Philip had been in torment--first the torment of an irresistible hatred of Kate.
First the men: "He works his siggle like a man though.
First the wife is everything; but the child comes, and then good-bye to the mother who brought it.
As this country has been endowed by nature with much gold, an eager desire to procure that precious metal has induced, first the Arabs, and afterwards the Europeans, to possess themselves of various parts along the coast.
At first the defenders of this post were only forty in number, but twenty more came to their assistance immediately, and several others afterwards.
At first the feasibility of all such instruction was doubted, and the work generally was commenced privately.
At first the effect of the introduction of factory-made goods and labor-saving devices was to upset the old established institutions.
While at first the tendency of educated Romans and of the government was to ignore or tolerate it, its challenge was so direct and provocative that this attitude could not long continue.
At first thetroops on both sides were voluntarily enlisted, but the South quickly, the North later, put in force conscription acts.
At first the offer of the producer must have been brought to the trader's attention, and the trader's offer to the notice of the consumer, by casual personal contact, supplemented by local rumour.
At first the flat, as it drew less than we did, was left behind a little, and our ship did this fighting with sand and water alone.
It gets darker and we have difficulty in picking up marks--first the rock on our right from which we go dead across stream, to the high palm just visible against the night sky; then up stream a bit, and across to avoid shoals.
What he thought of the regicides will be seen farther on, but at first the more a man had given a gage to the Revolution, the more he considered him as offering a guarantee against the return of the former order of things.
At first the invitation to return to France extended only to those who could prove that they had voted in favour of the abolition of nobility.
Duroc and Moncey were at first the Director of this police; afterwards Davonst and Junot.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his justice: and all these things shall be added unto you.
Suffer both to grow until the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather up first the cockle, and bind it into bundles to burn, but the wheat gather ye into my barn.
Israel is a scattered flock, the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria devoured him: and last this Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
For the earth of itself bringeth forth fruit, first the blade, then the ear, afterwards the full corn in the ear.
Just as they had seen, first the Caskets, then Ortach, rise before them, they now saw the point of Aurigny, all of steep rock.
The operation is simple: first the flux, then the reflux; a wave advances, a billow returns.
First the intangible, then the immovable, to be encountered.
At first the use of tobacco was confined to fops and the hangers on at ale houses and taverns but afterwards by the "chief men of the realm.
At first the magnitude of the undertaking frightened him.
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.
They went all to the great hall; first the noblemen, then the senators, then the bridegroom between Bundt and Whitelocke, then the bride between two Graves, then the Queen and her Guards.
At first the King wouldn't hear of it, but at last the lad had his way, and went.
So they came to the church; but the church keys hung high, high up on the top of the tower, and at first the Prince did not know how to get them down.
The strong tend to subjugate the weak, and usurp atfirst the rights of taxation and military service.
The primitive Greek poems, religious in subject, were not recited but chanted; and though at first the chant of the poet was accompanied by the dance of the chorus, it ultimately grew into independence.
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