At the top of the stairs he ran into somebody standing there angrily in a dressing gown.

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 the top of the hill the buildings on the left gave way to a park.

At the top of Figure 5, for example, the Onset range and Completion range lines for the chosen growth center have been drawn for girls according to their mean and standard deviation values in Table 1.

At the top a uniformed officer blocked further progress.

At the same instant, Elaine screamed wildly, the sound ending abruptly as Nick went off the boat and into the water on top of the frantic, struggling Poet.

At home in his dreary flat, Alex plays classical music at top volume while fantasizing of even more orgiastic violence.

At the end of each line the beam returns to the start of the next line ; the end of the last line is a link that returns to the top of the screen.

At the top of the structure is the forest.

At high levels of play, the formations will generally be more flexible: the top women players are capable of playing powerfully from the back-court, and will happily do so if required.

At the end of the opening round, the top 16 competitors move on to the playoffs.

At the top of the order, Dernier and Sandberg were exciting, aptly coined " the Daily Double " by Harry Caray.

At the top a capital ( also known as a chapiter ) or finial decorate the column, depending on whether it is attached to a structure or free-standing.

At the same time, Greek fortifications began to feature high towers with shuttered windows in the top, presumably to house anti-personnel arrow shooters, as in Aigosthena.

At the same time, Greek fortifications began to feature high towers with shuttered windows in the top, which could have been used to house anti-personnel arrow shooters, as in Aigosthena.

At the top were the Emperor and Court nobles ( kuge ), together with the Shogun and daimyo.

At the top were the two official classes, the Yangban that literally means " two classes.

At the top were the elite Europeans who owned plantations.

At the top were noblemen and direct descendants of the original Songhai people, followed by freemen and traders.

At the top of the tree there is a star or a glittering top piece.

At about the top of the compression stroke, fuel is injected directly into the compressed air in the combustion chamber.

At the top is a suspender of five graduated gold rays.

At the high school level, it is not uncommon to see multi-purpose goal posts that include football goal posts at the top and a soccer net at the bottom ; these are usually seen at smaller schools and in multi-purpose stadiums where facilities are used for multiple sports.

At the end of a season, the top team is declared the champion.

At full extension of the lines, which are long, the three main chutes are pulled from their deployment bags and inflate to their first reefed condition.

At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.

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 Sounion there is a group of beautiful columns, the ruins of a temple to Poseidon, of particular interest at that time, as active reconstruction was in progress.

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 least there is room here '', she said.

At the same time there has been an upgrading and expansion of municipal services as well.

At one time about 10,000 people lived there.

At the present time we do not know by what biochemical mechanism TSH acts on the thyroid, but for bio-assay of the hormone there are a number of properties by which its activity may be estimated, including release of iodine from the thyroid, increase in thyroid weight, increase in mean height of the follicular cells and increase in the thyroidal uptake of Af.

At this time, however, there are signs that increased availability of mortgage credit will not act with the usual speed to stimulate a sharp rise in residential construction.

At the same time, there is a good deal of self-congratulation at attending a good college -- they are even inclined to exaggerate its not inconsiderable virtues -- and they express pleasure at the cozy in-group feeling that the college generates.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

I know Negroes who prefer the South and white Southerners, because `` At least there, you haven't got to play any guessing games ''!!

At last, sitting there, in the familiar surroundings, the truth began to sink in.

At the Hotel Dumont there had, at the time in issue, been twenty-three overnighters, counting couples as singular.

At Berger's direction, the city also intervened in the Hughes bankruptcy case in U. S. District Court in a move preliminary to filing a claim there.

At the same time, there was increased reason for a quick meeting lest the Soviet leader, as a result of those episodes, come to a dangerously erroneous conclusion about the West's ability and determination to resist Communist pressure.

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

At the start of her program there were evidences of pique.

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

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 Patara, in Lycia, there was a seasonal winter oracle of Apollo, said to have been the place where the god went from Delos.

At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, particularly during the John F. Kennedy administration, there have been efforts to give " America the Beautiful " legal status either as a national hymn, or as a national anthem equal to, or in place of, " The Star-Spangled Banner ", but so far this has not succeeded.