Sentence examples for second sons from inspiring English sources

But, of course, that same nostalgia was a founding theme of the South, where Albion's second sons sought to recreate, on the backs of black slaves, an imagined English arcadia.

Generation after generation, the second sons of the great French families took ship for Saint-Domingue to preside over the sugar plantations, enjoy the favors of enslaved African women and make their fortunes.

Two hundred years ago the heartland teemed with second sons of wealthy European families who could have stayed home dissipating in traditional style, but chose to go to the New World and find a new animal instead.

The House of Windsor has also seen its share of second sons assume the ermine mantle.

The second son of Maj.

1981 Second son, Leo, born.

Second son Kim is born.

Their second son, Bruce, followed in 1895.

"These people have my second son.

She remarried and had her second son.

A second son, Benjamin Jr., died in 2004.