Sentence examples for he the first from inspiring English sources

I love the archness of "they have said" and the elevation of Safety as "he" – the first impression is of stylistic confidence and purpose – but the oddness of "glass beads of fantasy" and "bent hairpins of unreason" is unsettling, both to the reader and the sense of the sentence; the air of confidence doesn't ebb exactly, but it alters.

"Was he the first?" Johnson said.

Nor is he the first.

And was he the first European victim of the disease?

Nor is he the first to place ideology before data.

Nor is he the first nonvegetarian to write a vegetarian cookbook.

At MIZZ-HE (the first case study, shown in Figure 2A) and MSSP-CL, concentrations increased between the early and recent period at all streamflows.

He ran the first chance he got.

He resented his younger brother's arrangement; during the wedding ceremony he "became more deathly pale than death itself, and, so they say, is unable to bear this thing, that he, the first-born, should see himself deprived of such splendid status and of the daughter of an Emperor".

Is he the second coming of Jose Reyes?

In 1950, he attended the first WHO Expert Committee meeting, and in 1965, he chaired the second meeting.