He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.

`` we've got Father and Mother and each other '' said Beth on the first page of Louisa Alcott's Little Women ; ;

Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??

But I said I would first have to get the author's permission.

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.

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 ''.

It is said that the eccentric Timothy Dexter, who was one of the first share-holders, stood on the table and made a speech worthy of the occasion.

The first one said, `` He sure does shake.

Another said that her arm did not go up at first `` because I wouldn't let it ; ;

And the same thing, more or less, can be said of the contents of Picasso's first collage.

It cannot be said that our very first day in the Soviet Union turned out to be an ordinary one.

no strikingly effective element of speech in the extant poems can with assurance be said not to have been a commonplace in the vaster epic corpus that may have existed at the beginning of the first millennium before Christ.

In the first place, a good many writers who are said to use folklore, do not, unless one counts an occasional superstition or tale.

`` You first '', I said.

Pelham said Sunday night there was research being done on whether the `` quickie '' vote on the increase can be repealed outright or whether notice would have to first be given that reconsideration of the action would be sought.

Halleck said the voluntary care plan enacted last year should be given a fair trial first.

But he further said that it was better politics to let others question the wisdom of administration policies first.

One of the first things he would do, he said, would be to organize classes in first aid.

Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.

Equipment should be in operation `` almost immediately after the first snowfall '', Mr. Schaefer said.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

The jury foreman, Mrs. Olive Heideman, of rural Elsie, said that a ballot was not even taken until yesterday morning and that the first day of deliberation was spent in going over the evidence.

`` We intend to attend the downtown theaters before the first of the year '', the identically worded letters said.

`` The first two pilots had crashed '', he said.

We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.

`` We are menaced for the first time in the history of the Republic by the open and unblushing effort of a multi-millionaire to purchase the Presidential nomination.

We stopped first at the amphitheater that lies at the foot of the height crowned by the Parthenon.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.

We must, first of all, be willing to forgive others before we can secure God's forgiveness.

We who are living today may learn a valuable lesson from those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day.

We quickly ran into the same trouble that plagued Bill Ruger in his first experiments: Three or four bullets would be placed well in a six-inch bull at 100 yards and then, unaccountably, one could stray far out of the group.

We unanimously agreed that Prokofieff had won his rights as a world citizen to the first ranks of Twentieth-Century Composers.

We first discuss the Af bond in Af.

We shall show that the polynomials Af behave in the manner described in the first paragraph of the proof.

We first show that the function is single-valued in some neighborhood.

We first define a function b{t} as follows: given the set of squares such that each has three corners on C and vertex at t, b{t} is the corresponding set of positive parametric differences between T and the backward corner points.

We observe first that no line, l, can meet its image except at one of its intersections with Q.

We should first recognize our tendency to develop a hierarchy of values, locating brief treatment at the bottom and long-term intensive service at the top, instead of seeing the services as part of a continuum, each important in its own right.

We will deal first with the program in the Congo though this was put into operation later than the other.

We should say that we made our point with feeling the first time and little or no feeling the second time, but that it was the same point we were making.

We had looked forward to what we hoped to be our first informal meeting with a number of Moscow's artists.

`` Disaffiliation '', by the way, is the term used by the critic and poet, Lawrence Lipton, who has written several articles on this subject, the first of which, in The Nation, quoted as Epigraph: `` We disaffiliate.

We first see him shaking Mrs. Joe's hand on discovering the sizable amount of the premium paid to her husband for Pip's indenture as an apprentice and later pumping Pip's hands `` for the hundredth time at least '' ( `` May I -- may I -- ''??

We visited the Okamoto home -- where for the first time I saw the famous tea ceremony.

We may show, first, that there cannot possibly be an alternative other than the three typically represented by Bultmann, Barth, and Buri.

Clearly we can do this: We start at the first box, choose an item ; go to the second box, choose an item ; and so on.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).