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One son, and the widow of his eldest. [10]

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One night Florian--there were Florian and Octave and Felix and Isidore and Emile --the eldest, drew Medallion aside from the others, and they walked together by the river. [11]
Then the Lady Wendula remembered her eldest son, and the fraternal tendance which Biberli had given him. [10]
My eldest brother well-nigh affrighted us more when he presently joined us, for his hair was all unkempt and his looks wild. [10]
Miss Melissa Wackles was the eldest daughter, Miss Sophy the next, and Miss Jane the youngest. [12]
Martha, the eldest, was already a grown young lady, but so sweet and kind that we never feared a rebuff from her; and her friends, too, liked us little ones. [10]
He had acquired various branches of learning while sharing the studies of his foster-brother, the eldest son of the old Knight Schorlin, who was then living, and therefore, when scarcely twenty, was appointed schoolmaster at Stansstadt. [10]
He was Perry Upson's eldest son, His father loved his noble son, This son was nineteen years of age When first in the rebellion he engaged. [5]
Shall I go to the Khedive and say that this night Mustapha Bey, eldest and chosen son of Selamlik Pasha, the darling of his fat heart, was seized by the Chief Eunuch, the gentle Mizraim, in the harem of his Highness? [11]
Most eldest sons, though they may be weak in body or mind, marry, whilst the younger sons, however superior in these respects, do not so generally marry. [1]
It was with this man--Leonard Mallow, eldest son of Lord Mallow--that Dyck, with three others, played cards one afternoon. [11]
The eldest, I think, must have been six or seven, and the youngest five years. [5]
The eldest of these were sent to bring in the great canopy under which the heads of the establishment might assemble. [10]
The eldest among them were not more than twelve or fourteen years old. [5]
All rejoiced in the happy termination of their troubles, and they had spent some time joyfully together, when Iamo said: 'Now I will divide the wampum,' and getting the belt which contained it, he commenced with the eldest, giving it in equal portions. [5]
The eldest made the first attempt, and with a rushing noise she fled through the air. [5]
Hystaspes, you are the eldest, give us your opinion first. [10]
And besides, I'm the eldest son, and deputy prop and protector of the family. [5]
From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began knitting a striped scarf for him. [2]
He referred to the death of Lord Malice's eldest brother in Burmah, but he did it strangely. [11]
In her absence the coppersmith Pernhart had wooed her mother in good earnest, and the eldest daughter not being on the spot, had sped so well that the widow had yielded. [10]
She gave the sweetmeats she had taken from me to the eldest, and spoke not a word, and did not seem to mark that they all mocked at the smallness of the packet. [10]
My great-grandfather, eldest son of the Duke of Bridgewater, fled to this country about the end of the last century, to breathe the pure air of freedom; married here, and died, leaving a son, his own father dying about the same time. [5]
Though an eldest son and next in succession to an earldom, he was still young. [4]
Natasha, who was sitting opposite to him with her eldest daughter on her lap, turned her sparkling eyes swiftly from her husband to the things he showed her. [2]
Next day, being Saint Clara's day, there would be a great feast at the Tetzels' house by reason that it was the name-day of Dame Clara, Ursula's grandmother, and the eldest of their kin. [10]
And then they rode to the damsels, and either saluted other, and the eldest had a garland of gold about her head, and she was threescore winter of age or more--" "The _damsel_ was? [5]
Drawing himself up quickly, he asked his eldest daughter for whom she was carrying water. [10]
The angry eldest princess, with the long waist and hair plastered down like a doll's, had come into Pierre's room after the funeral. [2]
Only the eldest princess, the one with the stony face and long waist, was still living in Pierre's house. [2]
People believed so positively that the difficulty would be adjusted, that in the forenoon of the 18th my mother sent my eldest sister Martha to her drawing-lesson, which was given at General Baeyer's, in the Friedrichstrasse. [10]
For the mother's part we have several matrons to choose from; the eldest daughter of Epitropes appears to me fitted for the part of Aphrodite; she is wonderfully lovely. [10]
He sent at once for the envoy's eldest son, who was one of the royal cup-bearers. [10]
An honor conferred on the first or eldest sons of English Sovereigns. [5]
Of the behavior of the eldest princess and Prince Vasili she spoke disapprovingly, but in whispers and as a great secret. [2]
The infant son of that eldest product grew up--long interval, you see--and he took to writing letters and furnishing evidences. [5]
The eldest son of one of the richest families in the city, a youth of nineteen, wished to bind himself for life--and to a foreigner--a total stranger. [10]
But she could not escape Seifried, the equerry of her mistress's eldest son. [10]
The emperor raised Nancy Peters to the peerage on one day, and married her the next, notwithstanding, for reasons of state, the cabinet had strenuously advised him to marry Emmeline, eldest daughter of the Archbishop of Bethlehem. [5]
His eldest daughter must be kept far from the temple and the gathering of the pious, as being unclean and refractory, and we shall be obliged to expel his son too from our college. [10]
Although he was more than twice as old as the eldest of us, he never gave himself any airs, privileges, or exemptions on that account. [5]
Fritz, the worthy man's eldest son, came to see me in Leipsic. [10]
My name is Leonard Mallow--I'm the eldest son of Lord Mallow. [11]
Philippus must have left his house to his eldest son who is the one that is dead, and it now belongs no doubt to Mary, his widow. [10]
A few minutes later the eldest sister came out with a pale hard face, again biting her underlip. [2]
Don Carlos, the king's eldest brother, immediately set up the standard of rebellion, supported by the absolutist aristocracy, the monks, and a great part of the clergy. [4]
No one thought it strange that a month later the eldest son of the Tarboe family had been found dead in the woods with a gun in his hand and a bullet through his heart. [11]
The Emperor also invited us, on behalf of his absent eldest son and heir (aged 22,) to visit his palace and consider it a visit to him. [5]
The old man informed him that, in consequence of a bad fall his eldest son had had, he was forced to start at once for Djiddah on the Red Sea. [10]
And the state in which his master's eldest son remained caused him the greatest anxiety. [10]
I have lain here all these hours--these ages, ye may say--listening, listening for any sound up there that--" She gave a sharp quick glance at her eldest daughter, then cried out, "Oh, my darling! [5]
We want a heliotype made of our eldest daughter. [5]
But the eldest heard that the banjo was 'all the rage,' as the youngest says. [8]
As he listened he thought of his eldest son, partly imbecile, all but a lusus naturae, separated from his wife immediately after marriage, through whom there could never be succession--he thought of him, and for the millionth time in his life winced in impotent disdain. [11]
I had a hard battle with him, for as the eldest son, the castle and estate, according to the law, belong to him, but he wanted to resign his rights and put me in his place. [10]
Last evening it had seemed to her that it was her eldest son, who had died for the Jacobite faith, that was speaking to her. [10]
Heron's eldest son had returned from his errand. [10]
His dead father had heated the furnaces in the smelting works at Eschenbach, near Nuremberg, and the bride was Katharina, the eldest of the three daughters of the owner, old Harsdorffer of the Council. [10]
Her eldest, indeed, had done so well that the Lord Bishop of Bamberg, in his own person, had pressingly desired her late departed husband to make him a priest. [10]
But they likewise grew young again after their son's homecoming, and notwithstanding her feeble frame, Aunt Jacoba saw Margery's eldest son grow to be six years of age. [10]
The third brother from the eldest, noted for his oddities, coming up with his war-club when his brother had ceased speaking, jumped up. [5]
Honora counted them, from the eldest ones that ran over her little grass plot on their way to and from the public school, to the youngest that spent much of his time gazing skyward from a perambulator on the sidewalk. [9]
After sitting so for a while he rose, and, looking about him with frightened eyes, went with unusually hurried steps down the long corridor leading to the back of the house, to the room of the eldest princess. [2]
The eldest princess followed him, and the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door. [2]
But with us fee simple estates are devisable, and Mr. Carvel was wholly within his right in cutting off the line of his eldest son. [9]
Great was his faith in the Bumpus blood, and secretly he had always regarded his eldest daughter as the chosen vessel for their redemption. [9]
An invitation was extended to us to visit the palace of the eldest son, the Crown Prince of Russia, which was near at hand. [5]
I am the eldest, and do what I can for them, that they may not be starved. [10]
It was the eldest who was reading--the one who had met Anna Mikhaylovna. [2]
Nor can worthless eldest sons with entailed estates squander their wealth. [1]
The steward's eldest daughter was now contented and cheerful, while the younger was not only saddened by the disappearance of her lover, but also, from being unhappy in her new home, she had become fractious and easily moved to shed tears. [10]
To-day he stood before the statue of his father, kissed its feet, and murmured: "Thy will shall be done.--The woman whom thou didst intend for me shall indeed be mine--thy eldest son's. [10]
My eldest son bears the name of Ptolemaeus Helios--that borne by the last of the Lagides, who perished as you pretend. [10]
He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince Vasili and the eldest princess. [2]
The eldest princess and Prince Vasili, recovering themselves, followed her. [2]
Kubbeling's eldest son and his churlish helpmate had fared forth to Venice instead of himself. [10]
The countess herself and her handsome eldest daughter were in the drawing-room with the visitors who came to congratulate, and who constantly succeeded one another in relays. [2]
There had been an ancient feud between his family and the Vaufontaines, whose rights to the succession, after his eldest son, were to this time paramount. [11]
You haven't the air of an eldest son whose way is cut out for him, with fifty thousand a year for compensation. [11]

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