It is evident that she kept up her singing, for October 28, 1730, he wrote of his family, "They are one and all born musicians, and I can assure you that I can already form a concert, both vocal and instrumental, of my own family, particularly as my present wife sings a very clear soprano and my eldest daughter joins in bravely.

It was a bitter December day when Piccinni arrived in Paris with his wife, and his eldest daughter, aged eighteen.

They could live very comfortably, he says, because Aloysia's eldest sister could cook.

The eldest is idle, coarse, and deceitfulcrafty and cunning as a fox; Madame Lange (Aloysia) is false and unprincipled, and a coquette; the youngest is still too young to have her character defined,she is merely a good humoured, frivolous girl; may God guard her from temptation!

The eldest, whose Belly sunk in monstrously, was a great Coward; and tho' his splenetick contracted Temper made him take fire immediately, he made Objects that beset him appear greater than they were.

Mr. Secretary, as soon as he came to his own House, sent for his eldest Son, and communicated to him that the Family must retire out of Spain as soon as possible; for, said he, the King knows I understand Latin better than he does.

His wife and eldest son would have assisted him, but he motioned them away.

Things were in this state, when one day a knock was heard at the street-door, and the summons being answered by the grocer's eldest son, Stephen, he returned with the intelligence that a person was without who desired to see Patience.

My eldest girl begins to read well, and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descriptions of human life.

This sailor was the only person he had seen for many a year who could tell him anything about Aldeburgh and his family, and great was his perplexity when he was informed that his eldest brother, George, was a clergyman.

Pucklechurch. was not far away, and his son George's eldest girl, Caroline, as she approached her fourth birthday, began to receive from him the tenderest of letters.

He is my eldest brother's son.

"Mrs. Thrale and her eldest daughter were in one piece, over the fireplace, at full length.

Her children, from whom she had lived separated, were around her death-bed.[C] [Footnote C: It is but four years ago that the Viscountess Keith, Mrs. Piozzi's eldest daughter, died.

Also the Earle of Pembroke's eldest son married Lady Katharine, the said duke's second daughter.

Theodore was a family name, and had been borne by the eldest son for several generations, the major himself being a second son.

He had brought up his eldest son to the trade; the other he had given a professional education, in the proud hope that his children or his grandchildren might be gentlemen in the town where their ancestors had once been slaves.

His eldest son, Pepin Hunchback, died at Verona, and was buried in St. Zeno's church, which he had founded.

One son, the eldest of the family, after being absent from home many years, died in a land of strangers, and little was ever known of his death or burial.

15.Elder for older, and eldest for oldest, are still frequently used; though the ancient positive, eld for old, is now obsolete.

His kingdom fell into confusion, his eldest son died, his second son Sancho rebelled against him and finally deposed him.

Marriage of our Eldest Daughter.

The eldest daughter of our generous host, as the first trophy of grace, was converted.

On Monday, January 4th, 1847, Brother Sampson accompanied me to Dr. Bowman's at Waupun, where he officiated in introducing the Doctor's eldest daughter to the Itinerancy.

To the Church there had been large accessions and to the Parsonage a welcome guest, in the person of our eldest daughter.