The Author is quite aware of the defects of this little story, many of which were unavoidable, as it
first appeared serially.
To Helen"
first appeared in the 1831 volume, as did also "The Valley of Unrest" (as "The Valley Nis"), "Israfel," and one or two others of the youthful pieces.
Nevertheless, they were reissued in a volume the year after they
first appeared, in 1895, and they had a pleasing share of such favor as their author's books have enjoyed.
But hereditary diseases and some other facts make me believe that the rule has a wider extension, and that when there is no apparent reason why a peculiarity should appear at any particular age, yet that it does tend to appear in the offspring at the same period at which it
first appeared in the parent.
It was life-size and showed her in her sunbonnet with her basket on her arm, just as she had
first appeared in the Land of Oz.
Twenty minutes after the first volley the great fleet swung trailing off in the direction from which it had
first appeared.
Aunt Sarah flew to the pantry or cellar whenever Rebecca's slim little shape
first appeared on the crest of the hill, and a jelly tart or a frosted cake was sure to be forthcoming.
Cowper was already a man of nearly fifty when these hymns
first appeared.
Well, I must tell you that she
first appeared here in company with an Italian--a prince of some sort, a man who bore an historic name (Barberini or something of the kind).
The study of the young king, which had begun a long time before, without anybody suspecting it, was continued then, and he looked around him attentively to endeavor to make out something in the physiognomies which had at
first appeared the most insignificant and trivial.
Struthers
first appeared that the married men slipped away to her house while their wives were in the nursery.
Both turned to discover a mail-clad figure standing in the doorway where Norman of Torn had
first appeared.
