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Phrases

• early bird catches the worm
• early on
• early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)
• bright and early

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Examples

• She adds that some of the earliest voting booths were stationed inside drinking establishments.

• Hitchcock saw the work of, and probably met, Murnau, the great German filmmaker--the earliest master of bleak light and shadow.

• Indeed the earliest vaccinations against small pox were done 1,000 years ago in China.

• One of her earliest memories of life in the Bronx is visiting the library with her mother and sister.

• One of the earliest ticker-tape parades was for Teddy Roosevelt when he returned from an African safari in 1910.

• “The sepoys have come in from Meerut,” he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.

• Oddly enough this assumption—the most warrantable of the lot—was the earliest to fall under disrepute.

• Yung Pak's earliest days were spent very much as are those of most babies, whether they live in Korea or America.

• My earliest recollection in connection with railways is my first railway journey, which took place when I was four years of age.

• Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.