Use oldest in a sentence
Sentences ending with oldest
- Is Mary Jane the oldest? [5]
- Mine is the oldest. [5]
- With men it has seemed to make little difference whether they were young or old: all have found her the same sweet, generous, unaffected companion; fresh enough in feeling for the youngest, deep enough in the wisdom of the heart for the oldest. [6]
- There was Matthew, for instance, the oldest. [9]
Sentences containing oldest two or more times
- He was possessed of one of the oldest titles and one of the oldest chateaux in France. [9]
- St. Mark's is not the oldest building in the world, of course, but it seems the oldest, and looks the oldest--especially inside. [5]
More example sentences with the word oldest in them
- She's--she's one of your oldest and best friends. [9]
- If she had written Science and Health, the oldest man in the world would not be able to tell with certainty what any passage in it was intended to mean. [5]
- A gray mist would tangle the head of the oldest man that ever lived. [5]
- The oldest, to whom the throne would have belonged, he exiled. [10]
- Her oldest son, who on account of hip disease was not fit for hard work, helped her, and the youngest was Ortel, who had carried Eva's basket on the day of her dead mother's consecration. [10]
- Victoria heard how well Mrs. Jenney's oldest son was doing in Springfield, and how the unmarried daughter was teaching, now, in the West. [9]
- The oldest laws we find concerning it are not laws introducing it, but regulating it as an already existing thing. [7]
- The oldest he was years not six, And the youngest only eleven months old, But often she had left them there alone, As, by the neighbors, I have been told. [5]
- The murdered man was Ulrich Vorchtel, the oldest son of the wealthy Berthold Vorchel, who collected the imperial taxes. [10]
- Wentworth Langdon, Esquire, was the oldest of these, and lived in the old family-mansion. [6]
- The Withers Homestead was the oldest mansion in town. [6]
- The other chair was for the Chevalier de la Darante, one of the oldest and best of our nobility, who pretends great roughness and barbarism, but is a kind and honourable gentleman, though odd. [11]
- The Honourable Hilary Vane comes from one of the oldest Puritan families in the State, the Vanes of Camden Street--' Here's another. [9]
- I was forced to defer the pleasure of the companionship of my oldest friends, even Archibius. [10]
- It's like old times--the oldest, first times. [11]
- But you sell thousands of my moss-backed old books every year--the youngest of them being books that range from fifteen to twenty-seven years old, and the oldest reaching back to thirty-five and forty. [5]
- The oldest of these three deeds was about ten or eleven years old, and the latest more than five, all recorded at the same time, and that within less than one year. [7]
- This is within the precincts of the mouldering and venerable Briddhkal Temple, which is one of the oldest in Benares. [5]
- We are perhaps the oldest subscription house in the country, and have never failed to give a book an immense circulation. [5]
- It's one of the oldest and noblest of the three hundred and sixty-four ancient German principalities, and one of the few that was allowed to retain its royal estate when Bismarck got done trimming them. [5]
- As soon as the illustrious Naashon had pressed one of the oldest of these hapless men like a brother to his heart, the other liberated bondsmen had flung themselves into the shepherds' arms and thus, still shouting: "They are coming! [10]
- News came of the death of Henry M. Stanley, one of Mark Twain's oldest friends. [5]
- Placing it on the back of the oldest, he said, 'Now we must run,' and off they started. [5]
- There are no such surprises in our oldest places as one finds in Chester, or Tewkesbury, or Stratford, or Salisbury, and I have no doubt in scores or hundreds of similar places which I have never visited. [6]
- The oldest and strongest friendship must go to the ground when one of these late-adopted darlings throws a brick at it. [5]
- Her great beauty strengthened his plan of uniting her to his oldest son, and when the latter entered the house he cast a searching glance at him. [10]
- This inhaling of steam is an excellent remedy for these severe catarrhs, and a venerable one besides; for in the oldest writings of Hermes we find it prescribed as an application in such cases. [10]
- There was something specially winning and lovable about her, and I have heard that this lady, my mother's oldest sister, possessed in her youth the same dazzling beauty. [10]
- Our kindly, polite, shrewd, and humorous old neighbor, who in former days has served the town as constable and auctioneer, and who bids fair to become the oldest inhabitant of the city, was there when I was born, and is living there to-day. [6]
- Many had already seen the great monarch in his shining, golden chariot, drawn by four splendid horses; but such an array of torch-bearers as now preceded Caracalla was a thing never seen within the memory of the oldest or most traveled man. [10]
- His father had resolved to obtain on the sacred soil of Palestine the mercy of Heaven which was denied to the excommunicated Emperor, and desired his oldest son, Rudolph, to represent him at home. [10]
- Did you ever read the oldest of medical documents,--the Oath of Hippocrates? [6]
- She herself, and--she pointed to the others--her oldest son's wife, and her own daughter, Dione, would be ready to render her any service. [10]
- In the first place, Emerson explains that the "_new views_," as they are called, are the oldest of thoughts cast in a new mould. [6]
- The oldest was only ten years old. [11]
- This is indeed one of the oldest of the princedoms of India, and has always been celebrated for its barbaric pomps and splendors, and for the wealth of its princes. [5]
- It was forgery on the name of his father's oldest friend that had driven him from England. [11]
- He called his oldest friend by name. [9]
- Aaron, the oldest of our family, had removed to the dwelling of his father-in-law Amminadab: the house of Amram, his heritage, had become too small and plain for him and he left it to me. [10]
- The shortest system of medical practice that I know of is the oldest, but not the worst. [3]
- Just now was not a good time for Ursula and Marget to be having dealings with a member of such a family, for the witch-terror had risen higher during the past year than it had ever reached in the memory of the oldest villagers. [5]
- I'd never forgive myself, as long as I lived, if I lost one of my oldest and most valued personal friends in this way. [9]
- I cannot lay my hand upon it at this moment, but I remember that Metastasio was the oldest of them all. [6]
- Claims--mark this well, my friend--claims to the many things which will remain of my greatness and power when I have closed my pilgrimage beneath the sun, can be made by one person only--Don Philip, my oldest son and lawful heir. [10]
- They were so much of an antique time--far behind the time that her old land represented; not a new world, but the oldest world of all. [11]
- After a few minutes the gentlemen stood erect, and the ladies rose again, but even the oldest duchesses were not allowed the privilege of sitting in their sovereign's presence. [10]
- What is the meaning of this rush into rhyming of such a multitude of people, of all ages, from the infant phenomenon to the oldest inhabitant? [6]
- I do not mean the oldest and driest mummies, of course, but the fresher ones. [5]
- Who was the man for whose sake she withdrew from him the heart to whose possession he had the best and at any rate the oldest right? [10]
- On his being let out in the autumn, the oldest of the hens instantly courted him and was successful in her courtship. [1]
- All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very oldest rose. [2]
- Iras, whose name is so often associated with hers, is the daughter of my oldest sister, who was already married when the King entrusted the princesses to our father's care. [10]
- The Wurtemberg Wildbad is one of the oldest cures in Germany. [10]
- Your campaign Address is built from the ground up upon the oldest and best models. [5]
- There is nothing invidious in this, as I am the oldest of the company, and no claim is less likely to excite jealousy than that of priority of birth. [6]
- The oldest part, indeed, the Laurentian Hills, which were first out of water, is still only sparsely settled; and no one pretends that Florida is anything like finished, or that the delta of the Mississippi is in anything more than the process of formation. [4]
- The oldest man in the world could not make head or tail of the time of day by such a watch, and so I went again to have the thing repaired. [5]
- Ten miles more in the late afternoon brought us to Jonesboro, the oldest town in the State, a pretty place, with a flavor of antiquity, set picturesquely on hills, with the great mountains in sight. [4]
- The oldest family in Haworth failed lately, and have quitted the neighbourhood where their fathers resided before them for, it is said, thirteen generations. [14]
- It had become impossible to seek aid from Herr Berthold Vorchtel, the man whose oldest son Wolff had slain, and yet he possessed the means to save the sinking ship from destruction. [10]
- As soon as I got home to Hartford I called up my oldest friend--and dearest enemy on occasion--the Rev. [5]
- Yet Ursula and her oldest brother treated him as if he had been guilty of base disloyalty. [10]
- All of these have been long dead, and the longer they had been dead the less like substance they looked and the more like shadows, so that the oldest was like one's breath of a frosty morning, but shaped like the living figure. [6]
- The tower which has been preserved is one of the oldest and most interesting works of Romanesque architecture in Germany. [10]
- This,"--he laid his hand on the bundle and gently undid it,--"is my oldest friend, since the warm days at Parma . [11]
- And now we've got that wild son of Hilary Vane's--the son of one of my oldest friends and associates --making trouble. [9]
- He's the oldest friend I've got in St. Louis, honey and now--now--" "Pa, you've been in battle? [9]
- Next to her father she was the oldest inhabitant, and she had a prestige which was given to no one else. [11]
- He's the oldest family friend we got. [8]
- The oldest guides expressed the opinion that they could not succeed; that all the chances were that they would lose their lives. [5]
- The newest prophet, even, is of a sight more consequence than the oldest patriarch. [5]
- This must be done, because he had views of his own as to what was to become of the venerable house of the oldest family in the country. [10]
- There was a crowd in there, of the oldest people I have ever seen. [5]
- Tommy is the Colonel's son, and is fifteen and the oldest in the Battalion; Fanny Marsh is Brigadier-General, and is next oldest--over thirteen. [5]
- At first this caused much amusement, but strict judgment followed, and led to my mother's resolution to send her oldest son away from home to some educational institution. [10]
- Of the oldest book, The Innocents Abroad,--now forty years old--you sold upward of 46,000 copies in the four years; of Roughing It--now thirty-eight years old; I think--you sold 40,334; of Tom Sawyer, 41,000. [5]
- Despatches had also been sent from Valladolid by Don Philip, the Emperor's oldest son, which afforded the greatest satisfaction to the sovereign. [10]
- If it had been a man as old as the oldest or as young as Jethro Fawe it would have made no difference. [11]
- On her right, at luncheon on Sunday, was a labour leader, the head of one of the most powerful unions in Britain, and next him sat a member of one of the oldest of England's titled families. [9]
- One salvo followed another, making the air tremble, but the firing did not waken the citizens, for not one of them had closed an eye the foregoing night, which, according to the oldest inhabitants, had been unprecedented. [10]
- In his kindly and polite manner of former times, he begged her to set out in the kitchen a bottle of the oldest and best Bacharacher. [10]
- Even the oldest and most experienced men did not consider the surprising proposal utterly impossible and impracticable. [10]
- In hunting bear and moose he had proved himself more daring than the oldest hunter, and proportionately successful. [11]
- Portions of the ancient wall remain, and many of the towers; and there are archways, picturesquely opening from street to street, under several of which we drive on our way to the Three Moors, a stately hostelry and one of the oldest in Germany. [4]
- It was found among the ruins of one of the oldest of the Etruscan cities. [5]
- A whisper went about among the oldest, that she had seen and talked with angels; and when they called to mind how she had looked, and spoken, and her early death, some thought it might be so, indeed. [12]
- He still had a firm seat in the saddle, but his head was bowed, and whoever knew that only one hour before the corpse of his oldest son, slain in a duel, had been brought home, admired the aged magistrate's strength of will. [10]
- On Payment of"--(naming a certain sum)-- "By him to whom ye Chaire shall come; He to ye oldest Senior next, And soe forever,"--(thus runs the text,)-- "But one Crown lesse then he gave to claime, That being his Debte for use of same. [6]
- She had never "got religion," and there was something startling to her undeveloped nature in the thunderous apostrophes, in terms of the oldest part of the Old Testament, used by her tyrant when he wrestled with the Lord in prayer. [11]
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