One night in particular, when we felt the air rather too cool for sleeping on the ground, my brother and I, with three of the settlers, solicited permission of a Canadian farmer to lie on the floor of his kitchen.
On hearing this awful intelligence, I immediately set off to meet my brother and his companions.
On the ninth day of our amphibious journey my brother and I with several of the settlers, for the sake of a little variety, left the boat, and walked a few miles along the shore of the St. Lawrence.
Sir Sidney's present appointment was a mixture of diplomacy with a naval command; for he was appointed joint-plenipotentiary with his brother Spencer Smith, then our minister at Constantinople.
He instantly sent a large military force, with his brother at its head, to punish the governor.
In fact, Johnny Armstrong "did not know his place," and treated the king too much like a brother freebooter, of a higher standing than himself.
The brother who had planned his death was hurled from the throne, and till Abu Said's death Granada did not want an ally.
When the natives of Gibraltar revolted, and declared allegiance to Fez, the sultan of that State sent his brother Abu Said to secure the town.
Gibraltar by his allies the Moroccans, was succeeded in 1333 by his brother Yusuf I.
If a chronicler is to be believed, he threw his brother Enrique's young daughter naked to the lions, like some Christian virgin martyr.
The doomed man asked leave to finish the game of chess in which he was engaged, and before either player could cry "Checkmate," the news came that the prince's brother was dead and that he had been declared sultan.
He was succeeded in that office by his brother Isidore, a much better man than he, and renowned as a doctor of the Church and writer on things generally.
She was widow of Guy of Chatillon, count of St. Pol, brother to Maud.
This same year Jesus formed the college of his apostles, into which he adopted St. James and his brother St. John.
But that prince putting on the Benedictin habit, his brother and successor Astulphus broke the treaty.
So brother Francis taught his brethren to be faithful and diligent in laboring, and to take for their wages not money, but necessary subsistence.
His brother Andrew coming to see him, the saint spoke to him with such energy on the vanity of the world, and on the advantages of piety, that his words left a deep impression on his heart during his whole life.
Athelstan dying in 941, left the crown to his brother Edmund, at that time only eighteen years of age.
After this, Wulfere and hisbrother and successor Ethelred, abolished idols over all Mercia.
The presence of Jesus brings every blessing and comfort; and, by it, the sisters had the joy to see their brother again restored to life when he had been four days in the grave.
St. James the Great seems to have been born about twelve years before Christ, and was many years older than his brother St. John.
We owe infinitely more to Christ than any brother can owe to us: the least venial sin is an immense debt.
Assyria's yoke was shaken off; various pretenders started up; a son of Sargon and brother of Sennacherib re-established Assyrian influence for a brief space; but fresh revolts followed.
Ignoring the grace of the One who was priced, By daily oppression they crucify Christ, And turn a deaf ear to the spirit that cried, Shall the weak brother perish for whom the Lord died?
Brother Leonardo, a Japanese who had been imprisoned for three years, and four others, were burned with him.
Next came the standard of the immaculate conception, carried by Don Luis Faxardo, a student and a brother of the governor.
The little brother and sister were such agreeable children, that they were soon known and loved by all their small neighbors.
Each morning, directly after breakfast, Johnnie Jones and Little Brother would go down to the field where Fanny and the horses lived, taking with them an apple or some sugar.
Little Brother was with them, and while the others were gathering the flowers, he toddled away, and lay down in the tall grass.
Little Brother and Johnnie Jones Little brotherwas a merry baby with a smile for everyone.
Fanny and Little Brother One day, Elizabeth came with her mother to spend the day in the country with Mrs. Jones and the little boys.
One day they were playing "I Spy," and Little Brotherwas hiding.
Little Brother had forgotten he was playing "I Spy.
The Coming of Little Brother Almost all of the children who attended the kindergarten where Johnnie Jones spent his mornings, had a baby brother or sister at home.
It certainly is a good thing," Mother said, "that he has a big brother to take care of him.
As Johnnie Jones leaned down to see, the Little Brother opened his eyes wide, and looked at him.
It was the evening before St. Valentine's day and the brother and sister were sitting by the fire, talking together.
The only comfort he could offer to this stricken household was that HE knew how bad they felt, having had a brother who had died with equal suddenness and also without hope, as he "had suosode hisself with a gun.
Sometimes when I think how my brother Jake trains up his childern!
Then you send him a little engraved invitation to amalgamate with you; and when he answers, per the self-addressed envelope inclosed, you are to love him like a brother for the next three and a half years.
This morning a gosling from the old school--a Sophomore--came in and visited with me for a few minutes, on the strength of the fact that he knew my baby brother in high school.
Nay, sirs, because none of us shall have preheminence above other, We will sing in fellowship together, like brother and brother.
God save you, brother in Christ: are you towards the king?
I have heard it said, there is no hate Like to a brother or sister's, if they fall at debate.
There is dissimulation between neighbour and neighbour, friend and friend, one with another, Between the servant and his master, between brother and brother.
Truly, brother in Christ, I cannot afford it of the price; A must let my house to live, I ask no gains.
Thy brother here, I say, thou seest him stricken dumb, And, as this learned man declares by magic it is done.
O yes, sir, your arms were known a great while ago, For your elder brother Deceit did give those arms too.
My father now and brother both adieu: Unkind to her, most kind that you should be, I leave them all, my dear, to come to thee.
It would be easier to explain their escapade to twenty Canons than to one brother, even when it was a favourite brother like Kit.
Mrs. Crofton of Crofts smiled, and her brother pulled his daughter down between them on the sofa.
Before she went off, however, she shot one more question at her brother in her most abrupt manner.
We've scored one against him at last, though,' her brother was saying, in a voice that seemed suddenly to have gone a long way off.
Was it the promise of reconciliation with his brother that made him say at dawn, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is saved"?
It was here, along this shore, that He found Simon and his brother Andrew casting their net, and James and his brother John mending theirs, and called them to come with Him.
And what more fitting guardian for it than the Order of that loving Saint Francis, who called the sun and the moon his brother and his sister and preached to a joyous congregation of birds as his "little brothers of the air"?
On the morrow Jacob was to meet his fierce and powerful brother Esau, whom he had wronged and outwitted, from whom he had stolen the birthright blessing twenty years before.
Another girl of about ten years carries her baby-brother in her arms.
Therefore open the door of thy heart and bid me welcome: In this tent of the world I will be thy brother of the bread: And when thou farest forth I will be thy companion forever.
Good luck to you, my Egyptian brother of the angle!
Was it the unexpected friendliness and gentleness of that brother in the encounter of the morning that inspired Jacob's cry, "I have seen thy face as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me"?
His younger brother has run away from the family tent among the pastures of Gilead, seeking his fortune in the wide world.
Yes, surely, my brown son of Esau; and we will not inquire too closely whether you are really running after your brother or running away yourself.
Mrs. Lister was within hearing and her morbid attitude toward the memory of her brother was doubtless known to her friends.
She said that she had been persecuted by John Bates, then sinking into debauchery, and that your brother had protected her.
He wishes, strangely enough, mother, to ask you about some literary work of your brother Basil's.
The vacant place opposite Cora belonged to her brother Walter, or, as he preferred to sign himself, W.
Basil Everman was the brother of the wife of your college president; he grew up in this town, a person of extraordinary mind; he died.
You will understand, I am sure, how gladly she would furnish you with information if it would in the slightest degree give her brother that fame for which he probably longed.
Miss Thomasina told me some days ago that you, Mrs. Lister, have been misled by several coincidences into thinking that Eleanor Bent was the daughter of your brother Basil.
She never had a brother or a child, she has had no experience.
He says that your brother sent to his magazine many years ago some remarkable compositions which they published anonymously.
As a little girl, she had come with her two companions, her brother Basil and Thomasina Davis, to steal short peeps at the tank in which they could easily have been drowned.
Tweet, tweet; all is burned down, and our strong brother with it.
They were not brotherand sister, but they loved each other almost as much as if they had been.
His father and mother both died in 1126, and as his elder brother Conrad had entered the church, Henry became duke of Bavaria and shared the family possessions in Saxony, Bavaria and Swabia with his younger brother, Welf.
John of Hastings bore in 1300 before Carlaverock "Gold a sleeve (or maunche) gules," while Edmund his brother bore the same arms with a sable label.
Beaufort and his brother Henry, bishop of Winchester, were opposed to Arundel and supported by the prince of Wales.
In 1536 Henry, hitherto duke of Orleans, became dauphin by the death of his elder brother Francis.
Passionately enamoured of the princess of Conde, he set out reluctantly to Warsaw, but, on the death of his brother Charles IX.
Constance died in 1034, and the rebel brother Robert was given the duchy of Burgundy, thus founding that great collateral line which was to rival the kings of France for three centuries.
He was the fifth son of Sir Richard Herbert and a brother of Lord Herbert of Cherbury.
Henry sought to dislodge them, but aided by their elder brother Henry, who had been made duke of Bavaria in 1004, they held their own in a desultory warfare in Lorraine.
Beth's impulse was to throw the note at him, but she restrained herself on her brother Jim's account.
There was snow on the ground when her brother Jim was with her in the wash-house, making horse-hair snares to catch birds.
Beth's brother Jim, when he came home that summer, also began to introduce her to his young men friends in the neighbourhood, so that very soon Beth had quite a little court about her on the pier when the band played.
They looked quite small, and Beth did not think there was room in any of them for her mother and brother and sister.
And I do think that is rather your line, Beth; and what greater good can you do to begin with than help your brother on in the world?
Your brother Jim says you can act anything," Charlotte Hardy, the doctor's daughter, told Beth.
The others took it for granted that Beth could have nothing to say for herself, and her brother Jim was especially indignant and insulting, his opinion of her being couched in the most offensive language.
She was Angelica Hamilton-Wells, and she and her brother were called the Heavenly Twins.
The doctor's brotherdied of cancer, and Beth supposed he had been naughty and kissed old Krangle, though she wondered he cared to, as Krangle had a very prickly chin.
And our good brother Andrew Rous thought no harm of your keeping the book, my daughter?
My brother 'n yo' brotherboth daid an' gone, Po' sinner man he so hard to believe.
In 1866 Tchaikovsky became professor of the history and theory of music at the Moscow Conservatory, which had just then been founded by Nicholas Rubinstein, a brother of Anton.
His mother and brother were forced to return to Moscow.
His father was a retired army officer and not particularly well off, but his mother’s brother was fairly wealthy, and often when the Glinkas had an entertainment this brother lent them a small private band which he kept up.
In 1849 Moussorgsky and hisbrother were taken to Petrograd, where they were entered in the military cadet school, for the boy was intended for the army.
They could not, after having loved each other as they had loved, look upon each other in the light of brother and sister, and as their union was impossible, they agreed that it would be better to part at once and for ever.
You remember him, gentlemen--my brother antiquary, formerly a member of our club.
Now, this stratagem was discovered by the brother of Miss von Hammelstengel, an officer in the army.
They might well have been brother and sister, though the hair of Edith was dark and her eyes a deep grey.
At present, my brother gnomes, we have a great work before us; our wants must be satisfied, and we must adopt the means to satisfy them.
He added that his eldest brother had taken a tremendous fancy to her and that during a recent visit at Coldfield she had nearly won over Lady Maddock.
In short I think we were all happier as well as poorer before; even including George Gravener, who by the deaths of his brother and his nephew has lately become Lord Maddock.
Evidently she felt that her passage-at-arms with her brother was ended.
That the minister would come promptly was certain, and there would be opportunity for testing the fidelity of his brother deacons to the duty of visiting the sick and afflicted.
The person lacking, not in knowledge, but in moral sense, was the one whom the wise man called a fool, and there were moments when Katharine Saxon appeared to her brother to be so wanting in this respect as to come fairly under the title.
There was almost a hungry look in her eyes as they searched the bright young face, and her brother had not inquired more eagerly than she for the particulars of the trip.
And then they clasped hands and beamed at each other for a minute like brother and sister.
Esther had risen, and looking down at her brother with an affectionate smile.
She had been facing herbrother as she talked, but she turned toward Esther with the last words.
Thus I have heard old Indians say more than fifty years ago, that when their brother Miquon spoke to their forefathers, they were of such an age or size, they could catch butterflies, or hit a bird with the bow and arrow.
About three weeks ago they found out his camp, and immediately sent his brother to him (who was one of their party) with a piece of bark, on which they had painted a tomahawk, as a token of his death!
Never will the Delawares forget their elder brother Miquon, as they affectionately and respectfully call him.
