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

At first I thought he had missed.

At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

At the first shot Russ had hurled his mount to the left toward the side of the winding draw.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

At first glance this appears strange: of all people, was not America founded by rugged individualists who established a new way of life still inspiring `` undeveloped '' societies abroad??

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

At the height of the first snowstorm we had, it was impossible for me to get medical attention needed during an emergency.

At two thirty he sent Fujimoto to the top of the wall at the northeast corner of the mission to keep an eye on the ridge road and give a signal when he first glimpsed the approach of Kayabashi's party.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

At first each child should do a kick-up by himself so that the teacher can determine those ready to work alone, and those who need help.

At first Barco was evasive and shifty.

At first the patient felt stronger, and the hemoglobin rose to 13.8 gm., but on Oct. 20, 1958, he complained of `` caving in '' in his knees.

At first I did not know what she meant ; ;

At any rate, Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington.

At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.

At first the kitchen help was tolerant, but ordered their own supply of white bread for themselves.

At the end of the performance, Dave and Max came out into the brilliantly lit foyer among a surge of gowned and tuxedoed first nighters.

At the Fifteenth Anniversary ( 1896 ) as already quoted, Miss Upton projected with force and eloquence the Spelman of the Future as a college of first rank, with expanding and unlimited horizons.

At first glance, not much of a motive for a man of his standing ; ;

At first the Belgian royal family administered the Congo as its own private property.

At Sparta women competed in public exercise — so in Aristophanes ' Lysistrata the Athenian women admire the tanned, muscular bodies of their Spartan counterparts — and women could own property in their own right, as they could not at Athens.

At the start of his career, he won public attention by creating small, intimate modestly scaled works in unconventional media and with eccentric subject matter.

At the end of the 1990s, Hasbro, the owners of the Atari properties at the time, released the rights to develop for the system to the public domain.

" At the mercy of Congress, cabinets came and went frequently, although there was more stability and continuity in public administration than some historians have suggested.

At the contrary, Zagreb-Split trait construction enjoyed a constant support from Croatian public and its on-schedule completion was marked with enormous joy and pride all through the country.

At 11 he went into the service of a grocer in Slatina ; and then he became a domestic in a public house in Craiova where he remained for several years.

At Chiang's request Yan visited Li in order to convince Li not to withdraw from public life.

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 a time when history painting was considered the supreme classification for public art, Chardin's subjects of choice were viewed as minor categories.

* 1867 – At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

At trial, the defense team argued that news articles from the time could have been the source for Echols ' knowledge about the genital mutilation, but the prosecution claimed that Echols ' knowledge, which Echols said was limited to what was " on TV ", was nonetheless too close to the actual facts, since there was no public knowledge of drowning or that one victim had been mutilated more than the others.

At the height of the boom, it was possible for a promising dot-com to make an initial public offering ( IPO ) of its stock and raise a substantial amount of money even though it had never made a profit — or, in some cases, earned any revenue whatsoever.

At his death, some portraits were auctioned in Paris, they sold for little ; the famous Death of Marat was exhibited in a secluded room, to avoid outraging public sensibilities.

At the public shoe-eating, Herzog suggested that he hoped the act would serve to encourage anyone having difficulty bringing a project to fruition.

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 first, many members of the Dublin public were simply bewildered by the outbreak of the Rising.

At the end of the commentary Simplicius wrote: " Nor does my writing this commentary prove beneficial to others only, for I myself have already found great advantage from it, by the agreeable diversion it has given me, in a season of trouble and public calamity.

At Wigan, he visited many homes to see how people lived, took detailed notes of housing conditions and wages earned, went down a coal mine, and used the local public library to consult public health records and reports on working conditions in mines.

At the same time he found the church to be a " selfish ... church of the landed gentry " with its establishment " out of touch " with the majority of its communicants and altogether a pernicious influence on public life.

At the event a full-size working replica of the Rocket was on show, which then spent two days on public display at the Chesterfield Market Festival.

At the same time, the audience for theatre was growing because of the rapidly expanding British population ; improvement in education and the standard of living, especially of the middle class ; improving public transportation ; and installation of street lighting, which made travel home from the theatre safer.

At the same time, Catalan and Galician became the standard languages in their respective territories, developing important literary traditions and being the normal languages in which public and private documents were issued: Galician from the 13th to the 16th century in Galicia and nearby regions of Asturias and Leon, and Catalan from the 12th to the 18th century in Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, where it was known as Valencian.

At the conclusion of the Oz obscenity trials in the UK, the defendants had their heads shaved by the police, causing public outcry.