While he was in this sad way, theoldest of the dogs came up and licked his hands.
One of the cats ran nimbly up the wall and let herself hang; the next cat hung to her tail, and so on till a bridge was made, over which the oldest of the dogs scrambled, and got the coveted treasures.
At the foot of the golden trumpet lay the mangled remains of his oldest brother, who had perished in trying to blow it.
The king ordered him to be put into a cage, and consulted with theoldest and wisest man in his kingdom, as to what could be the meaning of the wolf's sudden fury toward this lady.
At first he could not understand this, but at length occurred to him what the oldest of the dogs had said about hidden treasure.
Twenty-four hours passed, and theoldest prince failed to return.
So, rather later than in most other lands, and many years after the renaissance had made itself felt in other parts of the country, Gothic comes to an end, curiously enough not far from where the oldest Christian buildings are found.
Probably the oldest part is the chancel with its flanking chapels, which are very much more elaborate than any portion of the churches already described.
A silver-gilt chalice and a pastoral staff of the twelfth century in the sacristy at Braga are among the oldest pieces of plate in the country.
But to return north to Entre Minho-e-Douro, where the oldest and most numerous romanesque churches exist and where three types may be seen.
As might be expected from the patterns and technique of the oldest tiles, the first mentioned tilers are Moors.
The oldest seems to be the church of São Domingos, founded by the dukes of Aveiro, but never finished.
These worn-out tiles are worthy of notice for their own sake since tiles with Moorish patterns, as are these here and those in the chapel, are very seldom used for flooring, and they are probably among the oldest in the palace.
As at Paço de Souza, the oldest part of the church is the east end, where the two apses flanking the square chancel remain unaltered.
Of these the simplest and probably the oldest is that of an aisleless nave with simple square chancel.
I'm Puck, the oldest Old Thing in England, very much at your service if--if you care to have anything to do with me.
They may invite us to the house, although they are a very exclusive sort and are supposed to associate only with millionaires, and the descendants of the oldest and best families.
Wise, who was growing rather tired of the fulsome praise of the descendant of one of the oldest and best families in the Hudson valley.
Moreover, he is now the oldest settler in the district; that is, he is not the oldest man, but has been in the Kaipara longer than any other Pakeha, having come here before any settlement had been made in this part.
The oldest men absolutely revel in the abundance of the tales, both prose and poetry, that they are able to relate about the scenes around them.
Fraught with the deepest interest to every new-chum, and a matter of no light concern to even the oldest colonist, it is one that demands an abler and more facile pen than mine to do full justice to it.
He is the oldest inhabitant of the township, and was called the Mayor when he dwelt there solitary, a few years ago.
This is regarded as the oldestin Paris, and was originally an abbey.
Church of St. Germain des Pres, (oldest in Paris); its Restoration going on.
Bristol has claims upon the attention of the stranger, not only as one of the oldest cities in England, but on account of its romantic scenery.
The fine Gothic Hall here is said to be the oldest building in the city.
St. James's and the Green Park: this is the oldestin London, and was made by Henry VIII.
On our return, the doctor proposed that we should visit the Thames Tunnel, which was not far off; and so we went through a number of poor streets, reminding us of the oldest parts of Boston round Faneuil Hall.
Whilst we are speaking of this alteration of London Bridge, it seems to be a proper place to say something of the massive features of our ancient edifice, and the oldest contrivances used for the support of Bridges in general.
Footnote: Just as this work goes to press, the dally papers of the world announce that the oldest idol ever discovered has just been unearthed.
As Job, perhaps the oldest historian of the world, truly says: "What time she lifteth herself up on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider.
I ought to have been theoldest son of a duke, with a large allowance.
They had known him two or three years; he was their oldest friend abroad; he came and went at all hours.
Our oldest pupils go to bed at nine o'clock, the younger ones at eight or half-past eight; and none rise before six.
Oberlin, the oldest experiment in co-education at college, arranges its plans with especial reference to the average differences between the quantity and direction of the school-work at present demanded for men and women.
In the oldest part of the building, an alabaster block[65] bearing an inscription of twenty-four lines written in archaic characters was discovered.
This alabaster block is possibly the oldest Assyrian inscription as yet brought to light.
The oldestof these likewise come from Tello: they are sometimes male, sometimes female figures, but they all carry baskets on their heads.
The captain, who was theoldest of the party, was a fine soldier-like fellow of some forty years old; he had served in the Imperial Guard through all the campaigns of Italy and Austria, and abounded in anecdotes of the French army.
It will seem to her a harsh measure that the child she had nursed and fondled in her arms should live to disunite her from those her oldest attachments upon earth.
Its low tower is partly covered with ivy; the body of the church is of various dates, the oldest part being Early English.
The oldest monument in the church is to Sir Orlando Bridgeman, who died in 1674.
The oaken rood screen is reputed to be the oldest wooden partition of the kind in the country.
Henley is an old town--indeed, Plot claims for it the distinction of being the oldest town in Oxfordshire--but it makes little figure in history.
The oldest, and in truth the oldest looking, stone bridge on the Thames is called Newbridge, and this we approach below the place where Alfred held his Parliament.
The oldest parts of the two Inns seem almost as if they might be coeval with the days of Spenser; but the greater number of the buildings belong apparently to the latter part of the seventeenth century.
Some of the later buildings suffer from it most, and some of the oldest look, and are, newest because of sedulous restoration.
The oldest funeral inscription in the church is upon a brass, dated 1440, in memory of Elizabeth Osbarn.
And are you not Blackfoot, the Elk of Ben Gulban, one of the five of the oldest creatures in the world?
Anton, his oldest brother, married but remained with the firm, drawing a weekly salary--a smaller one than he could have gotten elsewhere.
But all the antiquarians on 28th Street swear--and some of these gentlemen are much older than the antiques they sell--that Signor was there before any of them was born, that his shop is the oldest on the street.
The old Raspiegli of Rome, Italy's oldest philatelist, had acquired the much sought for unique "Bahama.
Old Samuels, one of the oldest Jewish actors, complained bitterly about it.
The case illustrates in an instructive way the fact that the oldest literary sources of the history which we can recover had themselves diverse and sometimes contradictory sources in tradition.
For the rest we have in our hands a product of the oldest Hebrew historiography.
It is disputed whether the oldest history of the founding of the kingdom in Samuel should be regarded as a continuation of J.
Here also there are not only two main literary sources but evidence of variant traditions underlying the oldest narrative, and of the additions by later editors, sometimes of their conception, sometimes taken from old and good sources.
The oldest of these lists which has come down to us was made by Melito, Bishop of Sardes, about A.
In J there are some traces of a tradition, perhaps the oldest of all, in which there was no mention of Sinai; the Israelites made their way straight from the Red Sea to Kadesh.
The children started, the oldest boys and girls carrying the youngest.
We thus perceive on what grounds the right of Germany to three of the oldest wood-cuts known is questioned; and upon what traits of resemblance they are ascribed to Italy and the Low Countries.
He notices two editions as the first and second, and immediately after he mentions a circumstance which might almost entitle the third to take precedence of them both; and that which he saw last he thinks the oldest of all.
It is not unlikely that two or three of those in his oldest class, A, may have been executed previous to that period; but there are others in which bad drawing and rude engraving have been mistaken for indubitable proofs of antiquity.
It is the oldest standing city in the new world, excepting Santo Domingo, which Columbus himself established only eighteen years earlier.
They are Americans, probably the oldest Americans of European descent.
It looks rather as if the oldesttraditions had had little to say about this hero beyond the typical things which might be said of any great king; so that Danes and English had each supplied the deficiency in their own way.
Ottar's mound obviously, then, belongs to the same period as the Uppsala mounds, and confirms the date attributed by Stjerna to the oldestof those mounds, about 500 A.
It has been thought that in the oldest version the hero married all three: an awkward episode where a scop had to compose a poem for an audience certainly monogamous and most probably Christian.
So we have in one of the two oldest MSS[530] of the Pastoral Care "Dhis is seo forespraec.
From these finds Knut Stjerna dated the oldest of the "Kings' Mounds" about 500 A.
Much the oldest version--probably in its main lines quite historical--is the story as given in Beowulf.
This genealogy has been erased in the oldest MS (Parker, end of the 9th century) to make room for later additions, but is found in MSS Cotton Tiberius A.
The period of the oldest deposits, as is shown by the Roman coins found among them, is hardly before the third century A.
Turning now to the catalogue of kings in Widsith, probably the oldest extant piece of Anglo-Saxon verse, some generations more ancient than Beowulf, we find a King Sceafa, who ruled over the Langobards.
Thus in place of the expression to widan feore we find occasionally widan feore in the same sense, and even in Beowulf we meet with widan feorh, which is not improbably the oldest form of the phrase.
Halliwell records in his nursery rhymes what is perhaps the oldest printed version of the rhyme.
The burden of this game-rhyme is undoubtedly theoldest part that has been preserved to modern times.
The occurrence of this rhyme suggests that there is some sort of divination in the oldest form of the game, and it appears to me that the origin of the game must be sought for among the ancient practices of divination.
The Louth version has more detail in its movements, and probably represents the oldest form.
The frigate is one of the oldest ships, and served in the last war, but being blockaded in Hampton roads, could not come to any engagement.
On the last day of my stay in New York and in America, I went with Mr. Zimmermann into some stores, and walked in some of the oldest parts of the city.
Harvard University, one of the oldest colleges in the United States, was founded in 1638, by a clergyman named Harvard, who bequeathed it about eight hundred pounds sterling.
The oldest Christian bodies claim to have preserved primitive Christianity uncorrupted, and every reforming movement in the history of the church has claimed in some sense to offer a restoration of its pristine purity.
Stone, born in 1772 at Port Tobacco, Maryland, was a member of one of the oldest American families.
Transylvania, always prominent in Kentucky, resumed the ancient name which identified it as "the oldest college west of the Alleghenies.
But I'm dining with dear Lavinia Berkhamstead, one of my oldest friends.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oldest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: doyen; elder; father; first; former; older; senior; sire
