Sentence examples for first of may from inspiring English sources

It's immediately clear that Gibbs's trembling, high-pitched falsetto voice is still in terrific shape, especially on the sweet "First of May", a track from 1969 that he dedicates to Robert Stigwood, an early champion for the Bee Gees.

In Franz Xaver Winterhalter's painting 'The First of May', made in 1851, Victoria can be seen wearing it as she holds Prince Arthur, the future Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.

The ship carrying William Arnold and his group sailed from England to New England in 1635, with some brief particulars of the voyage given by his son Benedict in the family record: "Memorandom my father and his family Sett Sayle ffrom Dartmouth in Old England, the first of May, friday &c.

"The fair maid who, the first of May Goes to the fields at break of day And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree Will ever after handsome be".

There was indeed little else to remind one that it was the First of May.

When a Child Is Born/ First of May, featuring Robin Gibb, is out on Monday.

Significant paint losses to the left side of the Second of May have been deliberately left unrepaired.

In The Third of May, however, there is no attempt to find transcendence, and no sense that the sacrifice of life will lead to salvation.

Illumination by torch or candlelight took on religious connotations; but in The Third of May the lantern manifests no such miracle.

In the first half of May the crisis in the euro area was uppermost.

The first of these may be called the Western Steppe.