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Sentences starting with first

First you know you'll get religion, too. [5]
First my wife you shall be, and after that I will win your love; in spite of all, mine now, though it is shifted for the moment. [11]
First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
First it was with the mud. [5]
First his sombrero with its leather band and silver ornaments commanded her attention; next his quirt, and then the clinking, silver spurs. [13]
First the West--first Winnipeg, but where after that? [11]
First of all, will you have the goodness to inform me where I shall find my voice; and secondly, what has become of my flesh? [12]
First among those who crowded round her at Carillon that day were Jowett and Osterhaut, who had tried to warn her. [11]
First the subject, which must of itself have driving power, then the main character, which becomes a law working out its own destiny; and the subject in my own work has always been translatable into a phrase. [11]
First the horses were led out; and their owners, approaching the king, received from his hands the diplomas, and a flag from an attendant. [4]

Sentences ending with first

He thought they would then place troops at his disposal, with which he intended to impose upon them by making a few successful sallies at first. [10]
And those were worse than the first. [9]
I set to work with renewed pleasure, and more composure than at first. [10]
They drew the wood-boat aft, and they and the captain fought back the frantic herd of frightened immigrants till the wounded could be brought there and placed in safety first. [5]
Of course she will feel as we do, at first. [4]
It was Nick who spoke first. [9]
It was he who spoke first. [9]
It was Nick who moved first. [9]
It was Richter who discovered her first. [9]
The arguments by which the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is sought to be justified are these: First. [7]

Short sentences using first

At first you were stone-blind. [13]
The first horses were fossils. [5]
Her first impressions were correct. [11]
The first fact was this. [6]
His first sensation was surprise. [9]
Which end gets up first? [5]
It's our first trip. [5]
It's my first trip. [5]
On their first travels, manifestly. [5]
He gums his tongue first. [5]

Sentences containing first two or more times

The first army, with which was the Emperor, occupied the fortified camp at Drissa; the second army was retreating, trying to effect a junction with the first one from which it was said to be cut off by large French forces. [2]
Now she understood why she had shrunk from Gaston that first night and those first days in Audierne: that strange sixth sense, divination--vague, helpless prescience. [11]
At first he wept softly, for he now clearly realized, for the first time, that he had lost his father and should never see Ruth, the doctor, nor the doctor's dumb wife Elizabeth again. [10]
The merry man was the first to greet the strangers with a nod; and following the old man's eyes, he observed that perhaps that was the first time he had ever seen a Punch off the stage. [12]
My first feeling was of surprised gratification; my first impulse was an apprentice-sportsman's impulse to run and pick up his game. [5]
Its first brick was laid and its first house built by a passing convict. [5]
The first letter was accompanied by the Poem "The Humble-bee," which was first published by Mr. Clarke in the "Western Messenger," from the autograph copy, which begins "Fine humble-bee! [6]
Out West there was a good deal of confusion in men's minds during the first months of the great trouble--a good deal of unsettledness, of leaning first this way, then that, then the other way. [5]
And besides, Shakespeare uses his law just as freely in his first plays, written in his first London years, as in those produced at a later period. [5]
First I went to the town where she'd first been taken, an' I went to the place where she'd been kept. [13]

More example sentences with the word first in them

Such was the youth who first sprang on shore. [10]
Every time a youth looks love in a maiden's eyes, and sees the timid appealing return of the universal passion, the world for those two is just as certainly created as it was on the first morning, in all its color, odor, song, freshness, promise. [4]
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]
Still, as you yourself know, our mothers' wish in the first instance. [10]
Had you uttered your real opinion in the first place, the wine would have tasted better to us both. [10]
You make up your mind that the earthquake is due; you stand from under, and take hold of something to steady yourself, and the first thing you know you get struck by lightning. [5]
It seems that your man, Prescott, doesn't come from Brampton, in the first place, and Grant says that while he likes soldiers, he hasn't any use for the kind that want to lie down and make the government support 'em. [9]
When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
Take them into your keeping, man; and tomorrow morning we will see who has left this suspicious offering in our vestibule.--You were the first to reach the spot, fair Paula. [10]
Your Admiralty and your government first pardoned the man, and then gave him freedom on the island which you tried to prevent; and now they turn round and confine him to his acres. [11]
Mrs. Gashly--"Is it your first visit? [5]
I could wish your experience of your friends were more animating than mine, and that there were any horoscope you could not cast from the first day. [6]
What becomes of your dogmas, in the face of the first misfortune--dogmas which enjoin a reserve of decisive judgment, that you may preserve your equanimity, and not overburden your soul, in addition to the misfortune itself, with the conviction that something monstrous has befallen you? [10]
In defiance of your command, my Sovereign, but in virtue of the full powers you once gave me, I have ordered the grandson of Amasis to be the executioner's first victim. [10]
Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
Somewhat thus a young rose-tree might feel, which for the first time receives the support of the prop to which it is tied by the careful gardener. [10]
There was a young novelist present whose first story, "The Girl I Left Behind Me," had made a hit the last season. [4]
So the two young men became first dear, and finally almost indispensable to each other. [10]
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]
He needed encouragement,--what young lawyer does not on his first important case? [9]
There was a young lady once, sir, the daughter of an outfitting warehouse of the first respectability--but that's a weakness. [12]
I don't suppose you'll be quite sane again till after the first number is out. [8]
Few will resist you, but of those few the first will surely be your own father. [10]
The first thing you will naturally wish to look at will be the earth you have just left. [6]
From the first you were too untrue ever to love a woman. [11]
The first thing you want in a new country, is a patent office; then work up your school system; and after that, out with your paper. [5]
But I'd like you to believe that when I agreed with with the sentiments you expressed the first time I saw you, I was sincere. [9]
Didn't I tell you those criticisms would be the making of us, when they first began to turn you blue this morning, March? [8]
I swear to you that I repent with all my heart--the first wrong to you, the long absence--the neglect--everything. [11]
Listen--but first, will you shelter me here to-night? [11]
I remember what you read in church the first Sunday you came, and it has always helped me; for I wanted to be good. [11]
I move that you open them all and read every signature that is attached to a note of that sort--and read also the first eight words of the note. [5]
At first, as you know, the hope of making him a combatant for the possessions which I have learned through you to regard as the highest and most sacred. [10]
Why, Cap., don't you know, it's as much as a hundred times worse in there now than it was when he first got a-going. [5]
Since last March, you know, I am carrying a mighty load, solitary and alone--General Grant's book--and must carry it till the first volume is 30 days old (Jan. 1st) before the relief money will begin to flow in. [5]
I don't think you knew it, but his first wife was one of your acquaintances-- Mrs. Llyn, whose daughter you saw just before we left Playmore. [11]
The sweet violet you inclosed came safely to hand, but it was so dry, and mashed so flat, that it crumbled to dust at the first attempt to handle it. [7]
I cannot tell you how uncomfortable I felt, and then--yes, Els, then I first realised distinctly what you are to me. [10]
What more have you heard concerning the first books of the Annales of Tacitus, said to have been discovered in the Corvey monastery? [10]
But first, as you have promise just now, you must give up dese poor men, who have fight for what dey tink is right. [11]
Ah, what ambition you had when I first knew you on the Zambesi, when the old red umbrella, but for you, would have carried me over into the mist and the thunder! [11]
Forty year ago, you had only to let down the bucket till the first knot in the rope was free of the windlass, and you heard it splashing in the cold dull water. [12]
From one citizen you gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius. [5]
I have loved you from the moment we first met; and if my life has anything left worth accepting, it is yours. [6]
Come now, didn't you first make up your mind to go to Slow Down Ranch--to Orlando? [11]
The immense sufferings you endured from the first days of September till the middle of February you never tried to conceal from me, and I well understood. [7]
But first, when you die, we will put you way down in de leetla warm house in de ground, on de side of de hill, in de Parish of Bon'venture, because it is de only place for a gipsy like Vanne Castine. [11]
I propose that you constantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers and soldiers in the field is of the very first importance, and we should therefore bend all our energies to that point. [7]
With love to you both, Ever yours, S. L. C. In the foregoing letter we get the first intimation of Mark Twain's failing health. [5]
But mind, if you betray me, I'll be the first to blow out your brains. [9]
And he had yielded at the first temptation, and the commonest of all temptations! [4]
Rustem had not yet quitted Memphis, for the first caravan, which he and his little wife were to join, was not to start for a few days. [10]
It seems only yesterday that, for the first time, on a farm "over the border," from the French province, I saw him standing by a log outside the wood-house door, splitting maple knots. [11]
Through it the yellow afternoon light was flooding now, even as then, checkered by the branches in their first fringe of green. [9]
He jumped up yelling, and the first thing the light showed was the varmint curled up and ready for another spring. [5]
One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses. [2]
All the first years, their only question had been--asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stones, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive? [5]
She is thirteen years younger than Cleopatra, but her mistress holds the first place in her heart also. [10]
It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. [7]
Astruc was sixty-nine years old when he published his "Conjectures," the first attempt, we are told, to decide the authorship of the Pentateuch showing anything like a discerning criticism. [3]
She was two years old on the first of the month. [5]
The first fifteen years of the nineteenth century in Europe present an extraordinary movement of millions of people. [2]
During the first years of my convalescence I could enjoy nothing save what came or was brought to me. [10]
The first two years of his stay he had plenty to do. [11]
Forty and seven years it is since William Wordsworth first appeared as an author. [6]
During the first years I worked almost exclusively at home, for I was permitted to go out only in very pleasant weather. [10]
Livy darling, six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for that happy success by sending you into the world. [5]
In the first year you sold 90,328; in the second year, 104,851; in the third, 133,975; in the fourth year --which was last year--you sold 160,000. [5]
During the first year or, two after it happened, I could not bear to think of it. [5]
For the first year or so he sees that they are just as much pupils of their Maker as the young of any other animals. [6]
In the first year of their marriage he used to consult her about all his schemes, and value her keen understanding. [4]
In that fatal year I had my first attack of authors' lead-poisoning, and I have never got quite rid of it from that day to this. [6]
For during that year I first tasted the intoxicating pleasure of authorship. [3]
During the first year after the catastrophe at Kaid's Palace Hylda could scarcely endure the advances made by her many admirers, the greatly eligible and the eager ineligible, all with as real an appreciation of her wealth as of her personal attributes. [11]
Aye, I've watched ye, since the day ye first set foot in this church. [9]
It is entirely wrong because none of you, I, or anybody else, could interview a man--could listen to a man talking any length of time and then go off and reproduce that talk in the first person. [5]
As at first written it had one verse in it which sounded so much like a nursery rhyme that Emerson was prevailed upon to omit it in the later versions. [6]
These verses were written in the first leaves of the locked volume. [6]
Helen had now written her first book--a wonderful book--'The Story of My Life', and it had been successfully published. [5]
Terror, blood, Diodoros wounded, Andreas, the ass on which she had ridden that night, were the images which first crowded on her awakening spirit in bewildering confusion. [10]
Mela said she would, the first chance she got; and she added, They would be much pleased to have him call. [8]
The first match would prove to be wet. [4]
At first he would not; but when Caroche said that it was only his fun, that he meant nothing against Francois, the young man recited the words slowly--an epitaph on one who was little better than a prize-fighter, a splendid bully. [11]
But Mr. Crewe would have been interested if he could have heard Mr. Flint's first remark to the senator after the door was closed on his back. [9]
I believe it would have been found that most of these persons were of ardent temperament and of considerable imagination, and that their history would show that Perkinism was not the first nor the last hobby-horse they rode furiously. [6]
And you--if you would fill the position to which I intend to raise you--must first take care to leave all paltry considerations and doubts behind you. [10]
At first he would draw with his stick a square upon the ground to show them where it used to stand. [12]
Very likely nothing would come of all this espionage; but, at any rate, the first thing to be done with a man you want to have in your power is to learn his habits. [6]
With her he would cast anchor for the remainder of his life; but first must come the period when he enjoyed the compensation now awarded to him for such severe sufferings. [10]
If not, it would be the turn next of those whom she herself had pushed into the arms of the fell monster: First Heliodora, and then her mother! [10]
His first apology would be for his Scotch, and his only defence is that he was not a Scotchman. [9]
He said he would appoint the very first day he could spare. [5]
I knew her worth when first she came to London, as arrant a baggage as ever led man a dance. [9]
The man who worships in the temple of knowledge must carry his arms with him as our Puritan fathers had to do when they gathered in their first rude meeting-houses. [6]
It must have worn a different aspect to Ruth, for she entered into its pleasures at first with curiosity, and then with interest and finally with a kind of staid abandon that no one would have deemed possible for her. [5]
In Italy the worlds of music and painting were for the first time opened to him. [4]
Of the numerous works which Hermon completed in the service of the first three art-loving rulers of the new Pergamenian kingdom, Philetaerus, Eumenes, and Attalus, nothing was preserved except the head of a Gaul. [10]
Four of my works have first seen the light under your care and have wandered all over the world under the protection of your name. [10]
His round of work not consuming all his energies, he must needs cultivate the Doctor's garden, which he kept in one perpetual bloom, from the blowing of the first crocus to the fading of the last dahlia. [6]
The eleven years' work had cost $55,000, and the first gold found was a grain the size of a pin's head. [5]

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