early comer

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Patching wandered up and down the hall, as if he were an early comer, and had paid his quarter, and had no personal knowledge of or interest in the panorama.

From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell

The scene was deserted as yet, but presently he was joined by another early comer, a beautiful young woman of Spanish type with a thin face and eager, dark eyes.

From Merton of the Movies by Wilson, Harry Leon

In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

She had her own peculiar nook over by the encyclopedias, and, being always an early comer, seldom failed to secure her own particular chair and desk.

From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna