6 sentences with 'eldest'

Example sentences and phrases with the word eldest and other words derived from it.

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« One day Jessica, my eldest granddaughter, asked why the water tasted so funny. »
« During a trip to the United States, Kipling and his eldest daughter, six-year-old Josephine, contracted pneumonia. »
« Vespasian's eldest son, Titus (r. 79 - 81 CE) had been groomed to follow his father and started out as a promising and competent emperor. »
« It was also stipulated that the property of the deceased father would be divided among all the children, instead of passing in its entirety, as was the norm, to the eldest son (entailed estate). »
« Following the rule of primogeniture, the eldest children of members inherited their parents' membership. The society still exists today and retains the motto Omnia relinquit servare rempublicam ("He gave up everything to save the Republic"). »
« Although Roman culture was explicitly patriarchal, with families organised under the authority of the eldest male in the household (the paternal families), there is a wealth of textual evidence to suggest that women enjoyed considerable independence nonetheless. »

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