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Example sentences for "first reading"

  • Just when this passion began in me I should not be able to say; but probably it was with my first reading of Don Quixote in the later eighteen-forties.

  • It was not just in that place that our delay had chosen to occur, but it was in the same colonized region, and I am glad now that I had not remembered the incident from my first reading of Borrow.

  • This, indeed, was known to me chiefly from my first reading in Don Quixote, of the terrific combat between the squire of the Biscayan ladies whose carriage the knight of La Mancha stopped after his engagement with the windmills.

  • As has been said in a former page, notes should not be allowed to interrupt a first reading.

  • It is always well in a first reading to give one's self up to the sweep of the work; to go forward without bothering over slight errors or small details.

  • Preparation The presentation of a few matters to arouse interest and to anticipate some of the difficulties of a first reading.

  • First Reading As You Like It is one of the plays that best repays oral reading, therefore the finest passages, at least, should be read aloud.

  • The sale of tickets, there, had begun two days before the first reading in Boston.

  • Like you at Ely, so I at Higham, had the shock of first reading at a railway station of the death of our old dear friend and companion.

  • One of them was that noble sonnet on first reading Chapman's Homer, which terminates with so energetic a calmness, and which completely announced the new poet taking possession.

  • First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation," xvii, 206; his account of Lincoln as a dramatic critic, xvii.

  • By this means he will soon be able to pick up the ideas in his lesson by even a first reading, which is the great end that the teacher ought to have in view.

  • A first reading establishes in the mind of the pupil a regular frame-work of the whole history, which it is the business of every successive reading to fill up and complete.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fair statement; first arrival; first battle; first book; first call; first cause; first child; first edition; first found; first hearing; first impressions; first lieutenant; first minister; first necessary; first place; first printed; first prize; first publication; first read; first refused; first step; first supposed; first time; more effective; much noise; other ships