Handiness with a needle and thread made her eldest child the obvious choice for such a task. |
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Harpo, the eldest son, falls in love with a young girl named Sofia, and introduces her to the family already swelling and pregnant. |
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela has revealed that his eldest son has died of Aids. |
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The eldest then poured her food into her gullet and headed for PS shouting muffled answers to my enquiries about her day. |
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The traditional Mongolian American household is a patriarchy in which the head of the household is the eldest male. |
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He would teach Charles, the eldest of the three, to master chess, a nonsensical game his prating pater really could not stand. |
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They bought the former council house and converted the loft into a bedroom for their two eldest daughters. |
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That's why her eldest son, Patsy, was determined to find some link with his long-lost Spanish cousins. |
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The three daughters of my eldest daughter are rude, discourteous, and have never been disciplined. |
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He brings with him their Queen Tamora and her three sons, the eldest of whom, Alarbus, is sacrificed to avenge his own sons' deaths. |
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Gray couldn't keep the pride out of his voice when he spoke of his eldest son writing a book. |
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My eldest son's holiday reading was the brand new Harry Potter and, with his sun-streaked hair and mahogany tan, he looked like a local. |
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The eldest son in his family, Mohan had a bad time at school because his speech was the focus of many unkind taunts from his classmates. |
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It would be another excuse for Sir Marcus to announce all of his eldest daughter's perfect traits and mannerisms. |
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With my eldest child now attending morning nursery, my days on maternity leave are punctuated by the school run. |
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However, the eldest son decides the family ought to stay put, cooking up a plan to turn the ox and cart back homeward. |
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This morning at about seven, I heard one of the eldest boys forcibly eject Bobbie from the house in a rather brutish manner. |
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The eldest of a family of eight, Karim has three brothers and four sisters, none of whom she had seen in that time. |
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My mother was a widow, I was the eldest of five and my tatty uniform had been bought second or third-hand. |
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My eldest, in a knowing way, asked me if mature cheese is made out of milk from old cows. |
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They live in sounders of about twenty animals led by the eldest female sows. |
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The cards are dealt in rotation to the right, beginning with the eldest hand. |
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The player who received the first card from the deal may be known as eldest hand, or as forehand. |
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The eldest son of a Dublin barrister who moved to London in 1867, Northcliffe was largely self-educated. |
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Finally, at a time designated by the Pope, the eldest cardinal deacon crowns the new Pope with the triple tiara of the papacy. |
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The eldest of the Ellertson girls were slightly younger than Clara, and were as merry and cheerful as their brother. |
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With the death of her titled father in 1934, the barony passed to her eldest brother. |
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The eldest of three children, she had two brothers and was a regular tomboy, but always envisioned herself as a dancer. |
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She's the eldest daughter of a powerful family with a long traceable heritage. |
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My eldest daughter is extremely diligent and settles down to her homework the minute we get home, but the little one is not so studious. |
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Large quantities of soft drugs and hard drugs were found in the car of the eldest brother. |
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It started with a message from my sister, notifying me that my eldest cousin on my father's side was getting married. |
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As the eldest student, she bravely stayed in the haunted dormitory and successfully exorcised the evil spirit. |
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I read it to children aged two, five and eight and it was only the eldest child who got the conceit. |
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My father believed in primogeniture, where the eldest son gets everything, so as the third son I was, relatively speaking, on my own. |
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Ms Laker said the police had been at the house asking about the people her eldest son, George, 13, was friends with. |
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An eldest son would retain the difference until his father's death, when he would inherit the undifferenced arms. |
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The family were alerted to the presence of smoke by eldest daughter Ellen, and they all managed to get outside the house unhurt. |
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She pointed over to a gaggle of small boys, the eldest about seven, the youngest not even a year old. |
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His eldest son is a simple, unworldly soldier, who has lived most of his life in India. |
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The Princess Royal is a lifetime title, bestowed only upon the eldest daughter of the Sovereign, but entirely at the Sovereign's discretion. |
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Spring comes soon, and the eldest son suddenly turns moody and peevish, unwilling to eat or go to school. |
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At the foot of the garden path she found her eldest sister, picking some of the flowers their gardener had allowed to grow wild there. |
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His eldest and most honored son had disgraced the ancient family name, exposing it to ridicule. |
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The line from him to his eldest son and then to his eldest son represents the main line of kinship, while other lines represent collateral lines. |
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She was still very young, perhaps eleven at the eldest, and was humming a soft tune under her breath. |
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After a hard early life I was proud to hear that my eldest nephew had managed to earn his way to the top ranks of his senior class. |
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Their parents' expectations may be very high and the eldest child may have the most expected from them. |
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His authority during the time it lasted, would be the same whether it were for one year or twenty, or for life, or descendible to his eldest son. |
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His family owns an estate in the country as well as a house in town and as eldest son he stands to inherit quite a tidy sum. |
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Her eldest son Jason, nine, has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, and dyslexia. |
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Following the meal there will be the cutting of the cake which is traditionally carried out by the eldest gent and eldest lady at the party. |
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Lorenzo was now in his late fifties and the father of two girls and three boys, the eldest 13, the youngest in swaddling clothes. |
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Most interesting of all, Oxford don JRR Tolkien stayed at the college in the 1940s while his eldest son was studying for the priesthood. |
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At this point their back door slides open and a groggy looking eldest son enquires of me as to what I think I'm doing. |
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When she learns of the secret engagement, she disinherits Edward, making Robert the eldest son. |
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The eldest, Gloria, is a poised beauty, while Dolly and Phil are pertly precocious. |
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Tetra found the queen exactly where the messenger had said, out in the summer pagoda in the palace gardens, with her eldest daughter Erris. |
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His eldest son John was ordained as deacon, serving as curate under his father at Llangeitho. |
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My eldest DS is starting reception in a few weeks and I have NO experience in this dept. |
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It was my first game of golf in twenty-seven months and my eldest grandson Alan aged ten was my partner. |
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My father owned Cook's demolition yard just down from here and my eldest son was born there. |
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The eldest son reinvents himself as Harry, after Harry Houdini, the famous escapologist, whose feats are recorded in a book he finds. |
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King Henry V, the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Derby and Mary Bohun, coheiress of the Earldom of Hereford, was born at Monmouth Castle. |
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Inheritance typically involved the eldest son of a man's first wife, who succeeded to his office and property. |
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The passing on of property or titles is also hereditary and through the eldest male child of the family. |
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But his mood darkened as time went on and his eldest daughter remained uncontactable. |
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His first rival, however, was Duncan II, Malcolm's eldest son by his Orcadian wife Ingibiorg. |
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His eldest daughter has a head for business, a will of her own and won't take any nonsense. |
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As the eldest and smartest student, she bravely stayed in the haunted room in the dormitory and successfully exorcised the evil spirit. |
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The sword was a family heirloom, passed down through the generations to the eldest child. |
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Some years ago, my eldest son, from a state school but via a sixth form college, applied to Oxford, among other universities, to read law. |
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She was born on March 6, 1903, Tokyo, the eldest daughter of the Prince who headed one of the eleven cadet branches of the Imperial Family. |
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In 1967, Sultan Omar abdicated in favor of his eldest son, Hassanal Bolkiah, who became the 29th ruler. |
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Salomon, the eldest, arrived first, around 1607, and his earliest works were for the queen consort, Anne of Denmark. |
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The sight of my mother, my beautiful, radiant mother, was more than I could handle while pregnant and without my eldest daughter. |
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My eldest daughter is ten, my middle daughter is nearly eight and they both often stand on the scales and see if they have put weight on or not! |
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My eldest DS left Scotland today for a month-long World Challenge school trip to Africa. |
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She said her brother, the eldest of nine children, was a man who kept to himself. |
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Rose, Cassandra's beautiful, impulsive older sister, sets her cap at the eldest. |
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For three years now the Queen's eldest son has hardly put a foot wrong in public life. |
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Today, he takes comfort in the fact that his eldest son knew personal happiness and fulfilment in the last few years of his life. |
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The Moore Valley farmer said he has six sons and one daughter, but Pat the eldest son works the farm with him. |
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The eldest daughter of an alcoholic, self-important Lancashire bootmaker marries his boot-hand and sets up a rival business. |
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Her eldest of three sons had died in a motorcycle accident, and she'd started gambling on the pokies. |
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Mrs Jellyby, sitting in quite a nest of waste paper, drank coffee all the evening, and dictated at intervals to her eldest daughter. |
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Not so long ago he was watching telly with his eldest daughter, Lois, who has ambitions to be an actor. |
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If dealer does the latter, a second round of bidding occurs in which eldest hand has the right to name the trump suit. |
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But as the eldest, I started to help tidy and do the washing-up and laundry. |
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The Anglo-French painter and graphic artist was born in Paris as the eldest son of the celebrated Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. |
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The custom is that the eldest brother inherits the largest share of the property and is responsible for taking care of the parents and ancestors. |
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Ethan, her eldest brother, had called her at home and she had been responsive and quick to answer him. |
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But ages ago, he had learned to let sleeping dogs lie, so he wouldn't disturb the peace between his eldest and youngest. |
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By now, George had moved out of Buckingham Palace and into the nearby York House apartments of his eldest brother. |
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Their father, who was determined to overthrow the queen, was influencing the eldest daughter, trying to get her to rise up against her mother. |
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At that time his eldest daughter Maria promised to write an appreciation of her father and this she has kindly done as follows. |
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He refuses the offer of the job of Emperor, fobbing it off on the eldest son of the former ruler. |
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I learnt that, being the eldest, any arguments and squabbles would nearly always result in a smack for me. |
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So to fill up some spare time and use some oddments of wool I had left I've knitted my eldest grand-daughter a poncho and matching pixie hat. |
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But to avoid fiefs being subdivided and becoming non-viable, the rule of primogeniture prevailed, whereby the eldest son inherited the entire estate. |
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Gavin George Duncan of Sketraw, ygr. uses the arms of his father debruised with a three point label to signify he is the eldest son of John Alexander Duncan of Sketraw. |
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Now, this risk is exactly what, according to Portuguese data, the custom of choosing the eldest children to act as godparents to last-born siblings seeks to avoid. |
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The rule of male primogeniture, by which the eldest son of a monarch becomes king even if he has an elder sister, will end if a bill published today is passed. |
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Ministers will be put under pressure to scrap the law that bans the eldest daughter of a British monarch from becoming queen if she has a brother. |
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When the cantankerous old miller dies of a heart attack, he bequeaths his property to his eldest son, his donkey to the second, and the mill cat to his youngest son Mark. |
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Amanda was the eldest, a round-faced, blue-eyed edition of her father. |
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The tradition amongst the land-owning aristocracy was that the eldest son inherited everything, while their brothers were expected to go into the Church or the army. |
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Kenji had to duck a swat from the eldest boy, but kept laughing. |
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As the eldest sister she has played a huge role raising the other girls and her 12-year-old brother. |
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My husband is vegetarian, but the children aren't, so they can have anything they want in moderation, though my eldest daughter gravitates towards vegetarianism. |
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At the annual prize-giving at the Congregational School it was stated that the eldest daughter, aged 20, had never missed Sunday school and never been late for 14 years. |
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Her eldest son might be kind to trees, or he might be a meddling buffoon who thinks it his birthright to have the rest of us jump to it whenever he shoots his mouth off. |
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Betty, the eldest and headed for spinsterhood, works as a nurse for Mike, a middle-aged medico married to the middle sister, Ann, who is pregnant and unhappy. |
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That same day, the eldest villager takes up sexual relations with his wife again, and his example is quickly followed by the other men of the village. |
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His eldest son Joseph, born in 1831, later married Louisa Johnson, became a teamster and worked for a time from William Creek on the Oodnadatta Track. |
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Their eldest son is reaching manhood, and must be about my age. |
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Ruby played her eldest daughter records by Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington and would teach her the lyrics and sing her to sleep with their songs at night. |
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Nonetheless, she saw years earlier that her eldest daughter had the motherly itch. |
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They burst into the farmer's house and when they saw the eldest son, believing him to be the thief, they chained him and marched him to the palace. |
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The eldest son is the rector of four conjoined parishes nearby. |
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His three daughters are giving him a headache, especially Maggie, the eldest, who humbles her father by marrying his chief bootmaker, Willie Mossop, and opening a rival shop. |
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My eldest sister had studied home economics in the late sixties. |
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I was born and brought up here, the eldest son of Irish parents. |
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Their eldest daughter runs what was the home farm, which has a wealth of ancient monuments and cropmarks, and some fine traditional farm buildings. |
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Driven by envy, his eldest brother spiked his drink with poison. |
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She was the eldest daughter of the wealthiest of Exeter's merchant princes according to contemporary tax assessments, and mayor of Exeter at the time of his murder. |
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My father was in the Air Raid Precautions unit and my mother in the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, my eldest sister in the WAAF and my middle sister in the Wrens. |
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And I must say my godson, my partner's eldest, shares my anger. |
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In Scotland many eldest sons are entitled to the designation of Master. |
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He was born in Exeter on March 25th, 1545, the eldest son of John Bodley, a Protestant merchant who during the reign of Mary Tudor sought refuge with his family in Geneva. |
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His eldest son Harley eventually succeeded him in both positions. |
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She grew up in bohemian SoHo, the eldest of three children, and regularly cites her mother's little sayings as yardsticks by which she measures her unusual life. |
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His sons, particularly his two eldest sons, and a lot of his pupils knew that he was matchless. |
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The roots of his biliousness can be traced to his upbringing as the eldest of four sons to Jim and Eileen, an Irish crane driver and his wife, in north London. |
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Becky, the eldest, was staring glumly at her latest present. |
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The manor, having been handed down to the eldest son, the rest of the valley was divided between the younger sons of the Gilpins for generations. |
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The name Newcastle comes from the new castle built shortly after their conquest in 1080 by Robert Curthose, William the Conqueror's eldest son. |
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They were overtaken by Alfred's eldest son, Edward, and were defeated in a general engagement at Farnham in Surrey. |
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Practically all of the battles were fought against the eldest son of Aethelred, Edmund Ironside. |
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As it was not retroactive, the current successor to the throne is the eldest son of the King, rather than his eldest child. |
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Simon Bening's eldest daughter Levina Teerlinc was also trained as an illuminator. |
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In late 1077 or early 1078 trouble began between William and his eldest son, Robert. |
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More difficulties struck in 1083, when William's eldest son Robert rebelled once more with support from the French king. |
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She was the eldest daughter of Edward IV, and all their children were his cognatic heirs. |
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Henry's mother, firstly married to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, was the eldest daughter of Henry I, King of England and Duke of Normandy. |
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In 1173 Henry faced the Great Revolt, an uprising by his eldest sons and rebellious barons, supported by France, Scotland and Flanders. |
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In 1362, King Edward III, as Lord of Aquitaine, made his eldest son Edward, Prince of Wales, Prince of Aquitaine. |
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The eldest son of Henry II and Eleanor, William, died in 1156, before Richard's birth. |
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With the death of Henry the Young King, Richard became the eldest surviving son and therefore heir to the English crown. |
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In 1356, Edward's eldest son, Edward, the Black Prince, won an important victory in the Battle of Poitiers. |
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The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. |
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After 1301 the title was granted to the eldest son and heir of an English sovereign. |
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But his later years were marred by quarrels with his eldest son and heir, the Dauphin Louis, who refused to obey him. |
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After assuming the throne as Henry VII, he married Elizabeth of York, the eldest daughter and heir of Edward IV, thereby uniting the two claims. |
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York returned to Ireland, and his eldest son, Edward, Earl of March, Salisbury and Warwick fled to Calais. |
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After sending his wife and eldest daughter to safety abroad in February, he travelled northwards, hoping to seize the military arsenal at Hull. |
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Cromwell chose his eldest surviving son, the politically inexperienced Richard. |
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Some even sought to confer the Crown on the Protestant Duke of Monmouth, the eldest of Charles's illegitimate children. |
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He was replaced by his eldest, Protestant daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange. |
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All factions agreed the only viable candidate was the King's eldest son, Prince George, Prince of Wales. |
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After a final relapse in 1810, a regency was established, and George III's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales, ruled as Prince Regent. |
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In 1781, Arthur's father died and his eldest brother Richard inherited his father's earldom. |
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Since that time, except for King Edward III, the eldest sons of all English monarchs have borne this title. |
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Edward III was frail and in seclusion, his prestigious eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, terminally ill. |
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The Duchy of Cornwall is a similar estate held in trust to meet the expenses of the monarch's eldest son. |
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John was deposed in 1216 and the barons offered the English throne to Prince Louis, the eldest son of the French king. |
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However, after John's death in October 1216, many began to support the claim of his eldest son, Prince Henry. |
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Catherine's older sister, Joana, Princess of Beira, died in 1653, leaving Catherine as the eldest surviving child of her parents. |
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Born at Penshurst Place, Kent, he was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley. |
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His mother was the eldest daughter of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, and the sister of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester. |
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Martin's Church registers indicate that Mary Jonson, their eldest daughter, died in November 1593, at six months of age. |
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Ogden master, bound for New York, accompanied by his two eldest sons, William and John. |
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He had a difficult relationship with his eldest son, Frederick, who supported the parliamentary opposition. |
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When the Prince of Wales died suddenly in 1751, his eldest son, Prince George, became heir apparent. |
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Some titles of count, according to the particulars of the patent, might be inherited by the eldest son of a Count. |
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In August 1503 James IV, King of Scots, married Margaret Tudor, the eldest daughter of Henry VII of England. |
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The eldest, Locrinus, married Corineus' daughter and when the two younger sons died, the island was ruled by him and his 98 successors. |
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Walpole had planned to become a clergyman but as he was now the eldest surviving son in the family, he abandoned the idea. |
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His earldom passed to his eldest son Robert who was in turn succeeded by his only son George. |
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His two younger brothers were sent there, and it is not clear why Isaac D'Israeli chose to send his eldest son to a much less prestigious school. |
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In 2004, Lee Hsien Loong, the eldest son of Lee Kuan Yew, became the country's third Prime Minister. |
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In a kind of primogeniture, these usually are inherited by either eldest male or female. |
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Unlike England with the strict primogeniture where the eldest son inherited everything and did not provide for others. |
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In 1933, on a Greek islands cruise, he was introduced by Father D'Arcy to Gabriel Herbert, eldest daughter of the late explorer Aubrey Herbert. |
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Scott's eldest son, Lt Walter Scott, inherited his father's estate and possessions. |
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At the age of 8, Barrie was sent to the Glasgow Academy in the care of his eldest siblings Alexander and Mary Ann, who taught at the school. |
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Two years later, aged 22 and studying chemistry at the Berlin Academy, the third eldest brother, Rudi, committed suicide in a Berlin bar. |
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John Douglas was born in Florence, Italy, the eldest son of Conservative politician Archibald Viscount Drumlanrig and Caroline Margaret Clayton. |
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In 1893 his eldest son Francis was made a baron, thus giving him an automatic seat in the House of Lords. |
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His mother was Eleanor Balliol, eldest daughter of John I de Balliol, father of King John Balliol. |
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Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered. He bowed to Lady Ingram, as deeming her the eldest lady present. |
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Their eldest son, William, carried on his father's business, which helped in Knox's international communications. |
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The Act of 1469 finally settled the earldom on the eldest son of the Scottish monarch. |
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The eldest chose first, followed by the second and so on until the youngest received the remaining land. |
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Other laws suggested that the eldest son had automatic claims to the buildings. |
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The normal practice was that the eldest son both divided and chose first, but had to divide equally. |
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The eldest was Owain Goch ap Gruffudd and Llywelyn had two younger brothers, Dafydd ap Gruffudd and Rhodri ap Gruffudd. |
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In 1146 news reached Owain that his favoured eldest son and heir, Rhun ab Owain Gwynedd, died. |
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Owain I was the eldest male descendant of Rhodri the Great through paternal descent. |
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Anarawd, the eldest, retained the principal estate at Aberffraw and the throne of Gwynedd. |
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With the death of Rhodri Mawr, the kingdom of Gwynedd passed to his eldest son Anarawd ap Rhodri. |
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This was a departure from Welsh custom, which held that the eldest son was his father's heir regardless of his parent's marital status. |
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Additionally, Prince Llywelyn arranged for his son Dafydd to marry Isabella de Braose, eldest daughter of William de Braose. |
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Henry's eldest son, Edward, escaped from captivity to defeat de Montfort at the Battle of Evesham the following year and freed his father. |
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Since then the title has traditionally been held by the eldest son of the monarch. |
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Dumfries Place is named after the Earl of Dumfries, a courtesy title given to the Marquis of Bute's eldest son. |
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The eldest of four children, Jones was born in 1919 near Wardley, Tyne and Wear. |
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Gruffudd ap Cynan died in 1137 and was succeeded by Owain Gwynedd, his eldest surviving son. |
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Gruffudd was born on 6 October 1973 in Llwydcoed, Aberdare, Wales, the eldest of three siblings. |
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Louis II died in 875, and named Carloman, the eldest son of Louis the German, his heir. |
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Philippe VI made Jean, his eldest son and heir to his throne, the Duke of Normandy. |
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His eldest son, Henry III, ruled as King of England for the majority of the 13th century. |
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Philip's eldest son Louis was born on 5 September 1187 and inherited the County of Artois in 1190, when his mother Isabelle died. |
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The death of Henry's eldest son, Henry the Young King, in June 1183, began a dispute over the dowry of Philip's widowed sister Margaret. |
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Primogeniture, or the preference for the eldest line in the transmission of inheritance, eventually emerged in France, under the Capetian kings. |
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The early Capetians had only one heir, the eldest son, whom they crowned during their lifetime. |
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I recognized the eldest Miss Copleigh, because she had a pagri round her helmet, and the younger had not. |
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Edward IV's eldest son was invested with the title of Prince of Wales at the age of seven months. |
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He was also estranged from his wife, Margaret of Denmark, who lived in Stirling, and increasingly his eldest son. |
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Already ill, Margaret died on 16 November 1093, three days after the deaths of her husband and eldest son. |
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The eldest Barbarossa also went on a rampage through Algiers in 1516, and captured the town with the help of the Ottoman Empire. |
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Robert, the eldest, despite being in armed rebellion against his father at the time of his death, received Normandy. |
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Meanwhile, Henry rebuilt his alliance with Fulk of Anjou, this time by marrying Matilda to Fulk's eldest son, Geoffrey. |
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Morpurgo married Clare, eldest daughter of Sir Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books. |
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Eleven days after Orsini's assassination attempt in France, Victoria's eldest daughter married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in London. |
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Her son and successor King Edward VII, and her eldest grandson, Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany, were at her deathbed. |
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Sabinus and Vespasia had three children, the eldest of whom, a girl, died in infancy. |
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The birthdates of the children are unknown, but Harold was the second son, Sweyn being the eldest. |
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Primogeniture, in which the eldest child of the monarch is first in line to become monarch, is the most common system in hereditary monarchy. |
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The eldest son, Charibert I, inherited the kingdom with its capital at Paris and ruled all of western Gaul. |
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Subsequently, his eldest surviving brother, Svyatopolk the Accursed, killed three of his other brothers and seized power in Kiev. |
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The Danish monarchy was also officially elective, although the eldest son of the reigning monarch was usually elected. |
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Candidates had to be of royal blood, but the kingship was elected by a council of noblemen, rather than automatically passing to the eldest son. |
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He adopted the eldest son of his elder brother, who was awarded a hereditary officer rank in the imperial guard. |
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Of the various collateral patrilines, the senior in order of descent from the founding ancestor, the line of eldest sons, was the most noble. |
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Kublai was nine years old and with his eldest brother killed a rabbit and an antelope. |
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Zhu Zhanji was the eldest son of the Hongxi Emperor and Empress Chengxiaozhao. |
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Afonso was born in Sintra, the eldest son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife Eleanor of Aragon. |
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Alvise was the eldest of three sons, having younger brothers Pietro and Antonio. |
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Philip's third wife was Elisabeth of Valois, the eldest daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici. |
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This was due to the death of his parents and his dissatisfaction with his eldest sibling, who inherited the family fortune. |
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They erected a cross and named the point of land Cape Henry, in honor of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James. |
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The eldest became the Taichang Emperor, and another three died at a very young age. |
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Hans Luther was ambitious for himself and his family, and he was determined to see Martin, his eldest son, become a lawyer. |
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Pollock died in August 1870, aged 86, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, William. |
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The eldest child, Dudley Field, followed in his father's footsteps and studied law. |
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Among the dead was Captain Francis Spring, the eldest son of Colonel William Spring. |
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Luis Somoza Debayle, the eldest son of the late president, was appointed president by the congress and officially took charge of the country. |
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Since those titles have been united, the dukedoms and associated subsidiary titles are held by the eldest son of the monarch. |
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There were eleven children of this marriage, of whom John was the eldest surviving son. |
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The eldest son of a successful German textile industrialist, Engels became involved in radical journalism in his youth. |
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At this time his eldest son James was working as an accountant in Leeds, and his younger son, William, was running the plant. |
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Lucas was born in 1937 in Yakima, Washington, and was the eldest child of Robert Emerson Lucas and Jane Templeton Lucas. |
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Shah Jahan's eldest son, the liberal Dara Shikoh, became regent in 1658, as a result of his father's illness. |
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Following Samuel Gawith's death in 1865, the firm passed into the hands of his two eldest sons. |
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To make up the match with my eldest daughter, my wife's dilling, whom she longs to call madam. |
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He was the fourth child, but the eldest son, and he had nine brothers and sisters. |
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Somerset Walpole, himself the son of an Anglican priest, hoped that his eldest son would follow him into the ministry. |
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The current Duke of Cornwall is Charles, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, the reigning monarch. |
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Or is it to go no further than to condemn such a law as that which in England gives unwilled lands to the eldest son? |
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His attempt at kingmaking ironically rallied support to Henry VIII's eldest daughter, Mary, instead. |
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The nearest barefoot doctor was three miles away, in my eldest sister's village. |
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The Sea Scooter ride was a popular choice perfect for our adventurous eldest. |
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Thus matriliny, with its associations with the Iawbei or ancestress, and Suidnia or eldest maternal uncle, is central to the Khasi religion. |
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Shallon, at 18 the eldest of Mary's three girls, had set her heart on becoming a nurse. |
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The 30-year-old entrepreneur, who is the eldest child of rap icon Rev Run, announced the baby news by posting a sonogram on Instagram. |
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When my eldest, Jordan, was one I overheard a friend talking about surrogacy and my ears pricked up. |
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Material Girl singer Madonna has said she tries not to be overprotective of her eldest child. |
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Her eldest daughter is now 12 and wants to wear make-up for parties which Hallah sees as a normal part of growing up. |
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Elizabeth's eldest son and William's father, Charles, Prince of Wales, has just becomes longest-serving heir apparent in British history. |
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They're pretty liberal, naming the eldest after Joni Mitchell and calling their son by the rather hippyish name of Laser. |
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But Urik Frederik divorced Marie in 1670 for her alleged relations with Sti Hogh, the husband of Marie's eldest sister. |
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Suzzanne, whose eldest daughter works as a nail technician, opened her Blackwood salon two years ago and lectures in nail techniques at the Ebbw Vale College. |
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The eldest of four daughters, Alice Reid was born in 1912 and spent her early years at Titoki, near Whangarei, becoming head girl and dux at Whangarei Girls' High School. |
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The rest of his life was marked by struggles to consolidate his hold over England and his continental lands and by difficulties with his eldest son. |
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First was my eldest sister, Vera, followed by Doreen the next eldest, I was always last in the queue, being the youngest and, I was told, because I was the muckiest. |
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And it was a double celebration as they hosted a joint-party with their eldest daughter Julie, who was celebrating her silver wedding anniversary. |
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Not one of chilling loss but of a couple enjoying the happy innocence of their eldest bossily demanding her younger brother and sister clap for the camera. |
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He kept his latest gains and his eldest son Huneric was honoured by betrothal to Princess Eudocia, who carried the legitimacy of the Theodosian dynasty. |
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Each player draws a card, and the lowest becomes eldest hand. |
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The late Thriller singer's eldest boy Prince, 15, loves shooting home movies with his famous family and has set his sights on a career in film production. |
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But eldest daughter Maggie is made of equally stubborn stuff and defies her dad to marry painfully shy bootboy Will Mossop and set up a rival shop. |
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Nazarbayev's eldest daughter, Darigha, heads the pro-presidential Asar, as a member of parliament, and wields much influence in the state's media. |
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All Dukes of Cornwall who have been the eldest living son of the sovereign are generally considered to have held the same creation of the dukedom. |
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Under a charter of 1421, the duchy passes to the sovereign's eldest son. |
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Edward, the Black Prince, the eldest son of Edward III, was made the first Duke of Cornwall in 1337, after Edward III had lost the title of Duke of Normandy. |
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Duke of Cornwall is a title in the Peerage of England, traditionally held by the eldest son of the reigning British monarch, previously the English monarch. |
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Elizabeth is the second eldest of the five Bennet sisters of the Longbourn estate, situated near the fictional market village of Meryton in Hertfordshire, England. |
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Mildred Walpole found it hard to settle in New Zealand, and something of her restlessness and insecurity affected the character of her eldest child. |
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Many of these letters were written to the children of her former governess Annie Carter Moore, particularly to Moore's eldest son Noel who was often ill. |
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The Rurikids maintained large landholdings by practicing primogeniture, whereby all land was passed to the eldest sons, rather than dividing it up among all sons. |
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Bernard's eldest brother was George Gilpin who was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to form an alliance between the Dutch States and the English against the Spanish Armada. |
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As a result of the close association that grew up between the Wedgwood and Darwin families, Josiah's eldest daughter would later marry Erasmus' son. |
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Asquith's relationship with his eldest son had not been easy. |
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A writ of acceleration is a type of writ of summons that enables the eldest son of a peer to attend the House of Lords using one of his father's subsidiary titles. |
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In July 1634, officials acting on order of the King had seized Coke's papers, but a 1641 motion in the House of Commons restored the extant papers to Coke's eldest son. |
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His eldest son and heir, Ninan Cuyochi, died soon after him. |
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Kingship was patrilineal, and power would normally pass to the eldest son. |
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However, Isabella's plans for her eldest two children did not work out. |
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Roger II's eldest son Roger was given the title of Duke of Apulia. |
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