Sentence examples for had first read from inspiring English sources

I had first read the Rabbit quartet in the autumn of 1991, in what felt near-perfect circumstances.

And it was the Bhagavadgita, which Gandhi had first read in London, that became his "spiritual dictionary" and exercised probably the greatest single influence on his life.

The subjects were more likely to say the faces were black if they had first read words associated with scarcity of resources.

Hours after the George Zimmerman verdict, I found myself at my computer, calling to mind a text I had first read in seminary.

It turns out that he even met Isherwood himself, back when Ford was 20, shortly after he had first read A Single Man.

On the train ride up, I opened the book and out fell a bookmark from a Rome bookshop where I had worked for a while after college and where I had first read "Watermark" on a slow afternoon.

Here, he was said to have first read Karl Marx and pondered socialist ideas.

Such, I suspect, was the case with "Ulysses," a book I read at eighteen, without having first read "The Odyssey," which might have deepened my appreciation of Joyce.

I must have first read The Spy in the early 70s, I suppose, and have read it three or four times since.

I would have first read Holmes as a child, long before I watched Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing or Jeremy Brett pick up the pipe and don the deerstalker.

But I wish I had seen the 60-minute work without having first read a synopsis, because there might at least have been some suspense about how things would end up.