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A small bird mating
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at it
Word definitions for at it in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
At \At\, prep. [AS. [ae]t; akin to OHG. az, Goth., OS., & Icel. at, Sw. [*a]t, Dan. & L. ad.] Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (&lit at it English) 2 occupied with a given activity; busy with something. (from 17th c.)
Usage examples of at it.
They had brought with them a thing of the Great World, Hresh carrying one end and Taniane the other: that hollow tube of metal, hooded at one end, with a region of incomprehensible blackness held captive within that hood, and brilliant light sizzling and hissing at its entrance.
She held it, glittering in the sun, gazing down at it for a few seconds.
He looked down, saw the cake as if for the first time, and stared at it for just a moment.
He stared at it, dazzled, and knew that he was looking not merely into another world but into some other universe, something outside the domain of the gods entirely.
Hresh would say, you might also be able to learn how to fly by flapping your arms, if you worked at it long enough.
Taniane stared at it with mingled fear and fascination evident on her face.
Then they crowded forward for a closer examination of the talismanic mark, staring at it with expressions of awe and wonder.
Bullen slunk away when it was extended protectingly above him, but the warriors now gazing at it were evidently animated only by a respectful curiosity.
I got up and asked if I could take a quick look at it, and there, on page seventeen, I saw the machete from my dream.
I stared at it for an age, and when I looked up, I saw Rory looking at me from his office.
The strider, weaving slowly about at its great height, studied her somberly.
A great central gallery was at its core, from which smaller passageways branched, and even smaller ones from those.
This, a domed bowl of black metal with two gigantic mirror-bright metal eyes set at its upper corners.
She sank down on a smooth slab of rose-pink marble that rose at its far end in the form of a grinning sapphire-eyes face, all jaws and teeth, and beckoned Koshmar down beside her.
In its center, mounted on a dais of jade, stood a metal tube with a round hooded opening at its top, from which flashes of dazzling color came in flickering bursts.