Among the very limited number was a young girl who had left the Fatherland when quite young, and had been educated by an older brother, since dead.
For an older brother, Enoch, the plan was formed of sending him to college to prepare for the ministry, a custom then prevalent among many of the large and prosperous families in New England.
An older brother, John, had married Alice Adams's elder sister Sarah, and the mother and sister of Alice thought that she should not wait four or five years for Nathan.
An older brother came to my aid in this way: he told me to go to town and see the blacksmith there and see if I could not sell some charcoal to him for traps, and he, (my brother) would help me burn the coal.
It was not an uncommon thing for my older brother to kill a deer at this lick any morning or evening, but that was not making a nimrod of me.
And perhaps, sir--I say perhaps this would be correct--she did not know myself and my older brother John at that particular time to any extent.
To my knowledge I don't remember any time he went hunting with myself or my older brother John.
I would say this would also apply to my older brother John, and also to Lee.
To this extent: On Sunday night November 24, with the help of the Secret Service, I was able to reach my older brother John by telephone.
John's older brother, William, had gone to America, and his uncle George had ceased working for the Earls of Selkirk because he had saved enough money to go to America.
As James Franklin, an older brother, had learned the printing business in England and had set up an office in Boston, Ben was put with him to learn the printer's trade.
He had not been long at school before a seat-mate brought to school some paints and brushes belonging to an older brother.
If there was an older brotheror sister there they had to take care of the younger child.
Well, prior to this particular incident, I would consider us the best of friends as far as older brother-younger brother relationship.
Said "He is OK, but he doesn't have a brother, an older brother to talk to or no one to do anything with.
He had fallen into a way of thinking of himself as a sort of older brother to all the world because he was a sort of older brother to Sidney.
And pride would not allow the older brother to show how he missed the early days.
Thomas and Catherine had an older brother, who did not appear with them that morning.
She had opened her pious heart like a trusting sister to an older brother, and what he had seen there was something unusual--things which had appeared sacred to him even when a child.
His present master's older brother, whose health had always been delicate, being unable to follow the profession of arms, was on the eve of departing to attend the university at Paris, accompanied by the chaplain and an equerry.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "older brother" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
