Elder (adjective)

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Well-bred (adjective)

Jolly (adjective)

1. Everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood. 2. We had a jolly time with the family. 3. My uncle was a jolly man with a loud laugh. 4. Sue was always jolly and helpful. 5. After Anaximenes came some one jolly, scoffing, and yet profound: the philosopher-poet Xenophanes. 6. And we did have some jolly evenings. 7. Arthur was their best man and there were jolly pictures of the wedding in the papers. 8. But a nice young man who wanted a bit of chivvying from a jolly girl-friend. 9. Peter Webster, forty-seven, is a jaunty, jolly fellow. 10. They all made a jolly family. 11. Why had he turned so jolly all of a sudden?

1. And how could he disguise his well-bred manners and speech? 2. His attitude was that of a well-bred man reluctant to discuss some family difference with a prying outsider. 3. However, the reckless, well-bred show of bravado did not exactly endear the utterer to two other boys of like age. 4. I mean, I am a well-bred woman. 5. Sometimes the health problem can be very serious: Winsome was a well-bred Thoroughbred brood mare. 6. Such a nice, polite, well-bred young woman.

1. His elder son Liam became a lawyer. 2. Sarah is the elder of the two. 3. John's elder brother died in a boating accident. 4. Wright's elder sister is also an actor. 5. And the elder Miss Snoot at her window high up in Old Odborough looks over the roofs of the town. 6. Bruch suggests that a significantly large proportion of anorexics are eldest or elder daughters. 7. But his elder brother John thinks that he knew better what the score was than he ever let on. 8. His elder brother, Nails, still at school, played water-polo for the town and stole cars. 9. In contrast, Jane Alexander as the elder sister and Robert Klein as her bulky beau are hitched to plows. 10. Also present were Bracy Clark and his elder brother, Henry. 11. In character he was very different from his dead elder brother. 12. It was initially his elder brother, Sir Richard Damory, who was more prominent. 13. She was, as she always had been, a kind of benign, elder sister. 14. Her elder sister married the Reverend Norris, who received the living at Mansfield. 15. Terry wrote out messages for his girlfriend Madeleine and their daughter Sulome, his elder daughter Gabrielle and for his sister Peggy. 16. In fact, although Constanze was not such an accomplished singer as her two elder sisters, she was by no means musically illiterate. 17. Mum ran when she was young and my two elder sisters, Lorraine and Lisa, could have been good. 18. There was some difficulty about funds until Laxmidas, Mohandas' elder brother and a lawyer, undertook to supply them. 19. His elder brother Edwin was next in succession to the baronetcy, but he was a total invalid. 20. As the first verdict for Lyle Menendez was read, the elder brother looked straight ahead and then shook his head slowly. 21. His two elder brothers and one sister all died as children. 22. But as the elder brother remains silent, his lawyers are preparing a new tack in their fight against murder charges. 23. Twenty years earlier he fled from an elder brother plotting to kill him. 24. Always he had been overshadowed by his elder brother, the famous Black Douglas − and never wished it otherwise. 25. Two of the survivors had several elder sisters working as compositors. 26. Her elder sister had married and moved to her in-laws. 27. Midge had lost an elder brother, killed by a shell on his nineteenth birthday in the Second World War. 28. On top of all this was the constant need to defend his religion against a clever elder brother who was an atheist. 29. Their elder son, Nicky, had disappeared on his motorcycle in a cloud of dust and anger. 30. Nenna was struck by the difference in her elder daughter since she had seen her last.