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Example sentences for "the brother"

  • They deposed Frederick and gave his Italian possessions to Charles of Anjou, the brother of that King Louis of France who became famous as Saint Louis.

  • The brother of King Hodbrod, lord of a land called Swarin's Cairn, cried out to them, and asked them who was captain over that mighty army.

  • Says Sigurd, "No nobler men are there than the sons of Giuki, they slew the king of the Danes, and that great chief, the brother of King Budli.

  • An hundred years afterwards, the history or romance of his life was composed by Gregory of Nyssa, his namesake and countryman, the brother of the great St. Basil.

  • The brother of Moslemah was succeeded by a kinsman and an enemy; and the throne of an active and able prince was degraded by the useless and pernicious virtues of a bigot.

  • Such was the conduct, and such perhaps was the duty, of the brother of Constans towards the perfidious usurper of Gaul.

  • It is almost impossible that he should be the brother (frater germanus) of an eldest and posthumous child: nor do I recollect that Ammianus ever gives him that title.

  • Panegyrics of the two Gregories; the brother, and the friend, of Basil.

  • But as Antiochus, the brother of Demetrius who was called Soter, was not admitted by any of the cities on account of Trypho, Cleopatra sent to him, and invited him to marry her, and to take the kingdom.

  • Besides, as has been said, in consequence of the events which had occurred, the brother of the Czar had been shut up in the town since the beginning of the invasion.

  • The brother of the Czar had granted a pardon to all Fedor's companions in exile, now his companions in arms!

  • Our curiosity became extremely whetted; the brother offered to have the whole of us adopted, and some two days later we became accordingly the children of Paaaeua, appointed chief of Atuona.

  • He had expected himself to feel the same distress at the loss of the brother he loved and the same horror in face of death as he had felt then, only in a greater degree.

  • He had both prepared for the university with the young Prince Shtcherbatsky, the brother of Kitty and Dolly, and had entered at the same time with him.

  • Though he had a great respect for his half-brother, an author well known to all Russia, he could not endure it when people treated him not as Konstantin Levin, but as the brother of the celebrated Koznishev.

  • He was sitting in the middle of the hut, clinging with both hands to the bench from which he was being pulled by a soldier, the brother of the peasant's wife, who was helping him off with his miry boots.

  • I am the brother of the young lady who has been the subject of conversation here,' said Nicholas.

  • The brother lingered on; Mr Nickleby's wife constantly urged him to avow their marriage; he peremptorily refused.

  • This was Josephine's hope, the dream of her happiness, when she gave her daughter in marriage to the brother of her husband.

  • The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.

  • Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.

  • And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three.

  • And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

  • The brother of Vignier had himself met the son of this des Armoises, who corroborated the fact.

  • In 1476 a legal process and inquest was held as to the descendants of the brother of the mother of Jeanne d'Arc, named Voulton or Vouthon.

  • He quoted a genuine petition of Pierre du Lys, the brother of the real Maid, to the Duc d'Orleans, of 1443.

  • He was grandson of the brother of the mother of Jeanne d'Arc, his grand-maternal aunt.

  • From this moment, indeed, her royal highness belongs to France, and when she deigns to honor me by touching my hand it is the hand of Monsieur, the brother of the king of France, she touches.

  • Can it be possible that a prince of the blood, the brother of the king of France, does not know how to hide an injury, even did it exist in reality, where political necessity requires it?

  • The brother of his 'gray eminence' made his fortune here.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adequate domestic; play cards; the book; the country; the cry; the left; the men; the side; the world; thee will; then bake; then commanded; then each; then inquired; then know; then passed; then put; then spread; then thou; then thought; there are; there never; there she; these birds; these last; they shall