firs-class

Updated: May 22, 2025

If so Horace would show him his mistake. Pretty thing if niggers were to get into First-Class carriages with Sahibs like Horace! "'Ere! What's the gaime?" he inquired roughly. "Can't yer see this is Firs-Class, and if you got a Firs-Class ticket, can't yer see there's two Sahibs 'ere? Sling yer 'ook, sour. Go on, jao!" Pig. Go away. The man gave no evidence of having understood Horace.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

At the same time, in Germanized England a firs-class Protestant power was being developed, and the age of discoveries, which coincided roughly with the end of the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War, opened new and unsuspected paths to human intellect and human energy. Political life also acquired a fresh stimulus.

Friedrich von Bernhardi - Germany and the Next War