Citations:brother

English citations of brother

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• 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:

  Indeed Cain hated his brother, "because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous" [1 John 3:12]; and if thy wife and children have been offended with thee for this, they thereby show themselves to be implacable to good, and "thou hast delivered thy soul from their blood". [Ezek. 3:19]

  Then did Christian vain-gloriously smile, because he had gotten the start of his brother; but not taking good heed to his feet, he suddenly stumbled and fell, and could not rise again until Faithful came up to help him.

  My honoured and well-beloved brother, Faithful, I am glad that I have overtaken you; and that God has so tempered our spirits, that we can walk as companions in this so pleasant a path.

• 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:

  I observed in this last part of his discourse, which was truly prophetic, though I suppose my father did not know it to be so himself—I say, I observed the tears run down his face very plentifully, especially when he spoke of my brother who was killed: and that when he spoke of my having leisure to repent, and none to assist me, he was so moved that he broke off the discourse, and told me his heart was so full he could say no more to me.

  He said, “No, they make brother with them;” that is, as I understood him, a truce; and then he added, “They no eat mans but when make the war fight;” that is to say, they never eat any men but such as come to fight with them and are taken in battle.

• 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:

  It opened; and a little girl, much younger than the boy, came darting in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him as her "Dear, dear brother."

literal brother

• 1881, Daniel Garrison Brinton, The Names of the Gods in the Kiche Myths, Central America, page 33:

  He quotes an ancient song which began with the words Kamucu, we see, which ran like this: "Alas, in Tulan were we ruined, there we separated, there they remained behind, our brothers, our kinsmen. […] the original seven brothers […]

any kinsman?

• 2002 June 10, Lyndall Baker Landauer, The Man Who Saved Athens, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 84:

  “Our brothers, our kinsmen in Naxos for years lived under and were controlled by a vicious despot. They appealed to us for help in a dire situation when the lord was killing boys, raping women and taking their babies away." […] "we were unable to break through the defenses of the barbarian fighters to rescue our noble brethren who desire only to live in peace."