"First period" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Revolution which, in one sense, may be said to be still in progress, but which, is a more limited view, may be regarded as having been, consummated by the deposition and murder of the sovereign of the country. It is equally undeniable that, during its first period, the person who most attracts and rivets attention is the queen. One of the moat brilliant of modern French writers[1] has recently remarked that, in spite of the number of years which have elapsed since the ...
— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge
... is about ten she is told what is going to happen to her. When her first period comes [she is not specially confined] people tell her to be active and not to be lazy. She drinks only warm water. In the old days anything that she gathered anyone could come along and take. She couldn't eat meat or salt but Washo don't think eggs ...
— Washo Religion • James F. Downs
... place, I wish to say something about an offer of wedlock which you made me; perhaps, young man, had you made it at the first period of our acquaintance, I should have accepted it, but you did not, and kept putting off and putting off, and behaving in a very strange manner, till I could stand your conduct no longer, but determined upon leaving you and Old England, which last step ...
— The Romany Rye • George Borrow
... the second time, going to overwhelm the earthly Jerusalem. We cannot but fear, therefore, that if our state now be like that of God's people of old, eight centuries before our Lord's coming, and again like their state at his coming: and if, after the first period, their city and temple were burnt, and they were carried captive to Babylon,—and again, after the second period, the city and temple were burnt again, and the people were dispersed, even to this day,—that, as the punishment has twice surely followed the sin, so it will not fail to ...
— The Christian Life - Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps • Thomas Arnold
... the disgrace that would befall him if every one in the court knew of his conduct stifled the inner working of his soul. This fear was, during this first period, stronger than all else. ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
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