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Example sentences for "first fruits"

  • She will, eventually, be twice as well pleased if she fancies she has had your first fruits.

  • I saw at once that I should be called upon to show myself a man next day; but I already felt the advantage of the advice both my admirable mistresses had given me, as to making all new conquests believe that they had my first fruits.

  • Dauids hath Penbroke and Caermardine shires, whose liuerie or first fruits to the see of Rome was one thousand and fiue hundred ducats, at the hardest (as I thinke.

  • For if you obserue what numbers of preachers Cambridge and Oxford doo yearelie send foorth; and how manie new compositions are made in the court of first fruits, by the deaths of the last incumbents: you shall soone see a difference.

  • All that we know is, that Christ rose, and was the "first fruits of them that slept"; and He rose on the day when the first fruits of the harvest were presented in thankfulness to the Lord God Almightly.

  • Whenever I shall have paid my first fruits, and extricated myself from debt, you shall know who and what kind of a man is your friend Parkhurst.

  • For if you observe what numbers of preachers Cambridge[122] and Oxford do yearly send forth, and how many new compositions are made in the Court of First Fruits by the deaths of the last incumbents, you shall soon see a difference.

  • Dauids hath Penbroke and Caermardine shires, whose liuerie or first fruits to the sée of Rome was one thousand and fiue hundred ducats, at the hardest (as I thinke.

  • For if you obserue what numbers of preachers Cambridge and Oxford doo yearelie send foorth; and how manie new compositions are made in the court of first fruits, by the deaths of the last incumbents: you shall soone sée a difference.

  • First Fruits: The First Rules for Harvard College.

  • Characterize the spirit behind the founding of Harvard College, as expressed in the extract from New England's First Fruits (185).

  • First Fruits: The Founding of Harvard College.

  • An Act was passed abolishing the Annats or First Fruits paid to Rome by all bishops on their appointment to vacant Sees.

  • The nobles call it the right of first fruits.

  • We are to be a sort of first fruits,[62] not the full harvest.

  • All Christians are meant to be first fruits, the promise and earnest of better work (Rom.

  • So Epaenetus was a first fruits of Asia for Christ (Rom.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first appear; first attack; first began; first call; first care; first coming; first degree; first floor; first formed; first heard; first importance; first introduced; first message; first performed; first position; first principles; first publication; first quality; first session; first term; first the; first very; first white; learning and; speak first; thou refuse