Thesaurus / earliest
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“The sepoys have come in from Meerut,” he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYOddly enough this assumption—the most warrantable of the lot—was the earliest to fall under disrepute.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKYung Pak's earliest days were spent very much as are those of most babies, whether they live in Korea or America.
OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKEMy earliest recollection in connection with railways is my first railway journey, which took place when I was four years of age.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWMonsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINAs you have already been told, Yung Pak had from his earliest days been taught the deepest reverence and honour for his father.
OUR LITTLE KOREAN COUSINH. LEE M. PIKEFrom the earliest days great commanders have rubbed in the maxim, "If you attack, attack with all your force."
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe earliest note we really have of thimbles being manufactured in Birmingham dates as 1695.
SHOWELL'S DICTIONARY OF BIRMINGHAMTHOMAS T. HARMAN AND WALTER SHOWELLOpened as far back as 1834, it was amongst the earliest of the railway lines of the whole United Kingdom.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWIn personal appearance she was, in earliest childhood and through life, peculiarly interesting rather than beautiful.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTWORDS RELATED TO EARLIEST
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