Then I became aware, for the first time, of intolerable pains shooting up through my legs into my body.
It was then that I noticed, for the first time, an oval or elliptical plate of shining gold set in the wall of the cavern just above the outer edge of the alcove.
Harry was breathing heavily even from so slight an exertion, and I could scarcely suppress a cry of amazement when, for the first time in many days, the light afforded me a view of his face.
For the first time I understood clearly why the Bible and ancient mythology made such a fuss about the lighting up of the world.
For the first time in their lives they moved in the rich glamour of sensationalism.
For the first time in his life he knew the wish to be sand-papered, waxed, and polished to the highest possible degree.
But Mr Mackenzie, who came in just then and saw the note for the first time, looked rather grave, though he said nothing.
Then, for the first time, I realized what I had suspected before -- namely, that Alphonse was an arrant coward.
Looking at it for the first time I well remember that I realized how even in a flower there dwells something of the majesty of its Maker.
This year, for the first time, I shall pass 300 pounds; I may even get halfway to the next milestone.
Eunice and I looked at each other, for the first time.
He tenderly lifted it again, and, for the first time, her virgin lips knew the kiss of man.
For the first time, their thoughts began to diverge.
Sharp lines of pain were marked on his face, and, for the first time, the idea of resistance took fierce and bitter possession of his heart.
It was a tighter place still than I had yet turned round in; all the more that, for the first time, I could see in the aspect of others a confused reflection of the crisis.
I felt then, for the first time, that I had lost Peggotty.
When I saw you, for the first time, coming out at the door, with your quaint little basket of keys hanging at your side?
Old Tiffey, for the first time in his life I should think, was sitting on somebody else's stool, and had not hung up his hat.
I observed then, for the first time, that the boots he had on were a good deal the worse for wear, and that his stocking was just breaking out in one place, like a bud.
For the first time in months Lord Greystoke felt that he might indulge in a holiday, and so a great hunt was organized that the faithful laborers might feast in celebration of the completion of their work.
I rose under the blow, and found lodgings in the neighbourhood of Euston Road, where, for the first time in my life, I tasted the joys of independence.
And as she uttered these few words, Desborough, for the first time in his life, realised the poetry of the great deep.
The key was turned after them; and Mr. Pickwick found himself, for the first time in his life, within the walls of a debtors' prison.
The door of the church was unfastened, and she entered it for the first time in her life.
For the first time of late years he could read as his musings inclined him, without any eye to cramming for a profession, since the few farming handbooks which he deemed it desirable to master occupied him but little time.
The man with the red heard for the first time stepped up and joined the group.
For the first time in her life her heart held something stronger than herself, was not this worthwhile?
Then, for the first time, she had paused to take breath.
For the first time he thought of his fellow Desert Dervish, left with the two red-painted bicycles on Dymchurch sands.
At the same instant Bert became aware for the first time of a fresh breeze blowing about him.
For the first time it dawned on him that there were possibilities in this machine.
For the first time in his life he really had an intimation of the extraordinary and quite important things of which a contemporary may go in ignorance.
For the first time he saw the Asiatic airships closely.
For the first time in his life he was not bored at the theater, and spent the remainder of the night in a gay frolic.
The fact was that that morning Simon, the son of La Blanchotte, had, for the first time, attended school.
For the first time, she spoke, drawling out in a loud voice: "'Oh!
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