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At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.
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At last, when I put it to him directly, the clerk was forced to admit that the delay in my case was unusual.
At last he reached for the knife.
At last her lawyer, Arthur D. Cloud, gave up the case because she turned down three successive settlements he arranged.
At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.
At last they saw Calcutta, largest city of Bengal and the Caravan's destination.
At last he consented to meet her, and following that brief interview Claire wrote him a yet more remarkable proposal:
At last, even the controlled Torrio was unable to hold still, and he tentatively suggested that O'Banion should take a percentage in the Stickney brothels in return for one from his Cicero beer concession.
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 last he found it in the paper of April 2.
At last, sitting there, in the familiar surroundings, the truth began to sink in.
At last it was time to depart.
At last he said, `` Well, thank you for calling, Mr. Benson.
At the last session of the General Assembly, the town was authorized to adopt such an ordinance as a means of making enforcement of minor offenses more effective.
At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.
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At the opening of the Dusseldorf show, Thompson himself scarcely glanced at the treasures that he was seeing together for the last time.
At last, I thought, she's recovering her spirits.
At the same time that I thought I understood her at long last and pitied her, underneath this knowing had there burned unquenched by my pity a fire of hate, an enduring envy that burst out in that ghastly outcry??
At last there was a void no one could fill.
At last Gabriel spoke.
At last he noticed a return of the inwardness of pain.
At first, people indulge in fantasies, imagining the missing person's return, but then they start to feel like prisoners, drifting through life with nothing left but the past, since they do not know how long into the future their ordeal may last.
At the close of the second last day's play, Australia were 113 – 2, needing only 64 more runs.
At and second
At the Westminster KC Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, New York on the second day, the Finals of the Junior Class brought out the most competitive competition in the history of this Class.
At that time the second half of the Christian Youth Crusade against Communism will be staged.
At the 1856 Republican National Convention, Lincoln placed second in the contest to become the party's candidate for vice president.
At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brig.
At the Democratic Convention, when he came in second on the first ballot and faded from there, it became clear that he was too unpopular to run.
At that point three launches in combat resulted in three kills, resulting in the AMRAAM being informally named " slammer " in the second half of the 1990s.
At this critical moment, the Roman army was crippled by the outbreak of a second smallpox pandemic, the plague of Cyprian ( 251-70 ).
At the Council of Trent, on 15 November 1551, the necessity for a second conversion after baptism was delineated:
At the end of the second season, an inebriated Johnny LaRue is given his very own crane by Santa Claus, implying he would be able to have a crane shot whenever he wanted it.
At its second reading, if the Parliament approves the text or does not act, the text is adopted, otherwise the Parliament may propose further amendments to the Council's proposal.
At room temperature, the average speed of these random motions is 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > metres per second.
At the second step, the nucleophilic hydroperoxide or halogen anion attacks the boron atom.
At the time, Pud Galvin had the second most career wins with 364.
At the beginning of the second meditation, having reached what he considers to be the ultimate level of doubt — his argument from the existence of a deceiving god — Descartes examines his beliefs to see if any have survived the doubt.
At the time of their 2002 merger, Compaq and HP were the second and third largest PC manufacturers, so their combination made them number one.
At its peak, DEC was the second largest employer in Massachusetts, second only to the state government.
At the time of its independence in 1960, DRC was the second most industrialized country in Africa after South Africa ; it boasted a thriving mining sector and its agriculture sector was relatively productive.
At the second tier, Dartmouth forms part of the Dartmouth and Kingswear ward of South Hams District Council, which returns three councillors.
At a second he was so tired in his arms that he dropped them and the Danes then lost the advantage and were moving closer to defeat.
At the end of the season, Sheedy signed a new three-year contract, by the end of which he was the second on the list of most VFL / AFL games coached behind Collingwood's Jock McHale.
At any rate, The name is Falstaff in the Henry IV, part 1 quarto, of 1598, and the epilogue to the second part, published in 1600, contains this clarification:
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