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Example sentences for "this first"

  • This first row on Loch Awe has a pathetic interest for me to this day.

  • This first experience of lake scenery was an enchantment, and it had a great influence on my future life by giving me a passion for lakes, or by increasing the passion that (in some inexplicable way) I had felt for them from childhood.

  • There were frequently from ten to twelve persons at this first entree.

  • It was on this first journey to Marly that Boehmer, the jeweller, appeared at Court,--a man whose stupidity and avarice afterwards fatally affected the happiness and reputation of Marie Antoinette.

  • But in the ninth verse of this first chapter of John, it is written, 'That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

  • This first text, therefore, hath been by you abused, in that you have ungodlily strained it, but in vain, to make it warrant your heathenish preparations to faith.

  • This first day of the week therefore, on it God found that pleasure which he found not in the seventh day from the world's creation, for that in it his Son did live again to him.

  • And no wonder that with views so similar on this first and so radical point, these two men should have hit upon the same method in Rhetoric exactly, though it was then wholly new.

  • This first layer, especially in the case of long stripes, must be kept very slack, and to ensure the threads being all of the same length, lay a fine mesh or a thick knitting needle at one end and stretch the threads over it.

  • The thread is first drawn into the edge of the stuff; you then carry it from right to left, determine the length of the squares, and working from left to right make on this first thread as many knots as you have room for.

  • In a few moments the door opened, and the general went in, and cast a long look around him; there was no one in this first apartment.

  • In this first visit he made himself attractive by his wit and his audacity, so much so that more easily than he had dared to hope, he got leave to pay a second call.

  • This first of all English documents connected with America ends with these words: Witnesse our Selfe at Westminster, the Fifth day of March, in the XI yeere of our reigne.

  • This first of the two battles fought at Gravelines brings us down to 1558, the year in which Mary died, Elizabeth succeeded her, and a very different English age began.

  • This first of American fish stories, wildly improbable as it may seem, may yet have been founded on fact.

  • This first temptation is always the likeliest of its class to get in.

  • She is the occasion for sayings that reveal the mental powers of this first man.

  • This first thought of killing Him seems to have been a burst of hot, passionate rage, but gradually we shall find it cooled into a hardened, deliberate purpose.

  • If the worship of Liberty had not been exchanged for that of Power--if her principles had been successfully maintained in this first assault, their triumph in every other would have been easy.

  • I feel the expense is rather imprudent in this first year of our settling.

  • For a lady desiring to lead, this first encounter in her campaign was startling.

  • At that moment she wished that she had not sent for him: this first experience of being taken on some other ground than that of her social rank and her beauty was becoming bitter to her.

  • This is all which need now be said upon the subject of this first basis of French Tyranny.

  • This first mention of Alfoxden in the 'Notes and Illustrations of the Poems' leads the Editor to record here the title-page of a truly delightful privately-printed volume, by the Rev.

  • This is feebly and imperfectly exprest; but I recollect distinctly the very spot where this first struck me.

  • There is another point still in reference to this first view of the text.

  • Jesus 'manifested His glory' in this first sign.

  • So then the third thought, in this first part of our subject, is that on both these grounds Christ's ascension and departure are a source of joy.

  • The act in our text, and the wonderful words which follow in the subsequent chapters, crowned by that great intercessory prayer, seem to me to be all explained for us by this first unveiling of His motives.

  • Setting aside the retouched plays, we find on the list one tragedy, two histories, and four if not five comedies, which the least critical reader would attribute to this first epoch of work.

  • Still, so far as he adopts the modes of his predecessors in this first book of his, Dante surpasses them all in their own way.

  • This first essay of his poetic powers exhibits the foundation upon which his later life was built.

  • Some strains of such Platonism, derived from the poems of his predecessors, are perhaps to be found in this first book of Dante's.

  • Have you ever noticed God's water-mark on the paper of this first leaf of His Book?

  • Well, there's one word on this first leaf of the Book which contains the clear reflection, sharply outlined, of the whole creation story; ah!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    this affair; this age; this animal; this country; this doctrine; this document; this essay; this family; this figure; this institution; this lake; this land; this life; this present; this same; this singular; this spot; this state; this system; this tale; this they; this unexpected; this valley; this voyage; this woman; this young