first post

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first post

(Military) Brit the first of two military bugle calls ordering or giving notice of the time to retire for the night. The second is called last post

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bringing delivery Post			I adjured him to write by the first post and to agree with us for an early hearing; then I asked him if the experience in question had been his own. Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context As to the monk, without withdrawing the poniard from the wound, he ran to the window, opened it, leaped out into the flowers of a small garden, glided onward to the stable, took out his mule, went out by a back gate, ran to a neighbouring thicket, threw off his monkish garb, took from his valise the complete habiliment of a cavalier, clothed himself in it, went on foot to the first post, secured there a horse and continued with a loose rein his journey to Paris. Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context I was six weeks in crossing over the pass and coming down to the first post on Great Slave Lake. The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context			First Lateran Council first law of motion first law of thermodynamics first lieutenant first light First Lord of the Treasury First Marquess Cornwallis first mate First Minister first moment first mortgage First Mover first name First Nation first night first of all First of May First of October Antifascist Resistance Group first off first offender first officer First or last First Peoples first period first person first post first principle first quarter first reading first refusal First Republic first responder first responder phase first rudiment first run first sacker first school First Secretary first sergeant First State first step first stomach first strike first string first team first trimester First Vatican Council first violin First Viscount Haldane of Cloan First Viscount Nuffield first visual area			First Player first pleading First Point Assessment Limited First Point in Aries First Point in Aries First Point in Aries First Point International First Point of Aries First Point of Aries First Point of Aries First point of Cancer First point of Cancer First point of Capricorn First point of Capricorn First Point of Contact First Point of Libra First Point of Libra First Point of Libra First Point of Rest First Pointed Gothic First Polar Body First Polish Republic first political competition first political contest First Port Of Entry first position first position day First Position Days first positions first positive pedal curve first post First Post Accuracy First post! First posts First preferred stock First Premier Financial Group Inc. First Premium Income Trust First premolar First premolar First premolar First Preplanned Waypoint First Presbyterian Church First Presbyterian Church Hayward First Presbyterian Church Nursery School First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley First Presbyterian Church of Brighton First Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga First Presbyterian Church of Flint First Presbyterian Church of Kingwood First Presbyterian Church of Newtown First Presbyterian Church of Orlando First Presbyterian Church of Plymouth First Presbyterian Church of Youngstown First Presbyterian Church, Inglewood First Presbyterian Church, Quincy First prince First prince First prince First prince first principle

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