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Word History and Origins
Origin of firstcomer1
Example Sentences
Mowbray contended that the grass was his, because it had long been cut for use at the Grange; and Harding replied that, as the land was unoccupied, neither had any prescriptive right and the hay could be harvested by the firstcomer.
I was the firstcomer—and yet the faint and struggling instinct of hope urged the setting up of a tattered flag or two of sail cloth along the beetling heights.
The firstcomer was ruddy and auburn-haired and evidently a leader.
This fellow clapped his hand on my shoulder with a boisterous display of friendliness, while the firstcomer thrust his hand through Esau’s arm, and began to lead him toward the saloon.
In the morning I was firstcomer to the bridge as I lived nearest.
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