Sentence examples for the very first chapter from inspiring English sources

From the very first chapter, he is teasing and tormenting poor, stupid Mrs Bennet.

From the very first chapter, it is clear that Shadows on the Moon is no predictable book.

"The people of Iowa have spoken, and they have written the very first chapter in this long campaign," she said, not elaborating on her plans.

When political violence erupts in the very first chapter, as a group of armed Nepalese nationalists invade the hilltop home of a retired judge, it is teatime.

And then it surprised me from the very first chapter: it was swift, witty and satirical, with a fine eye for English manners and English snobbery.

Shot in the head in the very first chapter, Banger is promptly reincarnated as a pheasant, at which point he discovers just how dumb the birds really are.

It also means that Lytton springs to life from the very first chapters, which concentrate on the relationships with his ghastly mother and peculiar wife.

It was the Dutch, nearly a century later, starting in 1598, who wrote the very first chapters, introducing sugar cane, importing the first slaves, and giving the island the name by which we know it today, Mauritius, after a wealthy shareholder of the Dutch East India Company.

Mary Ann's mother's reaction in that very first chapter tells us all we need to know: "'You can't just … run away from your family and friends to go live with a bunch of hippies and mass murderers!' … Her mother began to cry.

After all, it is the Hebrew Bible that declares so emphatically, in its very first chapter, that every human being is created equally in the image of G-d.

His very first chapter of Democracy in America identifies our "philosophical method".