No more than in playing brother and sister when you are papa and mamma.
On the other hand, I should like to have a declaration from you, here in the presence of your friends, that you don't think either me or my sister capable of such a meanness as to send the police after Mademoiselle Henriette.
My sister has asked me to give you this package as an answer to your letter.
If I could do it," said she, "I would give up this place, and go and live with my sister in the country.
His sister was preparing breakfast, and happening not to be in the room, his mother repeated her anxious inquiries with an accent of more earnest solicitude.
Walkinshaw, and he took hissister and Ellen by the hands.
Well, if it comes to that, I don't say it is my sisterin that room!
But," said Lord George, detaining Sir Hilary, "your sister is here.
If the lady in that room isn't she, then my sister is an honest girl, and doesn't deserve the least doubt against her reputation.
My sister speaks of a miniature portrait of our mother, who is dead.
Sir Hilary must often have heard his sister speak of her friend, Celestine Thorpe," said that lady, who also seemed not entirely at ease.
Sir Hilary doubtless knows what inn his sister lodged at last night.
The Frenchman bowed thanks and held out his hand to lead his sister to the coach; but she stood reluctant, and said: "But the portrait, Gerard!
This fact did not make his lordship's reply any sweeter, and the upshot of their brief but swift verbal passage was that Sir Hilary departed in high dudgeon, saying he would find his sister and start for home at once.
The marriage had been arranged by her father, an officer of the regiment of Picardy, whose sister was the old lady now taking her to Paris.
I don't say the landlord wasn't right, and that mysister didn't leave this inn yesterday.
You can decide for yourself this evening, if your ferocious sister will allow you to leave your room.
Her sister hed on a black silk to the funerel to ride to the grave in; I guess they are well-to-do.
Becky didn't seem ter get strong ez she did afore, an' her sister up an' left her sooner 'en she oughter.
She was Mr. Solander's sister and the widow of Captain Dupont of the French Navy.
Ergolskii (see note 19), and Pelageya Ilinishna Yushkov, the sisterof L.
B] I will write to my sister to send me this information, and I will let you have it.
Soon after the examination I began writing a story, taking as the heroines myself and my sister Tanya, and calling her Natasha.
A great comfort to me at the time was the presence of my sister Tatyana Andreevna Kuzminskii, and of Leo Nikolaevich's cousin, Varvara Valeryanovna Nagornaya.
Before going Sister Mary Thomas placed a crucifix and a pair of beads in his hands.
Bill also remembered how every day the Sister had had the whole class say one "Hail Mary" for those who were in temptation.
It was the Dunn boy whom the Sister had pointed out, as she told him the little incident.
The Sister one day had said to the boys that they should always live in such a way that they should be glad God was looking at them.
Afterwards, he told the Sister about it, only he made it ten times worse than it was.
So, when the boys got into their school rooms again, he tried to tell the Sister that two fellows had thrown him down in the yard.
That afternoon Father Boone, passing through the school after class, stopped to talk to the Sister in the vestibule.
Now every mother and sister and--yes--every father would want to know why this treat was cancelled.
We were told that Sultan Salàh of Shibahm had lost his head wife, the sister of Manassar of Makalla, but had consoled himself by marrying four others about two months afterwards, and had divorced two of them already.
B: It was forbidden to marry one's sister in Rome.
It was allowed among the Egyptians, the Athenians and even among the Jews, to marry one's sister on the father's side.
Etta had not yet confided to her elder sister her new hopes, purposes, and feelings.
Etta's eyes filled with glad tears, while her sister added the sixteenth name to the list, and she clasped the hard, red hand with a feeling of sisterhood, for which she could hardly account.
Eric understood her, and even Alfred respected his sister the more for what he could not understand.
She was shy with the boys at first, but soon came to show them the same sisterly feeling that their sister did.
For to her, her sister always seemed the little child whom her dead mother had confided to her care.
It was a new thing for them to have any common interest, and Eunice hailed it as a good omen that her sister should consult with her about anything.
Helen Felting by name, "Miss Etta isn't a Christian, and she's her own sister and three or four years older than we are.
But, seriously, I trust my little sister will never be tired of the blessed service and fellowship into which she has been so recently admitted.
I think we may join in the joy of the angels in the presence of God over the one sinner that repenteth," said Miss Eunice, as her sister finished this long and evidently earnest letter.
It appears that the Major, with a maiden sister who had kept his house, was subject to fits of melancholic lunacy, an infirmity easily reconcilable with the formal pretences which he made to a high show of religious zeal.
His sister employs the wizard to take off the spell according to his profession; and here is damnum minatum, et malum secutum, and all legal cause for burning a man to ashes!
The remains of the house in which he and his sister lived are still shown at the head of the West Bow, which has a gloomy aspect, well suited for a necromancer.
The result of his lordship's vigil is said to have been that he heard the noises without being able to detect the causes, and insisted on his sister giving up the house.
Congreve's picture of a man like Foresight, the dupe of astrology and its sister arts, was then common in society.
Before leaving the subject of fairy superstition in England we may remark that it was of a more playful and gentle, less wild and necromantic character, than that received among the sister people.
Here lies also Mary Oxenham, the sister of the said John, who died the next day, and the said apparition was seen in the room.
I was five weeks at Oxford, visiting the Cowells in just the same way that I am visiting my Sister here.
Those to his little sister Fanny are also charming in their way, though the peculiar and very happy mixture of life and literature to be found in the others does not, of course, occur in them.
For it has been told me that Count Ralph of Peronne has a certain marriageable sister who, as has been reported to me and her own people, would be a suitable wife for my son.
My sister should more properly have done it, but she having failed, I consider myself answerable for her debts.
The truth is however I am come here by way of Visit to a sister I have scarce seen these six years; my visit consisting in this that I live alone in a lodging of my own by day, and spend two or three hours with her in the Evening.
Fanny Kemble had a sister Adelaide, afterwards Mrs. Sartoris, with whom everything appears to have gone right: but with herself it "seemed otherwise to the Gods.
My sister Nellie and I wrote a letter some months ago for the Post-office Box, but it was not published.
I have two dear little brothers, Luddie and Charlie, and the sweetest little sister six months old.
He loves mamma, and will follow her anywhere for bread, of which he is very fond; but he likes sister Mary best of all.
When my little sister has a piece of bread in her hand, and he sees her, he comes and takes it away from her, and will then run and hide.
Here are fifty cents out of my bank for the Harper's Young People's Cot, and mamma sends two dollars for my little sister who is dead.
My sister Annie and I started for school two weeks ago.
There are on this Coast two ships such as you describe--sister ships and just what the doctor ordered.
I'd like to know what the devil Cappy Ricks wants of my Unicorn when he's got her infernal sister squatting in the mud of Oakland Creek?
The gentle sisterof the cruel sons Of Pallas shared not in their perfidy; Why should you hate such charming innocence?
To guide your doubtful steps within the maze My sister would have arm'd you with the clue.
Thwackum was encouraged to the undertaking by reflecting that to covet your neighbour's sister is nowhere forbidden: and he knew it was a rule in the construction of all laws, that "Expressum facit cessare tacitum.
As there is truth in heaven," cries she, "your sister was the mother of that child you found between your sheets.
He told her "Her sister would be soon very well again; that by taking on in that manner she would not only make her sister worse, but make her mother ill too.
She began to make many apologies to her sister Abigail for leaving her alone in so horrid a place as an inn; but the other stopt her short, being as well inclined to a nap as herself, and desired the honour of being her bedfellow.
Soon after Jones had left Mr Western in the manner above mentioned, his sister came to him, and was presently informed of all that had passed between her brother and Sophia relating to Blifil.
I believe, break her heart at the miseries with which she sees her sister and myself distracted, while she is ignorant of the cause.
She used my sister so barbarously, often upbraiding her with her birth and poverty, calling her in derision a gentlewoman, that I believe she at length broke the heart of the poor girl.
Flaxie wished he and her sister Julia--or Ninny, as she called her--could stay with her all the time.
And, with that, he fell asleep, holding little sister by the hand.
But, Tommy, that was where my sister Flaxie got 'most drowned.
He gave his little sister his hand; and she led him along Elm Street and up the hill to the cemetery.
But you never saw your sister Abby,' said mother; 'she died before you were born.
Her sister Lucy is very different from you," said Ninny, taking Rose into her arms, in a motherly way.
The next summer after this, when Flaxie was "going on seven years old," she and sister Ninny and Lucy Abbott made a bargain with Mrs. Prim to pick strawberries for her at three cents a box.
What's the need of my going to school, when I have a little sister at home that knows so much?
Well, my sister Ninny says so; and she studies hist'ry.
Her mother and her sister Floy met her at the door, not knowing what had happened.
How did Preston feel when his dear sister slowly opened her blue eyes?
For the sake of the sister I was friendly with the brothers.
The sister lay back stone-dead in her chair, while the two brothers sat on each side of her laughing, shouting, and singing, the senses stricken clean out of them.
His two brothers and his sister were seated round the table exactly as he had left them, the cards still spread in front of them and the candles burned down to their sockets.
Little Frances was crying; her sister Mary hearing her sobs, ran in haste to inquire what had happened; and saw her sitting in a corner of the nursery, looking rather sulky, as if she had recently received some disappointment.
Countless pyramids, obelisks and urns, rising far and wide above the cedars and cypresses, showed the extent of the splendid necropolis, which is inhabited by pale, shrouded emigrants from its livingsister below.
Mrs. Begg, sister of the Poet, with her daughters, stood by the Countess of Eglintoun.
You must have thought me awfully rude," Arthur Grenvil said cordially, "but my sister had told you the reason.
And here he was with a sister he plainly adored, looking with a sort of shy good nature at the stranger.
And there was Lady Polruan sister of Willoughby Maitland.
So it was Maitland's sister who had dubbed him an American adventurer and indirectly warned the earl against the danger of having him on such intimate terms!
Langley's mother, it seemed, was the Lady Dorothea Grenvil daughter of the ninth, and sister of the present Earl of Rosecarrel.
He is a near relative and, in fact, a son of the sister of Caius Calvisius, my old companion and a friend too of yours.
She obeyed her doctor's orders, she cheered her sister and father, and when her body had lost all its strength, she kept herself alive by the vigour of her mind.
O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play!
Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother; And, in the churchyard cottage, I Dwell near them with my mother.
In my sister Paula's journal I have an almost daily account of that period, with frequent reference to political events, but it is not my task to write a history of the Berlin revolution.
One of the dearest friends of my sister Paula and of our family knew more of me, unfortunately, at this time than I of her.
People believed so positively that the difficulty would be adjusted, that in the forenoon of the 18th my mother sent my eldest sister Martha to her drawing-lesson, which was given at General Baeyer's, in the Friedrichstrasse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sister" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
