单词 | at the very first |
释义 | > as lemmasat the very first (d) At the beginning, at the first stage. Also at the very first. ΚΠ c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 553 (MED) Þei were weri offouȝten and feor ouer-charged, Of þe peple afurst and þe pres after. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. l. 522 What man wolde himself avise, His conscience and noght misuse, He may wel, ate ferste, excuse His god, which evere stant in on. c1456 R. Pecock Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 116 These bokis at first schulen be unsavery, thouȝ aftirward thei schulen be ful delectable. 1566 J. Rastell Treat.: Beware of M. Iewel ii. vii. sig. Xv Why plaie you the hypocrite so artificially, in keping that backe, which should haue ben at the very first Answered? 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 185 Their broode lyeth very small at the first. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. B4 This fruite was at first white. 1611 Bible (King James) John xii. 16 These things vnderstood not his disciples at the first . View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 883 Why then Didst thou at first rec[e]ive me for thy husband? 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 149 I was afraid on't at the very first. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 455. ¶3 I am no more delighted with it than I was at the very first. 1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 23/1 He was at first very ill, then got better. 1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. xiii. 356 He was very free of his money, and generous to Kate at the first. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 83 The assurance he had at first displayed, was now succeeded by an air of embarrassment. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour xi. 216 At the first they made petards with it. 1922 V. Woolf Jacob's Room ii. 22 At first, part of herself; now one of a company. 1967 G. Greene Root of all Evil in May we borrow your Husband 174 Puckler, who had been hit on the shoulder with a rolling-pin, did not at first run away. 1993 A. L. Kennedy Looking for Possible Dance 42 Margaret's hair was long, almost as long as it had been at the very first when she'd asked if her daddy would let her have it cut. 2012 J. Díaz in New Yorker 4 June 110/2 Because of the weak light I didn't get a good look at first. < as lemmas |
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