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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 the whole band set off at a lope.
At once he started to glance toward the instrument panel.
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 upon
At the same time the multiple transvestitism involved -- the fat man as girl and as baby, as coquette pretending to be a baby -- touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby's, upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life.
At the other end of the spectrum, where the more advanced countries can be relied upon to make well thought through decisions as to project priorities within a consistent program, we should be prepared to depart substantially from detailed project approval as the basis for granting assistance and to move toward long-term support, in cooperation with other developed countries, of the essential foreign exchange requirements of the country's development program.
At another phase in the therapy, when a pathogenic mother-introject began to emerge more and more upon the investigative scene, she muttered in a low but intense voice, to herself, `` I hate that woman inside me ''!!
At the same time, the wallpaper strips themselves seem to be pushed into depth by the lines and patches of shading charcoaled upon them, and by their placing in relation to the block capitals ; ;
At the same instant, Nick hit the barrel and threw himself upon the smaller man.
At one time I became disturbed in the faith in which I had grown up by the apparent inroads being made upon both Old and New Testaments by a `` Higher Criticism '' of the Bible, to refute which I felt the need of a better knowledge of Hebrew and of archaeology, for it seemed to me that to pull out some of the props of our faith was to weaken the entire structure.
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 First Buddhist Council, convened shortly after the Buddha died, Ananda was called upon to recite many of the discourses that later became the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon.
At the instant of any observation of an object, the apparent position of the object is displaced from its true position by an amount which depends solely upon the transverse component of the velocity of the observer, with respect to the vector of the incoming beam of light ( i. e., the line actually taken by the light on its path to the observer ).
At first of a mind to let Anthony sail and then attack him, he was prevailed upon by Agrippa to give battle.
At Metz he received an honourable welcome, and then proceeding to Mainz, he embarked upon the Rhine in order to reach the Suevi and Alamanni, to whom he wished to preach the Gospel.
At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.
At this point, Mothra has regained enough strength to fight again, and she charges Godzilla with her antenna rays and collapses a building upon him.
At the Munich Conference of September 1938, Hitler, the Italian leader Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier agreed upon the cession of Sudeten territory to the German Reich by Czechoslovakia.
At the turn of the 20th century, man's increased reliance upon science was both opening new worlds and solidifying the manners by which he could understand them.
At priestly ordination the bishop imposes hands upon the deacon who is by that matter and the form of the consecratory Preface ( Liturgy ) | preface ordained to the priesthood.
At the same time, since writers of Halakha may draw upon the aggadic and even mystical literature, there is a dynamic interchange between the genres.
At the time, Vortigern was in what is now Canterbury, and upon being informed of " the arrival of some tall strangers in large ships ," he ordered that they be received with peace and led to him.
At Hengist's mention of Mercury, Vortigern looks " earnestly upon them " and asks them their religion.
At that point, conservation officers allowed the public back into areas of the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge that had been restricted upon the initial reported sightings.
At God's command, Abraham was to build a sacrificial altar and sacrifice his son Isaac upon it.
At midnight on New Year's Eve 1929, Nehru hoisted the tricolour flag of India upon the banks of the Ravi in Lahore.
At this point however, Dulo Kaghan Kubrat, refused to accept Khazar rule and was cut-off to establish the short-lived state of Old Great Bolgary disintegrating upon his death with the majority migrating west where they carried out the first Hungarian conquest in 677.

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