How To Use At once In A Sentence

Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's A Winner of the Victoria Cross
Your essay gets a bit confused halfway through when you introduce too many ideas at once.
With the loss of so many illusions at once I cannot remember when I have felt so vulnerable or chastened, but neither can I remember when I have felt so alive.
After a bit, we mustered a varry nice pairty ov abaat a dozen, an 'as iverybody wor tawkin at once we managed to mak a fairish din. Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

That not only means that more information can be crunched at once, but these chips can also handle more complex instructions.
I advise you to own up at once.
All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one oclock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch
Pile each croute with the prawn mixture and serve at once. The Sun
They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the â€œherd. â€ The â€œherdâ€ consisted of approximately 3,000 mountain-sized blocks of ice that once were comet 2P/Encke. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Emerald's feelings must have shown on her face, for all at once Jeremy was repentant. YELLOW BIRD
I just can't image what would have taken them all away at once with no word.
The length should be that of the bandaging; the breadth, three or four fingers; thickness, three or fourfold; number so as to encircle the limb, neither more nor less; those applied for the purpose of rectifying a deformity, should be of such a length as to encircle it; the breadth and thickness being determined by the vacuity, which is not to be filled up at once. On The Surgery
Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
This in turn has triggered the disappearance of a system of symbols that once enabled immediate identification of a woman's status.
A wild beast does not at once become tame, or a new breed arise in an instant.
No part of the lunar globe became visible in relief against circumfluous solar radiance on any of the plates exposed at Grenada; and what vestiges of "structure" there were, came out almost better _upon_ the moon than _beside_ her, thus stamping themselves at once as of atmospheric origin. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
It may seem a paradox that the same colour should be at once so durable and so fugitive, but we may briefly explain it by saying _when vitreous pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided state_. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
You, young man,” she proceeded, addressing Roland Graeme, and at once softening the ironical sharpness of her manner into good-humoured raillery, “you, who are all our male attendance, from our Lord High Chamberlain down to our least galopin, follow us to prepare our court.” The Abbot
Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
JIM GIBBONS, NEVADA: Nevada is the state that needs water, but we don't need it all at once. CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2008
Classic poetry and rhetoric give kids a language, at once subtle and copious, in which to articulate their own thoughts, perceptions, and inchoate feelings.
He had only to speak one word and his dog would come to heel at once.
All the inmates had to be protected and watched over, and any problems that arose would have to be sorted out at once.
Sprinkle with lemon juice and serve at once. Times, Sunday Times
The ships of several passenger and mail lines were also purchased, or leased as auxiliary cruisers, and were at once remanned and put in commission. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
All at once the apparent walls of the room turned from a gold color to a black dotted with stars, most like a midnight sky.
Have him in at once, please.
Although Mr. Smith didn't fully solo until this last tune, throughout the set his polyrhythmic drumming evoked a movie with four subplots going at once, all of which, I'd be willing to wager, are better than the latest Harry Potter movie, even in 3D. The Sound Way Down in the Underground
Very soon they had passed from the realisation that in them and through them a new world of giantry shaped itself in the earth, from the contemplation of the great struggle between big and little, in which they were clearly destined to participate, to interests at once more personal and more spacious. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
Instead, we get the "kerplunk" scene we knew we were getting from the end of last issue, Luthor revealing that he's actually kind of a bastard after all, members of Infinity II declaring twice in two pages that it sure is a good thing they still have their powers, and a lost-in-space scene that once again fails to advance that plot. Week 35: That Most Dangerous of Animals
KOBE: We arrived at Kobe on the evening of April 10th, and fell at once into the grasp of the custom-house authorities, who proved, however, very lenient. Travels in the Far East
Having obtained the metacentric height, reference to a diagram will at once show the whole range of stability; and this being ascertained at each loading, the stowage of the cargo can be so adjusted as to avoid excessive stiffness in the one hand and dangerous tenderness on the other. Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
He thought every thing was to be feared from the present state of the affair, and proposed revealing at once all he knew of it to Mr. Tyrold: but Camilla desired him to take no step till she had again expostulated with her sister, who might else be seriously hurt or offended. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Such women are mostly presented as sexless in that once their family is complete, they appear to lose all sexual desire and physical charm.
Even so, there's something odd about finding the everyman denim dungaree for sale at the store that once offered the promise of making every man a gentleman. 'Fake Authenticity' for Sale
Described as plump, fleshy, bitter, salty and succulent all at once, their taste remains on the palate long after swallowing.
The old fruit and veg market that once echoed with the calls of cockney costermongers is now home to gourmet burger bars and stalls selling Javanese pottery.
When you contact these two wires, the machine will start at once.
If a new unit was plugged in, it would probably burn out at once.
The dog sheds its winter coat once the weather becomes warmer.
Should we hire a marine surveyor to inspect the boat once it's returned to us?
I then wandered down Whitehall, passed the great Offices of State, to view the Mother of Parliaments and ponder the fact that 70 years on Britain has a Government led by a Prime Minister never elected to that Office, who has refused to consult the People for fear they oppose him and happily transfered that once so precious prized sovereignty to a new European Superpower. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The lake seemed to breathe, expanding and contracting, rising and falling, its surface level changing several feet in a matter of minutes, spectacular and terrifying at once.
He was at once a Queens pol and yet the most patrician figure in American politics.
Now, to their amazement, Bush administration officials find themselves thrust through the equivalent of a Star-Trekkian wormhole into an anti-universe where everything that once worked for them seems to work against them …. Think Progress » White House officials seek Bloomin’ Onion of the Far East.
He couldn't handle both of them at once, and he had to get rid of her after she'd seen him.
If a drop of the same ink is mixed with a drop of fresh blood, the carbon precipitates at once in the form of rather coarse black particles, assembling in small irregular clusters.
But it also brought so many people at once into the movement that our goals got muddied.
Sometimes too many keys rose at once and jammed together, so his fingers were all inky from pulling them apart.
She mentally reviewed his no longer youthful figure, his monastic face, black-haired and large-nosed, with eyes full of expression, his curly mouth, at once judgmatic and benevolent. Flowering Wilderness
The ship was to set sail at once, on the admiral's orders.
I think that we all deserve pats on the back for retaining the spelling knight after losing the silent velar fricative that once started the word, and for successfully mastering learning the various sound sequences that that master of disguise ough can hide (bough, trough, plough, through, tough, etc.). Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar
From the firmness of its drawing, and the depth and singular purity of its colour, "Godiva" stood, if we judge aright, as at once a great performance and a great pledge. Famous Reviews
Any such definitive analysis, however, would need to respond, at the very least, both to his at once ‘avant- garde’ and hard-headedly commercial use of abstracted, deliberately over-stylised backgrounds and movements, and to the logical circularity which repeatedly dictates the emotional lives of his characters.
Seek advice from a personal injury lawyer at once. The Sun
At once they began to scream their daily challenge; but this time, there was no answer.
We told her to pack her bags at once.
As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them. Latest Articles
The end comes to both actions at once in the squalor of a chance-medley. William Shakespeare
SLA'PDASH. intttj, [itomjlap and dalb, '\ All at once, trior. A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...
This fact at once points to an analogy with the umbellate allies, and induces us to examine the insertion of the flowers more critically. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
There was also an ancient-looking horn and an "erhu" -- a two-string instrument which produced the most heart-wrenching sounds, and the "yanqin", a string instrument so beautiful and powerful that I thought there were twenty different instruments playing at once! Mao's Last Dancer
Those who fled at once, unburdened by possessions, had a chance of survival, for the rain of ash and pumice, mixed with lithics, that descended for several hours was not necessarily lethal.
This is temporary amnesia caused by the fact that human beings are not good at looking out for two things at once. Times, Sunday Times
She has a snub nose and hair that once was golden.
The necromancer appealed for my support, entreating me to stand firm by him, and to have assafetida flung upon the coals; so I turned to Vincenzio Romoli, and told him to make the fumigation at once. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
~ When the quantitative synthesis of water is carried out in the eudiometer as described above, the water vapor formed by the union of the hydrogen and oxygen at once condenses. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
The fancy can no more soar and disport in skyey regions, the beloved object ceases at once to be celestial, and remains plodding on earth, entirely unromantic and substantial. The Virginians
I cared nothing for Evalie then, caught in that limbo which at once was ice and candent core of rage. Dwellers in the Mirage
The fear of being disagreeable is a great bugbear to a girl, as this artful young man well knew, and Rose fell into the trap at once, for Aunt Jane was far from being her model, though she could not help respecting her worth. Rose in Bloom
Do me the favour to deny me at once.
The beauty of Humphrey's work is that his mind is active on so many levels at once.
It will at once be seen that E_z_ is less than D_x_, and that since the normal at P is vertical and infinite, the evolute of DPE will consist of two branches _x_N, _z_M, to which the vertical normal PL is a common asymptote. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
The smell of the cabin hut and everything inside seemed to permeate my senses all at once. SONS OF HEAVEN
It was sad, moving and funny in a certain sense and at times all three at once. Times, Sunday Times
All at once it began to rain, drops large as gobs of spit.
My main concern is how St. George's infrastructure will cope with the arrival of 2,500 passengers at once.
At once claustral and emancipating, these poems announce that the event of life is meaningless without the form we give to it.
Your mind is clear and changes that once seemed too difficult to make click into place. The Sun
It was at once the most sacrilegious and yet mystic moment many of them had ever experienced.
If there is something wrong with the machine,it should be reported at once to the engineer in charge.
All at once he was wide awake. A Time of War
And if we examine Frege's definitions of particular finite cardinals we see at once why the notion of cardi - nal numbers can hardly be extracted as traditional abstraction doctrines suggest. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
The postwar alliance that once structured and indeed defined our world is dead.
Accordingly, not wishing to incur expense in their present want of money, they sent back at once the Thracians who came too late for Demosthenes, under the conduct of Diitrephes, who was instructed, as they were to pass through the Euripus, to make use of them if possible in the voyage alongshore to injure the enemy. The History of the Peloponnesian War
The doctor insists that it's dangerous and it must be treated at once.
Although "weak spots" the beginning of cavities may remineralize with luck and usually not with baby molars, you have to remember that once a cavity starts it will get worse even with great brushing/flossing. They Are Just Baby Teeth, Why Fix Them?
Pat was so incensed he got up at once and hit Jock, and Mrs Lennox screamed.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein
Here they are displayed adjacently as Tintoretto must have intended: the rigid symmetry of the former painting makes clear that it was meant for a frontal view, while "Washing" demands to be seen from the side, where the perspective at once makes exquisite, coherent sense. The View From Venice
It is healthier to sip a cup of tea several times a day rather than down it all at once.
When you contact these two wires, the machine will start at once.
Things were beginning to look a little bleak for West Ham but almost at once they surged upfield to equalise. Times, Sunday Times
I hauled in the trailing ropes, hoisted this awkward sail reefed, the forestaysail being already set, and under this sail brought her at once on the wind heading for the land, which appeared as an island in the sea. Sailing Alone Around the World
All at once she laughed aloud. A Time of War
The reality, of course, is that once a designer opens an office and hires a staff, he's as much rainmaker as artist.
But everything of that kind was brought abruptly to an end by a loud discordant blowing of horns and the hollow _tub, tub, tub_ of a number of rude drums; at which sounds the crowd around us broke up at once and retired, our little Hebe casting back at us more than one glance strongly indicative, as it seemed to me, of compassion. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
At once he stepped forward to proffer his filthy paw.
Archaeologists have discovered an arc of buried megaliths that once formed part of the great stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire.
The voices from the archways and beneath the flags tones cried out briefly, all at once, in agony.
Elected President in 1927, he at once imprisoned or exiled his political opponents.
Haha, you silly twit, he won with 55 percent of the vote against Stefan's hero Toby Nixon, in a district that Nixon had carried twice before, a district that once elected Kathy Lambert and the never-to-be-forgotten Bill (Spanky) Backlund. Sound Politics: Urban Legends And Eric Oemig
At once they were nauseated and began vomiting, and they retched the whole day’.
There is a strange, herky-jerky character to her assault, almost as if we were watching an old, speeded-up silent film, that at once distances us from the action and yet makes it more horrible.
The demand for quarters, seldom refused to a vanquished foe was at once found to be in vain. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
My head throbbed with the force of a thousand attacks at once and I could feel the painful sensation worsening with each pulse of my heart.
She at once tried to correct this movement and thus saw the pen approach its objective.
You know it has been used by thousands -- by millions -- and has strewed the land with desolation, and peopled hell with its victims; and you cannot but acknowledge that you would at once cease to make the liquor, did you not _hope it would continue to be used_. Select Temperance Tracts
The boy posted upstairs, taking three steps at once.
When I first learned of that correlation in college, I at once associated the idea of theophany with that of vocation and that of baptism with both. Theophany and vocation
I would like to think it was one-time shot, mailing them all out at once, myself.
She noted at once that their suits were different in some manner - it was the shoulders; they had raglan sleeves and looked very expensive, and somehow foreign.
He saw an open ventilation grate, big enough to fit both of them at once.
The outer layer of a fresh lobster egg shows the remains of the funiculus that once attached it to the female.
Lay a sheet of unglazed paper on the hectograph, rub it carefully, and take off at once. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
You'll find that once you start looking for candles and oil lamps, there are a plentitude from which to choose - and they'll all brighten up your home for the holidays.
So many thoughts of Haas were now crowded into her mind all at once.
Putting on a show of two people at once is a complex business on all sorts of levels.
Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
Jong in her sixties is at once too much and too little like Jong in her thirties. Zip It
From Gokyo Ri four 8000-metre peaks (Cho Oyu, Everest, Lhotse and Makalu) are visible at once. Motion Trek | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The mussel reef that once thrived in Okahu Bay is being replenished to filter the waters from high sedimentation and metal contamination, and to restore the mauri (life force) of the bay.
Professor von Duhn told me that once when approaching an Italian village in search of inscriptions he was taken for the devil, being unluckily mounted on a black horse and dressed in black, and was met by a priest with a crucifix, who was at last persuaded to "disinfect" him with holy water as a condition of his being admitted to the village. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
Everywhere people are promenading, basking in the miraculous light: warm, long, slanting, at once brilliant and diffuse.
If the ultimatum is not at once accepted we may look for that dreadful catastrophe, a sex war. Elections Past
His study of tsarist censorship was a quest at once painstaking, costly and without visible reward. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Catlin, who could hardly be called reticent, at once made plain his feeling about the Missouri, the river that was to carry them some two thousand miles into the mysterious reaches of the West. The Berrybender Narratives
But at once he has just the same sense that the orang could be a human child.
Countries overwhelmed by the human tide of refugees want safe havens set up at once.
Grieve suggests that brave good-faith have-a-go heroes will not face arrest, and then in disconcerting non sequitor that once arrested, investigated and passed to the CPS good intentions will be a factor in deciding what next. Con-Watch: Have-a-Go-Hero Dominic Grieve
By this simple process," said he, "all the earthy particles are pressed out and the iron becomes at once free from dross, and what is usually called cinder, and is compressed into a fibrous and tough state. Industrial Biography
The larval insects insert their proboscides into the bark of young shoots of certain lac-bearing trees, varieties of Ficus, draw out the sap for nutriment, and at once exude a resinous secretion which entirely covers their bodies and the twigs, often to the thickness of one-half inch. Handwork in Wood
The buyout is an ignominious end for a business that once employed 30,000 people and was synonymous with doorstep deliveries of milk. Times, Sunday Times
The collection includes a horse so small it was originally sold in a matchbox and an 8ft rocking horse large enough to seat three children at once.
He explains that once he recovered from the injury, he was captured by Spaniards, thrown in jail and then sent to Constantinople to be the almoner to the French Ambassador.
two or more parhelia are usually seen at once
The closest ring, at Tucki Tucki, lies on a trading route that once stretched to the Bunya Bunya mountains in Queensland, and was still in use for corroborees until at least 1880 (and probably for long afterward).
Look around you for pictures that you really like, and in buying which you can help some genius yet unperished -- that is the best atonement you can make to the one you have neglected -- and give to the living and struggling painter at once wages, and testimonial. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
Material that once had to be slowly printed out on a telefacsimile or even received through the mail with a paid subscription to a service is now quickly available on the Web.
But it is impossible by words to convey any idea of the effect of his conversation, and of the impression made by so much philosophy, gaiety and humour, accompanied by a manner at once so animated and simple.
Inform me at once if there are any changes in her condition.
There are those who question whether the current bruxism craze isn't simply the '90s version of the TMJ diagnosis that peaked in the' 70s -- a catchall disorder that once kept dentists busy. I Hear America Grinding
It came at once into our minds, how on Sunday, three years before, the steamer "Brother Jonathan," in attempting to do the same thing, struck a rock, and foundered, and nearly all on board were lost. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California
All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.
If, however, they are part of that once-fashionable system called MBO management by objectives, then they are also supposed to flow up the hierarchy in cumulative fashion, in which case it becomes unclear where overall values enter the picture. The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
Remove from the heat, add the parsley, toss and serve at once.
There's no excuse for wearing this many styles and clashing colours at once. The Sun
The ability to coordinate several activities at once and to quickly analyze and resolve specific problems is important.
Tradition dictates that once the oven and its contents are sealed for baking, a bottle of mezcal is placed within the hill of earth. BBQ Goat In Oaxaca: The Pomp, Ceremony And Tradition
The atrocities of the Second World War coupled with developments in genetics, robotics, and space exploration (just to mention a few) are reflected in nihilism and existentialism philosophies, presenting the image of a man as a fluctuant entity, surrounded by relative values, incapable of seeking ultimate truths and haunted by the disintegration of ideologies that once he has held sacred. POSTMODERN LITERATURE:
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Rome teaches, that is, purificatory and punitive), but probatory, not restricted to those dying in "venial sin"; the supposed intermediate class between those entering heaven at once, and those dying in mortal sin who go to hell, but universal, testing the godly and ungodly alike Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
We are the reluctant inheritors of a tradition that once corralled hundreds of thousands of young men into a place so that they might selflessly clamber out of trench lines to certain death. Michael Vlahos: Chilean Transcendence
Most globulars these evolutionary differences are fairly minor, and suggest that star formation was not all at once but over a short period – possibly with intermittent burst of star formation depending on the gas collapse of the nebulosity that forms the stars in the globular. Alien Star Clusters Are Invading the Milky Way | Universe Today
Darwinism supplies an easy answer: it is rational for all substantial depositors to withdraw their money - and to do so at once. Times, Sunday Times
He that once deceived is never suspected.
Homes in this corner of Mantua that once went for $350,000 are now worth nothing.
He then went at once and borrowed a waggon and twelve oxen, and during the night we packed the waggon three times, and took three loads across the Buffalo River to Degaza's kraal, which is on Natal ground, forty sacks of grain, 200 pounds in a box, with clothes and other things, also mats and skins, and four head of cattle and a horse. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Vernon; one of the Italian cotton toiles de Gênes, so familiar to tourists on the Riviera, cut out and "buttonholed" upon a heavier background, presenting to view a large tree with flowers fruit and birds, all at once upon its branches. Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
He was startled to behold their beauty, and at once felt a rush of love for these creatures, blessing them as the only other living things in his damnable world.
Revulsion at the thought, fear of the act; his mind recoiled from it, seeking sanctuary, finding it at once. LOHENGRIN
She had always seemed able to think along several lines at once, bringing oddly disparate facts together to make a pattern others missed. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Russian sport depends on the old Soviet structures that once produced such success but have decayed. Times, Sunday Times
The company is celebrating its residency at Rosslyn's Artisphere (the globelike building that once housed the Newseum) with a couple of plays in repertory -- "Mary Stuart" and "Richard III. On stage in October
All at once, Rena feels both like turning around to run out the door, and staring at him in frozen admiration - like a person worshipping a piece of art.
And it all happens at once, to the ear-splitting sound of an eight-headed foghorn and the ringing of a phone.
Walking in soft finnesko, the magnetician opens an inner door, to be at once accosted by darkness, made more intense after the white glare of the snow. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Extra police and troops were at once moved into the area but it is feared that more killings are likely.
During a ride to a natural tank amongst these rocky elevations, I passed from the alluvium to the sandstone, and at once met with all the prevailing plants of the granite, gneiss, limestone and hornstone rocks previously examined, and which I have enumerated too often to require recapitulation; a convincing proof that the mechanical properties and not the chemical constitution of the rocks regulate the distribution of these plants. Himalayan Journals — Complete
Elizabeth, evincing at once his own courtiership and her popularity. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
The awesomely, Sovietly square Nexcopy USB200PC key duplicator will flash 20 USB sticks at once from a master key. Boing Boing
The main unit, comprising the vessels equipped with the live-bait tanks, were to begin "chumming" at once within a given area. El Diablo
I saw the quizzical look in his eyes and knew at once what he was thinking. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
In an instant her mind learns so many things at once that if the imagination and intellect spent years in striving to enumerate them, it could not recall a thousandth part of them. The Interior Castle or The Mansions
Or tick off two trends at once with a pair of stripey dungarees. The Sun
'' He lived with a silverback gorilla before he came here which means that he has remained a blackback gorilla - but that's definitely going to change now he's dating three girls at once. '' Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
On looking at the Sun, I was at once struck with the apparent resolvability of its mottled appearance. James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of this person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stone-like movelessness of the figure, that effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist. The Purcell Papers
Played at a quickstep tempo, the dirge was at once transformed into a jaunty, comic, oompah version of the Scottish anthem.
Silence, then the trickle at once became a small flood of words. THE LAST RAVEN
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. Robert A. Heinlein
Unless you go at once you will be late.
Sprinkle with lemon juice and serve at once. Times, Sunday Times
Playing Cranium feels like playing charades, Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Name That Tune and hangman all at once.
And to draw the last of my title quaternity into the discussion, Edward Tufte proposes as a “grand truth about human behvior that, as Van Wyck Brooks said, “It is a principle that shines impartially on the just and the unjust that once you have a point of view all history will back you up.” AKMA’s Random Thoughts
TO the books of the monastery some human interest clings: we can at once conjure up a picture of the cloister and the scribe at his work; the handling of an old manuscript, the turning over of finely-written and quaintly-illuminated yellow pages, throws the mind flashing back centuries to the silent writer in his carrell. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
If the Sonata be not suitable for London, I could send another, or you might omit the Largo, and begin at once with the Fugue in the last movement, or the first movement, Adagio, and the third the Scherzo, the Largo, and the Allegro risoluto. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826
Then his entire head seemed to dissipate at once, to crumble with the slow-motion horror of an avalanche starting. THE KILL CLAUSE
Call the doctor at once if the eyelid and area around the eye is swollen, red, or tender.
At once I stood up to move closer to him, but he said fiercely: `No, don't slobber over me! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
It certainly relit an old flame of interest within me, and sent me off in two different directions at once.
Cortes speaks to both of us at once - to him in rapid Spanish, to me in tentative English punctuated by long gaps in which he turns his limpid brown eyes my way, imploring me to help him find the missing words.
She appeared to be looking in two directions at once and Dot couldn't tell whether or not she was being stared at.
He lay down on his pallet still pondering, but the exhaustion from his long vigil the previous day swept him off almost at once into a dreamless, leaden sleep.
She was actually in the combat zone now and she noted uneasily that once again she was placed firmly beside the count.
I called a hansom outside and drove at once to Blenheim House, the temporary residence of the Archduchess and her suite. The Master Mummer
Another potential fuel source under study by Iowa State researchers is switchgrass, a native warm-season grass that once thrived in the tall grass prairies.
I only once saw him without his stiff white detachable collar: at once a symbol of perpetual elegance and expendability.

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