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in the first place

in the beginning. We should never have agreed to this in the first place. We only had four of these glasses in the first place, and now I've broken two of them.

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In the first place it is used with reference to habit or disposition or any other quality, for we are said to 'have' a piece of knowledge or a virtue. The Categories by Aristotle View in context Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory impulses which impelled her. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context In the first place his red beard, ragged and untrimmed, hid much of his face, and his hair was long; but the most surprising change in him was his extreme thinness. Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context More results

References in classic literature

In the first place it is used with reference to habit or disposition or any other quality, for we are said to 'have' a piece of knowledge or a virtue.

The Categories by Aristotle View in context

Edna Pontellier could not have told why, wishing to go to the beach with Robert, she should in the first place have declined, and in the second place have followed in obedience to one of the two contradictory impulses which impelled her.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context

In the first place his red beard, ragged and untrimmed, hid much of his face, and his hair was long; but the most surprising change in him was his extreme thinness.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

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