Aunt on "Sanford and Son"

Usage examples of esther.

In addition to the lawyer son Samuel, there were sons Edmund and Josiah, who was also a lawyer, as well as a daughter, Hannah, and a cousin, Esther, who, for Adams and his friends, were the prime attractions.

While Jonathan Sewall fell almost immediately in love with Esther, whom he would eventually marry, Adams, Richard Cranch, and Bela Lincoln were all in eager pursuit of the high-spirited Hannah.

Instead of doing so he allows Esther to read them, intending to burn them afterwards.

I found Esther and her father puzzling over the method which drew reasonable answers out of a pyramid of numbers.

A couple of weeks later Esther and her mother joined him there, and causing quite a bit of gossip among friends and relatives, the Burrs were married.

Once the Burrs moved, Esther was faced with even more entertaining as the ministers and trustees came to call.

Esther, who was as keen as a razor, took care to say that the same oath that I had taken had been imposed on her by the oracle, and that she could not communicate the cabalistic secret to anyone without the permission of her genius, under pain of losing it herself.

Esther the prophetess, clashing her cymbals, danced before the Messiah of Israel, who leant upon his victorious scimitar, surrounded by Jabaster, Abner, Scherirah, and his chosen chieftains.

November Vince met with Esther Goldstone at her office in Covent Garden, and described what had happened in the Holborn chambers.

Esther Goldstone a few days ago, and, she knew, had planned to give Louie the other.

I have ventured to place one at Hamadan, which was a favourite residence of the Hebrews, from being the burial-place of Esther and Mordecai.

Without the gates of Hamadan, a short distance from the city, was an enclosed piece of elevated ground, in the centre of which rose an ancient sepulchre, the traditionary tomb of Esther and Mordecai.

I began to crack jokes, and my jests drew peals of laughter from Esther.

Esther Koenigsberg Bengigi, an American-born psychologist who immigrated to Israel in the late 1970s and married an Israeli paratrooper, once remarked to me that the Lebanon invasion actually changed her feelings toward Israel more than toward the Arabs.

Esther arrived the next day garbed underneath as lacily and with as many fetishes as she could afford.