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Example sentences for "first and"

  • He had done a lot fur me, first and last, the doctor had, and I felt like it helped pay him a little.

  • Working here and there, and loafing and riding blind baggages and freight trains between jobs, I covered a lot of ground that year, and made some purty big jumps, and got acquainted with some awful queer folks, first and last.

  • First and principally to the enjoyment of glory.

  • First and principally, in confirmation of the doctrine that a man teaches.

  • First and foremost, let us remember that the question of being a good American has nothing whatever to do with a man's birthplace any more than it has to do with his creed.

  • The information age is first and foremost an education age, in which education will start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime.

  • These policies have been devised to deter, first and foremost, Soviet aggression.

  • First and foremost, we must safeguard our citizens' privacy.

  • So she descended and going in to the Queen, kissed the earth and told her what had passed to her son, first and last, whereupon Julnar rose to her and entreated her with honour and thanked her.

  • Such was her case; but as regards Ardashir, he was alone with his father that night and the Great King questioned him of his case, whereupon he told him all that had befallen him, first and last.

  • Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last.

  • You must hang it first and draw it afterwards.

  • But this never altered the fact that, by his very nature, he considered himself as first and almost as single in any relationship.

  • First and single he felt, and as such he bore himself.

  • It had taken him years to realise that Lottie also felt herself first and single: under all her whimsicalness and fretfulness was a conviction as firm as steel: that she, as woman, was the centre of creation, the man was but an adjunct.

  • Clarkson's method is this: With a runner on first and one on third, the man on first will usually try to steal second, and if the ball is thrown there to catch him, the runner on third tries to score.

  • With runners on first and third, the catcher signals whether he will make a long or short throw toward second.

  • He is then able to touch the runner on his way to first and to throw home if the man on third attempts to score on the throw to first.

  • With runners on first and third, the next man, Anson, hit hard to Wright, so that he had plenty of time again for a double.

  • As for the other bases, first and third, the pitcher should look after them himself without any signal from the catcher.

  • Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, aren't they written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

  • Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.

  • Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, aren't they written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies?

  • Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

  • Harvey tried to speak the thought which was his first and last as he looked at the still, waxen face; the thought of thankfulness, that this poor feeble little being was saved from life; but he feared to seem unfeeling.

  • He had under his charge the two right regiments of Caldwell's brigade, the Sixty-first and Sixty-fourth New York.

  • Now it is the truth that must teach them here, first and last.

  • For he is a prince exalted to give repentance, first and last, Acts iv.

  • Thus have we endeavoured to clear up Christ being the way to the Father, first and last; and how all believers or unbelievers are to make use of him as the way to the Father, whatever their condition be: from all which we may see, 1.

  • The notion of first and second or co-operative causes, which originally appears in the Timaeus, has likewise survived to our own day, and has been a great peace-maker between theology and science.

  • The earth, which is our nurse, clinging around the pole extended through the universe, he made to be the guardian and artificer of night and day, first and eldest of gods that are in the interior of heaven.

  • He said he didn't know nothing about all them tramps and gipsies and other sorts of men who had sat by the tree; all he knowed was that the old thorn had been a good thorn to him--first and last.

  • No more could I get out of him, at all events on that occasion; nor did I ever succeed in extracting any further personal experience in spite of his having let out that the thorn had been a good thorn to him, first and last.

  • First and last he was led into many unprofitable undertakings, and as a results, his patrimony, which was something, and his professional earnings which were considerable, were consumed.

  • First and last I have been brought into competition with many men of ability, and I have not often met a more able reasoner.

  • On this trip I had my first and indeed my only experience in sleeping on the ground.

  • On the same side of the Avenue as the Croton Cottage, in the block between Forty-first and Forty-second Street, was the Rutgers Female Cottage.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but what; conspicuous part; first appears; first century; first communion; first company; first floor; first fruits; first gentleman; first half; first hand; first hearing; first minister; first night; first officer; first page; first principles; first reception; first stone; first violin; first voyage; first work; first year; given temperature; million from; will now