1 On the present occasion, however, a variety of reasons had combined to bring her to town; and foremost among them was the fact that she had fewer invitations than usual for the autumn.
2 Except for one thing: First and foremost, we must have a new schoolbuilding.
3 I should like to see a boat's crew backing water up to a whale face foremost.
4 Nevertheless, the boats pursued, and Stubb's was foremost.
5 He hoped she had not acted upon her rash impulse; and he begged her to consider first, foremost, and above all else, what people would say.
6 "Believers in religion, and friends to the law and to the king," returned he who rode foremost.
7 The foremost Indian bounded like a stricken deer, and fell headlong among the clefts of the island.
8 Heyward threw himself between the sisters and the foremost, whom he grappled with a desperate strength that for a moment checked his violence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 9 Cora stood foremost among the prisoners, entwining her arms in those of Alice, in the tenderness of sisterly love.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 10 But Hawkeye, whose duty led him foremost in the adventure, knew the character of those with whom he was about to contend too well to trust the treacherous quiet.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 11 The men in the foremost ranks craned their necks.
12 A crowd of servants now pressed to the entry door, and among them a middle-aged mulatto woman, of very respectable appearance, stood foremost, in a tremor of expectation and joy, at the door.
13 Himself too he knew joining battle with the foremost Achaeans, knew the Eastern ranks and swart Memnon's armour.
14 Force makes way; the Greeks burst through the entrance and pour in, slaughtering the foremost, and filling the space with a wide stream of soldiers.
15 Gyas shoots out in front of the noisy crowd, and glides foremost along the water; whom Cloanthus follows next, rowing better, but held back by his dragging weight of pine.