"In the first place" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the young man. "In the first place I would be discovered at once. And what would people say of ...
— Eastern Shame Girl • Charles Georges Souli
... daring and of blood had been, and thrilled the little listener's ear with histories of the Past. He judged her rightly. She would rather at any time have gone to walk with him, than with anybody else to see any show that could be devised. His object in all this was in the first place to give her pleasure, and in the second place to draw out her mind into free communion with his own, which he knew could only be done by talking sense to her. He succeeded as he wished. Lost in the interest of the scenes he presented to her ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... not the case. The Church into which he would so fain force the people has been long since deserted by himself. The secret of the course which he pursues can have no connection therefore with religious motive or belief. It can be no proselytizing spirit that misleads his Grace. Let us remark, in the first place,—rather, however, in the way of embodying a fact than imputing a motive,—that with his present views, and in his present circumstances, it may not seem particularly his Grace's interest to make the county of Sutherland a happy or desirable home to ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller
... "In the first place," said I, "savages do not grow in Syria; and in the second, how could ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... I kept you, and I want to atone in some way. I think this is a good way. I don't think you need to hesitate about letting me do it. You also owe a little atonement to your mother. It was not right for you to run away, in the first place." ...
— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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