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Sentences starting with elder

Elder Tull! [13]

Sentences ending with elder

Still, Philip is the elder. [10]
Thus the two men--so different in age and character, but so closely allied in intellectual aims--led a joint existence which was both pleasant and helpful to both, in spite of the various eccentricities, the harshness and severity of the elder. [10]
Among other things he spoke of the Bogucharovo elder. [2]

Short sentences using elder

I shall reprove Elder Tull. [13]

Sentences containing elder two or more times

So powerful was this influence that the shrill Elder twice essayed to speak in protest, but was prevented by the wizened Elder Meacham. [11]

More example sentences with the word elder in them

He gave the young men a pretty fight indeed, and long before they had him conquered the elder guests had made their escape through door and window. [9]
On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped. [2]
Being about seven years younger than Waldo, he must have received much of his intellectual and moral guidance at his elder brother's hands. [6]
For some thirty years Bogucharovo had been managed by the village Elder, Dron, whom the old prince called by the diminutive "Dronushka. [2]
Meanwhile Bartja had written Sappho a farewell letter, and was sitting over the wine with his fellow-prisoners and their elder friend Araspes. [10]
However, the elder woman was sturdy and determined, and sixty years of age; while Melissa feared nothing, and thought herself sufficiently protected when she had arranged her kerchief so as to hide her face from curious eyes. [10]
Breathless, speechless, dripping with perspiration, and with bleeding lips, the elder messenger sank on the threshold of Amminadab's house, now the home of Miriam also. [10]
The wizened Elder, with eyes upon the ceiling and his long white chin like ivory on his great collar, began to pray, sitting where he was, his hands upon his knees. [11]
The author from whom Montaigne took his facts is the elder Pliny, who, in his Natural History, Book X, Chapter 83, says, "Other animals become sated with veneral pleasures; man hardly knows any satiety. [5]
The second Elder who had spoken was he who had once heard Luke Claridge use profane words in the Cloistered House. [11]
Many of these western kinsmen answered: not so the magisterial Bumpus who lived in Boston on the water side of Beacon, whom likewise he had ventured to address,--to the indignation and disgust of his elder daughter, Janet. [9]
Two of these were Janet's mother and father, and the other two were Mr. Worthington, the elder, and the Honorable Heth Sutton. [9]
After the sermon was over, an elder took his place at a table within the rails, and the real business of the evening began. [4]
Just as Dron was a model village Elder, so Alpatych had not managed the prince's estates for twenty years in vain. [2]
The elder Herr von Nordwyk agreed with him, exclaiming: "With all due respect to your dignity, Herr Peter, your three companions in office belong to the ranks of bad friends, who would willingly be exchanged for open enemies. [10]
She resented Elder Tull's cold, impassive manner that looked down upon her as one who had incurred his just displeasure. [13]
He had come to us from the schools of Germany, and brought with him recollections of the teachings of Blumenbach and the elder Langenbeck, father of him whose portrait hangs in our Museum. [6]
Moreton, Tom used to call Alexander the Great because he was a fighter from the cradle, beating his elder brother, too considerate to strike back, and likewise--when opportunity offered--his sister; and appropriating their toys. [9]
Macrinus repeated this to Caesar with a shrug of his shoulders, but he withheld the remark added by the venerable elder of the ambassadors, that they did not fear a foe who by so vile a deed had incurred the wrath of the gods. [10]
The dethroned king, though in reality some years the elder of the two, looked far fresher and more vigorous than the powerful monarch at his side. [10]
To the elder this was always the pleasantest hour of the day; but now Philippus would hardly allow himself more than just time enough to eat, even at their principal evening meal. [10]
The candles threw their light across his shoulder on the face of the elder Monsieur de St. Gre. [9]
At length Dron, the village Elder, entered the room and with a deep bow to Princess Mary came to a halt by the doorpost. [2]
We passed through the strangest, funniest, undreampt-of old towns, wedded to the customs and steeped in the dreams of the elder ages, and perfectly unaware that the world turns round! [5]
He saw that the shrill Elder was going to speak. [11]
They met in the office hallway, in the house in Hanover Street when Hilary came home to sleep, and the elder Mr. Vane was not a man to thrive on small talk. [9]
To one of the lesser theatres and heard a monologue by the elder Mathews, who died a year or two after this time. [6]
The elder was the greatest sage and expounder of the law--the son the most illustrious astronomer and the most skilled interpreter of the mystical significance of the position of the heavenly bodies, among the Hebrews. [10]
My master, as the elder of the two, obtained the old house; yours built this new and elegant mansion. [10]
These visitors of the elder Mr. Vane's, as has been before hinted, were not all clients. [9]
The sons of the elder Margery, the young Waldstromers, had much in them of the hasty Schopper temper, and a voice for song; and all three have done well, each in his way. [10]
Don't you think the Count of Monte Cristo is the elder brother of Rochester? [4]
The violet of the commissioner's dress and the dark hues of the fur-bordered surcoats worn by the elder Herr Van der Does and Herr Van Montfort blended pleasantly and harmonized the light and dark shades. [10]
Fulkerson looked over the chairback, now at March, and now at the elder Dryfoos as he spoke. [8]
I know that the brethren of Raithu have chosen you to be their elder, and that his high honor was announced to you by their messengers, for they came to see our church too and greatly admired it. [10]
Petrus had been talking to his grown up elder sons; they were tall men, but their father was even taller than they, and of unusual breadth of shoulder. [10]
They had themselves suffered from the epidemic; Anne severely, as in her case it had been attended with cough and fever enough to make her elder sisters very anxious about her. [14]
The notary was standing before the fire in the outer office, talking to Mr Abel and the elder Mr Garland, while Mr Chuckster sat writing at the desk, picking up such crumbs of their conversation as happened to fall in his way. [12]
The elder brother sprang between--which was what he looked for. [11]
The elder, though so overwhelmed with grief that she could not help sobbing aloud, did not cease to think of her dear ones, and from time to time gazed with tender sympathy at her father or with quiet sorrow at her sister. [10]
The powerful Junker--for so it was that he ever spoke and thought of my elder brother--had it seemed, released the lamb, and he himself was now in a state of life in which he might right well set up housekeeping. [10]
It was a small matrass, as one of the elder chemists would have called it, containing a fluid, and hermetically sealed. [6]
With her elder sister I was stricter. [2]
It's no little shame to me, Elder Tull, that through my friendship he has roused the enmity of my people and become an outcast. [13]
The elder, I see, is our learned Philostratus, whose works are known to you; the younger is Theocritus, the favorite of fortune of whom I was telling you. [10]
The elder Dryfoos said, with his chin on the top of his stick, "I reckon those Little Neck clams will keep. [8]
In this same room the Duke and the brave second son had spent unnumbered hours; and here it had come home to him that the young wife was faultless as to the elder, else she had not borne him this perfect younger son. [11]
First go to Raithu and greet the pious Nikon in my name, and tell him that I remain here on the mountain, for after long praying in the church I have found myself unworthy of the office of elder which they offered me. [10]
We will not point out individually all those younger members of the profession who have accomplished what their fathers and elder brethren had attempted and partially achieved. [3]
Then came the pitiful Revolution, the sundering of all ties, the elder man left to drag out his few weary days before a shattered altar. [9]
It was long past midnight, but neither the younger nor the elder cave-dweller seemed to be sleeping. [10]
There are many passages in his writings which sound as if they were paraphrases from the elder poet. [6]
Tribute her fathers paid to mine-- Young prince to elder crown; But for a jest 'twixt bread and wine, They struck our banner down. [11]
A sacristan commanded one party which captured several hundred prisoners in the course of a month; and there was Vasilisa, the wife of a village elder, who slew hundreds of the French. [2]
I took no one into the secret but my brothers, and though my elder brother chid me, and bid me only be thankful to our cousin for all her goodness, I nevertheless began to watch and learn. [10]
I told first one and then the other all that stirred within me, and when I spoke to Herdegen, the elder, I saw at once that it was nothing new to him. [10]
He had gone on the river to learn piloting with an elder brother, the "Captain. [5]
The tall figure of the elder Hebrew towered over the sinewy form of the warrior, and the shepherd prince bore himself no whit less erect than the Egyptian hero. [10]
Denisov never spoke of Rostov's family, but by the tender friendship his commander showed him, Rostov felt that the elder hussar's luckless love for Natasha played a part in strengthening their friendship. [2]
I can see now the huge bulk of the elder Jarvis as he stood in the melting, soot-powdered snow in front of his shop, and hear his comments on my pertinacity. [9]
Indeed, she could not praise Els, the elder, sufficiently. [10]
His lively, but not exalted fancy, wherever he gave it play, presented to the eye of his soul the image of his father and of an elder brother who had died early, always in the same spot, and almost tangibly distinct. [10]
Colonel Elder, a noble-hearted, high-minded, and independent man, met him at his door as usual, and seized him by the hand. [5]
He spoke to no one, save the wizened Elder Meacham, and to John Fairley, who rightly felt that he had a share in the making of Claridge Pasha. [11]
Yesterday I met neighbour Fairley, and another little old Elder who keeps his chin in his collar and his eyes on the sky. [11]
If I'd had my guns--" "Either my friend or the Elder of my church would be lying dead," she interposed "Tull would be--surely. [13]
Edward invariably assured Mr. Wiley that he was well, invariably took a drink of coffee to emphasize the fact, as though the act of lifting his cup had in it some magic to ward off the contempt of his wife and elder daughter. [9]
I've offended this Mormon Elder by being a friend to that woman. [13]
Ault went no more to consult the elder man, and they had two or three little bouts, in which Mavick did not get the best of it. [4]
It was by mishap only that the coppersmith had not been at the town-hall yestereve, and on a later day, when he and his wife appeared there, they were among the finest of the elder couples. [10]
Soon after the migration to the "warm rivers," in which he had taken part like the rest, Dron was made village Elder and overseer of Bogucharovo, and had since filled that post irreproachably for twenty-three years. [2]
Then the elder man said: "Sir, your consideration and delicacy of feeling have moved me, and touched her. [11]
Here are the magnolia, the laurel, the Japanese medlar, the oleander, the pepper, the bay, the date-palm, a tree called the plumbago, another from the Cape of Good Hope, the pomegranate, the elder in full leaf, the olive, salvia, heliotrope; close by is a banana-tree. [4]
There was something lordly in my elder brother, and his fellows were ever subject to his will. [10]
It had at least given them a chance to become a little better acquainted with each other, and it was an opportunity which the elder and more artful of the two meant to turn to advantage. [6]
Fabian had at last married an elder sister of Junia Shale and settled down in a house on the hill, and the lumber-king, John Grier, went on building up his splendid business. [11]
Confess all you know concerning my elder brother! [10]
The elder lady kissed her hair and eyes, and said further: "Cling fast to your love, my darling. [10]
For certain it is that she would fain have had me believe that the elder Junker Schopper had already come to a bad end, and it is no less certain that she had some foul purpose in hand. [10]
The elder sister is not now very friendly towards me, but I do not esteem her the less for that; the younger one seems less grave and reserved than Klea; I saw how she responded to your smile when the procession broke up. [10]
Nicholas went out into the porch to question him, and immediately after the elder had given a few replies the sound of cries and blows were heard. [2]
With head perched in the air, and face half hidden in his great white collar, the wizened Elder, stopping Luke Claridge in the street one day, said: "Does thee think the lad will ride in Pharaoh's chariot here? [11]
They were seven in number, and Tull, the leader, a tall, dark man, was an elder of Jane's church. [13]
He himself and his wife esteemed Wolff, and his "Ursel" had shown plainly enough that she preferred him to the other friends of her elder brother Ulrich. [10]
It was for his elder playfellow and not for Arsinoe that Pollux had set his work in this place, but, just now, her gaze fell like a disturbing chill on his excited mood. [10]
Zermatt gossip darkly hints that the elder Taugwalder cut the rope, when the accident occurred, in order to preserve himself from being dragged into the abyss; but Mr. Whymper says that the ends of the rope showed no evidence of cutting, but only of breaking. [5]
She bore with him with a patience to be marvelled at; and I could never get it through my head why Mr. Swain indulged him, though he was the elder, and his mother's favourite. [9]
Porphyrius had taken him one day on some errand to Canopus; the elder man had gone in his chariot, his two sons and Constantine escorting him on horseback. [10]
I spoke to him of it at once, but only once, for his rage is unbounded when he is provoked, and after all he is my elder brother. [10]
Austen's affection for Hilary Vane was real; the loneliness of the elder man appealed to the son, who knew that his father loved him in his own way. [9]
How earnest was her prayer, what eager tenderness rang in her every word, as she entreated him to tell her when and where her elder brother, too, had met the daughter of Seleukus! [10]
As she expected, her countrywoman received her kindly; and after Katterle had confided everything to her, and in doing so mentioned Wolff Eysvogel, the betrothed husband of the elder of her young mistresses, Frau Gertrude listened intently and requested her to wait a short time. [10]
For I had heard my grandfather say that the elder Mr. Dix had a house in some merchant's suburb, and loved to play at being a squire before he died. [9]
When at last he sat down to rest under a flowering elder bush, he thought of his mother, and of the great sorrow that he was causing her, of his brother, and Norma, and old Pepe, and his heart failed him, and he wept. [10]
Once in summer he had sent for the village elder from Bogucharovo, a man who had succeeded to the post when Dron died and who was accused of dishonesty and various irregularities. [2]
In old days he and this same Vanne Castine had been in many a scrape together, and Vanne, the elder, had always borne the responsibility of their adventures. [11]
At this Herdegen hastened to take out a gold pin set with sapphire stones, which Cousin Maud had given him, from his neck-kerchief, to offer it to his uncle; but the elder would have nothing to say to such foolishness, and pushed the pin away. [10]
The elder Bliss has heart disease badly, and thenceforth his life hangs upon a thread. [5]
Upon Ethel Wing had descended the dominating characteristics of the elder James, who, whatever the power he might wield in Wall Street, was little more than a visitor in Newport. [9]
The elder culprit had ceased from sobbing, and was hanging upon Tom's words with an excited interest and a growing hope. [5]

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