elder

• Mr. Penecuik the elder is the duke's sole heir, which means, in time, Jeremy will inherit the dukedom. —  Rose in Bloom
• Hazel understood that she, the female, was meant to observe father and son: son and father: the elder Gallagher and the younger: meant to appreciate how the elder was the stronger of the two, in this matter of masculine will. —  The Gravedigger’s Daughter
• For the elder was a sweet rogue, with hair like red gold clean out of the fire, and eyes like a blue June morning, and cheeks like May flowers that a rose has kissed, and lips that better than a rose would kneel to kiss one day; and her smile lit up the street, and she tripped along as light as a spring breeze. —  The Ladies
• If to live in the world as if not of it indicates a saintly nature, then Robert Browning the elder was a saint: a serene, untroubled soul, conscious of no moral or theological problem to disturb his serenity, and as gentle as a gentle woman,—a man in whom, it seemed to me, no moral conflict could ever have arisen to cloud his frank acceptance of life as he found it come to him. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
• Mr. Osbaldistone the elder was there also, and in another moment Frank was folded in his father's arms III. —  Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North

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