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Example sentences for "brethren"

Lexicographically close words:
brests; breth; bretheren; brethern; bretherne; bretty; breue; breui; breuitie; brevem
  1. And Juda at the head of his brethren went in to Joseph (for he was not yet gone out of the place) and they all together fell down before him on the ground.

  2. But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the holocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the work was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are sanctified with an easier rite than the priests.

  3. All these of the sons of Obededom: they, and their sons, and their brethren most able men for service, sixty-two of Obededom.

  4. Of the children of Caath, Uriel was the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty.

  5. Bending the bow, and using either hand in hurling stones with slings, and shooting arrows: of the brethren of Saul of Benjamin.

  6. The fifteenth to Jerimoth, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

  7. Now the chief of the Levites were Hasebia, Serebia, and Josue the son of Cedmihel: and their brethren by their courses, to praise and to give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God, and to wait equally in order.

  8. And all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and all that knew him before, and they ate bread with him in his house: and bemoaned him, and comforted him upon all the evil that God had brought upon him.

  9. And after he had offered sacrifices in the mountain, he called his brethren to eat bread.

  10. But oppress not your brethren the children of Israel by might.

  11. The four and twentieth to Romemthiezer, to his sons and his brethren twelve.

  12. And the children of Israel carried away of their brethren two hundred thousand women, boys, and girls, and an immense booty: and they brought it to Samaria.

  13. My brethren have passed by me, as the torrent that passeth swiftly in the valleys.

  14. And if it seem good to thee, and to thy brethren to do any thing with the rest of the silver and gold, do it according to the will of your God.

  15. Of the sons of Oziel, Aminadab the chief: and his brethren a hundred and twelve.

  16. I have hope also for all my brethren whom I love, whatever name they hear.

  17. Before their departure they went once more into the West Riding, to see how their brethren of J.

  18. I often think, when many exercised brethren and sisters are present; there would be a danger of interrupting the true gospel order, if all were not careful to wait on the Great Minister of the Sanctuary.

  19. We found here a few of the Saints, but of a more liberal cast; they expressed great grief that their brethren at the head of the fiord had refused the peaceable messengers of the gospel from a far country a house in which to meet.

  20. His brethren at All-Souls might understand him; but what could console the brave old woman for all the condolence and commiseration to which she would be subject?

  21. The good man felt the stings of failure; he felt the mild jokes of his brethren in those Elysian fields.

  22. At first the effect was that of a part of his performance; the groans redoubled, and twenty or thirty brethren threw themselves prostrate in humble imitation of the preacher.

  23. In another moment, to the man's half-awakened eyes, he was but a moving cloud of dust in the distance, toward which a star just loosed from its brethren was trailing a stream of fire.

  24. Not long had the Church of Milan begun to use this kind of consolation and exhortation, the brethren zealously joining with harmony of voice and hearts.

  25. His brethren called him “the breaking-up plow of the Church.

  26. So he painted the Mosaic miracles, “till the brethren saw the snakes squirm, heard the frogs croak, felt the lice bite, brushed the flies out of their faces and saw the Israelites march out of Egypt.

  27. Having broken his word with us, and oppressed our brethren more rigorously even than his predecessor, the remorseless Elizabeth, he is unworthy longer to reign, and must be removed.

  28. Percy and Keyes will secure the person of the Duke of York, and proclaim him King; while upon the rest will devolve the arduous duty of rousing our Catholic brethren in London to rise to arms.

  29. It is a type of the blood of slaughtered brethren of our faith, which has been shed by our oppressors," rejoined Garnet.

  30. The sufferings of our brethren will not have been in vain, if they enable our successors to worship God in their own way, and according to the dictates of their consciences.

  31. With his wife he came in his chariot of kingly glory and established his father and his brethren in the promised land of Goshen.

  32. In the hour when tribulation and sorrow came upon his brethren he revealed himself to them the second time and was owned and acknowledged by them.

  33. God the Father sent His Son to His brethren in the flesh.

  34. Not that great idoll might with this compaire, 495 To which th'Assyrian tyrant would have made The holie brethren falslie to have praid.

  35. To that consummation the brethren themselves looked forward with justifiable confidence.

  36. Disguised as a monk, he mingled with the brethren at the convent and stirred up strife among them, so that the Abbot grew very wrathful and inflicted severe penances on all the offenders.

  37. Indeed it was largely owing to some irregularities connected with the business, and some misunderstanding with the Prophet and other leading brethren in the Church, that finally resulted in his excommunication, in March, 1838.

  38. Naturally their eyes and hearts turned to Zarahemla, where the great body of their brethren dwelt in security.

  39. Some time in the fourth century from the time Lehi left Jerusalem occurred also a second great removal of righteous Nephites from the midst of their brethren and the Lamanites.

  40. It is supposed that the first remove of the Nephites from their brethren covered no great distance; as only a few years passed before they were in contact with one another again, at least in warfare.

  41. He thus tells the story of the appearing of Jesus to the five hundred brethren at once: "More than five hundred persons were already devoted to the memory of Jesus.

  42. Persecuting the brethren by urging on vexatious law suits against them, and thus distressing the innocent.

  43. Joseph himself said, when his perplexed brethren stood before him, "What deed is this that ye have done?

  44. Charges and counter charges were made; brethren misunderstood one another and became estranged in their feelings, and pride and bitterness prevented reconciliations.

  45. The story of the second great hegira of righteous Nephites from their less righteous brethren is a very brief one.

  46. As soon as the Book of Mormon was published Samuel was among the most zealous of the brethren in proclaiming it to the world, and seeking to dispose of it for the enlightenment of mankind.

  47. He sends his respects to you; he says, "tell Brother Orson I am advised by the brethren to remain here this winter, and assist Brother Hyde in the printing office, and as soon as I get settled I will write him a letter.

  48. He had seen his crops wasted by the wanton destructiveness of a mob, while he himself was seized and threatened with instant death if he did not make known the hiding place of brethren who were escaping from the mob.

  49. Thence they drove away or exterminated most of the older Turanian inhabitants, as their brethren had a short time before done to the Turanians whom they found in Europe.

  50. Or, if the doubting brethren still require some visible representation of this vital power, the smoke[105] of the funeral pyre may typify the ascending soul.

  51. The rest is with thy brethren below yonder, The Little People go back to sleep.

  52. They fled, splashing through the little river at the bottom, and panted up the terraced fields on the far side, while the Bhagat and his brethren followed.

  53. It is not for US, the Free Hunters, to tell thee what thy brethren do, or why.

  54. The 'sisters' in the infant churches rivalled the brethren in attachment and fidelity to the cause, and to their "ministry" the new religion was indebted in no small degree for its unparalleled success.

  55. Burmah, the field to which they had been assigned by their brethren at home, seemed, for various reasons, utterly inaccessible; but they finally got leave to take passage in a ship bound for the Isle of France.

  56. We have not yet heard from the brethren at Ava.

  57. My present plan is, if my brethren approve, to return with my family, and resume our missionary labors as before.

  58. Eagerly he begged that to these Gentiles, his brethren by blood, might be sent in their secret fastnesses the blessed Word whereby they would be delivered from the chains of their idolatry into the freedom of Christian grace.

  59. But you tell us that the time of need long since is past, and ye who bring the token are of a race that is strange to us; and even this one among you who seems to be of our brethren speaks strangely of strange things.

  60. The Just and Equal Appeal, and the state of the Innocent Cause of us, who have been turned out of your Army for the exercise of our pure Consciences, who are now persecuted amongst our Brethren under the name of Quakers.

  61. Such suggestions need only the seconding of one of the learned to be utterly ridiculed by his equally learned brethren of an opposite school.

  62. But I can't call to mind that any of the Moravian Brethren had died.

  63. He was what they call a "Democrat," though our Church is against the Brethren concerning themselves with politics.

  64. But whatever they stooped to, they were gentry and kept a cheerful countenance, and after an evening's fiddling at one of their poor little proud parties, the Brethren seemed old-fashioned.

  65. So I gave him a set of new fiddle-strings, and the Brethren didn't advise us any more.

  66. When we came back, the Brethren got after Toby because I wasn't learning any lawful trade, and he had hard work to save me from being apprenticed to Helmbold and Geyer the printers.

  67. The Brethren don't study Indians much till they join the Church, but Toby knew 'em wild.

  68. It was found that among the saints there were certain weaker brethren who did not want a hymn to their ale.

  69. The Marines, in common with their brethren in the British Fleet, shared in the credit which was gained by some partial actions during the year.

  70. He was a young man of the most promising talents, but his country and his brethren have now to deplore his subsequent fall.

  71. Before the four started to Pennsylvania, another member had taken the longer journey, and had been laid beside his brethren in the Savannah cemetery.

  72. From six to seven I read in our cabin to two or three of the passengers, (of whom there were about eighty English on board), and each of my brethren to a few more in theirs.

  73. This he declined, preferring to share equally with his Brethren in the hardships of the voyage.

  74. Everything they heard confirmed Ingham in his intention, and when John Wesley returned in July he and Ingham again made application "to be received as brethren in our Congregation, and to go with us to the Lord's Table.

  75. In the afternoon the Brethren met to decide who should be appointed to marry Waschke and Juliana.

  76. This makes me love the Moravian Brethren tho' I cannot agree with them in many of their principles.

  77. In the afternoon we reached Savannah, where we were lodged in the house which the Brethren who came a year ago have built in the town.

  78. I found the Brethren well, and looked with wonder at what they had accomplished, went with Toeltschig and Spangenberg to the garden, and also received letters from Herrnhut.

  79. Nitschmann and Dober spoke with several of the Brethren concerning their spiritual condition.

  80. His popularity had long since waned, in the face of his rigid insistance on ecclesiastical rules, and it was said "the Brethren alone can understand him, and remain in love with him.

  81. Far unlike him was one in former times, Famed for the spoil he gather'd by his crimes; Who, while his brethren nibbling held their prey, He like an eagle seized and bore the whole away.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brethren" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assembly; brethren; brother; bud; class; cousin; daughter; father; flock; fold; mother; nephew; niece; parish; people; sheep; sister; society; son; uncle