And to that call she responded, leaving the river and its food behind herstraight out into the face of darkness and starvation, no longer fearing death or the emptiness of the world she could not see; for ahead of her, two hundred miles away, she could see the Sun Rock, the winding trail, the nest of her first-born between the two big rocksand Kazan! CHAPTER XXV THE LAST OF McTRIGGER Sixty miles

"When the builders of the observatory found that they could not support it, they presented it to the British government; so that it is now a government child, but it is not petted, like the first-born of Greenwich.

We have observed that very few deaths took place in the colony of New Plymouth during the second year of their exile, and after the fatal stroke that deprived them of their President; but among those few, there was one that carried grief and desolation into the hearts of the family with whom our story is chiefly connected, and who were already deeply afflicted by the loss of the first-born.

The grief that preyed on her life, and especially the lamentable end of her first-born, had brought on paralysis.

I grant I dash'd the brains out of a brat Thine if he were, I care not: had he been The first-born comfort of a royal king, And should have yall'd, when Doncaster cried peace, I would have done by him as then I did.

I remember that when that bacon gave out, there was more mourning than over all the first-born of Egypt.

Reuben, the first-born, comes in due time to the care of the paternal acres and oxen.

Of course, this is simply allegory for the Israelites' supplanting of the first-born civilisation, Egypt.

This child, the first-born of Cosimo I and Eleanora, died when only sixteen.

At all events 1 consider 'the first-born of every creature' as a false version of the words, which (as the argument and following verse prove) should be rendered 'begotten before', (or rather 'superlatively before'), 'all that was created or made; for by him' they were made.

In the whole of the two centuries prior to that date there were five first-born girls out of a total of seven generations of the family.

Fate decided that the first-born should be a son, and the young couple started gaily to Salzburg, for a visit.

When there had been only Eleseus to look after, Inger could never find time to help her husband, being tied to her first-born; now, with two children in the house, it was different; she helped in the fields and managed a deal of odd work here and there; planting potatoes, sowing carrots and turnips.

In a few weeks I returned home, and was followed by the sad news of the death of my first-born.

abhorredthe kneading troughs and ovens, the secret chambers and the couches; reeking and dissolving with the putrid deaththe pestilence walking in darkness at noonday, the devouring locusts, and hail mingled with fire, the first-born death-struck, and the waters blood, and last of all, that dread high hand and stretched-out arm, that whelmed the monarch and his hosts, and strewed their corpses on the sea.

And that child, whom thou sawest, is our first-born, and I could not bear the thought that the soul of our innocent babe should perish.

His comrade was then watching by the side of an almost dying wife, who had just made him the father of his first-born son.

In their course, her first-born had come to warm her heart with a new love, and, for a few brief months, to delight them with the unfolding of his baby graces.

I would give many lives to save one sonnet by Baudelaire; for the hymn, "A la très-chère, à la très-belle, qui remplit mon coeur de clarté," let the first-born in every house in Europe be slain; and in all sincerity I profess my readiness to decapitate all the Japanese in Japan and elsewhere, to save from destruction one drawing by Hokee.

When his mother had brought a man-child into the world she knew that this first-born would be a soldier, at some time of his life.

you were my first-born, but I cannot go to you now, where you lie in the darkness among the dead!

To her exalted ideas she was approaching not only the ground hallowed by the blood of apostles and martyrs, not merely the tombs of the faithful, but the visible "general assembly and church of the first-born which are written in heaven."

The only lad ever I had, and my first-born.

It deserves, further, to be noticed that in North Uist the wood used to kindle the need-fire was oak, and that the nine times nine men by whose exertions the flame was elicited were all first-born sons.

Graft is the first-born of covetousness.