← With Rothenstein I paid my first visit to the Bodley Head. 🔊
← His pale eyes had for the first time gleamed. 🔊
← There seemed to me a certain inconsistency as between the first and last lines of this. 🔊
← It seemed to me, when first I read Fungoids, that, oddly enough, the diabolistic side of him was the best. 🔊
← The second class was the larger, and the words of the first were cold; insomuch that 🔊
← And wasn't it to be in the very first number? 🔊
← I don't think it lived long enough to justify its name; but at that time there it still was, in Greek Street, a few doors from Soho Square, and almost opposite to that house where, in the first years of the century, a little girl, and with her a boy named De Quincey, made nightly encampment in darkness and hunger among dust and rats and old legal parchments. 🔊
← I gathered that this was his first visit to the Vingtième; but Berthe was offhand in her manner to him: he had not made a good impression. 🔊
← It would have struck a jarring note at the first night of Hernani. 🔊
← In his first visit Soames was a creature of flesh and blood, whereas the creatures among whom he was projected were but ghosts, I take it—solid, palpable, vocal, but unconscious and automatic ghosts, in a building that was itself an illusion. 🔊