Word: first
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard Glee Club has plenty of first tenors and second basses; it also has some second tenors and first basses, and it tried to get a jodler, but it did not go to Baltimore and Philadelphia...
...Harvard Glee Club any first tenors or second basses...
...birth, and his education was soon begun. Old Mr. Brown, as excellent and wise as he was ambitious, placed the little George at one of the many and venerable Alma Maters with which the stony fields of New England have ever teemed, where he received a first-rate training. Yet he was as a youth backward, and only after repeated failures did he succeed in entering Harvard College at the rather late age of nine years and six months...
...been home many hours; the female members of the family had not exclaimed more than a thousand times, "Why, Fred, how you've changed! I 'd hardly know you!" my younger brother had only just succeeded in smashing my first cane, when word was brought that, "Your father would like to see you in the study, Mr. Fred...
...first-rate! I played foot-ball all the fall, am training this winter for the crew, and think of base-ball in the spring...