Don't worry, she just had the first-night jitters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Addendum to the kitten sleepover] Reference

Miss Tempest had a first-night audience that gave the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Went to the Apple Store last night for first-night Panther sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [when panthers attack....] Reference

Hell-Fire There was a stir as of a very polite first-night audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Stories Vol 1]

George felt a faint fluttering in his stomach, like first-night nerves.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place of Execution]

A few first-night hazards, on stage and off, led to a stilted first half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Macbeth, The Love for Three Oranges, Armida, A Midsummer Night's Dream] Reference

There were frayed tempers in the Company and drop-outs in the first-night audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lear at Lincoln Center] Reference

It was an elegant first-night audience, a sophisticated crowd come to see and be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sepulchre]

'I thought you must know that he never meant to stay longer than the first-night viewing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bellini Bride]

In the foyer of the theatre they waited a few moments to see the first-night crowd come in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

(It was a bold first-night move when Holden happened to be seated directly in front of her.).    From Wordnik.com.  [David Finkle: The Real Tyne Daly Stands Up at Manhattan's Feinstein's at Loews Regency] Reference

So many of the stutter-stepping incoherences were particular to that first-night performance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio] Reference

But she acts her heart out, and deserved the huge applause given her by the first-night audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [In London, the ageless and enduring 'Makropulos Case'] Reference

Everyone laughed; some men far gone in drink bawled ancient encouragements to first-night prowess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral Games]

Here are the first-night Celebrity Big Brother betting odds for 2007, with help from Paddy Power….    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Brother Celebrity Hijack Betting Odds: Can John Win?] Reference

Daria Klimentova, the first-night Odette/Odile, is heroic in her confident command of the auditorium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swan Lake] Reference

And the festival was happy thaf Zhang was coming to the glittering first-night gala at Lincoln Center.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raise A Red Flag] Reference

TBS noted nearly 2.5 million of Conan's first-night crowd fell into the 18-to-34-year-old age bracket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan's TBS debut clocks 4.2 million, beats all late-night talk show competitors] Reference

The staff looked great in their first-night crisp peppermint-striped shirts under black vests with ties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Augieland:] Reference

He died a few hours after being taken ill at a first-night party for Michael Frayn's new play, Democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broadway's Last Good Time] Reference

None of the friends are able to provide the groom with any first-night tips based on their own experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaos Theory:] Reference

It gives them a chance to work out glitches and lose that first-night case of nerves some performers have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference

The crowd had grown to mounted police proportions, and there was a first-night squad of cameramen at each approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Work for the Undertaker]

We may make a few first-night mistakes but we perform well enough for them to be forgotten in a warm sea of approval.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broken Music, A Memoir]

A first-night cruise against Braga gave little clue to how Arsène Wenger's new back line will cope against Europe's elite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defensive doubts mean Arsenal's dazzle could yet turn to dust] Reference

Meanwhile, Conan's first-night gags included one about his new seats for the Lakers -- where he's not quite on the floor just yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franklin Avenue] Reference

Performed the first-night ritual of lotus position and paper plates heaped high with moo shoo, rolling the word home over her tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [To-die-for] Reference

As it turned out, most of the younger psychologists were staying at the Independence, and that was where the big first-night parties were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowers for Algernon]

Oh, for just one more great first-night ... if there's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Oxen] Reference

Every new kid has to sing in his house the first-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cock-House at Fellsgarth] Reference

Nor was Frohman often deceived about a first-night verdict.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Frohman: Manager and Man] Reference

You'd give a dozen husbands for the joy of facing a big first-night audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light of the Star A Novel] Reference

That's why we always call up subscriptions for the house clubs on first-night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cock-House at Fellsgarth] Reference

Of course the class of first-night audience that we had last night understood it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Frohman: Manager and Man] Reference

It was a typical first-night audience, assembled to welcome a favorite actress in a new play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Oxen] Reference

Joe Allen is a treat after a show, for lounging amid the posters advertising first-night flops.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference