Young brothers of the ancient guild, Stand forth once more together!
Deloney, 1678, gives the story of the princely and saintly brothers in its English dress, and it is one of the strangest tales even in legendary lore.
For several years his time was divided between nursing his younger brothers and sisters and running about the streets and getting into mischief.
The brothers at once agreed to take him under their care, find him in food and clothing, and teach him the craft of shoemaking until he should be able to obtain his own livelihood.
His own brothers held him in the greatest esteem, and felt the most generous and hearty pleasure in his literary success.
Undoubtedly the first shoemakers who obtained anything like a general reputation were the famous brothers Crispin and Crispianus, who are said to have lived in the third century of our era.
Until the age of twenty-two he was a shoemaker, and from the age of twenty supported his widowed mother and the younger members of the family, and found the means to enable two brothers to enter the ministry.
The two brothers were standing near the bank of the broad Mississippi River, just below the town of Shapette, in Louisiana.
The twobrothers ran along the wet and slippery bank of the river, which at this point sprawled out into almost a lake.
The brothers soon came in sight of Shapette,--a small settlement where half of the inhabitants were of French extraction.
Lots of times I knew you and your brothers were right and I was wrong.
When my brothers and I started to go to a boarding school called Putnam Hall, in New York State, we ran across this Baxter.
Even if I have to shove the piston rod myself," and at this remark both of his brothers had to laugh.
Both Meta and her brothers could row well, so the boat was soon skimming over the lake in a delightfully smooth and satisfactory fashion.
It was rather a problem how to pack themselves and the driver into it, but Lindsay sat on Meta's knee, and Rhoda squeezed herself between her two brothers on the front seat.
Evidently, it is they who have whispered into the ear of your wifes brothers that you were not a Bagdad merchant, but only the son of an Ispahan barber, and a sorry vender of little wares.
My brothers have their own interest in view when they would negotiate a husband for me, as if they would barter a sack of wool against bags of rice.
You must know that her brothers and relations are very proud; and if she were to make an unworthy alliance, they would treat her with the greatest harshness, and not fail to ill-treat if not to make away with her husband.
At last he told his wife to withdraw, but Baard signed to her to remain, and the two brothers began to speak together.
When this watch was put up at the sale there were many bids, until both the brothers began, and then others ceased.
That which the brothers had said to each other was soon known through the village, and Baard became the most esteemed man among them.
There was a tradition among the people, that in the olden time, twobrothers had climbed up and destroyed the nest; but now there was no one who could do it.
The Hansell brothers quietly looked on during these proceedings.
Many of Burke's earliest letters were written to a Richard Shackleton, the son of a Quaker at whose school Burke with his two brothers had been placed in 1741.
When I reach New York you shall hear what becomes of me; but, while I have health, it is indifferent to me (were it not for the pleasure of seeing you and my brothers and sisters) where I go.
The wages in this new position were so small that when I had paid for my room and meagre board, I had nothing left for the support of my brothers and sisters, who were still in dire poverty.
Though he was very feeble, I took him to Scotland with me to visit mybrothers and sisters; and there I left him.
I know, but I have brothers and sisters, and live with my father.
I should think she would be awfully happy to have so many brothers and sisters," remarked Marian.
I am afraid that is what Patty would have said, but she hasn't had the advantage of associating with only scholarly people like your grandparents, and so she talks as her brothers and sisters do.
She's the eldest, but she hasn't been away from home much because she's had to look after her younger brothers and sisters since her mother died.
However, the five cents did not go toward buying another Patty Wee, for when Patty told her brothers of the morning's adventure, they looked at each other knowingly, and a little later on plotted together in the shed.
His two sons filled the places of brothers to one who had none, and their young sister, lovely and modest as the violet of the valley, had won a yet dearer title to my affection.
There his brothers and sisters were born, there his father died, there Ethan lived until he was twenty-four years old.
You know it is good for my warriors and Indians too, to kill the Regulars, because they first began to kill our brothers in this country without cause.
Addressing the Indians constantly as brothers he appeals to their love of bush-fighting, and as regards the question of barter, to their love of rum.
In these towns the families of Ethan Allen and his brothers and sisters lived many years.
His only son is dead; his wife and four daughters are in Sunderland; two brothers have become state officers.
He kept an ineffaceable recollection of one of the travellers whose name was Isnel, because he stuffed him and his brothers with cakes and sweetmeats the whole of the journey.
And that is the strange story of these two brothers and the refusal of one of the most splendid crowns the world has to offer, and how Constantine remained simply the Czarovitch and Nicolas became the Emperor of All the Russias.
The two other brothers took up Tacitus in their turn, and gave an equal, if a not superior, proof of skill.
Little Victor and his twobrothers formed part of the besieging party.
I have told him you have been the best ofbrothers to me.
The brothers kissed each other good-by, and one went to Weimar to assist Schiller in editing a magazine that did not pay expenses, to bask in the sunshine of the great Goethe, and incidentally to secure a wife.
History does not supply another instance of two brothers attaining the intellectual height reached by Alexander and William von Humboldt.
But the wise man could see nothing and the belief was getting abroad that the machine was bewitched, or that their Yankee brothers had lawsonized the buyers, when our own David P.
He walked through the crowded streets of Neapolis with a song upon his lips, the idol of the girls, the pride of his brothers in arms.
Are we not brothers of one family--that of humanity?
My mother died early, and my brothers were killed by the Italians.
Without a sound the four men stepped into the ditch beside him, Witichis and Teja to his right, the two brothers to his left, and all five joined hands in a solemn chain.
I heard down south of Albuquerque that Thirsty Jones an' his brothers are lookin' for trouble," offered Pie.
As Hopalong neared the corner, Thirsty and his two brothers turned it and saw him.
The loss of elder brothers or sisters and the causes of death, with the precedent symptoms, should be carefully inquired into.
All the patients had lost in early life nearly half their brothers and sisters.
Footnote 2: That prepared by Fairchild Brothers & Foster of New York has proved the best in my hands.
In more than half the cases the previous history, especially as regards infancy, was one of hereditary syphilis, and in many instances there was a clear history of infantile syphilis in brothers or sisters.
At the end of two years, however, the brothers heard that better wages were being given, a couple of miles away, at Grandholm, up the river Don.
Both his brothers had died before him; and he left the whole of his considerable fortune to the Royal Academy in England.
Hitherto, Jack and his brothers had spoken nothing but Welsh; but at Liverpool he was put to school, and soon learned to express himself correctly and easily in English.
With the exception of two chiefs at Taheity, these were the tallest Indians I had ever seen; the two brothers being from three to four inches higher than my coxswain, who measured five feet eleven.
The Three Brothers lie from one to five miles behind the shore, at the eastern extremity of a range of high land, coming out of the interior country.
The land was then scarcely visible, but a north course brought us in with the Three Brothers (Atlas Plate IX.
As the young people, nothing loth, went out, the two brothers exchanged a few words, Gilbert asking Ernest if he knew of anything in the office that had upset their father.
The brothers now got into a hansom, and drove to Gilbert's chambers in the Temple.
When the brothers arrived in London, their first care was to take the half-million bag to their bank, where they deposited the money and left the bonds in the care of the manager.
The brothers met again late in the afternoon, and Ernest told Gilbert that he had taken a berth for him in this vessel, and, as it sailed on the morrow about noon, he must at once make preparations for leaving.
In silence the brothers passed into the train for London.
The brothers had discussed what was to be done in his case, and had decided that, though Bennet had given a discharge to the firm, yet he must be paid the value of the property, Beauclerk Mansions, which Silwood had sold.
But they were very kind to their little sisters, held them on so that they could not fall, and led Jess carefully and quietly: and altogether behaved as elder brothers should.
How bravely she set to work, and cut five of the biggest slices you ever saw, and gave them to her brothers and sisters, and was just going to take the sixth slice for herself, when she remembered the Brownie.
The brothers Antipholus and the brothers Dromio are so shuffled together by the juggler Chance, that we question if any personal identity will survive and reëmerge at the close.
Enter the two Brothers in their shirts, with spades, digging.
Come, brothers and my beauteous Delya, 865 Erestus, and thy deare Venelia: We will to Thessalie with joyfull hearts.
Little Carina Holt was the seventh in a family of eight brothers and sisters, but she grew to be six years old before it became generally known that she was a wonder child.
Her unusual goodness gave him a pang more painful than ever the bad behavior of her brothers had occasioned.
Now there were three brothers among those who followed Saul, Eliab, Abinadab and Shammah.
Whereupon the brothers went away, well content in that they had humbled the pride of Vukub.
Xelhua and his brothers came forth from their caves of refuge, the only living creatures, and by their arts peopled the earth with a new race, who were to be their servants.
Nevertheless, when they perceived that all on earth bowed in assent before these vain boasters, they stirred up against them the hearts of the marvellous twin brothers Hun-Apu and Xbalanque.
And the fourbrothers rejoice after the woes they have endured.
Yes, the Giant was ready to do that, and he turned the six brothers into king's sons again, and their brides into king's daughters.
Quickly the brothers descended, and ran to seize the groaning giant; but he grasped the arm of Hun-Apu with so fell a grip that he tore it completely away from the shoulder; whereupon they fled from him in haste.
Tell him, if he will restore to life again your six brothers and their brides, whom he has turned to stone, you will spare his life," said the Wolf.
Now, when he had made an end of the Giant, Boots rode back on the Wolf to the Giant's house, and there stood all his six brothers alive and merry, with their brides.
Korinna's wealthy father and his brothers were among the best-known men of the city.
The eldest, having married a Spanish American lady of the place, had lately built himself a magnificent mansion, and one of his brothersresided with him.
The Belgian exhibit contains also one of those immense paper-machines invented by the brothers Fourdrinier about fifty years ago, and now used almost universally for the best class of machine-made papers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brothers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
