Read full poem →And Ulfius and Brastias answer’d, ‘Ay.’
Then Bedivere, the first of all his knights
Knighted by Arthur at his crowning, spake—
Dictionary Entry
(sequence) Firstly; before anything else.
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Poetry examples for “first of all”
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Read full poem →Praying that they might hear the song
Which first of all he made, when young
Read full poem →Last to him then the first of all, —
The child his boyhood bore in heed
Read full poem →It seemed to me that i had first of all really made quite a mistake
in being at all born, seeing that i was wifeless and only half awake,
Read full poem →Which we represent to-day!
First of all we shall rehearse,
In our action and our verse,
Read full poem →The task of pedagogy at this point becomes delicate. First of all, the
teacher must recognize the fact that his class will not, however good
Read full poem →The Incomparable Creator, when this World
He did create, created First of All
The First Intelligence—First of a Chain
Read full poem →"Gray, having first of all put down the names of three Romans as
illustrations of his meaning, afterwards deliberately struck them out
Read full poem →‘Gray, having first of all put down the names of three Romans as illustrations of his
meaning, afterwards deliberately struck them out and put the names of three Englishmen
Read full poem →They might have called you once, "nearlings"
I call you now, I, first of all the yearlings,
Upon this plain, for I it was that tore you