Using laravel DB queries but returned as a Eloquent

I was wondering if it is possible to query using DB facade but returned as an Eloquent Model.

For example i have this query using db query builder

\DB::table('users')->first();

But after the query I want all results to be an Eloquent model from App\User

same results of this

\App\User::first()

my goal for this question is what if I have complex query that returns a sets of users. Using eloquent model is not really efficient i think that's why I use the query builder for raw querying but I also want the results to be a Eloquent model instance.

via Chebli Mohamed