"First reading" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his own individual account, has done yeoman service to the cause, and his devotion to the birds, and his tireless energy, are both almost beyond the reach of praise in words. At the last moment before going to press I learn that the birds'-plumage bill has achieved the triumph of a "first reading" in Parliament, which looks as if success is at last in sight. The powerful pamphlet that he has written, published and circulated at his own expense, entitled "Pros and Cons of the Plumage Bill," is a splendid ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday
... you under the impression that you have so great a mind that you can understand the most profound writer at a first reading?" ...
— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham
... placed them under arrest. They were not allowed to take anything from their trunks without being watched by the gendarme; and when they took out a letter of recommendation, written by Dr. Steinkopf to the clergyman of the place, whom they had requested to call upon them, the gendarme insisted on first reading it. On their expostulating with the landlord at being treated in this manner, instead of making a direct reply, he strutted up and down the room, repeating continually, "Ja, ja, ja, ja! they shall know what they went away from my house for, and that there is a custom-office here." ...
— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley
... Conway that at the first reading of this letter she thought rather of the writer than of the bright prospects which his offer opened to her son. She thought rather of Herbert Penfold, her first love, now ill, if not dying, of the days of their engagement and its rupture, than of the fact ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty
... The first reading is made when the scale beam is balanced at zero load, and afterward at regular increments of the load which is applied continuously and at a uniform speed. (See SPEED OF TESTING MACHINE, above.) If desired, ...
— The Mechanical Properties of Wood • Samuel J. Record
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