She bore one son, Calyste, to whom she was more like an elder sister.
Dorothea had decided to be "elder sister" to the best of her ability.
Father and aunt made me go to school, and all the time I was counting on when I should leave, and be an elder sister.
I've to be an elder sister," said Dot, with a sudden thought towards Mona Parbury.
And then for the first time it occurred to Dorothea that she herself was an elder sister, that she was the eldest of five, and that infinite possibilities lay before her.
Therefore I wish for a short time to go to the Plain of High Heaven and meet with my elder sister (Ama-terasu), after which I will go away for ever.
I am surprised that my elder sister should, on the contrary, put on so stern a countenance.
But as, in obedience to the stern behest of our parents, I am about to depart for ever to the Nether-Land, how could I bear to depart without having seen face to face thee my elder sister?
D'Elsac could not so easily distinguish her companion, though she was evidently an elder sister, and she, too, wore the Norman costume.
I could never fancy that I should have to take precedence of an elder sister," she said, "and then Felicie Durand is so charming a person that I assure you I felt it no little compliment to be chosen in the trial with her and Caliste.
This dispute of mutual deference continued for a whole year, during a part of which time the administration was carried on by Princess Awo, elder sister of Woke.
He married his wife's elder sister to the ex-Emperor, Go-Shirakawa, and the fruit of this union was a prince who subsequently ascended the throne as Takakura.
She took the parcel from her elder sister's hands as she spoke, and, without wasting time in more words, gave her a gentle little push toward the staircase.
The same sort of elder sister, I think, as the nursery-maid is to the Life Guardsman!
Day and night she took care of him, and every evening Miss Li came in to render assistance, regarding Lien-hsiang as an elder sister, and being treated by her with great consideration and kindness.
And my mother had decreed to send my elder sister away to England, thinking that the vicinity of so much sickness might be injurious to her.
My elder sister married, and had children, of whom one still lives; but she was one of the four who followed each other at intervals during my mother's lifetime.
A man must not marry his wife's younger sister if she is the widow of a member of his own sept nor his elder brother's widow if she is his wife's elder sister.
A man may not marry his wife's elder sister but he can take her younger one in her lifetime.
More important is it for the whole development of the character and for the making of the worthiest womanhood that an elder sister is provided with an environment in which her maternal instinct can grow and grow in grace.
It is a good thing to be an elder sister, not merely because the girl has opportunities of learning the ways of babies and the details of their needs, but for a far deeper reason.
Mala, the rather stolid-looking little girl to the right of the photograph, is Seela's elder sister.
Farther on the road lives my elder sister; maybe she knows.
Before thee on the road lives my elder sister,--mayhap she knows; she has answer-givers.
A Japanese providence always provides a Nesan, or elder sister, for persons desiring to entertain.
Perhaps she was older than Mr. Buxton, but she was sure she didn't look it and she had no intention of being designated as his "elder sister.
The others smiled at this droll notion but there was something rather touching, too, about the simple title of elder sister or Nesan for this efficient and reliable individual who took all the burdens on her own shoulders.
The Biloxi distinguishes between an elder sister’s son and the son of a younger sister, and so between the daughter of an elder sister and a younger sister’s daughter.
At such times she might hide an elder sister--one on the pursuit of some slight dole--in a small back bedroom, far from sight and hearing.
At least, the feminine members of the family were there: the mother, and an elder sister.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elder sister" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
