Careful Words

foremost (adv.)

foremost (adj.)

He rush'd into the field, and foremost fighting fell.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 23.

I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Locksley Hall. Line 178.

The foremost man of all this world.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act iv. Sc. 3.