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Meanings of first kite in English

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Usage of first kite in English
1
The first kite should be well up, say five hundred feet, before the second is attached to the line.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
2
He had quickly recovered from the loss of that first kite, and had graduated to larger and more elaborate models.
The Fountains of Paradise
3
How to Build a 40-Foot Extreme Stunt Kite Kieron Jansch's first kite was a diamond-shaped stunt kite with a tail.
Wired
4
The second boy in the meantime is see-sawing his string and presently the first kite's string is cut and it drifts away.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
5
In fact, once the first kite is securely up, the others will fly themselves by merely being attached to the main line as described.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
6
Anyhow, I feel like a small boy with his first kite, likely to go straight off the ground hitched to the tail of it.
Red Pepper's Patients / With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in...
7
The wind now tends to take the second kite back to its parallel and in so doing makes a turn about the first kite's string.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
8
As soon as the second boy has his kite aloft, he begins maneuvering to drive it across the wind and over to the first kite.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
9
"Did you know," she said, "that the first kites were flown in the fourteenth century in Greece to test the sight of a blind prince?
East of the sun
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