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• On the first was the doge in his state robes, attended by the government in office, or the Signoria of St. Mark. On the second were members of the senate and minor magistrates. —  New Italian sketches
• Of the three prelates, the first was the real instigator of the cruelties practised during this and the subsequent reigns. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• Among the first was the tower of the early Italian churches. —  Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
• For example, the central figure of the first is a slave whose basket of figs is upset by PHEIDIPPIDES running from Marathon; while the last concerns an insignificant little anti-militarist who finds himself cheering for the army on the outbreak of the Boer War. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916
• In these lower-deck instructions the first is the lashing up of the hammock and in the laying out of the kit in the uniform manner; then follow the 'bends and hitches' class, the reading of the semaphore, knots and splices, and so on. —  From Lower Deck to Pulpit

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