9 sentences with “sons”

Military families were a reality everywhere, with sons often becoming soldiers after their fathers.

2. The Flavian dynasty: 69 - 96 CE. - a father and his two sons who took power after a brief civil war.

According to him, the Persians taught their sons three things: to ride a horse, to shoot a bow and to tell the truth.

The imperial bureaucracy had enormous power in Byzantium. Provincial elites sent their sons to Constantinople to study and obtain posts.

Some Spartans had become wealthy and bought their sons from the formerly compulsory life in the barracks, while others were too poor to train.

But the Nakamatsu's, the sons of Japanese immigrants who worked hard for a living, feared that Jon would pursue a dream that might not get him anywhere.

On that occasion, two of Still's sons fell ill with cholera. The doctor could not save them, but he was able to intuit that in the same organism lay the principles of healing.

In the end, a general named Vespasian (r. 69 - 79 CE) seized power and founded a rather short-lived dynasty consisting of himself and his two sons, known to history as the Flavians.

The Old Testament adds that Ham (one of Noah's three sons, and father of Canaan) "saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers. Then Shem and Japheth took the mantle, threw it over their shoulders, and walking backwards, turned their faces, and covered their father's nakedness without seeing it....".