Heir, at times

Usage examples of eldest.

During the life of Alp Arslan, his eldest son had been acknowledged as the future sultan of the Turks.

Prince Vasili left the chair on which he had been leaning, and- with air which intimated that he knew what he was about and if others did not understand him it was so much the worse for them- did not go up to the dying man, but passed by him, joined the eldest princess, and moved with her to the side of the room where stood the high bedstead with its silken hangings.

The broken army of the Goths abandoned the field of battle, the wasted province, and the passage of the Danube: and although the eldest of the sons of Constantine was permitted to supply the place of his father, the merit of the victory, which diffused universal joy, was ascribed to the auspicious counsels of the emperor himself.

His two eldest sons Svein and Harold were earls, meekly created by Edward, and his nephew Beorn was another.

He had bequeathed it to Evrael, according to his eldest brother, who mentioned some passing madness about the woman Lerissa, the details of which he seemed to have forgotten.

The eldest son, who was ugly and squinted, was a kind of pleasant madman, but he was also a liar, a profligate, a boaster, and totally devoid of discretion.

MacLeod glared at her eldest brother, Broc, and pointed a finger at the door.

CHAPTER XV The Hanoverians As we were leaving the house we met the two eldest sisters, who came home looking very sad.

An hour afterwards, just as I was going to bed, the eldest girl came into my room and said she wished to have a private interview with me.

Cassan should pass through me to my eldest son, who comes now before you to acknowledge you his sovereign overlord and asks to be granted tenure of Cassan as a Duke of Gwynedd in perpetuity for himself and his male issue.

Much Marcle, where his eldest son had been christened and confirmed into the Anglican Church four decades earlier.

I contrived to slip in the hand of the eldest of the two sisters a note enclosing another for my dear Angela, in which I explained why I had been compelled to discontinue my visits, entreating her to devise some means by which I could enjoy the happiness of seeing her and of conversing with her.

This being the case there was no hurry, and the eldest girl said that the syndic and I could leave whenever we liked, but that they were going to bed.

That was why the eldest Dibble boy, Luke, was now serving five years in the pen in Boise.

Luke, Erica knew, was the eldest Dibble son, now residing in the state penitentiary in Boise.