ELDEST

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eldest adjectiv

(sup. de la old) cel mai mare, cel mai în vârstă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

They were going to take the two eldest boys to Astley's.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“SHE didn't,” rejoined Traddles; “but her eldest sister—the one that's the Beauty—quite made game of it, I understand. In fact, all the sisters laugh at it.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I am so glad your eldest cousin is gone, that he may be Mr. Bertram again.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Fred, as the eldest twin, will have the estate, I suppose, and such a splendid one it is!

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She answered him in the usual way, and after a moment's pause, added: My eldest sister has been in town these three months.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife; and he answered, “I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Her husband, however, would not agree with her here; for besides having a regard for his cousin, Charles Hayter was an eldest son, and he saw things as an eldest son himself.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

He bowed to Lady Ingram, as deeming her the eldest lady present.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

As John Dashwood had no more pleasure in music than his eldest sister, his mind was equally at liberty to fix on any thing else; and a thought struck him during the evening, which he communicated to his wife, for her approbation, when they got home.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Was not she like a daughter, his eldest daughter? —he must tell her; and Miss Bates being present, it passed, of course, to Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Perry, and Mrs. Elton, immediately afterwards.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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