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Meanings of first verse in English

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Usage of first verse in English
1
The principal character could sing the first verse and the chorus alone.
Writing for Vaudeville
2
The first verse of this is old; the rest is by Ramsay.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs,...
3
And I confess that I sang the whole of the first verse.
Rattlin the Reefer
4
Aunt Frasie heard her through the first verse, and then said impatiently:
A Little Girl in Old New York
5
The first verse is happy, but two objections apply to the second.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
6
At the end of the first verse I'll give you another chance.
The Northern Iron
7
Undertook to write a poem, and stuck fast at the first verse.
Over the Teacups
8
Elsie thought a little, and asked me to repeat the first verse.
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
9
After the first verse she is still patting him on the cheek.
A bridge to the stars
10
Why, they can even sing the first verse of the National Anthem!
Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
11
Th' first verse, he said, were to be sung 'tenderly, but joyously!'
Mary Barton
12
The keynote of this incident lies in the promise in the first verse.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
13
Surely that which it itself declares in the very first verse:
David: Five Sermons
14
The choir, to the accompaniment of the fiddlers alone, sang the first verse.
The Captives
15
You know the words! And then he sang the first verse.
Don't cry
16
I believe it's in the first verse of the twelfth chapter.
The Carved Cupboard
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