firstborn

“Omertà,” concedes the not-firstborn son Michael writing the book.

The throne should go to the firstborn child, male or female.

Foer began writing Eating Animals when his wife, the novelist Nicole Krauss, was expecting their firstborn son.

DeMille showed three plagues—turning the Nile into blood, hail, and killing the firstborn sons.

Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn.

There was in his face the combined look of a man who sees the cradle and the coffin of his firstborn.

When the father returned home, a near relative presented him with his firstborn son.

The first intimation of this was given on that awful occasion when the firstborn of the Egyptians was slain.

The mothers passion for her firstborn son was devotedly returned by him.