At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

At certain critical stages, and only for sound diagnostic reasons, it may be important to accompany family members in their use of these resources if their problem-solving behavior is to be constructive rather than defeating.

At each step of the calculation the operating variables of only one stage need be varied.

At last count, sixteen former Rhodes Scholars ( see box on page 13 ) had been appointed to the Administration, second in number only to its Harvard graduates.

At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.

At best only an approximation could be arrived at.

At dinner one night, when he was fourteen, Richard announced, `` There is only one god ''.

At first he insists that he does not belong in Oran, and his only thought is returning to the woman he loves in Paris.

At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were 113 – 2, needing only 64 more runs.

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 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 time, one shekel's worth of oil was only one-half quart,

At length Haakon, weary of delay, attacked, only to encounter a terrific storm which greatly damaged his ships.

At the time, only the dress rehearsal and opening night performance were held, and the play was not revived until after Jarry's death.

* At the height of his career, Carnegie was the second-richest person in the world, behind only John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil.

At this apparent slight, R. Ḥiyya manifested chagrin, and R. Abbahu hastened to comfort him by comparing himself to the pedler of glittering fineries that always attracted the eyes of the masses, while his rival was a trader in precious stones, the virtues and values of which were appreciated only by the connoisseur.

At that moment, the nominal ruler of al-Andalus, emir Yusuf ibn ' Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri ( another member of the Fihrid family, and a favorite of the old Arab settlers ( baladiyun ), mostly of south Arabian or ' Yemenite ' tribal stock ) was locked in a contest with his vizier ( and son-in-law ) al-Sumayl ibn Hatim al-Qilabi, the head of the new settlers ( shamiyum, the Syrian junds or military regiments, mostly of north Arabian Qaysid tribes, which had arrived only in 742 ).

At best, the technique is only effective at extremely close ranges of five to ten feet, since the recoil would make it hard to keep both weapons straight, and using the sights on the guns is next to impossible.

At its peak, Li ' l Abner was read daily by 70 million Americans ( the U. S. population at the time was only 180 million ), with adult readers far outnumbering children.

At magnitude 5. 5, it is only 1 / 370th as bright visually as Antares A, although it shines with 170 times the Sun's luminosity.

At present the canal does not flow in district Gurgaon, but only in Faridabad, which was earlier a part of Gurgaon.

At the start of the Cold War, bombers were the only means to take nuclear weapons to enemy targets, and had the role of deterrence.

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.

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 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 beginning of the Depression in 1929, with his aged parents ' health weakening, Smith resumed fiction writing and turned out more than a hundred short stories, nearly all of which can be classed as weird horror or science fiction.

At Esprit, Marker wrote political commentaries, poems, short stories and ( with Bazin ) film reviews.

At least, three short periods in the history of Chicago have had a lasting influence on American Literature.

At the near end of each short, Clark gives out a smile and a wink to the audience ( that was carried over the 1966 Superman animated series ).

At the August Bristol race, Earnhardt found himself in contention to win his first short track race since Martinsville in 1995.

At that time, numerous influences-including a growing awareness of the unity and fragility of the biosphere following mankind's first steps into outer space ( see, for example, the Blue Marble ), increased public concern over the impact of industrial activity on natural resources and human health ( see, for example, the 1969 Cuyahoga River fire, the increasing strength of the regulatory state, and more broadly the advent and success of environmentalism as a political movement-coalesced to produce a huge new body of law in a relatively short period of time.

At the time, King was directing the first such adaptation, Maximum Overdrive, based on his short story " Trucks ".

At UCLA, Coppola directed a short horror film called “ The Two Christophers ” inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's " William Wilson ".

At that point, the player who committed the foul sits in the penalty area, and his team is short handed for the time of the penalty.

At short distances, the exchange interaction is much stronger than the dipole-dipole magnetic interaction.

At this time, Victor Gollancz suggested Orwell spend a short time investigating social conditions in economically depressed northern England.

At the upper end of the Gallery on the right-hand side there is a hole near the roof which opens into a short tunnel by which access can be gained to the lowest of the Relieving Chambers.

At the end of this period, a commission is occasionally extended by a short period.

At the narrow outer edge of the cnidocyte is a short trigger hair called a cnidocil.

At the age of 39, Aaron hit 40 home runs in 392 at-bats, ending the season one home run short of the record.

At heights of above, in the thermosphere, the atmosphere is so thin that free electrons can exist for short periods of time before they are captured by a nearby positive ion.

At Columbia he began to write short " semi-narrative abstract pieces ", and edited the undergraduate literary journal The Columbia Review.

At the age of six years old she made her film debut in a minor role in Woody Allen's Oedipus Wrecks, a short film that was released as one-third of the anthology New York Stories ( 1989 ).

At the beginning of that reign Malesherbes during his short ministry endeavoured to infuse some measure of justice into the system, and in March 1784 the baron de Breteuil, a minister of the king's household, addressed a circular to the intendants and the lieutenant of police with a view to preventing the most serious abuses connected with the issue of lettres de cachet.

At a short distance from that city they unexpectedly encountered the Vitellian troops.

At the highest elevations is dwarf forest, a dense forest as short as, on saturated soils.

At the end of the year, he managed to get a short story published.

At other times the Premier's ministerial office is in the Executive Building a short distance down George Street.