Two of the greatest speeches of Burke's time are supposed to have been Grattan's on Tithes and Fox's on the Westminster Scrutiny, and these were evidently full of the splendid commonplaces of the firstrate rhetorician.
Affairs stood thus: it was agreed by all that Tancred should go to the Holy Land, but he was to go in his own yacht; which yacht was to be of a firstrate burthen, and to be commanded by an officer in H.
There she will find an immense empire ready made, a firstrate army, and a large revenue.
You want a firstrate managing man, used to the East, and letters, and money, and advice.
Intellectual stimulation, as such, was, he felt, from time to time a firstrate tonic for the mind.
You wouldn't give a pal away, if he was to show you a firstrate plant--what say?
Mr. Bailey would like itfirstrate but he thinks twould take time I tell him I want to start right in soon as I have this job done.
He had a powerful horse and a firstrate fencer, and he was resolved himself not to flinch.
A peculiar and most animating spectacle used to be the arrival of a firstrate light coach in a country town!
An unmixed race of a firstrate organisation are the aristocracy of Nature.
Lady Monmouth arranged this information like a firstrate artist, and gave it a grouping and a colour which produced the liveliest effect upon her confederate.
He told them miracles of firstrate magnitude, which no one before had recorded.
So Peter got a fiddler and some other unmentionable requisites for a jig, and we had a set-to in firstrate style.
Do you suppose I could forget such a noble-hearted fellow as Ben Hawser--as fine a fellow as ever laid out upon a yard, or stood at the wheel; and such a firstrate marlinespike seaman in the bargain?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firstrate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
