noun
Etymology
Origin of firstling
Example Sentences
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More important than a firstling mother's age is her general health, the normality of her construction.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still it is obscure, when there are firstling females, about the males born afterward.
From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson
No grateful sacrifice, No firstling lambs, unheedful! didst thou vow To Phoebus, patron of the shaft and bow.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
The primrose I will pu’, the firstling o’ the year, And I will pu’ the pink, the emblem o’ my dear, For she’s the pink o’ womankind, and blooms without a peer.
From The Real Robert Burns by J. L. Hughes
Such is thy mother, O firstling, yet strong as the maidens of old, Whose spears and whose swords were the warders of homestead, of field, and of fold.
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris
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