They sang and they shouted and they exchanged witticisms of the most poignant, and comported themselves like their brothers and sisters over the seas--the 'Arries and 'Arriets of the older world.
Christian workers was held at Chambers' Presbyterian Church, when he addressed about 1,400 brethren and sisters in Christ for an hour and a half, with great help from the Lord, and on the morning of Dec.
On the afternoon of the 4th we went to Die Enge, a Hall on the side of a steep hill at Berne, where 150 brethren and sisters in the Lord had been invited by Col.
But we are in Egypt, where marriages between brothers and sisters are pleasing to gods and men; and besides, we make our own moral laws here.
As marriages between brothers and sistershad been customary from ancient times, and were sanctioned by religion and myth, he had married the second Arsinoe, his sister, immediately after the banishment of the first Queen of this name.
For that he first used as a model the fair-haired Heliodora, whom he summoned from Alexandria, and as the wild cat could endure the loneliness only a fortnight, the sisters Nico and Pagis came together.
But you must not think she was prying or too inquisitive; she was really a very good woman, and very fond of her family, which was composed entirely of brothers and sisters and nephews and nieces.
Her parents and her two sisters had gone out, and we had the parlor to ourselves.
Mr. Murray and his handsome sisters will long be remembered as model hotel-keepers.
Instead of losing the charms of women by giving public expression to their love of the beautiful in all its forms, they but add one more indescribable charm which their less fortunate sisters can never hope to attain.
Your mother and all your sisters are willing to follow his example; return to us, my son.
Your sisters wish you to come; all your friends are willing to receive you; we will not upbraid you.
On the 16th of July she was a worshipper with her brethren and sisters there, and on the evening of the 30th they were called to consider her by faith as in the immediate presence of her God, among "the spirits of the just made perfect.
Jesus wept with the two sistersover a brother's grave.
She did all these things in the hope that she might one day be considered worthy to join the order of Sisters of the Blessed Dominic.
While she was still sick she begged her parents to intercede with the Sisters of Penance and learn if they would not admit her to their order as a novice.
But she thought over it much of the time until she finally decided that it meant she was to lead a different sort of life from that of her brothers and sisters and playmates.
Giacomo and Lapa, now realizing that their extraordinary daughter would be happy in no other kind of life, went to the Sisters with this request.
They were told that it was contrary to all the customs of the Sisters to admit young girls.
Stooping down Mrs. Burney kissed her stepdaughter, and then left the sisters alone.
Her joy soon brought back her health, and shortly she was able to be out again, and to take the vows required of one who entered the Order, or the Mantellate, as the Sisters were called from the black mantle which they habitually wore.
She talked so earnestly that the Sisters were convinced, and as a result agreed a little later that she should be admitted to their number.
Her married sisters now had large families of their own, and Catherine delighted to care for the little children.
The parents pleaded, and finally some of the Sisters agreed to go to Benincasa's house to see his daughter.
She had never learned this at home, but now she asked one of the Sisters to teach her the alphabet, and when she had learned that, she set to work to learn to read.
Catherine worked day and night, encouraging the other Sisters to do likewise, going into the most infected parts of the city, and with never a thought for her own safety.
T is thy part, Io, to do these a favor, As well for every other reason, and as they aresisters of thy father.
Well, I took the child to the house, where my good mother and sisters went wild over him, and there he passed a happy boyhood.
I wish I could remember," he muttered musingly to himself, "which of those sisters this bit of cambric belonged to, marked with an E.
The result of the deliberation was that True Blue promised to consult his friends on the subject; and Elmore wound up by saying, "At all events, you must come up with me to see my mother and sisters in London.
The sisters quarrelled among themselves as all sisters will, and sometimes quarrelled with Cynthia.
This matter had been arranged between the sisters before supper.
I might have known that you were Kentuckians, and I shall advise the good sisters to put glass on the wall and keep a watch.
But Mr. Hopper did not contribute a horse, nor even a saddle-blanket, to the young men who went away secretly in the night, without fathers or mothers or sisters to wave at them.
Up and down the grassy streets flowed the promenade, proud fathers and mothers, and sweethearts and sisters and wives in gala dress.
Honora paused in the spring twilight to contemplate the house, which stood out incongruously from its sombre, brownstone brothers and sisterswith noisy basement kitchens.
Nor was it etiquette for a judge to lay his own hands in chastisement on contemptuous persons, though Justice at Danville had more compassion than her sisters in older communities upon human failings.
On that estate stood the cottage where John Paul was born, and where his mother and sisters still dwelt.
His brothers and sisters were men and women of parts, but they were undisciplined in language and behavior: their natural appetites were never concealed, nor their tongues bridled.
In the first place, the domestic life of the Bonapartes was carefully accented by the presence of the First Consul's wife and of his sisters with their families.
Already his brothers and sisters were organized for the enterprise of exploiting their relationship, and already they were rash in their claims.
A few nights later news of Bonaparte's landing was brought to his sisters in their box at the theater.
Each of the sisters leaned a little forward to speak, shook her head after speaking, and became upright again when silent.
The best of all was, that, in the midst of their exactions, all the sisters had a great tenderness and respect both for Sophy and Traddles.
Also, that she had no other relations than two aunts, maiden sisters of Mr. Spenlow, who lived at Putney, and who had not held any other than chance communication with their brother for many years.
Then, one day, the Jackal's wife invited her six sisters to come and pay her a visit.
After a while the three Princes who were seeking their sisters came to pass the night at one of these inns.
When the other sisters heard this they rushed to snatch the comb from her, but Jack threw them backwards so very roughly that their husbands sprang at him.
Her sisters made a grab to snatch it from her, but Jack shoved them back, and went out.
The other twosisters grabbed to get the tablecloth from her but Jack put out his hands and pushed them back.
He had three sisters and one brother; also a cousin whom his father, who was a dentist by profession, had adopted.
I was a very easy prey to being teased, perhaps because I laid myself open to it by my defenceless condition, and neither Madame Lebègue nor hersisters spared me.
Earl's Court or Kensington Manor we traced to the threesisters of the last Earl.
And on this account, even when the world was full of people, though they did not choose wives from among their sisters or half-sisters, yet they preferred them to be of the same stock as themselves.
But Adam in his single person was obliged to hold both relations to his sons and daughters, for brothers and sisters were united in marriage.
But there was then no material for effecting this, since there were no human beings but the brothers and sisters born of those two first parents.
Rebecca was again discoursing eloquently of the installation; it was so much easier to speak of general subjects, and the sisters had evidently been longing to hear some news.
The sisters tugged together and pushed, and made the most of their strength before they finally brought it through the narrow door into the kitchen.
The Knowles sisters looked more stern and gray hour by hour; their vengeance was not to be satisfied; their accusation had been listened to and found wanting, but their instinctive knowledge of the matter counted for nothing.
Then the sisters crossed the kitchen and opened the bedroom door.
The sisters had hardly dared look at the chest or to signify their knowledge of its existence, at unwary times.
The Knowles sisters never had worn silk gowns and they never would.
There was a solemn hush in the house; the two sisters were safe from their neighbors, and there was no fear of interruption at such an hour in that hard-working community, tired with a day's work that had been early begun.
The sisters had been rich for one night; in the morning they waked to find themselves poor with a bitter pang of poverty of which they had never dreamed.
The occasion was nearly ended by this time: the borrowed chairs were being set out in the yard in little groups; even the funeral supper had been eaten, and the brothers and sisters and near relatives of the departed man were just going home.
The eager sisters bent above the chest, they held their breath and talked in softest whispers.
There was silence for a moment after this unusual sound; then one of the Bray sisters opened the door.
She had talked incessantly, and buzzed like a busy bee as she helped to put away the best crockery after the funeral supper, while the sisters Betsey and Hannah Knowles grew every moment more forbidding and unwilling to speak.
At this unwontedly late hour the elderly sisters were still sitting in their warm kitchen; there were bright coals under the singing tea-kettle which hung from the crane by three or four long pothooks.
Better put them in charge of the Black Sisters of Hedingham," suggested Dr Chedsey.
But Ursula says the Black Sisters will make me, or they'll put me in the well.
I am James Felstede's wife of Thorpe, and I come with an order from their Worships the Commissioners to take Johnson's children to me; they be to dwell in my charge till the Black Sisters shall send for them.
Methought some of my brethren and sisters should be like to have after.
Sister Joan was on the point of bidding Cissy hold her tongue in a still more authoritative manner, when one of the lay Sisters entered the room, to say that a woman asked permission to speak with one of the teaching Sisters.
At dinner she declared to the two sisters her desire that they should read aloud to her on alternate evenings, especially in bad weather, since she could not read very much on account of her eyes.
Grandmother and the little girls were mother and sisters to him, and Tiet Nikonich the ideal uncle.
And now," he said, turning to Marfinka, "I want to win my sisters too.
It was about this time that Wikatani, one of the two Waiyau boys who had been rescued from slavery, finding, as he believed or said, some brothers and sisters on the western shore of the lake, left Livingstone and remained with them.
The Sistersin Unity, I see, is a strictly neutral organization for peace at any price.
Possessing no sense of humor, which her husband and Kathleen had in abundance, she seriously objected to their poking fun at her beloved organization, the Sisters in Unity, of which she was a charter member.
Is this an indignation meeting or an assemblage of Sisters in Unity?
The hum of voices rose from the room below; evidently Vincent had neglected to close the drawing-room doors, or else the Sisters in Unity needed air.
What do you do but give up your time to the Sisters in Unity?
Well, you must admit, Minna, the Sisters are famous for noisy discussions.
I entertained the Sisters in Unity, and afterward went to bed.
Caught a beastly cold at theSisters in Unity meeting last night.
Your mother came up and tried some of her Sisters in Unity persuasion upon me, and I capitulated.
I have learned, Vincent, that when the Sisters in Unity hold an election it's safer to be on the other side of the bolted door.
There were lights moving about his house, his brothers and sisters were still up; his mother ran out into the road, weeping and laughing with fear and joy.
Brothers shared wives, and sisters shared husbands all over old Polynesia.
The best he could hope for would be to be taken in by the Little Sisters of the Poor, who house a few old men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sisters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
