Therefore, let those who have taken firsts at Oxford devote their intolerable leisure to preparing an edition from which everything resembling an idea shall be firmly excluded.

They had probably both got firsts, but Jane's would be a safe thing, and Johnny would be likely to have a longish viva.

He gave up smoking and humor the first of the year.

There, at last [she says], he had found the desired incentive towards a true expression of himself, in the stimulus and sympathetic understanding of the friend to whom he dedicated the first of the books published under his pseudonym.

I endeavored to fix the location of the little sidewalk cafe where we sat on the second or the third day of the German occupationAugust twenty-first, I think, was the dateand watched the sun go out in eclipse like a copper disk.

"And better than all," said the lady who had spoken firsts "Mrs. St. Leonard is one of the kindest, most generous, and most benevolent of womenshe does good in every possible way.

Isa knew that time was of the greatest value, and so, when she had complied with the twentieth unreasonable exaction of the sick woman, and was just about to hear the twenty-first, she suddenly opened the door of Mrs. Plausaby's sickroom and invited Mr. Lurton to enter.

but against this counted strongly the constantly recurring revelations of the obscure pasts of many of the women whom she met during those days, women who were now shining, acknowledged firsts in the procession of success.

" "I got a date here now any minute, Gert, and the sooner you" "You're the guy who passed up the Sixty-first for the Safety First regiment.

I therefore appointed the twenty-first of May, 1833, to attend a council to be called by my brethren.

Belfast had been fortunate the year before in carrying off several "firsts," and the men were anxious to do as well as, or even better than on the previous occasion.