Yet so strong is the parental ambition among those Polygons who are, as it were, on the fringe of the Circular class, that it is very rare to find a Nobleman of that position in society, who has neglected to place his
first-born in the Circular Neo-Therapeutic Gymnasium before he has attained the age of a month.
As long as Nicholas alone was in danger the countess imagined that she loved her
first-born more than all her other children and even reproached herself for it; but when her youngest: the scapegrace who had been bad at lessons, was always breaking things in the house and making himself a nuisance to everybody, that snub-nosed Petya with his merry black eyes and fresh rosy cheeks where soft down was just beginning to show- when he was thrown amid those big, dreadful, cruel men who were fighting somewhere about something and apparently finding pleasure in it- then his mother thought she loved him more, much more, than all her other children.
"Unfortunately the Cat received a telegram which said that his
first-born was suffering from chilblains and was on the point of death.
As the
first-born son of a duke, Archie could have become Earl of Dumbarton - one of Harry's subsidiary titles - or have been Lord Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.
The behavious of mothers with
first-born and second-born children were not similar in rank order.
Fundraisers have traditionally refrained from asking for a donor's
first-born child.
Sulloway identifies a lengthy list of personality traits that are unique to
first-born and last-born children.
Nurses who visit disadvantaged patients in their homes can reduce all causes of mortality among mothers and preventable causes of mortality among their
first-born children, found a study published in July in Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics.
TEHRAN (FNA)- We bugged out upon the discovery that
first-born girls are the most ambitious of any kind of sibling, at least when it comes to education.
Nijel Dela Cruz, 29, and his wife Josie, 32, who together earn Dh8,000 per month, have exhausted all their resources to pay for treating their
first-born Mikaela Luciana who arrived three months early on April 16.