Naow, I got a red an' green plaid what belonged to my second stepson, Henry O. He never would 'a' died o' pneumony, either, ef he'd a-took my advice an' made himself a newspaper nightcap last time he substituted with the 'Savers.

Captain Wragge was the stepson of Mrs. Vanstone's mother, and had persisted in regarding himself as a member of her family, and, having known of the real relationship that existed between his half-sister and Mr. Andrew Vanstone, had obtained from the latter a small annual subsidy as the price of his silence.

Horrible crimes were perpetrated in the bosom of families of the highest rank; for instance, the consul Gaius Calpurnius Piso was poisoned by his wife and his stepson, in order to occasion a supplementary election to the consulship and so to procure the supreme magistracy for the latter a plot which was successful (574).

And now will I go down and serve thy stepson,the handsome magpie, the reader of books."

" Nothing but her love for Victorine would have induced Jeanne to sit again at meat with her stepson, but for Victorine's sake Jeanne would have done much harder things; and indeed, after the first few moments of awkwardness had passed by, she found that she was much less uncomfortable in Willan's presence than she had anticipated.

The Lady Cammilla entered heartily into all her stepson's ideas, and quickly, though doubtlessly regretfully, agreed with him that a brilliant foreign alliance was an absolute necessity.

little Tom [his stepson, Lord Ribblesdale].

My stepson, Max, found it."

Jacky married a lawyer and has a stepson.

She did nothing to me but hire me to teach her stepson, and when my habits became too bad, discharge me, as any one would have done.

Ori-a-Ori had known them all, his mother, his wife, and his loved stepson, Lloyd Osborne.

King Edgar is credited with the first fortified building; this was used as a hunting lodge by his second wife Elfrida, who perpetrated the cruel murder of her stepson Edward while he was drinking a cup of wine at her door.

It is unfortunate to have to include among the ungrateful children the stepson, Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach, who seems otherwise to have been a pleasant enough fellow, a fair family man, and a great composer.

Tom Allworth, stepson of lady Allworth, in love with Margaret Overreach, whom he marries.

A woman who killed her little stepson is supposed to haunt that room.

It gives such a curious account of a ghost who is supposed to haunt this housethe ghost of a most awfully wicked woman who killed her stepson by throwing him into the moat, and then drowned herself" Mr. Tapster, who seldom contributed anything worth hearing to the conversation, suddenly remarked: "The ghost has been seen within the last two days by one of the servants here.

Pegler's a most sensible person, yet she's quite convinced that she saw the ghost of the woman who is believed to have killed her little stepson in the room next to that in which I am now sleeping.

Edgar left the castle to his widow Elfrida, whose name has been handed down as the murderer of her stepson Edwardafterwards named Edward the Martyr.

Stepson of the Wild Bunch.

Stepson of the Wild Bunch.

The two earlsthey were stepson and stepfather by the wayhad for years been at fierce feud, a feud which had desolated the greater part of the South of Ireland.

It has, however, nothing to do with what we know as either romantic or conjugal love, but is simply the story of the adulterous and incestuous infatuation of Phaedra for her stepson Hippolytus.

Here we shall find the court of Fergus mac Roeg, a man too valiant, too passionate, too generous to rule altogether wisely; his star darkened by the gloomy genius of Concobar his stepson, the evil lover of ill-fated Deirdré.

Yet for the love he bore to Nessa, Fergus willingly admitted his stepson's rule, and remained faithfully upholding him, ever merry at the banquets, and leading the martial sports and exercises of the youths, the sons of chieftains, at the court.

On his death-bed, Young tells us, he called his stepson to his side and said, "See in what peace a Christian can die."