The prophet Muhammad's first beloved wife, Khadija, was a wealthy self-made merchant.
Claudia had a child from a previous relationship, Francisca, then four, who became my first beloved daughter.
He survived the deaths of his adored, oldest nine year-old son Harold, first beloved wife Henrietta, doting sisters Betty and Tillie, and loyal brother-in-law Sam.
It comes, I think, from the heartbreak of never quite reaching the level he desired at his first, beloved team, Roma.
It's a pity they couldn't move as quickly to make sure the world's first beloved smartphone kept hold of our attention.
Perhaps Balanchine's claim about being Georgian and living forever was true; young Tamara of Tbilisi — with her American nationality like his; Georgian heritage like his; and bloodline to Toumanova, one of his first beloved ballerinas — makes it so somehow.
The hero, MiM, or the Man in the Moon, is just the first beloved figure of childhood lore to get his own tale — the Sandman, the Tooth Fairy and Jack Frost are to follow.
Knowing it only had a day or so to go, I cried downstairs, my mother wept upstairs in bed, remembering her own, first, beloved boxer dying 50 years ago, and Daughter sat up very straight with her back to the house in a sunny patch of garden, giving the almost motionless dog a last brush and a stroke.
Whenever I eat a tomato sandwich, which is as often as possible, I think of Eleanor's tall, thin body and her wide, kind face, and of my grandmother smoking, but also of my first beloved literary heroine, Harriet the Spy.
God, a quite remote "first beloved" is beyond all this, like the kings, whose orders are behind everything built during their reigns.
