How To Use Eldest In A Sentence
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The eldest school of Greek philosophy, called the Ionian, was founded by Thales of Miletus, about the middle of the sixth century B.C.
Mosaics of Grecian History
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And when they espied the dukes daughter, that was a full fair woman, then by their false covin they made debate betwixt themself, and the duke of his goodness would have departed them, and there they slew him and his eldest son.
Chapter XV. The Thirteenth Book. How Sir Galahad Fought with the Knights of the Castle, and Destroyed the Wicked Custom
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The cards are dealt in rotation to the right, beginning with the eldest hand.
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When in 1254 he created an apanage for his eldest son, Edward, two of its principal components were the lordship of Ireland and the earldom of Chester, within which was comprised several Welsh lordships.
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I was born and brought up here, the eldest son of Irish parents.
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She was plain-featured, and had rather a severe expression on her face; her dress was as rich as any morning dress could be; her voice deep and unmodulated, -- what in a lower rank of life would have been called gruff; but that was not a word to apply to Lady Cuxhaven, the eldest daughter of the earl and countess.
Wives and Daughters
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We usually hear from the eldest grandson regularly but I suspect we are being punished for not approving.
Times, Sunday Times
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It did not surprise her when Fanny said, "Now, Sophie dear, it seems only right and just that you should inherit the hat shop when I retire, being the eldest as you are.
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He was planning to legitimise his eldest baseborn son and name him heir.
TREASON KEEP
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The title passes by inheritance to the eldest son.
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His eldest son John was ordained as deacon, serving as curate under his father at Llangeitho.
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Ministers will be put under pressure to scrap the law that bans the eldest daughter of a British monarch from becoming queen if she has a brother.
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Large quantities of soft drugs and hard drugs were found in the car of the eldest brother.
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The title passes by inheritance to the eldest son.
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Britons have been swapping bets on royal foibles for decades - many gambled on the name Diana would choose for her eldest son - but recent years have seen an expansion in the scope of the bets offered by mainstream bookmakers.
The Seattle Times
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Today he's in an especially good mood because his eldest daughter gave birth to his second grandchild the night before.
Times, Sunday Times
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I shall probably never see thee more; but in quitting thy white-cliffed shores, I quit not my ardent attachment and veneration for thee; -- and now for _thy_ eldest daughter beyond the ocean!
Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2)
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At the foot of the garden path she found her eldest sister, picking some of the flowers their gardener had allowed to grow wild there.
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Great was the sorrow of the family when their eldest son bonded to a wolf and their eldest daughter to a deer.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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He stood aloof, cold, proud, not moving, showÂing no emotion as Tanis broke, as gently as he could, the news to Ilka and Caramon that their two eldest sons were dead.
Dragons Of Summer Flame
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The burden fell on the eldest son.
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Then in November last year I arrived home from work to find my eldest daughter apparently fast asleep in her bed.
The Sun
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Kenji had to duck a swat from the eldest boy, but kept laughing.
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Tom was born and raised in Sarnia as the eldest of four children.
Priorities for a Canadian Alliance Government
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My two eldest go to work.
Behind Closed Doors - advice for families with violence in the home
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I was betrothed to their eldest daughter named Emma.
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In his birthday address of 2004, Akihito seemed to suggest he was fed up with Crown Prince Naruhito and his wife criticising his eldest son for speaking in public earlier that year of the "suffocating atmosphere" in the royal household which he claimed had contributed to his wife's clinical depression.
Emperor Akihito: A bulwark against a sea of troubles | Observer profile
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As under the old set-up, the eldest son alone will succeed to the occupational rights of the original land-holder, but now other children will be condemned to life in the settlements.
South Africa: The Peasants Revolt
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The three daughters of my eldest daughter are rude, discourteous, and have never been disciplined.
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My eldest son and daughter could now write well and fast.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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The title devolved upon his brother, Sir Howard who had married, in July 1799, Anne, eldest daughter of James Dundas, Esq.
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1
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The Big Brother (eldest, as well as being most generously covered) had the tortellini with piquillo pepper, chorizo and served in a Parmesan cream sauce.
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Previously, only the eldest son could inherit property.
Times, Sunday Times
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His three daughters are giving him a headache, especially Maggie, the eldest, who humbles her father by marrying his chief bootmaker, Willie Mossop, and opening a rival shop.
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Most interesting of all, Oxford don JRR Tolkien stayed at the college in the 1940s while his eldest son was studying for the priesthood.
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Three years after Stewart's disappearance, Boone's life was again devastated when a Cherokee tortured and killed his eldest child, 16-year-old James, and later another son, a brother, and a nephew were also killed during the often bloody fighting over the settling of Kentucky.
Great American Hunters: Daniel Boone
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Mrs Jellyby, sitting in quite a nest of waste paper, drank coffee all the evening, and dictated at intervals to her eldest daughter.
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Following the meal there will be the cutting of the cake which is traditionally carried out by the eldest gent and eldest lady at the party.
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Previously, only the eldest son could inherit property.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was terribly possessive of our eldest son.
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Then my eldest grandson, who lives next door, rushes in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The estate went to the eldest son.
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Shah, the Mogul's eldest son, and the visier, with other lea:
Sporting Sketches
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She was terribly possessive of our eldest son.
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Ilona (Ili) was born in Budapest, the eldest of three daughters of Sigmund (Zsiga) Neumann and Emma, née Deutsch.
Ilona Kronstein.
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Harpo, the eldest son, falls in love with a young girl named Sofia, and introduces her to the family already swelling and pregnant.
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Peter Wiggin, the eldest, is a cruel and sadistic boy with grandiose but entirely plausible ideas of ruling the world.
Ender’s Game: Lost Childhood « A Working Title
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It distinguished the dowager Mrs. Smith from the wife of her eldest son; today the word dowager, imitating the English usage, is frequently employed in fashionable society.
Chapter 4. American and English Today. 4. Euphemisms
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No scutage nor aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and for once marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall not be levied more than a reasonable aid.
The Magna Carta
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At this point their back door slides open and a groggy looking eldest son enquires of me as to what I think I'm doing.
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He was succeeded in his inheritance by his eldest son Hugh II. whose younger brother William, being sent by Achaius King of Scotland, pur - suant to his league with Charlemaign, with 4000 choice men into Italy against the Lombards, he performed many glorious actions, and became the root of the family of Scoti at Placentia.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau, his eldest son, and said unto him,
The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations
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Succession to the throne is based at present on the principle of male primogeniture, embodied in the Salic law, according to which male heirs take precedence and the right of succession belongs to the eldest son.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has revealed that his eldest son has died of Aids.
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Her eldest son, Alec, returns home with his termagant wife when their house collapses.
Men Should Weep - review
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In the years that followed, Mary's eldest daughter went to Bible college to train for the mission field.
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My eldest daughter is extremely diligent and settles down to her homework the minute we get home, but the little one is not so studious.
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The eldest legitimate son in this family has come of age.
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In Egypt the aged Ptolemy had abdicated in 285 in favour of his son by Berenice afterwards known as Ptolemy Philadelphus, and to the exclusion of his eldest son, Ptolemy Ceraunus, by his wife
A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest
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Anonymous said ... took my teens school clothes shopping, find it hard to believe my eldest is going off to college and my youngest is starting 11th grade. wow I am feeling old!
Max's Book
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They live in sounders of about twenty animals led by the eldest female sows.
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Rose, the eldest, is in the lead and she realizes something is terribly wrong before she sees what's the matter.
Lance Mannion:
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The eldest of the trio, a paunched and jowled dignitary whose beard and hair were obviously touched up in a none-too-successful effort to belie his more than three score years, glared in distaste at the scene of action unfolding while the cachinnations of the general audience grew in volume.
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No scutage not aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and for once marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall not be levied more than a reasonable aid.
The Magna Carta
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The Moore Valley farmer said he has six sons and one daughter, but Pat the eldest son works the farm with him.
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The psychologist Alfred Adler concluded that middle children, who had neither suffered the indignity of being "dethroned" like the eldest sibling, nor the pampered indulgence of the youngest, had the best chance of growing into successful, well-adjusted adults.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The traditional Mongolian American household is a patriarchy in which the head of the household is the eldest male.
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Their eldest son, Howard, is an administrator at Castle Park High School.
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To them be joined two of the ancientest and eldest.
The Second Book. Of their living and mutual conversation together
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Ensuring financial security for my eldest daughter when I'm no longer here.
Times, Sunday Times
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After the Duke's death, his eldest son claimed the title.
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The roots of his biliousness can be traced to his upbringing as the eldest of four sons to Jim and Eileen, an Irish crane driver and his wife, in north London.
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The eldest son is the family's only provider.
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My eldest son checked my phone on a weekend visit and found messages from my new girlfriend.
The Sun
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The eldest son in his family, Mohan had a bad time at school because his speech was the focus of many unkind taunts from his classmates.
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My husband is vegetarian, but the children aren't, so they can have anything they want in moderation, though my eldest daughter gravitates towards vegetarianism.
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She retains virtual control of her sons, the eldest of whom firmly remains second in line to the throne.
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My eldest daughter comes down to the kitchen fresh from her shower, her thick, long blonde hair cascading down her back.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is estranged from his eldest son and daughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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MICHAEL Jackson's two eldest kids face a tug-of-love battle after their mum Debbie Rowe confessed he was not their father.
Jim Impoco: Hurricane Michael
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Their eldest son, another Tyringham Backwell, had died without male issue in 1748.
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The passing on of property or titles is also hereditary and through the eldest male child of the family.
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The eldest is engaged to be married but her fiancé is seduced by the youngest sister and the pair are betrayed by the jealous middle sister.
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Now, this risk is exactly what, according to Portuguese data, the custom of choosing the eldest children to act as godparents to last-born siblings seeks to avoid.
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Handiness with a needle and thread made her eldest child the obvious choice for such a task.
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When my eldest daughter Megan was a toddler, our pastry chef had a bit of a soft spot for her and used to bake some very moreish crunchy cookies whenever she popped in to see me.
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It worked perfectly until his eldest daughter asked to see the packaging.
Times, Sunday Times
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My eldest is a No. 1 hunter and fisherman, the two younger ones like hunting but not as much as they like to fish (which is fine with me).
Daddy Deer Camp
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We usually hear from the eldest grandson regularly but I suspect we are being punished for not approving.
Times, Sunday Times
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Being the eldest son, Amir had to work even harder as the main breadwinner of the family, which was comprised of his four brothers, a baby sister and his parents, as well as an uncle who suffers from throat cancer.
Fahad Faruqui: Muslims Against Muslims: The Struggle Between God's Worshippers and God's Warriors
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Maria brought along her eldest daughter - a winsome lass with brown eyes and a ready smile.
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Chapter 27 1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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These events led to Owain being proclaimed Prince of Wales on September 16, 1400, by a small band of followers which included his eldest son, his brothers-in-law, and the Dean of St. Asaph.
Kings and Princes
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The couple's eldest daughter, Bernice, is a pastor at New Birth.
Influential Pastor Pledges to Fight Sexual Allegations
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Delvile, his grandfather, who, disobliged by his eldest son, the present lord, left every thing he had power to dispose of to his second son, Mr
Cecilia
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Their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, 15, tried to commit suicide.
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Robert saw a daughter whose mother was polymastic, and Woodman 6.363 saw a mother and eldest daughter who each had three nipples.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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But it was in 1925 that he disappeared while with his eldest son Jack in the Amazon jungle in Brazil, looking for a mythical ancient city he named "Z" but others called El Dorado.
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He can only being lifted by two or three men and placed in the presence of his father who was very ill, but the eldest son forenamed prince was little better, so before death of his father as he can be raised to be stood by two men and can cribble slowly on even or level surface, by securing and supporting of two men on both sides.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
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He is estranged from his eldest son and daughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our eldest has dispensed with the wardrobe in favour of the floordrobe.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, at a time designated by the Pope, the eldest cardinal deacon crowns the new Pope with the triple tiara of the papacy.
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The eldest, Gloria, is a poised beauty, while Dolly and Phil are pertly precocious.
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Her eldest of three sons had died in a motorcycle accident, and she'd started gambling on the pokies.
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King Alfonso XIII abdicated in favour of his eldest son.
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Her eldest son Jason, nine, has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, and dyslexia.
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And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. 1.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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Becky, the eldest, was staring glumly at her latest present.
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He is estranged from his eldest son and daughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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I read it to children aged two, five and eight and it was only the eldest child who got the conceit.
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My eldest daughter sees things differently.
Times, Sunday Times
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The eldest son was highly intelligent, if somewhat lazy.
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It would also give females equal rights of inheritance with males, replacing the frequent favoritism toward the eldest son.
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She pointed over to a gaggle of small boys, the eldest about seven, the youngest not even a year old.
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A similar kind of onomastic matrilineage is established through a practice Junod, around the turn of the century, described as the most frequent method of infant-naming among the Tsonga, and through which many of the eldest interviewees had received their birth name: consulting the divining bones to obtain the name of an ancestor so as to kupfuxa (wake up) that ancestor's spirit in the person of the child.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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At the annual prize-giving at the Congregational School it was stated that the eldest daughter, aged 20, had never missed Sunday school and never been late for 14 years.
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Eldest son of the earl of Northumberland, Percy was first appointed sole warden of the east march in 1385; Scottish borderers were soon calling him ‘Haatspore’.
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With the death of her titled father in 1934, the barony passed to her eldest brother.
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She had never planned on being a writer but she saw an interview with Christopher Paolini, the author o the dragonrider trilogy, Eragon, Eldest, and the soon to be released Brisingr, and she was inspired.
Lance Mannion:
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Accordingly the will specifies that the eldest such relative should inherit.
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Marshall Clemens, born August 11, 1798, was the eldest — becoming male head of the family at the age of seven, when his father was accidentally killed at a house-raising.
Mark Twain: A Biography
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Then my eldest grandson, who lives next door, rushes in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The eldest child was a daughter called Fiona.
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The eldest actually flinched when Simon called the redoubtable Mrs. Frederick by her first name.
Generous Death
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My eldest son's holiday reading was the brand new Harry Potter and, with his sun-streaked hair and mahogany tan, he looked like a local.
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Their father, who was determined to overthrow the queen, was influencing the eldest daughter, trying to get her to rise up against her mother.
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Fahd, the eldest, was made second deputy prime minister and eventually became king, while Prince Nayef was made Interior Minister and Prince Salman became governor of Riyadh Province.
Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
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When the king died, his eldest son succeeded .
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Finally, her eldest brother did take charge and called an ambulance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here is a prayer of the eldest daughter, Grand Duchess Olga:Send us, Lord, the patience, in this year of stormy, gloom-filled days, to suffer popular oppression, and the tortures of our hangmen.
Archive 2009-07-01
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His eldest child is still in the sixth form.
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When she learns of the secret engagement, she disinherits Edward, making Robert the eldest son.
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The house and estate are entailed on the eldest daughter.
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I get the potty for Eldest Son, Harry, who is quite competent at being out of diapers, and who clearly knows his own mind.
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Tetra found the queen exactly where the messenger had said, out in the summer pagoda in the palace gardens, with her eldest daughter Erris.
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Chou Hou-ch'ing sure knows how to speculate and do business. His Golden Touch Bank has really prospered. Eldest Brother was a fool to break with him!
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The only blot on the landscape is that our eldest son is disgusted.
The Sun
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The eldest son inherited the bulk of the estate.
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His eldest son, Henry, succeeded him in the marquessate; but the title passed rapidly in succession to the 3rd, 4th and 5th marquesses.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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My eldest daughter sees things differently.
Times, Sunday Times
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The eldest had taken a trip on the ocean in his kyak or light skin boat.
Short Sketches from Oldest America
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The two eldest are already doing well at Kings Wood.
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It is a first step towards ditching laws that make the eldest son heir to the throne.
The Sun
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My eldest daughter is at university and uses the car to get to and from her classes.
The Sun
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My eldest daughter sees things differently.
Times, Sunday Times
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My eldest is eleven; there's no way she'd get past the first night.
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The eldest son will inherit the title.
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The eldest member of the crew was the one speaking.
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Today we brought my eldest stepdaughter to see the doctor.
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As the mist on the hills turned from grey to purple, and the first thrush raised her morning song, the eldest goblin reappeared, and, laying a crimson rose at Yanko's feet, told him that he had had some difficulty in finding it in Hades, since it was the flower of Hope.
Folk Tales From Many Lands
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After the Duke's death, his eldest son claimed the title.
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The Dolphin, borne by GILES DE FISHBOURNE (H. 3), and afterwards introduced into several English Shields, is best known as the armorial ensign of the DAUPHIN, the eldest son and heir apparent of the Kings of France, who bore, marshalled with the arms of FRANCE -- _Or, a Dolphin az.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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The deceased gentleman was the eldest son of Captain Hugh Pearson, R.N., of Hilton, Scotland, and was born at Hilton, parish of Kilmany, Fifeshire, in 1818.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The property is the birthright of the eldest child.
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So Simon was now an only son, an eldest son, and he stood to inherit in Somerset as well.
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Peter (the eldest) is brutal, angry, and remorseless.
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The family were alerted to the presence of smoke by eldest daughter Ellen, and they all managed to get outside the house unhurt.
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His authority during the time it lasted, would be the same whether it were for one year or twenty, or for life, or descendible to his eldest son.
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Whervpon he first asked Gonorilla the eldest, how well she loued him: who calling hir
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8)
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The player who received the first card from the deal may be known as eldest hand, or as forehand.
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Previously, only the eldest son could inherit property.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nellie, the eldest child and closest to John, married an aspiring theatrical agent and manager, Percy Rimmer.
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The traditional Albanian household is a patriarchy in which the head of the household is the eldest male.
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Now when their father, who was a man shotten in years, saw that his two eldest sons hated their brother, he feared lest after his death trouble should befall him from them.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The others again addressed themselves to conversing and carousing; and, when the wine get the better of them, the eldest lady who ruled the house rose and making obeisance to them took the cateress by the hand, and said, “Rise, O my sister and let us do what is our devoir.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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My eldest daughter wondered aloud whether her worst fears were about to be realised: that cruises really were for people of a certain vintage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jamie, the eldest, is sixty-five and lives by the Tweed, a collector and dealer in vintage fishing tackle in Peeblesshire and "having the most fun I've ever had in my life".
Mrs. Miniver
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Eldest children are the only ones to have experienced the undivided attention of their parents.
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My eldest daughter comes down to the kitchen fresh from her shower, her thick, long blonde hair cascading down her back.
Times, Sunday Times
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During that time his eldest son had his 50th birthday party.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moreover, he hath seven daughters, who in valour and prowess equal and even excel their sisters,66 and he hath made the eldest of them, the damsel whom thou sawest,67 queen over the country aforesaid and who is the wisest of her sisters and in valour and horsemanship and craft and skill and magic excels all the folk of her dominions.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The eldest son of this much be-penanced marriage had two distinctions.
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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If our eldest son is awake then he may come down and have breakfast with us.
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As the eldest and smartest student, she bravely stayed in the haunted room in the dormitory and successfully exorcised the evil spirit.
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The birthright is the prerogative of the eldest son.
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Spring comes soon, and the eldest son suddenly turns moody and peevish, unwilling to eat or go to school.
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The eldest son is the family's sole provider .
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The mother and the second eldest daughter weeded the ridges, passing before the others.
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My father believed in primogeniture, where the eldest son gets everything, so as the third son I was, relatively speaking, on my own.
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Thou then heldest Thy peace, and I wandered further and further from Thee, into more and more fruitless seed-plots of sorrows, with a proud dejectedness, and a restless weariness.
The Confessions
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And the eldest brother, Dmitri, the sensualist is the one who in a sense becomes the moral touchstone of the whole book because he's the one who ends up taking responsibility for a crime he hasn't committed.
BBC Radio 3 Literary Proms: Archbishop on Dostoevsky
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Jill is my eldest daughter.
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He also added to the ancient patri - monial fortune of his ancestors, the lands of Foord in vice coini« tata de Haddingtoun, by the marriage of Blizabeth, eldest of the two daughters and coheirs of Robert Hepburn of Foord, by whom he left issue James, his successor, and colonel Thomas Stuart, who died in France.
Peerage of England. ...
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The estate is the birthright of the eldest son.
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She bore him two sons and raised his eldest.
Times, Sunday Times
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a dozen of the eldest succeeded in obtaining leave, and I was commissioned to accompany them as surveillant.
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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But my children did break out with the eldest boy taking his first tentative swing with a golf club in a coaching lesson costing £7 for an hour.
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She grew up one of five, as the eldest daughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tradition amongst the land-owning aristocracy was that the eldest son inherited everything, while their brothers were expected to go into the Church or the army.
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Their parents' expectations may be very high and the eldest child may have the most expected from them.
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After the Duke's death, his eldest son claimed the title.
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My eldest daughter wondered aloud whether her worst fears were about to be realised: that cruises really were for people of a certain vintage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Secondly, I resemble my eldest sister in terms of personality, but the middle child sister is just... ugh.
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My eldest grandson, aged ten, was my golf partner.
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It worked perfectly until his eldest daughter asked to see the packaging.
Times, Sunday Times
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William's eldest son Philip William was loyal to Spain so it was Maurits who was appointed stadholder of Holland and Zeeland, or the United Provinces of the Netherlands, in 1584.
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Robert saw a daughter whose mother was polymastic, and Woodman saw a mother and eldest daughter who each had three nipples.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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It worked perfectly until his eldest daughter asked to see the packaging.
Times, Sunday Times
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My eldest son and daughter could now write well and fast.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
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Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.