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

At the moment, the three men were not saying much of anything.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

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 dinner the courses were carried in by tall cuirassiers in red capes and black fur caps topped with tufts of feathers, marching in pairs like guards from a stage tragedy.

At his death Fred and Ralph, my husband, were named executors of the estate under the terms of the will.

At the bottom of this change were great strides forward in the technical equipment and technical standards of the historian.

At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.

At that time, during the Civil War, Union muskets were being manufactured in Providence and the drills to drill them were being hand-filed with rattail files.

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

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 times, clumps of 10 to 15 closely-packed nuclei were also observed.

At the close of Davis' speech the following preamble and resolutions were read by the president, and on the question of their adoption passed unanimously:

At no time were algae found in the mixed liquor.

At 6 o'clock on the morning of August 12, they were in doubt no longer.

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.

At each angle of its pitch a big skylight had been fitted into the roof and all these skylights were fitted with systems of multiple screens and shades.

At a ceremony in the reception room of Mayor Richardson Dilworth, the Eagles were honored for winning the championship.

At least 20 other Americans were reported to have been arrested in a mass political roundup.

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.

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

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