream.
At the point where they ended, another settlement grew up around a chapel built at the boat landing by Father Lucian Galtier in 1840.
At 6 o'clock on the morning of August 12, they were in doubt no longer.
At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college -- they are even inclined to exaggerate its not inconsiderable virtues -- and they express pleasure at the cozy in-group feeling that the college generates.
At the base of the rocky hillside, they left their horses and climbed on foot.
At that time, the people at the bank said they felt that they had the situation in hand.
At first I thought they were relatives of your mother, but it was not so.
At times they would ride frenziedly through the camp, letting the women see their courage, how handsome they were in their regalia.
At first they feed on the yolks of the eggs but as this source of nourishment declines they begin to rasp at the ciliated epithelial cells that line the oviduct.
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