However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
The first matador got the horn through his sword hand and the crowd hooted him out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
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Merriam-Webster
— preceding all others in time, order, or importance:
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Macmillan
— before any others or before everything else
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Usage
3 uses of ‘first’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
145 uses of ‘first’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
56 uses of ‘first’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
57 uses of ‘first’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle