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Example sentences for "our first"

  • And these will be our first priorities, and on these principles, there will be no compromise.

  • We left Ega on our first trip to visit the sentinels while the turtles were yet laying, on the 26th of September.

  • On our first excursion, we struck the banks of the river in front of a house of somewhat more substantial architecture than the rest, having finished mud walls that were plastered and whitewashed, and had a covering of red tiles.

  • In our first walks we were puzzled to account for large mounds of earth, of a different colour from the surrounding soil, which were thrown up in the plantations and woods.

  • I had caught the one glimpse of our first lieutenant in converse with their captain and another officer, when a naked seaman came charging at me.

  • Our first discovery, after we had pushed our way out of the dim station into the obscurity of the street, was that of the absence of taxicabs.

  • But let them that are truly godly have their apparel modest and sober, and with such shame-facedness put them on; remembering always, that the first cause of our covering our nakedness was the sin and shame of our first parents.

  • At our first appearance, the world will tremble.

  • Now I say, as we have in this world borne the image of our first father; so at that day we shall have the image of Jesus Christ, and be as he is.

  • Our first stage is to Bleckley, the parsonage of venerable Cole, the antiquarian of Cambridge.

  • Our first meeting to be sure was awkward, yet I never saw a man conduct any thing with more sense than he did.

  • Our first course of action is to make Mr. Noel Vanstone feel the charm of your society.

  • When we look back to our first impressions of each other, we look back to you.

  • Our first words of explanation informed me that my family name was known to her by repute.

  • But the transition in this case is not made merely on account of the relation betwixt ourselves and the person; but because that very person is the real cause of our first passion, and of consequence is intimately connected with it.

  • For the same reason, when it is once present, it engages the attention, and keeps it from wandering to other objects, however strong may be their relation to our first object.

  • That would be well enough when I found the post-office, which ought to have been easy enough, but which presented certain difficulties in the driving rain of our first afternoon.

  • He gave us our first sight of sea-fruit, when we had got, without knowing it, to Seville Junction.

  • In our first visit we had the guidance of a patriotic young Granadan whose zeal for the Alhambra would not admit the Alcazar to any comparison, but I myself still prefer it after seeing the Alhambra.

  • Our first line of defense against inflation is the good sense and public spirit of business and labor--keeping their total increases in wages and profits in step with productivity.

  • Our first goal is to secure fully the essential human rights of our citizens.

  • It is our first duty to prepare in earnest for our recovery from the ever-increasing evils of an irredeemable currency without a sudden revulsion, and yet without untimely procrastination.

  • Our first duty is to protect this right against all encroachment.

  • Our first duty is to see that the protection granted by the tariff in every case where it is needed is maintained, and that reciprocity be sought for so far as it can safely be done without injury to our home industries.

  • For at our first meeting, the French Captain cast abroad his hands, and prayed our Captain to help him to some water, for that he had nothing but wine and cider aboard him, which had brought his men into great sickness.

  • Early in the war Mr. Grew, our First Secretary, and Consul General Lay visited the camp for officers at Torgau.

  • Within a few days after my arrival, the President sent for me to visit him at Shadow Lawn, at Long Branch, and I was with him for over four hours and a quarter in our first conference.

  • I see that "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly" of December 20th has a highly imaginative picture of the muster-in of our first company, and also of a skirmish on the late expedition.

  • That hour never came, however, on our first Sunday in Jacksonville; we were too busy and the men too scattered; so the chaplain made his accustomed foray beyond the lines instead.

  • In our first assembling we simply started to put a car together at a spot on the floor and workmen brought to it the parts as they were needed in exactly the same way that one builds a house.

  • In our first year we built "Model A," selling the runabout for eight hundred and fifty dollars and the tonneau for one hundred dollars more.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could earn; different sort; holy things; our ancestors; our army; our cause; our city; our constitution; our family; our friends; our home; our host; our king; our left; our life; our line; our literature; our nature; our new; our old; our opinion; our part; our party; our political; our society; our town