Rosamund winced for her darling during her first perusal of the article.

All of it appeared, on the first perusal, to be mine.

These few remarks are the result of my first perusal of Scopoli's Annus Primus.

After her first perusal, Constance grew as excited as Win.

Had he not named her, Carinthia, Saint and Martyr, from a first perusal of her face?

The dialogue that was so cheery on the first perusal is utterly uninteresting at a second reading.

An hour after her first perusal of Dr Cupid's advice, Maud had begun to act upon it.

When refolding her cousin's letter, after the first perusal, she did for a moment think of rebellion.

The soldier, having completed his first perusal, turned back to the beginning, reading partly to himself, partly aloud.

Elizabeth noticed every sentence conveying the idea of uneasiness, with an attention which it had hardly received on the first perusal.

In another moment the letter was again taken out, and again read with not less emotion than accompanied its first perusal.

I opened his letter to ascertain, when my eye fell on a postscript which had escaped me on the first perusal.

Because in obtaining this gradual intimacy with an author, we appear to recover half the genius which we had lost on a first perusal.

'The present,' he says, 'is about as agreeable a confusion to me as Ariosto on the first perusal.