First-line synonyms

The first line gives the mean value of the potential gradient, the second the mean excess of the largest over the smallest hourly value on individual days.

In Africa Egypt opened her first line (between Alexandria and Cairo) in 1856, and Cape Colony followed in 1860.

Allowing for certain battalions unformed, there are altogether 309 nizam battalions; 20 separate chasseur battalions, of four companies each; 4 special chasseur battalions stationed on the Bulgarian frontier - total, 333 battalions in the first line.

Continuing to develop the successive powers of A+a into multinomials, we find that (A+a)3=A3+3A2a+3Aa2+a3, &c.; each power containing one more term than the preceding power, and the coefficients, when the terms are arranged in descending powers of A, being given by the following table I I ' 'I 2 I 1 3 3 I 4 6 4 I 5 IO to 5 I I x 6 15 20 15 6 &c., where the first line stands for (A+a)°=1.

In all forms the rhyme is the same throughout the poem, and is confined to the second half of the line except in the first line where the two halves rhyme.