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Example sentences for "first they"

  • First they went up and down the terrace, and calmly admired the landscape, and then they went.

  • First they opened a vague conversation on the subject of self-sacrifice.

  • First they had a banquet in the usual way, and then they set off into the open country.

  • First they do conquer their own hearts, All worldly fears, and then Also the devil's fiery darts, And persecuting men.

  • And as he gives us a second testimony, that the world and himself are so as at first he believed they were, so by this his returning he testifies that God and Christ are the same, and much more than ever he believed at first they were.

  • First they oght to remoue frome honor and authoritie, that monstre in nature.

  • Thus go the cries in Rome's fair town, First they go up street, and then they go down.

  • I have been several times at these dog-feasts, and I own that at first they excited in me a degree of horror, but after tasting them twice, I found the flavour to be good, and not unlike pork.

  • At first they hoped to be able to get something to do in Thorndale, so that they might keep their home.

  • At first they corresponded, then the letters began to grow fewer.

  • At first they were a little shy with this big, practically brand-new sister, but this soon wore off.

  • The two ladders were fixed against one of the towers, and an Indian ascended upon each; at first they cast an inquisitive glance through the holes upon both sides of the door, but we concealed ourselves.

  • She heard the two young men talking outside; at first they seemed to be playing cards, then they whispered eagerly in the Polish language, rapidly and with many hissing sounds.

  • First they went to the county seat to see her old man in the prison and to take him some shirts; from there they went through the capital of the Government to Moscow.

  • At first they rode at a slow pace, and later at a trot.

  • At first they gave us some, but later they refused.

  • At first they thought of Africa, but the anti-slavery party would not hear of immigration from the "dark continent," for fear of abuses.

  • A large number also went to Brazil, where at first they had a measure of freedom in the exercise of their religion not granted in the mother country.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first attack; first blush; first came; first cause; first child; first class; first coming; first editions; first expedition; first heard; first marriage; first mate; first message; first minister; first night; first part; first performance; first period; first place; first prize; first story; first trip; first volume; first week; for the same reason; had married