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At and once
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 he started to glance toward the instrument panel.
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 a bevy of dogs was snapping and snarling around him.
At once the Jesuit pulls out all the stops.
At once the excruciating pain in his chest stopped and he was seized with a sudden, wild exultation.
At once.
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 start of a turn, the striker is entitled to roquet all the other three balls once.
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 Berkeley, Morris once again found that he was not well-suited to his subject.
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 once it is an Irish boy and his English hero, and an English boy and his German hero.
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 once extinguish ’ d all the faithless name ;
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 whole
Those elegant `` At Home '' cards she sent out, now she could wear her pretty clothes again, and had the house all trimmed up, hadn't brought many callers in two whole months.
At 36-months, they were developing like a 47-month old, showing a whole year's advancement.
At no great distance east of this rift-valley is Mount Kilimanjaro-with its two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi, the latter being, and the culminating point of the whole continent — and Mount Kenya, which is.
At times he rose, at other times he shrank to the ground, he moved as if he wanted to play all the instruments himself and sing for the whole chorus.
At the start of 1971, Pope Paul VI set an age limit of eighty years for electors, who were to number no more than 120, but set no limit to the number of cardinals as a whole, including those over eighty.
At the turn of the 20th to 21st century, a whole new housing development called Meerhoven was constructed at the site of the old airport of Welschap, west of Eindhoven.
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 age of 8, he had been sexually molested by a camp counselor, who had also taken nude pictures of him .... Poor Mike had spent his whole life racked with guilt and in constant fear that these pictures would someday surface in a way that might embarrass him and, especially, his adoptive father.
At that point, Colonel Ulrich Wegener, Genscher's senior aide and later the founder of the elite German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9, said " I'm sure this will blow the whole affair!
At the confluence, the Ohio is even bigger than the Mississippi ( Ohio at Cairo: 281, 500 cu ft / s ( 7, 960 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s ); Mississippi at Thebes: 208, 200 cu ft / s ( 5, 897 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s )) and, thus, is hydrologically the main stream of the whole river system, including the Allegheny River further upstream.
At any time, he may obtain the appointment, dismissal or nominal resignation of any other minister ; he may resign, either purely personally or with his whole government.
At the end of the six months Pretorius, after a stormy meeting of the volksraad, apparently in disgust at the whole situation, resigned the presidency of the Transvaal.
At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.
At the same time, the author is able to write about the most important topics in the form of an ostensibly casual anecdote and to use the whole range of literary devices.
At the peace of Basel in 1795 the whole of the left bank of the Rhine was resigned to France, and in 1806 the Rhenish princes all joined the Confederation of the Rhine.
At the 2001 census, the town of Dover had 28, 156 inhabitants, while the population of the whole urban area of Dover, as calculated by the Office for National Statistics, was 39, 078 inhabitants.
At their convention, the Democrats called for the annexation of Texas and asserted that the United States had a “ clear and unquestionable ” claim to “ the whole ” of Oregon.
At first he believed it to be " just " another nova, as the whole concept of a recurring variable did not exist at the time.
At the end, it is revealed that the whole book actually takes place in a single moment, with a final twist that is an example of " cosmic irony ".
" Aurobindo Ghose considered Vivekananda as his spiritual mentor, saying " Vivekananda was a soul of puissance if ever there was one, a very lion among men ..." At the Belur Math, Mahatma Gandhi was heard to say that his whole life was an effort to bring into action the ideas of Vivekananda.
At the same time it was clear that carbon was the next most common element, and also that there was a general trend toward abundance of light elements, especially those composed of whole numbers of helium-4 nuclei.
At the end of the workshop the whole groups comes together to share their learning.
At last, he was whipped a whole night by an angel.

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