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Example sentences for "eldest son"

  • Lady Fanny Cowper, whose beauty was much admired by Leslie, the painter, married Lord Jocelyn, eldest son of the Earl of Roden.

  • Francis Scott, eldest son of the Duke of Buccleugh.

  • George, eldest son of John, late Lord Hervey, son of the Earl of Bristol, whom this George succeeded in the title.

  • Eldest son of Lord Barnard, and afterwards first Earl of Darlington.

  • As his father's eldest son, he had, on his return to England, family affairs to arrange, and probably some money to receive.

  • I have not been out of the Saddle for six Days last past, having been at Eaton with Sir John's eldest Son.

  • Biron, eldest son of count Baldwin, who disinherited him for marrying Isabella, a nun.

  • A'MON'S SON is Rinaldo, eldest son of Amon or Aymon marquis d'Este, and nephew of Charlemagne.

  • Gratitude like an earl's eldest son, is but titular, and has no place upon trials.

  • Lady Mary Coke, youngest daughter of John Duke of Argyle, married to Lord Coke, eldest son of the Earl of Leicester.

  • PAGE 284) My good Sir, you forget that I have a cousin, eldest son of Lord Walpole, and of a marriageable age, who has the same Christian name as I.

  • I have now described, O eldest son of Pandu, the diverse duties of men.

  • Vyasa continued, 'That king, O eldest son of Pandu, became eminent by this act and obtained the highest success like the lord Daksha himself!

  • The first word does not, as he renders it, imply, eldest son of God, but simply first-born.

  • He nodded his head towards the German tutor, who had come into view across the lawn, talking profoundly with Mr. Britling's eldest son.

  • And the trouble about Hugh, Mr. Britling's eldest son, resolved itself into nothing of any vital importance, and settled itself very easily.

  • He is my eldest son, he was very dear to me, and he too has been, killed in this war.

  • If my eldest son was to show the white feather, 'My Lord Esmond!

  • She is for ever talking of her father and his campaigns, who came out of them all with no very severe wounds to hurt him; and so she hopes and trusts will her eldest son.

  • My eldest son will be in orders ere long.

  • Pett was commanded by the Lord High Admiral with all possible speed to build a little vessel for the young Prince Henry, eldest son of His Majesty.

  • As Pett had, on an early occasion in his life, prepared a miniature ship for Prince Henry, eldest son of James I.

  • George Abercromby, eldest son of Sir Ralph, the hero of the battle of Alexandria.

  • Of these children by my first marriage, my eldest son Henry, since he had grown up, had been with me nearly as much as he had been with his mother, and I loved him as I did my life.

  • While I was there I heard the most unfavorable reports with regard to the health of my eldest son Henry.

  • But my only purpose in going there, that is to revisit the prison, was accomplished, and I started for New York, and went from there to Port Jervis, where I met my eldest son.

  • This Charles, eldest son of John, obtained by purchase the imperial fief of Vienne, of which the counts had always been called Dauphins, a title thenceforth borne by the heir apparent of the kingdom.

  • Mrs Knox, who had presented him as an eldest son, coloured.

  • George Granville Vernon, afterwards Vernon-Harcourt, eldest son of the Bishop of Carlisle, afterwards Archbishop of York.

  • Thomas, eldest son of 1st Earl of Ranfurly and Viscount Northland.

  • Mr Eden, eldest son of Lord Auckland, a fine sensible youth of five-and-twenty.


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