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Example sentences for "eldest sister"

  • There is here a certain Countess Dohna, who was brought up first with my mother and then with my eldest sister, and who married a man of very good position in the country.

  • It was Amy, my eldest sister, who had been the first to set us a bad example.

  • I remember the ceremony of our being all dressed up in our best frocks to go out of town and pass the day with her ladyship, who was kind enough to stand godmother to my eldest sister.

  • I was agreeably interrupted by a visit from my dear mother, accompanied by my eldest sister, who was, I will not say, an old maid, and yet she certainly was not a very young one.

  • John Harris, of Hayne in Devonshire, married to Mr. Conway's eldest sister.

  • Eldest sister of my old Harrow master, and of Emma Simpkinson, often mentioned in these Memoirs.

  • The house of their mother's eldest sister, Lady Jones, was henceforward the only home they knew.

  • Certainly; for she does not seem to have been acquainted with the young lady herself, who seems to be a granddaughter of a certain General von Zwenken, who married my aunt's eldest sister.

  • Thanks to all sorts of quarrels in our family, and the inconsistent conduct of my eldest sister, I have been forced to live estranged (and shall die so) from all my relations.

  • The young woman sent for her eldest sister, Fair, to be with her and care for her.

  • Then he took out the fin that his eldest sister's husband had given him, and called on what salmons were in the sea to bring up the chest with the duck inside, and put it out on the beach before him.

  • I have come to this country to find my three sisters, who were given away by my father for their weight in gold, silver, and copper; and you are my eldest sister.

  • My eldest sister implored me to endeavour to conciliate my father, and informed me how uneasy he had been since my first departure, and what a wretched house they had had at home.

  • The maid servant was yet confined to her bed, very ill with the fever; and my eldest sister, who was about thirteen years of age, also fell sick the morning before the funeral took place.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    account for; adult female; boil until; deep emotion; divine influence; each station; eldest brother; eldest daughter; eldest sister; eldest son; foreign birth; greatly mistaken; highly variable; last word; long moment; making sure; mercurial barometer; near unto; other fruit; other stars; rise again; she returned; table land; then take; while since