| You will probably swear off drinking for the rest of your life and promise your first-born if you could just feel better. |
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| Subtleties are numerous on this second production, but are somewhat less obvious at first sight than with their first-born. |
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| The first-born, Claude, was made a hereditary nobleman by the Grand Duke Karl III of Lorraine in recognition of his loyal service. |
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| Such is, I suggest, the primary reason for having first-born children act as godparents for the last-born. |
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| It meant something socially and legally to be the first-born son, a son at all, or a girl. |
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| Content, my mother was at ease that her first-born would not fall into the ranks of picky eaters. |
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| I would have hugged him but he looked a little unsettled at my effusive thanks, so I just said I'd name my first-born son in his honour. |
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| The throne of Egypt, although it passed through the female line in name, in reality passed through the first-born male heir of the king. |
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| He is training the first-born boys of the tribe in the traditional chants and skills of Maori warriors, especially the use of the taiaha. |
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| Well, my father didn't want me to take up a singing career, because I was his first-born son. |
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| The first-born son of strict Republican parents, one a nonpracticing Jew and the other an atheist who was raised Presbyterian, Tim gets top grades in the hardest classes. |
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| That favorite child is Hyong-chol, her first-born son. |
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| Entitlement is regardless of material status, for each first-born child, regardless of whether the child was born within the marriage or out of wedlock, and is provided according to the place of residence of the mother. |
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| One participant likened the experience to raising a first-born child: the parents lack experience and must rely on the help of friends and family, but eventually they get accustomed to the responsibilities. |
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| The Japanese form of primogeniture dictated, for the issei generation of women, that the transfer of familial power and property was from husband to first-born son. |
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| Working women are entitled to fully paid maternity leave of 120 days for the first-born child, 90 days for the second-born child and 75 days only for the thirdborn child. |
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| She was talking about her first-born, Leonard. |
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| If you had threatened to sell their first-born to white slavers there would have been less fuss. |
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