The eldest of them was myself, named by my father Broteer.

Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

In the midst of this inglorious state of things, and the domestic abundance which was the only compensation for the gradual loss of national influence, the installation of William V., in 1766; his marriage with the princess of Prussia, niece of Frederick the Great, in 1768; and the birth of two sons, the eldest on the 24th of August, 1772; successively took place.

" "I have a friend who is presiding elder in the A.M.E. Church and his wife, I think, is capable of being a social and intellectual accession in any neighborhood in which they might live.

Before proceeding formally on their embassy the three envoys managed to obtain private interviews, the two elder with Manto's father, the youth with Manto herself.

Said the eldest to his little brother and sister, "I will go yonder on the sands laid bare by the falling tide, and it may be that I shall find something that we can eat."

To Joel Rae, Elder after the order of Melchisedek, unsullied product of the temple priesthood, it was a time of wondrous soul-growth.

He distastes religion as a sad thing, and is six years elder for a thought of heaven.

Augustine Washington died in 1743, leaving several children, George being the eldest by his second wife, Mary Ball.

That Julius knew full well, for heas the next eldest at homehad been the recipient of all his mother's perplexities at the time of Raymond's courtship.

His very attire is that which is the eldest out of fashion, [ and you may pick a criticism out of his breeches.]

In case of the worst, the Abbé Grant will be my executor in this part of the world, and Mr. Mackenzie in Scotland, where my object has been to make you and my younger brother as independent of the eldest as possible.'

For five minutes they all talked at once, with their nasty fists 'eld under my nose.

I'm the one will have to be caught!" Her voice was a contralto, with the little hint of roughness that made it warm and richly golden; that made it fall, indeed, upon the ears of the listening Elder like a cathedral chime calling him to forget all and worshipforget all but that he was five and twenty with the hot blood surging and crowding and crying out in his veins.