The first four rows each should have eight cards, and the fifth row only four cards, which should be placed in the middle under the others.
— from Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards by Van Rensselaer, John King, Mrs.

When his wife released him from the first real embrace she had ever given him he staggered like one who has been enchanted.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

But her gaiety covered the first real embarrassment she had ever suffered, for Ginny, who had always, because of her peculiar charm, coming from a sense of humor, a hail-fellow spirit, an invariable geniality and an amazing facility in all athletics, exacted a slavish devotion from her schoolmates, and was accustomed to dispense favors among them, hated now to accept, even from Jerry, a very, very great one!
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott