Rose had the younger folks in a giggle with a droll telling of a joke on herself.
Some of the older ones Howard knew and greeted, but the younger ones were mainly too much changed.
It called back to Howard the days when he and Grant, his younger brother, had fished in this little brook for trout, with trousers rolled above the knee and wrecks of hats upon their heads.
As they passed familiar spots, the younger man broke the silence with a question.
The younger man went off to look up a hotel, while the rest remained and prepared to camp down on the floor and benches.
Sweet and deep as the very springs of his life was all this to the soul of the elder brother; but in the midst of it, the younger man, in ill-smelling clothes and great boots that chafed his feet, went out to milk the.
But we'd ought'r go home with you," said the younger man.
This the Mohicans willingly did, and even sent a body of their own people to conduct their younger brother into the country of the Delawares.
I hope, younger brothers, you are all satisfied with what your uncles said yesterday, and that I have done every thing in my power to advise and support you.
Beaucorps is evidently much younger than Gawain, and Gareth was the youngest of King Lot's sons.
OF ANJOU Youngerson of the King of Anjou; Son of Fulk IV.
In Chrêtien the elder sister strikes the younger in the face, and it is in order to avenge this insult that the child begs Gawain to fight for her.
Then the younger sister spake, 235 'Thou sayest the thing that is not, and shame to thyself shouldst take, For surely he is no merchant!
In Chrêtien the sisters are unnamed, but the younger is called La pucièle as mances petites.
For a younger pig that can be separated ½ If he brew for sale, to give 14 gallons of ale as toll.
But within the holding there was equality of division between his sons; the younger son, however, retaining the original tyddyn or homestead, and others having tyddyns found for them on the family land.
A conscientious elder sister has to bear a good many hard thoughts from the younger ones on whom, without a parent's authority and reverence, she has to exercise a parent's restraint.
Perhaps you wouldn't mind if he were a little younger yet!
The younger of the two guardians was a man of business, and at once took proper measures for discovering her.
As a younger son myself, without the ties of fortune, I may be permitted to doubt how far the head of a distinguished house has a right, from any considerations of personal gratification, to reside away from his country, Madame.
If the old were pleased to meet with the veteran Count Stephen, the younger were no less delighted with even such casual glimpses as they caught of Kate, in the few moments she could spare from her brother's bedside.
The list is closed by the younger Cyril, a pure witness from another region, very different lines of evidence thus converging into one.
Pierius the presbyter of Alexandria, elsewhere called by Jerome "the younger Origen" (Cat.
In England the attention of students was directed, and on the whole successfully, to the criticism of the Hebrew Scriptures; in Germany, the younger (J.
Tell me, didst make this small that thou mayst the youngerhope to wear it?
The younger men had grown up to be great captains in their turn; and in this year they did a deed which was far reaching, for we feel the effects of it to this day.
And now he took from an almost forgotten hiding-place a toy of hisyounger days.
With Barney Owen looking on Sanderson was compelled to defer signing the affidavit, for Sanderson remembered the letter from young Bransford, bearing the younger Bransford's signature.
He had advised Mary to write to her brother, and he had seen the letter from the younger Bransford in which the latter had told his sister that he would return.
She soon fetched them in from the garden, all flushed and crying, having dropped on them just as the two younger ones were fighting Patty, and had boxed their ears all round.
It was the birthday of Geta, the younger son of the Emperor, and in his honour there would be games and a double ration of wine.
Surely," said theyounger man, "there can be no question as to that.
At last, however, they called upon him also for an anecdote, and leaning his cheek upon his elbow, with his eyes fixed upon the great red star which burned in the south, the younger man began to speak.
The majority of the crew were on the side of the old priest; but a certain number, who liked greater liberty of worship, and to invent their own prayers instead of always repeating the official ones, followed the lead of the younger man.
The younger warrior glanced keenly ahead to the distant point which marked his native city.
There was a younger brother and two sisters still remaining at home, and embarrassed as she was, ought she not to be grateful for such an opening, and thankfully avail herself of it?
The inheritance of titles by younger sons is the universal custom, and custom is stronger than law.
The closer Kenneth pressed him for his place the more Grafton's dislike of the younger boy became evident.
Here comes Don," announced his youngerbrother with a trace of envy in his tones.
And Kenneth bent his head as the younger boy clung to him convulsively.
He said most people had them only once and the younger the lighter.
Love of being first was doubtless my besetting sin, and my good-natured younger brothers and sisters accepted my rule--probably also because it was easier than that of a real grown-up person.
Lord Abingdon must have been over seventy at the time, but a good dealyounger than Sir James.
This is referred to in the following verses by Mr. Lionel Ashley, younger son of the great Lord Shaftesbury and a friend of my husband's and mine of long standing.
She was a handsome and fascinating woman a few months younger than myself.
The younger Ranee had two sons, of whom one, called the First Prince, was considered Heir Presumptive and was present at the Investiture.
In February 1893 Villiers and our younger children left in the Ophir direct for England, accompanied by Harry Cholmondeley, the German governess, and the servants.
The younger nobles gained more than they lost in many ways by the abandonment of their feudal prominence.
However, at the mature age of eleven she won the affections of Lord Sefton's younger brother and he never fluctuated in his choice.
We were told that he had been in prison, and one of my younger brothers was anxious to know whether we "should see the marks of the chains.
I remember being regarded as almost a heretic by the younger ones because I ventured to doubt whether she could make a watch.
Mercifully the younger ladies and their husbands were beginning to realise the comfort of English treatment on these occasions.
She was, however, a remarkable woman with great influence, not only over myself, but over my younger aunts and over other men and women.
The younger boys sheepishly slipped out, the scowling Thornton amongst them, who, Tony noticed, stopped outside and spoke to Finch for a moment.
The Head Master had turned as he was about to enter the Old School and glanced again at his younger colleague, and a smile of quiet affection and satisfaction stole over his keen kindly face.
It appeared that smoking had been indulged in the year before quite extensively by some of the younger boys, and gambling was suspected on the part of a few of the older ones.
A night or so after Finch’s arrival at school, Reggie Carroll dropped in at Number Five Standerland to see his younger friends.
Kit Wilson was coaching one of the younger teams on the north field, so that they did not come in contact with him very frequently.
For brutal conduct, Doctor Forester, to their younger schoolmates.
Had Tony been less absorbed in his younger friends, he would probably have found a good deal in Reggie to like and value, as earlier in the year he had begun to feel he should.
The mild or mischievous infractions of discipline in your younger days, I do not take into account.
You undertook to punish younger boys, and did so cruelly.
In the proud consciousness of their undoubted superiority as college men, the Old Boys somewhat cast their younger brethren in the shade, and treated them with patronizing airs, asking them occasional questions in a patriarchal manner.
He wasyounger then than later--about my age, in fact.
It was broken in upon by a startled cry from the younger boy, Georgie, who, apparently terror stricken, rushed across the room.
The younger ladies, at the urgent entreaties of their own or their friends’ inquisitive little brothers, left their carriages and moved in a pretty crowd upon the station.
She is a college girl somewhat younger than I and with no experience whatever.
A younger generation, and many indeed of the older one, have learned wisdom and prudence in the management of land since the abolition of slavery.
I know you are going to laugh at me for saying you have got to learn a lot that I, who am two years younger than you, already know.
Douglas, amused in spite of her trouble at Nan's ancient wisdom (Nan being some two years younger than Helen).
The two younger seemed hardly to have attained their full growth, though Emily was taller than Charlotte; they had cropped hair and a more girlish dress.
Home-sickness was the great trouble of the younger sister, and, before she had been long at school, Emily grew pale and ill.
Of the two youngerones (if two there were) I have very slight recollections, save that one, a darling child under five years of age, was quite the pet nursling of the school.
At the same time, the touch of romanticism, which was imparted by Scott and Byron, had a great influence on many of the younger poets of the new school.
The latter, who had considerable faith in astrology, persisted in drawing the younger sculptor's horoscope.
Do you tink it bery 'spectable now, for a man who, in his younger day, fight for liberty, to go for to take it away in his old age from anoder man?
Faith took into her lap the younger child from the floor on which it was sitting, gnawing a crust of brown bread, and began to talk to him.
Besides, the business pursuits of the merchant engrossed some hours each day, though as the head of a large house in which there were several younger partners, he claimed and enjoyed all the leisure he desired.
Holden, too, as the friend of the younger Pownal, came in for a share of attention.
Old Jenny stood talking to the younger member of the force.
Yes, I possess all your savings, and if you were fifty years younger you would not begrudge them to me.
Think we're running a retreat for younger sons, do you!
I was very glad to know that we bobolinks were to travel only in the daytime, as that would afford us younger ones a better opportunity to see the country.
It is true our noisy neighbors, the blue-jays, sometimes disturbed my mother by their hoarse chattering when she was weary of wing and wanted a quiet hour to meditate, but they disturbed us younger ones very little.
The page too, I hear, is his own nephew, and he will be the laughing-stock of the French camp at having been conquered by one so much younger than himself.
Passing through several passages, he was at length led into a room where a lady of some forty years of age, surrounded by several slaves and younger women, was sitting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "younger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
