Meanings of when first seen in English

Thrilling then, the Unité still excites eye and imagination when first seen.

This person when first seen was carrying a small bowl in her hand.

Most of the patients had advanced-stage cancer when first seen.

With a beautiful face, when first seen, do we not always associate a beautiful soul?

The schooner's sails, though they had been loose when first seen, had in the meantime been furled.

The yoke standing high above the horse's head and touching him nowhere, has a curious appearance when first seen.

Up to the present time we had always called this, in consequence of its bearing when first seen, the North-west Mountain.

The struggle could not have been long over, for the two bodies were slowly settling toward the bottom when first seen.

Still the unerring compass told the watchful mariner, that she continued to maintain the same relative position as when first seen.

Even when first seen, the line by which she had been hurriedly and imperfectly secured to the plank I observed was loosened.

On we rode, but though we made some progress, the oasis was still in appearance as far off as when first seen.

They were no more than two or three miles distant, and when first seen were coming almost in a direct line for Deerfoot.

Admired when first seen at the Komische Oper, Berlin, in 2016, the production won rapturous applause in the first of two performances in Edinburgh.

Setting: The Caerphilly cohort, a representative population sample of men in South Wales, aged 45-59 when first seen in 1979-83.

She had now got completely to the east side of the tower, whereas, when first seen at the greatest distance, she was in the south-west.

These coalesce to stars of snow, which fall upon the mountains in forms so exquisite that, when first seen, they never fail to excite rapture.