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
No matter how crude or how young this firstling might come to seem to her, there would never be such another.
From Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke
In the lunette upon the right on either side an altar gorgeously draped, Abel offers to God the firstling of his flock and Melchizedek Bread and Wine.
From Ravenna, a Study by Edward Hutton
Mourn for the prince, who rose at morn To seek and bless the firstling bud Of his own rose, and found the thorn, Its point bedew'd with tears of blood.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For her the tender firstling tendrils grew;— Rich crop or meagre, what is that to you?
From Love's Comedy by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
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