Still, I was the first-born - a son — and perfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cost of Love] Reference

"Whar the whang-doodle mourneth for its first-born.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

She sorrowed still for the loss of her lovely first-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference

My first-born son, who is now 26, understands this, I think.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of Unhappiness] Reference

Death in Life -- and passionately mourned the loss of her first-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference

How could there be peace -- the first-born a slave, the second a tyrant?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

They were perfectly willing to release that story about their first-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Out of Our Skies!] Reference

Venusta shall sorrow, as they say the Egyptians did for their first-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Why does she separate from him over the grave of her innocent first-born?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brigade Commander] Reference

You would have thought we had asked for the moon, or her first-born child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids] Reference

At rare times, only, would she respond to her first-born and to her husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Tony stood looking down at Felice and their first-born, his heart in his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference

Who thinks of praising the young mother for feeding and washing her first-born?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

He was the first-born, the one who would come to make the decisions in the family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Who Does Miller Think He Is?] Reference

Across Japan, first-born sons were inheriting farms to face permanent bachelorhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Japan That Can Say Yes] Reference

I used to dream about my first-born baby's hungry mouth, round and wailing to nurse.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Sleep? That's a Dream.] Reference

All of the women in this book are only children or first-born daughters to survivors.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Survival Of The Spirit'] Reference

Should not the younger be as servant to the first-born of his father, and are not all the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference

Being who had so often foiled, and finally, in the death of the first-born, had utterly crushed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference

At length he thought of Sampsa, the first-born son of the plains, and he sent for him to do the sowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

Since my first-born, Halil, departed for Bassora, I have only written once to learn intelligence of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

He named his first-born son after a white army friend who had housed Powell's family in segregated Georgia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Powell On The March] Reference

They besought the river to go down and let them across, but it demanded the sacrifice of a first-born child.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

There was, he showed, a tendency for the first-born child to be lighter and smaller than later-born children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference

  One corner at first, a verdant ground fog creeping toward the antique cars like a plague of the first-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cover Story] Reference

That he loved those guns I know, for often have I seen him fondle them as tenderly as a mother her first-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference

He smiled at her earnestness — men are never so rapturously blind in the worship of their first-born as women.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

He also urges the analogue of "the anointing of the doorposts, which preserved the first-born by things that have no sense.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference

Before the boat arrived that was to bear me homeward a second letter came with the sad intelligence of the death of my first-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference

Then one day the sweet angel of suffering came to the home where the one-time-stranger lived and Ruth held her first-born in her arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference

Joy usually comes as twins, and the great perplexity is to discern which the first-born is, that our homage may not return unto us void.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

So, in one way, Mona's birth took place under good auspices, and he, being her first-born, more than came up to his mother's expectations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference

On Saturday morning there rose to heaven a great cry of distress, -- such a cry as has hardly been paralleled since the destruction of the first-born in Egypt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference