At the novel's beginning, Becky Sharp is a bright girl with an eye to improving her lot through marrying up the social scale ; though she is thoroughly unsentimental, she is nonetheless portrayed as being a good friend to Amelia.

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.

At the novel's conclusion, a second ghola of Duke Leto has been created and is being raised back on Caladan in the care of the restored gholas of Jessica and Yueh.

At the novel's end they return to the South when Alabama's father dies.

At the novel's end, Preston's MI5 superior and adversary is denied a senior leadership role due to his misjudgment in the case and subsequently resigns from MI5 altogether.

At the novel's climax, Aiah's plasm source, and her own magical assistance, is a crucial element when Constantine orchestrates a revolution in the metropolis of Caraqui and installs himself in its post-revolutionary power structure, from which position he hopes to enact his New City reforms.

At the novel's end, the dying Jimson reflects on his life and the home and family that he has missed.

At the time of the novel's events, Meina Gladstone serves as the Hegemony's chief executive officer.

At the novel's end, Zezanne and another character, Soul ( who has duplicated the Doctor's identity ), escape in a time machine which lands in 1963 London, taking the form of a police box.

At the novel's end, the question of whether or not the Time Lords will be restored remains unanswered.

At the novel's start, the unnamed narrator is approached by a young man called Clitophon who is induced to talk of his adventures.

At the novel's end, Jimson reflects on his life and the home and family that he has missed.

At the time of the novel's composition, Seth was a graduate student in Economics at Stanford University ; portions of it make reference to the Printers Inc.

At this point, Keeler's novel would stop dead in its tracks and he would insert the complete verbatim text of one of his wife's short stories, this being the story his novel's protagonist was reading.

At the time of the novel's appearance, Camus was a reviewer for an Algiers left-wing daily.

At novel's end she marries Stephen Holmes, which can both symbolize her acceptance of her Christian destiny despite her father's protestations, and her acceptance of the role of wife and mother.

At the novel's climax, Two-Face and the rest of Batman's Rogue's Gallery break into the Falcone penthouse.

At the novel's conclusion, Ellroy weaves many of the real-life details of Stompanato's death into the otherwise largely fictional plot.

At the novel's opening, when Mila is with the dolphins and cannot speak English, the story is told from a neutral third person ( Mila's POV ) perspective.

( At the same time that the final novel's authorship was confirmed, having previously been slated as by Dean Koontz & Ed Gorman, Koontz's ' collaborators ' on the earlier novels were retrospectively removed as co-authors, and all new editions of the novels are credited as by Dean Koontz alone.

At the pool's far end was the little cabana Joyce had mentioned, and on the water's surface floated scattered lavender patches of limp-looking lather.

At either end and in the center there are bays which contain nine greater alcoves as frescoed and capacious as church apses.

At the beginning of the play she has partial illumination and at the end she has complete illumination, but there has been no question but that she moves toward the dark.

At four-o'clock, or four-thirty, the coming of the newsboy marked the end of the day ; ;

At the end of this period two pious Christians in Rome receive the revelation which leads them to seek the next Pope on the rock.

At the end of World War 2,, free Europe was ready for a new beginning.

At the very end, when the audience was silent and breathless, a collection was taken and then slowly everyone filed out.

At the end of the monologue the audience would applaud.

At the end of a shaft of light, the pews appeared to be broad stairs in a long dungeon.

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers, and she began to riffle these, making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation.

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 the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

At the end of the run, the strips in the third and sixth positions in each chamber were dried, stained for 1 hr, washed and dried, while the other strips were maintained in a horizontal position at 1-degree-C.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

At the end of this pass, the table indicates which index words and electronic switches are not available for assignment to symbolic references.

At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.

At the end of the calculated time he'd nose the Waco down through the cloud bank and hope to break through where some feature of the winter landscape would be recognizable.

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 end of the half-hour, racking his brains, thinking over and over again of Kitti, her friends, her past, he left the bedroom.

At the end of the corridor Alec noticed a door marked: Fire Stairs.

At the end of the program, indeed, there was a demonstration that lasted for forty-five minutes, and nothing could stop it.

At war's end leadership in Western Europe passed from Britain because the Labour Government devoted its attention to the creation of a welfare state.

At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.

At the American publisher's insistence, Burgess allowed their editors to cut the redeeming final chapter from the U. S. version, so that the tale would end on a darker note, with Alex succumbing to his violent, reckless nature — an ending which the publisher insisted would be ' more realistic ' and appealing to a U. S. audience.

At the end of World War II the US Army occupied Obersalzberg, to prevent Hitler from retreating with the Wehrmacht into the mountains.