Foremost

Examples

• Upon the main caravan routes the chief towns rose to a certain second-rate prosperity, and foremost among them were Medina and Mecca. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But every pulse beat in him as he remembered how she had come down and placed herself in foremost danger,--could it be to save him? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Foremost among the two-and-thirty was he; seated, that he might get breath enough to keep life in him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• What next of the one person who holds the foremost place in my heart? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Now send me out feet foremost! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And in the hopeful meantime, Tom goes to perdition head foremost in his old determined spirit. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Two of the foremost instantly fell, and the rest gave way notwithstanding all their leader's efforts to stop them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Davy was now one of the foremost chemists of the world, but he could as yet hardly lay claim to the title of inventor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Aristotle was first and foremost a biologist. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This was the man who had been foremost in the plot to ensnare me, and grasp my wealth. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The old men sit in the foremost ranks, the warriors in the next, and the women and children in the hindmost. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Some one jumped out from the foremost wagon into the road; a voice cried aloud, Ay, ay, divil; all's raight! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• First and foremost, Faguey,' said the housebreaker, 'how's Bill? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• And first and foremost of all, your own dear, dark, clever, gipsy-face, looking at me just as usual! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Saint Antoine was clamorous to have its wine-shop keeper foremost in the guard upon the governor who had defended the Bastille and shot the people. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Bulstrode, the banker, is his foremost man. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Alcibiades and some others were scrambling up after you; and then we saw you engage with that foremost blackguard. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In fact, if the class had been turned the other end foremost I should have been near head. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• What could have happened, then, to bring one of the foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The first and foremost question, is the question of Mr. Blake's health. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Thomas Edison, one of the foremost electrical inventors of the present day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The two foremost men were carried beyond me before they could check themselves. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• So much for the persons and events which hold the foremost place in my memory. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The first and foremost drawing-master of the world! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Lawrence Lefferts was, on the whole, the foremost authority on form in New York. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Now, you must put your best leg foremost, old lady! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It had been foremost to study that bright revelation and to carry its shining influence through the whole of the official proceedings. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It is equally true that in Edison and the many men who have graduated from his stern school of endeavor, America has had its foremost seat of electrical engineering. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Bucket, in the foremost emblazoned carriage, uses his two fat forefingers to hold the lattice a hair's breadth open while he looks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• First and foremost, are you Pubsey and Co. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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