Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

Go, tell his aged mother that her son Fought with a thousand foes, and he was one ''.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

The Coolidges' life, after the death of their son, was quieter than ever.

Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning for her son, she reached out to help other people in trouble.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

Bridges, a son by his second wife, was christened at Pebworth in 1607, but Thomas the younger was living at Packwood two years later and sold Broad Marston manor in 1622.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.

His first desire was to create a mother and son alone in the universe.

her son was dead.

But at the end of the sitting, when Michelangelo showed him the quick, free drawings, with the mother roughed in, holding her son, the model grasped what Michelangelo was after, and promised to speak to his friends.

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

Carpenters all wanted steady work and at the moment every mother's son for twenty miles around that could hammer nails for twenty-five dollars a day was working on the school job.

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

O'Banion was born in poverty, the son of an immigrant Irish plasterer, in the North Side's Little Hell, close by the Sicilian quarter and Death Corner.

In the state affairs he was assisted by the voivode Vyshata and the bishop Luka Zhidiata.

Basarab I the Founder (, also Basarab I the Great, Basarab cel Mare ; ) was voivode or prince of Wallachia ( c. 1310 / 1319 – 1352 ).

Basarab was a vassal of King Charles I of Hungary, who called him ‘ our voivode of Wallachia ’ in a diploma issued on 26 July 1324.

Born in Lwów in 1677, he was the son of Rafał Leszczyński, voivode of Poznań Voivodeship, and Anna Katarzyna Jabłonowska.

With the expansion of the Russian Empire the title of voivode was superseded by namestnik ( compared to viceroy ).

Later, voivode was the highest military rank in the principalities of Montenegro and Serbia, and in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

However, although in some countries and periods the rank of voivode was equivalent to a Western duke, it was not universally so.

At that time, the power of the voivode was in most cases extended to include civil command and, in some instances, to religious authority.

In time, the need to split the army into several units became clear and the commander of such a unit was called prince's voivode.

In the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, a voivode was one of the officials entitled to sit in the Senate of Poland.

He was also the chief magistrate and military commander of Transylvania's counties, and this power inevitably drew the Székely and Saxon territories into his sphere of influence however these territories were governed by counts who were nominally independent of the voivode.

However, the voivodeship was not formed at that time, nor was a voivode appointed, only a vice-voivode.

These actions were later recognized by the Austrian emperor, and Šupljikac was recognized as a voivode.

The new voivodeship existed between 1849 and 1860 and the title of great voivode ( Grosswojwod ) belonged to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria himself, though it was ruled by an appointed governor.

After the voivodeship was abolished in 1860, Franz Joseph I kept the title of great voivode of the Voivodship of Serbia until his death in 1916.

In Bram Stoker's Dracula ( Chapter 3 ), as Count Dracula recounts his genealogy to Jonathon Harker, he claims that the voivode who " crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground " was a Dracula.

Administrative level of area ( territory ) of voivodeship is equivalent to duchy in western medieval states, much like the title of voivode was equivalent to that of a duke.

The rise of the mediaeval state of Wallachia followed in the 14th century, and the voivode ( Prince of Wallachia ) was represented in Oltenia by a ban-" the great ban of Craiova " ( with seat in Craiova after it was moved from Strehaia ).

The removal of about 1 / 2 of the frieze metopes, frieze and pedimental sculpture was a decision taken on the spot by Philip Hunt, Elgin's chaplain ( and temporary private secretary, i. e. representative, in Athens ), who persuaded the voivode ( governor of Athens ) to interpret the terms of the firman very broadly.

* In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 1569 – 1795 ), the office was of senatorial rank ( i. e. entitled to a seat in the upper chamber of the sejm or diet ); with the exception of their primus, the burgrabia of the former capital Kraków, these castellans were deputies of the ( equally senatorial ) provincial voivode.

Mircea was the son of voivode Radu I of Wallachia and Lady Calinica, thus being a descendant of the House of Basarab.

Ladislaus Hunyadi was the elder of the two sons of John Hunyadi, voivode of Transylvania and later regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, and Elizabeth Szilágyi.