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Sentences starting with at

At last, the youth succeeded, by means of the cleverest trick I ever saw, in clasping his opponent firmly. [10]
At thirty the youth has sobered into manhood, but the strong men of forty rise in almost unbroken rank between him and the approaches of old age as they show in the men of fifty. [6]
At last the youth encased his telescope, and turned to descend the hill to the town. [11]
At another time you're all for work. [12]
At least with your mouth. [5]
At sight of your face I took one big gulp, for I had no notion of getting you back to her. [9]
At the threshold your eyes fall upon a Latin sentence of welcome, sometimes, or a picture of a dog, with the legend "Beware of the Dog," and sometimes a picture of a bear or a faun with no inscription at all. [5]
At last the young soldier departed, and the very same day Adam was summoned to the monastery, to mend something in the grating before the treasury. [10]
At last, two young men of good height and bone threw arrows at his bare breast. [11]
At Pocasset the young men explored all the thick woods,--some who ought to have known better taking their guns, which made a talk, as one might well suppose it would. [6]

Sentences ending with at

Is that what you're coming at? [5]
What hotel are you stopping at? [5]
They are men whose measure of resolution is not guessed at. [9]
We all know where he went in at, but I can't tell where he will come out at. [7]
If I said well it would not be true; if I said ill, I should be surrounded with pitiful faces, which are not pleasant to look at. [10]
They say he was a sight to look at. [5]
It isn't the waistcoat that I look at. [12]
It wasn't so very long ago that I became a member of your cult, and for the time I've been in the business my record is one that can't be scoffed at. [5]
I am simply using you for a target to bang at. [5]
She did not understand what he was laughing at. [2]

Short sentences using at

Look at her, y'r anner! [11]
I am at your service. [2]
And look at your mouth. [5]
They are at your disposal. [10]
I am at your command. [2]
I'm astonished at you, Mirandy. [9]
At the inquest you were--concerned. [11]
At least, not yet. [5]
Look at the window there. [12]
At first you were stone-blind. [13]

Sentences containing at two or more times

Look at our youths, look at our ladies! [2]
He places at your disposal--this time, at least, he was not economical--a sum which will take you to the healing springs four or five times, nay, oftener still. [10]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
A very interesting young married woman, detained at home at the time by the state of her health, was bitten in the entry of her own house by a rattlesnake which had found its way down from The Mountain. [6]
I looked at you, and I wished that I had never seen a woman before and could look at the world as you did then--it was like water from a spring, that look. [11]
It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
At the time you took a solemn vow; I know it, know it no less surely, than that I myself swore faith to my husband at the altar. [10]
At any rate, you think you move them backward and forward at such a rate as your will determines, don't you?--On the contrary, they swing just as any other pendulums swing, at a fixed rate, determined by their length. [6]
But, pardon me, you seem somehow different from what you were at Fortress Monroe, or even at lovely Atlantic City," this with a rather forced laugh. [4]
Then, of course, you must show us the mill working at night, and afterwards--may I ask it?--you must all come and have supper with me at the summer hotel. [11]

More example sentences with the word at in them

Smedley the artist; Zorn the artist; Zogbaum the artist; Reinhart the artist; Metcalf the artist; Ancona, head tenor at the Opera; Oh, a great lot of others. [5]
The lepers in Zoan, Pha-kos and Phibeseth followed the others at a certain distance, and their tents are pitched outside the camp. [10]
He devoted himself zealously to the task, and soon was so successful that the plays at Tauromenium, and the musical performances in its Odeum, attracted the citizens in crowds, and were talked of far and wide. [10]
She said: "If you've done wrong, Si Hawkins, it's a wrong that will shine brighter at the judgment day than the rights that many' a man has done before you. [5]
Here three naked youths, with trays upon their heads, cried aloud at each doorway what, interpreted, was: "Pies! [11]
But a brave youth who was driving a grocery-wagon threw himself before the plunging animals, and succeeded in arresting their flight at the peril of his own.--[This is probably a misprint.--M. [5]
If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
Here the persecuted youth changed his name, Horus, to its Greek equivalent, and henceforth he was known at home and in the schools as Apollo. [10]
Dat's it, lady, you'se lookin at it. [9]
You see it yourselves" They gazed at each other awe-struck, and lifted their hands and said in unison: "It's per-fectly wonderful. [5]
Do not allow yourself to be overworked at first, nor require the impossible of your strength, for Rome and the world still expect great things of you. [10]
Well-for your throwing yourself away down there at Newcastle. [9]
My Irenia is yours--" "But she does love me, and even should she no longer--" "The test is at hand. [10]
These uncles of yourn ain't no uncles at all; they're a couple of frauds --regular dead-beats. [5]
I said:-- "'Senator, you're not going to ask me to turn loose all those at once? [9]
I get what you're driving at, doctor. [9]
They tell me you're buildin' a mill up at McChesney's, and I reckon you're as cute as any of 'em. [9]
I don't think you're at all so, now. [9]
Handily situated, at your very elbow, is opportunity for this. [5]
I passed through your town at a certain time, and received a deep offence which I had not earned. [5]
Do you shrug your shoulders at that, son of the pious Erigone? [10]
We were passing your shops, and a big crowd of men were there, making a noise, shouting at a speaker. [9]
But now--now ask your question at once. [10]
And then came your party, and Glencoe, and that curious incident at the Fair. [9]
I would accept your offer at once, were it not that I fear there might be some impropriety in it, though I do not see that there would. [7]
If you enter your name on the Visitor's Book at Government House you will receive an invitation to the next ball that takes place there, if nothing can be proven against you. [5]
I proceed, with your leave, to ask a considerable number of questions,--hoping to get answers to some of them, at least. [6]
Never fall below your ideals--that is what I heard a speaker say at the Town and Country Club, and that is my notion. [4]
It is in your honor, and not in his, that we have no music this evening; you said that you did not particularly like it at a banquet. [10]
Ulrich yonder, at your head, can bear his nickname of Lowing with honor. [10]
Then lift up your head again, and look at me. [10]
Well, I touched your hand then, and you looked at me and nodded, and went musin' into the fire again, not seemin' to hear our gabble. [11]
Try to have your force, or the advance of it, at Front Royal as soon. [7]
Now, you set your foot on shore In Novo Orbe; here's the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon's Ophir!---- B. Jonson The supper at Col. [5]
To gaze in your face at the same time was, perhaps, even better physic. [10]
You could rest your elbow on its eaves, and you had to bend in order to get in at the door. [5]
I fully acknowledge your courage, but at the same time advise you to remember that, though a man proves his courage in action, a woman's is shown in obedience. [10]
Your experience and your convictions are made the reader's; and to an author, at least, they have a value and an interest quite unusual. [14]
You may leave your constable where he is, or the man may come in and stand at this door in sight of the gentleman while you are gone--if he pleases. [9]
It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
When you finished your breakfast at ten o'clock and went out, the sunshine was brilliant, the weather balmy and delicious, and the mud and slush deep and all-pervading. [5]
And then there's your big high-sounding millionaire names stuck into your advertisements as stockholders--another card, that--and they are stockholders, too, but you have to give them the stock and non-assessable at that--so they're an expensive lot. [5]
He can make your bed hard or soft at the citadel. [11]
With regard to your alliance with the Arabs, and whether it becomes you--being what you are--to take service with them, we will discuss it at a future day. [10]
If I were your age and able to drag myself to the street, I should be at the Arsenal now. [9]
They gave me your address at the hotel--when I asked for a lawyer. [9]
One civilian, a youngish man a little inclined to stoutness, stopped at the gate, stared, then thrust some papers in his pocket and hurried down the side street. [9]
A Numidian, the youngest of the legion, a beardless youth, had pinned the terrible conqueror of lions and men to the bed with his spear, and then, with the same weapon, had released at least a dozen of his fellow-sufferers from their pain. [10]
She was the youngest of five maiden sisters, and had arrived at the mature age of eighteen. [4]
Two of the younger men Honora recognized with a start, but for a moment she could not place them--until suddenly she remembered that she had seen them on her wedding trip at Hot Springs. [9]
She beheld herself, young, fresh-cheeked, with life beating high and all the impulses of youth panting to use, sitting at the head of the seigneury table. [11]
Perhaps no handsome young woman had ever looked at him so in his life. [6]
This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
To begin with, young sir, I desire to ask you but three questions at present--at present. [5]
Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
Myra was too young not to look wistful at my news, but the others pretended indifference, seeking to lessen my triumph. [9]
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. [11]
A perfectly gentlemanly young man, of courteous address and mild utterance, but means at least as much as he says. [6]
Here was the young man whose life she had saved, at least for the moment, and who was yet in danger from the disease which had almost worn out his powers of resistance. [6]
At first the young man was awed by the presence of the grizzled gentleman, and he struggled with his language to bring it up to the classic level of the old meteorologist's speech. [11]
Your friend's the young man from Witherden's office I think--yes--May we ne'er want a-- Nobody else at all, been, Mr Richard? [12]
He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. [2]
On this the young man appeared, and though he and Paula did their utmost to preserve a suitable demeanor, every one could see the violent agitation they felt at meeting each other in such a situation. [10]
I suppose the Young Lady expressed a nearly universal feeling in her regret at the breaking up of the winter-fireside company. [4]
There were literary young ladies, who had read everything of Dickens and Thackeray, and something at least of Sir Walter, and occasionally, perhaps, a French novel, which they had better have let alone. [6]
Some of these young ladies came from other cities,--New York and Philadelphia and elsewhere,--and their fathers and mothers were usually people to be mentioned as a matter of course--were, indeed, frequently so mentioned by Miss Sadler, especially when a visitor called at the school. [9]
No doubt the Young Girl was capricious in setting the little engine at work, but she cut short a good many disquisitions that threatened to be tedious. [6]
There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
The' 's a young gen'l'm'n up at that school where she go,--so some of 'em tells me, 'n' she loves t' see him 'n' talk wi' him, 'n' she talks about him when she 's asleep sometimes. [6]
This touched the young fellow's sympathetic nature, and at the same time gave him the painful sense of being an intruder upon a sacred privacy, an observer of emotions which a stranger ought not to witness. [5]
A long, yellowish young borzoi, one Nicholas did not know, from another leash, rushed impetuously at the wolf from in front and almost knocked her over. [2]
Nay, many a young Alexandrian, passing the group on foot or in a carriage, looked at her a second time, for that smile lent a mysterious charm to her pale, calm face. [10]
I don't believe you'll think much about what I did n't do,--because I couldn't,--but remember that at any rate I tried honestly to serve you. [6]
I will thank you, therefore, to inform me, if you can, by what day, at the earliest, you can promise to have ready to be mustered into the United States service the eight thousand men. [7]
He thought of you, of course, and Colonel Woodburn, and Beaton, and me at the foot of the table; and Conrad; and I suggested Kendricks: he's such a nice little chap; and the old man himself brought up the idea of Lindau. [8]
I never loved you, never truly loved you at any time. [11]
And as for you, my lad, you are my guest; you can't stop at any hotel in New York. [5]
I can tell you, Mr. Burnett, and when you are over this delusion you will thank me for being so plain with you, my daughter would laugh at the idea of such a proposal. [4]
And I told you, I believe, that I met him once at Mr. [9]
We will house you, feed you as we feed, and you shall have your tobacco at army prices. [11]
Here Epagathos, and you, Claudius--go at once to Timotheus; carry him this sword. [10]
I say to you, at the risk of the accusation of conceit, that I believed myself to have a power in the pulpit if I could only discover the truth. [9]
I only ask you, at the conclusion of these few remarks, to give three hearty cheers for all good and brave officers and men who fought those successful battles. [7]
But I, I--If you--" At the same he threw up his hands and gave a dull, painful cry. [10]
Are any of you younger people old enough to remember that Irishman's house on the marsh at Cambridgeport, which house he built from drain to chimney-top with his own hands? [6]
I understand all you would say to me; but he who has most at stake has said it, and, if he failed, do you think, madame, that you could succeed? [11]
I knew that you would not refuse me in spite of the fact that the world may misunderstand, may sneer at your taking me. [9]
Well, I hope you won't come to an early grave like poor Charles,--or at any rate, that you may be prepared. [6]
I hope that you will think nothing of the--the mistake at the gate. [9]
In short, if you will set me down at Saville, I am willing to take my chances of reaching the Canadian Pacific from that point without fear of detection. [9]
And now, since you will not put me quite at my ease by assuming, in words, that I have been properly 'chaperoned' here, I must inform you that my father waits hard by--is, as my riotous young brother says, 'without on the mat. [11]
For certain reasons you will next go and do homage at this well. [5]
The first thing you will naturally wish to look at will be the earth you have just left. [6]
Watch yourself, and you will find impulses which, but for the restraints you put upon them, would make you do the same foolish things which you laugh at in that cousin of yours. [6]
And who among you will falter at such a call? [9]
I dare say you will betray me to my father--" But Arsinoe did not finish her sentence, for Selene looked up at her with a mixture of suffering and alarm, and said: "I cannot be glad--I am in too much pain. [10]
Now, sir, if you will be so kind as to look at these maps and plans in my portfolio, I am sure I can sell you an echo for less money than any man in the trade. [5]
But you, Olympius, you who are the very soul of the revulsion we hope for, you must not be present at the festival. [10]
At that time you were wise enough not to attempt to pass comment upon accidents in business affairs which are, if deplorable, inevitable. [9]
I said that you were in love with her once, Davy, when I saw you looking at the portrait. [9]

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