His last acts were a fresh proof of his goodness toward even his rebellious sons and of his solicitude for his last-born.

"Is this your last-born?"

And no fortune, no power could have brought such quiet delight as that afternoon of happy intimacy, while the last-born slept so soundly and quietly that one could not even hear him breathe.

And then the softened glances of the parents strayed now through the window towards the crops sleeping beneath the crystalline rime, and now towards their last-born's cradle, where hope was likewise slumbering.

Gervais, the girls Rose and Claire, as well as the last-born boy, little Gregoire, were yet too young to be trusted alone in Paris, and so they continued growing in the open air of the country, without any great mishap befalling them.

But what particularly touched Marianne was the sketch of her last-born, little Benjamin, now nine months old, whom Charlotte had depicted reclining under the oak tree in the same little carriage as her own son Guillaume, who was virtually of the same age, having been born but eight days later.

One of the last-born of a numerous family, he no longer found space enough for the amplitude and force of his desires.

And when his parents saw that he had no taste for any profession, and that even the idea of marrying did not appeal to him, they evinced no anger, but, on the contrary, they secretly plotted to keep this son, their last-born, life's final gift, to themselves.

And they trembled, and felt that they could not refuse; for they knew that they were guilty in having kept their last-born in the family nest after surrendering to life all the others.

[130] Last-born: the star in the east.

He was the last-born of the patriarch, and the youngest brother of the majestic bearded gentleman engaged in tea-making.

His last acts were a fresh proof of his goodness towards even his rebellious sons, and of his solicitude for his last-born.

It is their last-born child,the greater for its many parents.

Love's Mistress is the appropriate and attractive title of a dramatization of the last-born fancy of the mythopoeic spirit of Greece, Apuleius' tale of Cupid and Psyche.