Back in the schoolroom Anne was sitting alone at her desk, as she had sat on the first day of school two years before, her face leaning on her hand, her dewy eyes looking wistfully out of the window to the Lake of Shining Waters.
In the first place he kept house for himself and had publicly stated that he wanted no fools of women around his diggings.
The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.
No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success.
She died onthe first approach of cold weather, at the beginning of this last winter.
These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.
All our folks were swept away at once, and then, after that time of despair, came those wonder children--the first.
In the first place, they were a "pure stock" of two thousand uninterrupted years.
The first thing I'll do is to get an expedition fixed up to force an entrance into Ma-land.
She watched the girl follow the long walk to the gate and go from sight on the road, in the bright sunshine ofthe first Monday of September.
Do it the first time, just to show Kate Comstock what love is!
One tiny curl added to the top of the first curve of the m in her name, had transformed it from a good old English patronymic that any girl might bear proudly, to Cornstock.
She intended to get her lunch, eat it in the shade of the first tree, and then decide whether she would go back or go home.
The first point of light flashed from the tiny electric lamp on his vest.
At the first glance, Phoebe saw an elderly personage, in an old-fashioned dressing-gown of faded damask, and wearing his gray or almost white hair of an unusual length.
It happened to be the firstsilo on the Divide, and Alexandra's neighbors and her men were skeptical about it.
When the supper bell rang and the boys came trooping in to get seats at the first table, she forgot all about her annoyance and ran to greet the tallest of the crowd, in his conspicuous attire.
The first of these fruitless summers the Bergson boys bore courageously.
But onthe first day of December Alexandra telephoned Annie that to-morrow she would send Ivar over for her mother, and the next day the old lady arrived with her bundles.
The level of violence, in Bogota in particular, surged to higher levels in the first quarter of 1993, further delaying the economic resurgence expected from government reforms.
Where Akut took to the trees at the first scent of Numa, the lad laughed in the face of the king of beasts and walked boldly past him.
Should he ever deliberately lead a charge against us I wouldn't give much for our chances if we happened to fail to bag him at the first rush.
The Swedes knew that their men hated them, and that an overt act against Kovudoo would quickly be carried to the chief at the first opportunity.
Last evening he had been determined to start for home at the first opportunity, to beg the forgiveness of his parents for this mad adventure.
It was now morning, the first hour of the first day of the two thousandth year of our era.
You will not, of course, suppose that every bachelor among us finds his mates at the first wooing in this universal Marriage Chorus.
There is no danger of your not being intelligible, which is the first thing.
The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on.
Emma assisted with her invention, memory and taste; and as Harriet wrote a very pretty hand, it was likely to be an arrangement of the first order, in form as well as quantity.
But nothing was further from the minds of the members of the First M.
All were agreed--at least among those who paid pew-rents--upon the great importance of a change in the pulpit of the First M.
At the first intimation of discontent, the Wares made what seemed to them a sweeping reduction in expenditure.
The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different Day.
Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes.
There are three windows looking on the court on the first floor; none below; the windows are always shut but they're clean.
That is the first part of the service: now for the second.
E'en a crow o' th' same nest; not altogether so great as the first in goodness, but greater a great deal in evil.
Gathering up all he could carry under one arm, he overturned the seething cauldron with a kick, and disappeared into the foliage above just as the first of the returning natives entered the gate at the far end of the village street.
Then he turned to watch the proceeding below, poised like some wild bird ready to take swift wing at the first sign of danger.
With a bound the startled beast turned into the jungle, but Tarzan was not to lose another rope through the same cause as the first.
Thrice had they caught fleeting glimpses of great man-like figures like that of the first night, but never at sufficiently close range to know positively whether the half-seen forms were those of man or brute.
Similarity of form led him into no erroneous conception of the welcome that would be accorded him should he be discovered by these, the first of his own kind he had ever seen.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the first" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
