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When John's elder brother Richard became king in September 1189, he had already declared his intention of joining the Third Crusade.
She speaks her commitment to herself as an elder and to the aspects of cronehood she will celebrate.
In 1909, Webb's elder brother Thomas unveiled a memorial in Dawley, Telford.
In 1480, Cecily was named a Lady of the Garter, along with her next elder sister Mary.
Castile was a much larger kingdom than Aragon, and it was inherited by Catherine's mentally unstable elder sister, Joanna.
Robert became Duke of Normandy on 6 August 1027, succeeding his elder brother Richard III, who had only succeeded to the title the previous year.
William Theed the elder made an impressive bronze statue of Thetis as she brought Achilles his new armor forged by Hephaesthus.
The elder cleric took exception to its lack of appeals to scripture and authority.
However, only his elder brother was entitled to make use of the family arms.
After being a member of the Church for a while, Bill was ordained to the office of elder.
Foremost amongst these was the elder statesman, Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse.
She inherited the throne at the age of 18, after her father's three elder brothers had all died, leaving no surviving legitimate children.
The elder boy, Titus Flavius Sabinus entered public life and pursued the cursus honorum.
Harold's elder brother Sweyn was exiled in 1047 after abducting the abbess of Leominster.
Thomas Howard, elder brother of Edward, was assigned the new Lord Admiral, and was set to the task of arranging another attack on Brittany.
Between the ages of two and six, Marconi and his elder brother Alfonso were brought up by his mother in the English town of Bedford.
Upon the death of his elder brother Frank, in 1931, Russell became the 3rd Earl Russell.
Let us imagine an elderly bol'shak with two married sons, the elder of which has three married sons, and the younger only one.
The elder or Poetic Edda, the younger or Prose Edda, and the sagas are the major pieces of Icelandic literature.
Princely succession moved from elder to younger brother and from uncle to nephew, as well as from father to son.
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To the third pair of twins he gave the name Mneseus to the elder, and autochthon to the one who followed him.
Then the elder brother cast dust on his head and besmeared his face, and went home and slew his wicked wife.
To the elder of the third pair of twins he gave the name Mneseus, and autochthon to the one who followed him.
The Bambara, another tribe of West Africa, similarly regard the last-born of twins as the elder of the two.
It is really too bad that they don't exist as objective, bonafide compilations of the elder and darker Lore!
All greatness is the product of its opportunities, and the elder boulle was made by the happy circumstances of his time.
If a younger sister be first married, the husband pays six dollars, adat pelalu, for passing over the elder.
The elder Disraeli has a chapter on this subject in his amenities of Literature.
This led to the Alexandrine war, in the course of which this elder Ptolemy perished.
At length the elder brother wearied of this diversion and aroused his bedfellow.
Then there was his homestead claim on box elder, and the surveyors were coming in this fall.
Certain elder members of his congregation had privately discussed questions of doctrine with anxiousness.
At various points I saw plantations of box elder, and was told that this tree is easily grown.
The box elder is the one maple whose leaves are always cleft to the stem, making it compound of irregularly toothed leaflets.
We climbed the trees and cut our names, we sucked the sap of the box elder and squashed poke berries for war paint.
The box elder was the chief tree on many a timber claim where the letter of the law rather than the spirit was carried out.
The elder sister asked if she was coming to the flower-show in appley Gardens in the afternoon or the regatta ball that night.
For many moments the elder sister looked upon the younger, with a countenance that wavered with powerful and contending emotions.
The name of the elder was Alexander, and the other's name was alis.
Again the elder blew a reflective cloud over the merits of the question.
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