| You will probably swear off drinking for the rest of your life and promise your first-born if you could just feel better. |
| 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. |
| Such is, I suggest, the primary reason for having first-born children act as godparents for the last-born. |
| 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. |
| At last she came to entertain a very unfavourable opinion of her first-born. |
| It meant something socially and legally to be the first-born son, a son at all, or a girl. |
