Findings:

• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There Was A Friend
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Once there was a way...
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• the god that can be killed was never god in the first place
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a time when I was a better person
• She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
• and there was this girl
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There was a cold day
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There is no one here to stop me from using this silence.
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• I was so cool, that first afternoon
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• Where's the kaboom?
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• One hour there was sunlight
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• Cain was the first technologist
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• There was a baby in China
• There was no one waiting for me...
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• A knock there was upon the door
• Adam really was the first man
• there's a first time for everything
• There is a silence in my heart, and your voice no longer breaks it
• where there is silence, you are as well
• There's a certain silence driving me mad
• The first time I knew I was different
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was once a Man
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I remember, there was one
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was an old lady
• No shit, there I was
• The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Was There a Time
• There was a man and a woman
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There was a time before
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• Was it ever there?
• My very first mentor was a heroin junkie
• I was there
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Before you, there was me
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• There Was No Leak
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• There was always the blue of you
• Oxygen was the world's first pollutant
• There was an Old Man on some rocks
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• The first iron-on transfer I made myself was controversial
• There was a little girl
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
• After all, the Bible says Jesus' first miraculous sign was to make 180 gallons of wine for a party!
• First contact
• our first time
• First Aid
• First past the post
• first generation of elementary particles
• First person
• The first time
• first at-bat
• The first node
• first base
• When I first met you
• First node on everything
• Double first
• Newton's First Law of Motion
• The First Man
• First edition
• The first truth-value logic computer
• True At First Light
• Mum's first impression of Miles Davis
• Always for the first time
• first draft
• X-Men: First Appearances
• the first person "you"
• my first poem
• The First Three Minutes
• Right of the First Knight
• My first experience with opium
• First Aid for Epileptic Seizures
• Tips for the first day of any college course
• Star Wars first draft
• First day of school
• First Union Center
• Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
• Andrew Jackson's First Inaugural Address
• Mariner:Part the First
• first crossword puzzle
• Answer to the first crossword puzzle
• first exposure
• first impression
• the first thought of Zarathustra
• Great first lines
• First in war, first in peace, first in the hands of the local police
• Star Trek: First Contact
• First Line, Last Line
• Today is the first day of the rest of your life
• to a first approximation
• The first five minutes after I wake up
• Who made the first bread?
• First Crusade
• The first beer of the morning
• Wilderness First Responder
• Nothing is as important as it first seems
• You are no longer someone's first, continued
• My First and Last Communion
• The First Year of Hugo in Review
• First cigarette of the day
• First date kissing
• programs compiling on the first try
• first date discovery
• (and it wasn’t in my time nor yet in your time: but a very good time it was for all that)
• First African-American in Space
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
• first language
• First Canadian Place
• First Amendment Apathy
• Ice forms first on bridges
• The first atomic test
• So, you want to change your hair color? Read this first!
• The first tag

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