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However, I did not see what else I could well do on the present occasion; so I determined to read the Bible; it was in Welsh--at any rate it might amuse me; so I took the Bible out of the sack in which it was lying in the cart, and began to read at the place where I chanced to open it.

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  1. preposition In or near the area occupied by; in or near the location of: at the market; at our destination.
  2. preposition In or near the position of: always at my side; at the center of the page.
  3. preposition To or toward the direction or location of, especially for a specific purpose: Questions came at us from all sides.
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  • I know I never did or I'd have burst with pride in my promising youth Twelve wires at--at? —  In the Mist of the Mountains
  • Floyd," suddenly, "I hope you will not feel hurt at--at what your father thought best to do. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • The same cause also perhaps conduced to the failure of the attempts which are said to have been made after the destruction of Novgorod by Ivan the Terrible in 1570 by fugitives from that town to found a colony on Novaya Zemlya (_Historische Nachrichten von den Samojeden und den Lappländern_, Riga und Mietau, 1769, p. 28). This book was first printed in French at Königsberg in 1762. —  The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • Born at Cracow, Poland, October 12, 1844; first appearance, 1861; first appearance in English at San Francisco, 1877; died in California, April 8, 1909 ANDERSON, MARY. —  American Men of Mind
  • "I knew him when he was quite a little chap; his father was a horn player in my orchestra at--at--" Von Barwig hesitated; "in Germany. —  The Music Master Novelized from the Play
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  1. Middle English, from Old English æt; see ad- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Lao àt, perhaps from Thai ʔàt, former coin worth one-eighth of a füang (a former unit of currency), ultimately from Pali aṭṭa, eight, from Sanskrit aṣṭā; see oktō(u)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English at, sometimes att, atte, et, from Anglo-Saxon œt = Old Saxon at = OFries. et (in combination also at, it) = Old High German az = Icelandic at, modern ath = Swedish åt = Danish ad = Gothic (Moesogothic) at = Latin ad (later Italian a = Spanish á = Portuguese a = French à), to, at, = Sanskrit ādhi, unto, on. This preposition is most nearly equivalent to to, without the orig. implication of motion. In many constructions the two prepositions interchange. In many English dialects at has partly, and in Scandinavian has wholly, displaced to, while on the other hand in G. to (zu) has wholly displaced at. In L. and Roman the form cognate with at covers all the uses of to as well as of at, and extends partly over the field of with.
 

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