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Example sentences for "the daughter"

  • The daughter, who was young and good-looking, excited the pity of many persons, and she was advised to plead pregnancy, that she might gain at least a respite from death.

  • Shortly afterward, the daughter of the herring-dealer fell sick, and a cry was raised that she was bewitched by the old women who had been refused the herrings.

  • Cornelia, the daughter of Scipio Africanus, had been married to a Roman by the name of Gracchus.

  • A few years before, Zoe, the daughter of his brother Thomas, had married Ivan III of Russia.

  • The daughter of Julius Caesar, and wife of Pompey.

  • The daughter of Nino, and wife of Riccardo da Cammino of Trevigi.

  • The daughter of Atlas, and mother of Dardanus the founder of Troy.

  • Costanza, the daughter of Manfredi, and wife of Peter III.

  • The daughter of Tiresias of Thebes, a city dedicated to Bacchus.

  • They know that I am the daughter of ten thousand jeddaks, that I trace my ancestry straight back without a break to the builder of the first great waterway, and they, who do not even know their own mothers, are jealous of me.

  • And I, the daughter of Mors Kajak, son of Tardos Mors, have listened without anger," she soliloquized in conclusion.

  • His wife, Margaret Duncan, the daughter of a Manchester merchant, was a woman of kindred tastes, and their union was entirely happy.

  • He was believed to have descended in direct line from Ali by his wife Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Mahomet.

  • Again, it is said that Achilles, enamoured of Polyxena, the daughter of Priam, offered to join the Trojans on condition that he received her hand in marriage.

  • Torn in her own lifetime from the list of the living, the daughter of Philip Fairlie and the wife of Percival Glyde might still exist for her sister, might still exist for me, but to all the world besides she was dead.

  • The motive of your shutting up the daughter in the asylum is now plain enough to me, but the manner of her escape is not quite so clear.

  • If she died single, or died childless, the estate would revert to her cousin, Magdalen, the daughter of Mr. Arthur Fairlie.

  • Mimi, the daughter of the great Weatherbold, would be killed for the ducal table.

  • I am the daughter of the king you are going to serve, who hates your father and made you gamble in order to cause your ruin.

  • Now about this time there came to be noised abroad the fame of the daughter of the sultan who ruled over the province of Babylon, and indeed she was said to be the most beautiful princess in the world.

  • The rest of the day all was still, but no one had seen anything of the daughter.

  • However, the daughter was so honest afterwards as to give it me, though at first she used me cruelly about it.

  • I imparted tuition to the daughter of a dealer in ships' provision; but it afterwards appeared that she was insane when she first came to me.

  • This was addressed to the daughter, but the father answered immediately.

  • He married Rafarta, the daughter of the Irish king Kjarval.

  • Ofeig Grettir married Asny, the daughter of Vestar, the son of Haeing.

  • Soon afterwards Thrand was betrothed to the daughter of Thormod Shaft.

  • He had married Alof, the daughter of Ingolf of Ingolfsfjord, by whom he had a son named Flosi, a very promising young man with many friends.

  • As the daughter of a president of accounts, she had brought a marriage portion of thirty thousand crowns to her husband, who was syndic of the goldsmiths.

  • Mademoiselle Louise Francoise de la Baume le Blanc, the daughter of the Marquise de la Valliere," said Madame, ceremoniously.

  • They are making ready this very day,' said the Eagle, 'for the marriage of the daughter of the King of the Blue Mountains.

  • So the old woman continued, 'The most beautiful woman in the whole world is the daughter of the Queen of the Flowers, who has been captured by a dragon.

  • She was a Phocaean by birth, the daughter of one Hermotimus, and, when Cyrus fell in battle, was carried to the king, and had great influence at court.

  • To confirm the peace, the Romans gave as hostages ten sons of patrician parents, and as many daughters, amongst whom was Valeria, the daughter of Poplicola.

  • That she was a Milesian by birth, the daughter of Axiochus, is a thing acknowledged.

  • I, the daughter of an earl, the niece of a king, wed to the warty toad, Peter of Colfax!

  • The daughter of the devil welcomes her brother.

  • He has done me a great service, and I be under monstrous obligations to him, but he be, nathless, the Outlaw of Torn and I the daughter of an earl and a king's sister.

  • The daughter of a De Montfort could scarcely be happy with a nameless adventurer," he added, a little bitterly.

  • He kissed her as if he wished to apologize for what he was about to say, and then he quickly replied: "Marguerite is the daughter of Baroness Trigault.

  • This is Mademoiselle de Chalusse, my dear baron," said she, "the daughter of the noble and esteemed friend whom we so bitterly lament.

  • You, the daughter of a man who possessed an income of five or six hundred thousand francs a year!

  • Pen has managed to get more enjoyment out of his holiday than seemed at first likely--there was a nice French family at Cambo with whom he fraternised, riding with the son and escorting the daughter in her walks.


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