He inclined his head alternately first to one shoulder and then to the other; he held his hat and cane in his hand, he had a benevolent aspect.

Always close to the front, we received our cases at the earliest possible moment, and could deal with them practically first hand.

For every demonstration not only consists of principles prior to others, but of such as are eminently first; since if the assumed propositions may be demonstrated by other assumptions, such propositions may indeed appear prior to the conclusions, but are by no means entitled to the appellation of first.

"Like enough," said the first, carelessly.

To the surprise of everybody, neither side scored until the last quarter, and then both sides made a touchdown, Cartwright first!

At the time when the Phoenicians came into contact with Rome, Carthage was as decidedly the first of Canaanite cities as Rome was the first of the Latin communities.

ic, yet more, comparative; oc pe, first, foremost.

He has done this in the spirit of a true desultor, passing backwards and forwards first to one and then to the other, inventing no middle links, but merely piecing together the two accounts as best he could.

4. Of the order of place; as, First, secondly, thirdly, fourthly, &c. Thus, secondly means in the second place; thirdly, in the third place; &c.

I saw it at the first glancecertainly it is a most remarkable freak of nature.

Here is one good stanza from his De Profundis: But thou art good, and hast of mercy store; Thou not delight'st to see a sinner fall; Thou hearkenest first, before we come to call; Thine ears are set wide open evermore; Before we knock thou comest to the door.

To the Jews or Lombards we owe the discovery of that bill of exchangethe first of negotiable instruments, and the first historically to bring into our law the legal concept of a symbol of ownership which might be instantly transferred with an absolute change of title in the property thereby represented, and this either to a present transferee or to one far away.

"Nonsense!" said the first, impatiently.

Ingleton first!"

Invariably the first to appear at the works, he looked after everything, foresaw everything, filling the place with his bustling zeal, and doubling his output year by year.

And on the Tuesday following, in evident consciousness that his end was near, he penned that cry "for pity and pardon," as Thackeray calls itthe first as well as the last, and which sounds almost as strange as it does piteous from those mocking lips: "The physician says I am better....

Her efforts were evidently successful, as the prisoner was, after a time, surprised to hear the older woman laughat first gently, and then with so much enjoyment that her daughter was at some pains to restrain her.

The two Treatises on Civil Government, 1690, develop, the first negatively, the second positively, the constitutional theory with direct reference to the political condition of England at the time.

There is plenty to do; get those bodies overboard first, and clean up this litter; then shake out the reef in the foresail, and stand bythere is wind coming from that cloud yonder, and no time to waste.

It migrates with man, like the dog and horse and cow: first, perchance, from Greece to Italy, thence to England, thence to America; and our Western emigrant is still marching steadily toward the setting sun with the seeds of the apple in his pocket, or perhaps a few young trees strapped to his load.

"Places: pink first, 'cos she puts her 'ead a' one side; factory girl second, 'cos they likes her bein' dressed common; blue third, 'cos of her openwork stockin's; Albert's girl nowhere, 'cos she never is.

" LOVE THE LAST, NOT THE FIRST, PRODUCT OF CIVILIZATION Notwithstanding this striking and important fact, there is a large number of sentimental writers who make the extraordinary claim that the lower races, however savage they may be in everything else, are like ourselves in their amorous relations; that they love and admire personal beauty just as we do.

[John Taylor (1781-1864), the publisher, with Hessey, of the London Magazine was, in 1813, the first publicly to identify Sir Philip Francis with Junius.

Seely first, the hour of his appointment requiring that it should be so.

Eager to plunder his neighbors and bring back "a countless number of cows," he undertook this wonderful work, a pile bridge across the river, seemingly the first of its kind to be built there, and in structure very like the famous bridge which Caesar built across the Rhine,or like many of the wooden bridges across the upper streams of the Danube at the present day.