Ought Moritz to use his authority to prevent me from fulfilling my sisterly duty?
Do you think a man can content himself with sisterly letters when he is thirsting for loving words from beloved lips?
It was a sacrifice indeed to sisterly affection, this crushing down of her own proud nature.
Well might her brother love her with an almost unexampled love, this brightest example ofsisterly devotion!
In so far as her yearning solicitude, her sisterly devotion, her almost maternal advice could make it so, they were never indeed apart.
If Dorothy Wordsworth bears the palm for sisterly devotion and help, thereby crowning her brother's life with blessing, Charles Lamb stands before us the most signal example as the sharer and sustainer of a sister's lot of suffering.
Every tourist halting beneath the hoary yews of Grasmere Churchyard, and honouring the graves of the Wordsworth household, should first be versed in the biography of Dorothy Wordsworth and her sweet example of sisterly love.
Milicent, her sisterly pride overcoming, for the moment, all other considerations.
I'll go to church morning, afternoon, and evening, and comport myself in such a godly sort that she shall regard me with admiration and sisterly love, as a brand plucked from the burning.
She smiled a sisterly benison upon his request, and, still holding her hands, he leaned to her and kissed her.
They went, hand in hand, to a sofa, and there she was able to show him only the sisterly benignity that he knew so well.
Yet, instead of it came the promise of an almost sisterly friendship, which at the time seemed poor enough exchange, but which was yet a prize worth any man's having.
A drift of lazy smoke on the sea-rim ahead marks our rendezvous, where Titan and a sisterly tug-boat are already at work on the wreck.
The commodore of the sisterly pairs, a young lieutenant of Reserve, waves a cheery greeting as we pass.
Her pride approved his proposal, though hersisterly love would suffer, and she was anxious about the child; but dawning confidence was at the least a relief.
The smile of sisterly love and pride with which she enveloped him, must have pierced the vale of unconsciousness, for the lad stirred and smiled in his sleep.
I admire and--and respect your courage and sisterly devotion?
But it was a wonder that passed away with the hour, and ruffled not even the surface of our sisterly hearts.
Nothing could be more satisfactory, therefore, than that she should have become indifferent to the one, and have only a sisterly affection for the other.
She might not love him, but that was no reason why he should turn hersisterly affection into hate.
What I wished for was brotherly and sisterly affection, cordial companionship.
Her voice, for the first time for many a day, had a sisterly note in it that took Bertha by surprise.
How brotherly and sisterly the Hague has become this evening: it makes me feel quite sentimental!
She felt a deep pity and a sisterly affection for this poor, old woman, Bertha, who now lay feebly and impotently in her arms, begging .
Not that I at once met with any new and revised edition of Helene, handsomely bound; but true friendship came to heal the wound, and sisterly affection to take the place of love.
She's the dearest, sweetest, sisterly little body I ever met.
My little Sage, whom I have known from the day when she gave me first her innocent sisterly love, could not be untrue to the man she has promised to wed.
She seemed to take almost a sisterly interest in him, and occasionally wrote such a sweet little letter that he would reform his college life for a week thereafter.
She felt that she could act more naturally and composedly if alone with him, and at the same time show the almost sisterly regard through which she hoped to win him to his better self.
Her love for Harcourt was not sisterly at all, and how could she say that it was?
She was about to make some delicate allusion to the time when he often sought her sisterly advice.
My spirit is thy brother, thy soul is my sister; and so, change not, sisterly heart.
I see,' said Sir Jasper, with perhaps more comprehension of the antagonism than sisterly habit and affection would have allowed to his wife.
I throw you back your father's name, your father's wealth, your sisterly recognition.
I remember you snubbed me for suggesting that we might develop a sisterlyand brotherly affection for each other, but now I have discovered Yvonne, won't you be friends?
Sally knew herself sufficiently well to realize that the sisterly attitude would make but little appeal to her as long as she lived.
How old is this Mr. Hayes, on whom you have chosen to note the reactions of sisterly affection?
I've got up so much nice warm sisterly love for Dickie and Mr. Haley that I couldn't begin to love them in the right way now, I am afraid.
