For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

At this point Mrs. Frances Cupply, one of Wright's handsome daughters by his first wife, came from the house and tried to calm Miriam as she tore down a no visitors sign and smashed the glass pane on another sign with a rock.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

Cautiously she sampled her first pineapple and another fruit whose taste she likened to that of `` a rich pear ''.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

This immature use of crayons may suggest that she is a little immature for the first grade.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

The girl, her first, she barely remembered.

The first thing every morning when she washed her face she could see the scar on her chin where he'd cut her with a boot cleat, and maybe she saw him heaving it again, the dirty sock popping out as it flew.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

She felt the look and looked back because she could not help it, seeing that he was neither as old nor as thick as she had at first believed.

The first time I saw the latter filly she trotted by me and I noticed such a family resemblance that I said to myself, `` that must be Hickory Ash ''.

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.

She then described her experience as one in which she first had difficulty accepting for herself a state of being in which she relinquished control.

" The Blue Angels ' first public demonstration also netted the team its first trophy, which sits on display at the team's current home at NAS Pensacola.

:: Let no-one deceive you by any means, for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Thess 2: 3-4

In the myth of the birth of Heracles, it is Hera herself who sits at the door instead, delaying the birth of Heracles until her protégé, Eurystheus, had been born first.

The Motel Inn of San Luis Obispo, which ( as the Milestone Motor Hotel ) was the first to use the " motel " name, sits incomplete with what is still standing left boarded up and fenced off at the side of U. S. Route 101 ; a 2002 restoration proposal never came to fruition.

The first version of the Mega-CD sits underneath the Mega Drive console and loads CDs via a motorized tray.

* October 6 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

The fort was flooded the first year and moved to the top of the bluff where the courthouse sits today.

From the fragments it appears that for the first part of the tragedy the grieving Niobe sits veiled and silent.

2: 3-12 says, " Let no one deceive you by any means ; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Note that this means that two non-equal points can be used to define a plane so long as they are ordered and used according to an agreed convention: for example, the first point sits on the plane and the normal vector is defined implicitly from (-).

The first verse is sung by Brown, who represents fire as she sits in a dark room with fire rolling along the floor.

They were first moved onto a southeastern Kansas reservation in the Cherokee Strip, on which the city of Independence, Kansas now sits and finally to Indian Territory in 1872.

In 1890, the township built its first township hall, which sits at 6158 Scofield Road.

This SuperTarget sits on the site of the first Target store, which opened in 1962 and was torn down and replaced by this much larger store in 2005.

Nicknamed " the first city on the Missouri River " Townsend sits nearby the southern tip of Canyon Ferry Lake ( a part of, and fed by, the Missouri River ) a popular recreation destination and Montana's third largest body of water.

The court sits for 18 weeks of the year beginning the first Monday of October and usually runs until the end of June and sometimes into July.

Today Coulson Park sits along the banks of the Yellowstone where the valley's first town once stood.

The home of Elijah Terry, the first teacher in the local school, was built in 1823 and sits next to the Bald Hills Schoolhouse, built in 1850.

It sits within Liberty Township, the site of the first settlement in Delaware County.

A replica of the first courthouse sits in the village park.

Hooversville, which sits astride the border of Shade and Quemahoning Townships was first settled in 1836 and was incorporated in 1896.

The person recorded as first owning the land on which Rosholt sits is Gottlieb Stanbly.

On Trinity Monday ( the first day of Trinity Term ), the Board of the College sits and elects to the Scholarship all those who achieve Firsts.