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in the first place |
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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. in the first place in the beginning. We should never have agreed to do this in the first place. |
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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. 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. 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. |
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