double first

How to use double first in a sentence

• A "Double-First" never gives way to enthusiasms; his heart never gets into his head.

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 | Various

• The education in fact, of the peasant, and that of the future double-first collegian, begins and proceeds on the same principle.

  Dog Breaking | William Nelson Hutchinson

• As everybody knows, Peel had won a double-first twenty-three years before, and in mathematics Peel had the first class to himself.

  The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) | John Morley

• Vane had fulfilled the promise of his earlier career and had taken a brilliant double-first.

  The Missionary | George Griffith

• The education in fact of the peasant, and that of the future double-first collegian, begin and proceed on the same principle.

  The Dog | Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson