Sentence examples for earliest reference from inspiring English sources

What people do is find the earliest reference they can.

The earliest reference to Indian Summer appeared in Ebenezer Denny's diary in 1794.

The earliest reference Mr. Shapiro found was a 1959 issue of Business Quarterly.

The earliest reference Mr. Shapiro can find is from The New York Times in 1948.

The earliest reference to 'Cleopatra' dates from the late 18th century, when it was attributed to Orazio".

This was inscribed Cauns repentir, meaning without regret – "the earliest reference in history to the title of the famous Edith Piaf song," MacGregor said with tongue in cheek.

In fact the earliest reference to walking down a red carpet is said to be in the work of Aeschylus, from 458BC.

Philematologists – people who study kissing – record that the earliest reference to kissing-like behaviour is found in the 1500BC Vedic Sanskrit texts from India.

The earliest reference to an 11-a-side match, played in Sussex for a stake of 50 guineas, dates from 1697.

The planned town was laid out in 12th-century grid fashion sometime after the castle was built; the earliest reference to Ludlow dates to 1138.

According to textual scholars, the earliest reference to Hindu pilgrimage is in the Rigveda (c. 1500 bce), in which the "wanderer" is praised.