Usually the figures are ranged by ages, the eldest first and then down to the very smallest.
Gretchen, Ivo's eldest sister, took him by the hand and led him into the street, "so as to have room in the house.
Thou knowest my father's nearest wish was that hiseldest daughter might be betrothed to King Edward.
It is likely, because his father was the eldest son by his second wife of Thomas, second Duke of Norfolk, and was created Baron Howard of Effingham by Queen Mary.
The magistrate was sorry for the old woman, and he sent his eldest clerk to him, and bade him judge between the husband and wife.
The old man went to the fair; he bought for hiseldest daughter a new dress, for his middle daughter a silk kerchief, but though he searched the whole town through he could not find a little scarlet flower.
The godmother sent her eldest daughter to the old man and said: "Call our godson out of the bath; say that these two are beating me to death.
And next morning the grandfather sent the eldest grandchild, and said: "Go and drive away the sparrows from the peas!
In the morning the eldest son came to his father and said: "I dreamed, dear father, that my brother Ivan flew high into the sky on twenty eagles.
They ate pancakes and honey-cakes, they drank well, and on the first night it was for his eldest son Thomas to go into his tomb.
She has lost her eldest son (killed in an automobile accident on the way to Schwerin to see his sister, the Grand Duchess) and now it is her brother who is taken so tragically.
She also sent the beautiful bronze tomb in which her eldest brother Affonso, who died young, lies in the cathedral, Braga.
His first wife was Dona Isabel, eldest daughter and heiress to the Catholic Kings.
She had at first been betrothed to his eldest son Dom João.
Isabel sent an alabaster monument for the tomb of her father's great friend and companion, the Holy Constable, and one of bronze for that of her eldest brother; while as a member of the embassy which came to demand her hand, was J.
This could only have been done during the life of Dom Manoel's first wife, Isabel, eldestdaughter and heir of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Antony's eldest son by Fulvia came to Alexandria at this time, and lived in the same princely style with his father.
Ptolemy, the eldest son of Philadelphus, succeeded his father on the throne of Egypt, and after a short time was accorded the name of Euergetes.
The eldest son, Ptolemy, was named Ceraunus, the Thunderer, and was banished by his father from Alexandria.
Ptolemy, the eldest son of Euergetes, inherited the crown of his forefathers, but none of the great qualities by which they had won and guarded it.
Abraham, eldest son of David Gradis, succeeded his father as senior member of the firm, of which he was previously a partner.
Sissy's voice fell suddenly, and she put the question in a calm, magisterial tone that sent every eye in the room on a query toward the eldest Madigan.
She had the maturity of her motherless and quasi-fatherless state to add to the natural precocity of the mining-town girl, and of the eldest sister who has been pushed out of her childhood by the press of numbers behind her.
The Hathaway family did not actually possess it until 1610, when Bartholomew, Anne’s eldest brother, purchased the property.
Anne Hathaway was the eldest of the three daughters of Richard, who died in June 1582.
This is the lofty and extremely elaborate and costly monument of George Carew, Earl of Totnes and Baron Clopton, who married Joyce, eldest daughter of the already mentioned William Clopton.
THE Crimson Crab was to be married to the Eldest Frog.
Presently Greta, the eldest daughter, came in with the hot foot-bath, and seeing her mother asleep, set it down softly and went out again to get the warm shawl that the good woman would need when she sat up.
Alone she sat and wept, till her stern father came and told her that she was to be the bride of the Eldest Frog.
With one thrust he sent theEldest Frog sprawling on the floor.
If I were a plain green crab the Eldest Frog would not have sought me out, and I might still sit in my lonely bower and weep for my lost love.
But she wept as she polished her shining claws, and her feelers shook with grief; for she did not wish to marry the Eldest Frog.
So generous a bridegroom as the Eldest Frog is sure to make a kind husband.
His eldest son turned Quaker and went out to Penn's settlement, where he is reported to have been slain by the savages.
When Abraham offered up his eldest born, I trow that he said little to Sarah on the matter.
The eldest daughter of a duke and the daughter of a general won distinction in advanced munition work.
The eldest had found an old bottle of gum, with a brush fixed in the cork, and was gravely painting the face of the smaller child with what little remained of the contents of the bottle.
The woman took the bottle away from the eldest child, and gave it a "box on the ear.
Sir Robert and Lady Bramble seemed blind to the fact that the unbounded indulgence which they yielded to their eldest child was rendering still worse a disposition and habit which were already an affliction in themselves.
Most notable amongst his conquests was the king's eldest sister, widow of the Prince of Orange--a lady possessing in no small degree natural affections for which her illustrious family were notorious.
Therefore, Father Huddlestone informed the king of an honest gentleman, the owner of a fair estate some six miles removed, who was generous and exceedingly beloved, and the eldest justice of peace in the county of Stafford.
James Hamilton, Sir George's eldest son, was remarkable for the symmetry of his figure, elegance of his manner, and costliness of his dress.
This prince was son of the king's eldest sister, and therefore grandson of Charles I.
Among those who made prominent figures in such unholy sports was the king's eldest son, my Lord Duke of Monmouth.
True, he learned the noble union had been blessed with seven sons and five daughters; my Lord Cranstoun had died in 1727, and his eldest son, James, reigned in his stead.
In France, which has the proud title of eldest daughter of the church, Catholics, as such, are not freer than they are in Turkey.
The father is chief of the family; the chief of the eldest family is chief of the tribe; the chief of the eldest tribe becomes chief of the nation, and, as such, king or monarch.
On the 19th of January, he did homage to His Holiness before the College of Cardinals, as Vicar of Christ and successor of the Apostles, and was embraced and welcomed by the Pope in return as the eldest son of the Church.
Gianfrancesco, Count of Caiazzo, the eldest of the Sanseverino brothers, was chosen by Lodovico as chief ambassador to the French king, and received secret instructions to show Charles VIII.
We have replied that to our regret this marriage was no longer possible, since we had already entered into negotiations on the subject with your Highness and your eldest son.
Derbyshire, England, the eldest son of a gentleman's family; later, he became a merchant in London.
Our guide (who was intelligent, in her own plain way, and very agreeable to talk withal) said that the vault was opened about three weeks ago, on occasion of the burial of the eldest son of Burns.
Since my visit, a massive tomb, of Aberdeen granite, has been placed over the remains of Sir Walter and Lady Scott, and those of their eldest son.
My eldest brother had a son eighteen years old, and I had two stout boys of my own.
Colbert had three daughters, of whom the eldest was just married when Pepys wrote, viz.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eldest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
