"Foremost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the foremost said, in a matter-of-fact tone, and with a slight salutation. "After you, if you please," and he signed to him ...
— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman
... between them was considerably lessened. And now for the first time a peculiarity about them struck me. It was this, that the figures were not substantial; they flickered and waved precisely like flames, as they ran. As I gazed at them the foremost turned her head to look at the woman behind her, and as she did so, stumbled, fell, and disappeared. She seemed to have suddenly dropped down a precipice, so quickly and so completely she vanished. The other figure stopped, wrung its hands wildly, and presently turned and fled in ...
— Dreams and Dream Stories • Anna (Bonus) Kingsford
... upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rests below; When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been; But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend; Whose heart is still his master's own, Who labors, fights, lives, breathes for him ...
— Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches • George P. Goff
... came down the great staircase, I had an uncommon large, big, and, for aught I know, yellow corking-pin, which that most careless of all careless maids of mine—a good girl, too—had left sticking point foremost out of some part of me. Miss Hanley—Stanley (beg pardon) was behind, and luckily saw and stopped. Out she pulled it, begging my pardon; so kindly too, I only felt the twitch on my sleeve, and turned, and loved the first ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... cool daring, or instances of personal bravery, as well as that tremendous and overwhelming dash, which gained for Ney the proud appellation, 'the bravest of the brave?' and placed the Marshals of France amongst the foremost in history. ...
— Ridgeway - An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada • Scian Dubh
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