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At once sincere and affectionate, yet full of the affectations of a girl of the 1950s lower-middle classes keen to keep up her standards in the face of considerable dissolution in her close acquaintances, she rendered Eth funny, and yet vulnerable and capable of great expression.
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At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;
At once upon his arrival, he telephoned Lady Sybil Colefax who invited them to tea, and then Lewis decided to give a party as a quick way of rounding up his friends.
At once the excruciating pain in his chest stopped and he was seized with a sudden, wild exultation.
At age 12 he was whiter than ivory, had hair lighter than gold, and could lift 10 bear skins at once.
At this great gathering of prelates the case of Athanasius was taken up and once more his innocence reaffirmed.
At the navel, throat and crown, there is a twofold knot caused by each side channel twisting once around the central channel.
At Christmas of 935, Owen of Strathclyde was once more at Æthelstan's court along with the Welsh kings, but Constantine was not.
At the time he committed his infamous murder, he had four of them — although he once had as many as ten.
At any rate, the uprising was strictly confined to Saturninus ' province, and quickly detected once the rumour spread across the neighbouring provinces.
At Cairo, the Nile spreads out over what was once a broad estuary, subsequently filled by silt deposits to form what is now a fertile, fan-shaped delta some 250 km wide at its seaward extremity and extending about 160 km from north to south.
At that time, versions of the Prose Edda were well known in Iceland, but scholars speculated that there once was another Edda — an Elder Edda — which contained the pagan poems Snorri quotes in his book.
At least once, in the midst of his reign at MGM, he was arrested on vice charges, but studio executives managed to get the charges dropped and all records of it expunged, and the incident never was publicized by the press.
At the Kut Barrage much of the water is diverted into the Shatt al-Hayy, which was once the main channel of the Tigris.
At Antioch, where he stayed the longest, two of his companions died and he himself was seriously ill more than once.
At length the taste for wearing them became general, and thus fashion, which usually confines itself to worthless things, was seen for once in the honorable office of promoting the cause of justice, humanity and freedom ".
At the sanctuary were bases of statues, which by Pausanias ’ time had been deprived of the statues themselves, as well as a hippodrome, where the athletic games had once been held.
At and sincere
At the same time his policies were guided by a sincere patriotism, which looked to the true prosperity of the Orange Free State as well as to that of the whole of South Africa.
At the beach, she meets a man who made her laugh while she was sad and so began a love sincere and very strong with she was happy.
At this time, Roger, seemingly sincere, expresses a desire to make peace once and for all with the Tri-Lambs, and to that end he proposes a bylaw stating that any fraternity found to be guilty of a crime will be expelled from the national conference and their charter revoked.
( At any rate, her devotion to and affection for Tarou appear to be sincere, despite the programming.
At that time, Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner offered the “ Commonwealth's sincere apology for Virginia's participation in eugenics .”
At the time he wrote "... they applauded, clamoured, vociferated, whistled — yes, whistled ", they held up the play for a quarter of an hour with their applause, " sincere, spontaneous, and from the heart.
At first Marlowe laughs in her face, he finds it hard to believe someone who seems so casual about sex could be so passionate about love but he then realizes she is sincere.
: At the best of times an individual is hard pressed to maintain his rights in the face of constituted authority, no matter how honest or sincere such an authority is in its actions.
At and affectionate
At the peak of their career they also enjoyed British number one singles with " Tiger Feet "; and " Lonely This Christmas " ( 1974 ), an affectionate Elvis Presley pastiche ; plus " Oh Boy " ( 1975 ), a virtual a cappella cover of the Buddy Holly hit, which also featured on their album Mud Rock Volume 2.
At Q's suggestion, Riker uses his powers to give his friends what they supposedly want, turning Wesley into an adult, giving La Forge his sight, and creating an affectionate Klingon female for Worf.
At and yet
At last he consented to meet her, and following that brief interview Claire wrote him a yet more remarkable proposal:
At the time of Kennedy's proposal, only one American had flown in space — less than a month earlier — and NASA had not yet sent an astronaut into orbit.
At that point, scientists began to reconsider their pre-mission hypothesis that Descartes had been the setting of ancient volcanic activity, as the two astronauts had yet to find any volcanic material.
At the time of Croatia's application to the European Union, three EU countries were yet to ratify the Stabilization and Association Agreement: the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Italy.
At various times there have been cardinals who had only received first tonsure and minor orders but not yet been ordained as deacons or priests.
At the time, the See of Constantinople was yet of no ecclesiastical prominence but its proximity to the Imperial court, gave rise to its importance.
At first glance, Erewhon appears to be a Utopia, yet it soon becomes clear that this is far from the case.
At 15, he was reading the original papers of Joseph Louis Lagrange, such as the landmark Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations which likely motivated his later work on equation theory, and Leçons sur le calcul des fonctions, work intended for professional mathematicians, yet his classwork remained uninspired, and his teachers accused him of affecting ambition and originality in a negative way.
At a time when television had not yet embraced country and Western music, Sullivan was adamant about featuring Nashville performers on his program.
At the advice of his brother Helenus ( who also is divinely inspired ) and being told by him that he is not destined to die yet, Hector manages to get both armies seated and challenges any one of the Greek warriors to single combat.
At the time of the Norman conquest of England, heraldry in its essential sense of an inheritable emblem had not yet been developed.
At this time the manner of depicting Jesus was not yet uniform, and there was some controversy over which of the two most common icons was to be favored.
At the time of the handfasting, the marriage was not yet legal because he had not yet been legally divorced from Lipp, although they had been separated for several years.
At present, many countries have adopted ISINs as a secondary measure of identifying securities, but as yet only some of those countries have moved to using ISINs as their primary means of identifying securities.
At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas!
The passage continues with a famous account of an interruption: " At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purpose of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas!
At the year ending 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, Hewitt defeated Andy Roddick to advance to the final, but was yet again defeated by defending champion Federer.
At Jonac, he declared Charles king of Aquitaine and deprived Pepin ( he was less harsh with the younger Louis ), restoring the whole rest of the empire to Lothair, not yet involved in the civil war.
At the end of the 18th century, however, when the concept of a chemical compound had not yet been fully developed, the law was novel.
At the time of Meton, precession had not yet been discovered, and he could not make a distinction between sidereal years ( currently: 365. 256363 days ) and tropical years ( currently: 365. 242190 days ).
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