Word Finder - brothers

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Son of the same parents as another person.

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A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother).

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A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.

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I would like to thank the brother who just spoke.

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A form of address to a man.

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Listen, brother, I don't know what you want, but I'm not interested.

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A black male.

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Somebody, usually male, connected by a common cause or situation.

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Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.

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To treat as a brother.

Each of the brothers on the Council was gifted in some way.

He hadn't trusted anyone outside of his adopted brothers-- and Sofi-- since he was ten.

Now I've got two brothers in my hair.

Jule excused himself quickly from his brothers and trotted after her.

As his adopted brothers in the war against evil, the two of them were his equals.

One of the half-demon's brothers called from the doorway.

If you tell me it's one of my brothers, I --

Low & Brothers, which went out of business in 1888.

When his father died in 1381 some trouble arose over the family possessions, and in the following year an arrangement was made by which Frederick and his brothers shared Meissen and Thuringia with their uncles Balthasar and William.

George's brothers knew the master of a trading ship who was getting ready to sail to England.

After the death of her brothers she had become very wealthy.

The yard full of cattle, the women at home, two brothers away earning wages, and only Michael the youngest, at home.

Kris heard what Kiki didn't say, that only Andre had been able to keep the Council together after their father's death.  The six headstrong brothers of the Council That Was Seven had respected Andre, who was an adult when the rest of the brothers were born.

You've done so much to help me and your brothers.

Gabriel is more of a brother to me than my own brothers.

I don't know why I am the way I am.  I don't even know much of the Immortal Code, just the few key parts Andre used to lecture me about.  Loyalty to my brothers, my mate, the Immortals, humanity.  Respect for Death and her domain.  Other variations of those.

I met Gabe, and he took me to Andre, who raised me for a few years, before my brothers decided I was better off in Hell, he summarized.

To be more powerful, so I can wipe out my enemies and force my brothers to stay in the Council.

Death was right.  Kris didn't have what it took to keep the Council together.  He may have just lost one of his brothers, because he lost focus of what he should've done.  Maybe he should've known Jade was a traitor or Hannah was a demon.  He hadn't known of Andre's danger or been able to bring the Council together to fight the demons that threatened them all.  He hadn't been able to keep Hannah safe or Toby or Katie.

I do my best, but I'm as flawed as any Immortal.  I just hope our brothers see that I'm trying.

His words made Rhyn's throat tighten.  He'd never acted in order to gain his brothers' favor, but Kris's words affected him more than he thought they would.  There was a flash of light and Kris was gone.  Gabe jerked, as if surprised to find himself still standing.

We're both only children so there aren't any brothers or sisters.

Anything new on our favorite twins, the brothers Wassermann?

She'd thought it was because his brothers were busy.

His brothers gave him his space and their lifemates kept him company.

One of their brothers, Jule, had told them quietly where Jenn was after a trip to visit one of the vamps holed up with the Black God.

Jenn knew how strong the relationship was between the brothers.

Her mate, the White God Damian, sat with his adopted brothers, the assassin Dusty and the Original Immortal Jule.

Damian didn't keep secrets from his brothers.

If her vision wasn't right, she wasn't sure what she'd do, for the lives of all three brothers would soon be suspended in time.

It made him dangerous, an enemy of her mate and his brothers.

Alex and Morino were as close as brothers.

Of all the White God's brothers, Dusty was the one most likely to understand Xander's position.

The most patient of the White God's brothers, Jule had a calming influence on those around him, including Xander, who felt his ever-present restlessness retreat some.

Damian, his three brothers, Charles and Jenn were all gathered in the barn, along with his least favorite Natural, Sofi.

When he glanced up, the three brothers were staring at him in various stages of amusement.

In 1783 he emigrated to America, and settled in New York, whither one of his brothers had previously gone.

He further endowed it in 1434 with lands in Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire, and his brothers, William and Robert, gave some houses in London in 1427 and 1438.

If there is no issue she takes the whole of the personal estate, while the real estate, subject to her dower, goes first to her husband's father and then to his mother, brothers and sisters.

But in French story Helyas is not the son of Parzival, but of the king and queen of Lillefort, and the story of his birth, of himself, his five brothers and one sister is, with variations, that of "the seven swans" persecuted by the wicked grandmother, which figures in the pages of Grimm and Hans Andersen.

He signalized his accession by putting to death his brothers and nephews; and gave early proof of resolution by boldly cutting down before their troops two officers who showed signs of insubordination.

He was educated at the school of the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine at Brive, where he received the tonsure at the age of thirteen.

In 1198 he was able to procure a five years' truce with the Mahommedans, owing to the struggle between Saladin's brothers and his sons for the inheritance of his territories.

His strange title is given him in the chronicles on the strength of a story that he put two brothers of the name of Carvajal to death tyrannically, and was given a time, a plazo, by them in which to answer for his crime in the next world.

In the last quarter of the 12th century the two brothers Amalric and Guy, sons of Hugh the Brown, played a considerable part in the history of the Latin East.

Educated at Reading school and at Winchester college, Henry Vansittart joined the society of the Franciscans, or the "Hellfire club," at Medmenham, his elder brothers, Arthur and Robert, being also members of this fraternity.

He had two brothers who served and died in India, and he never ceased to take a deep and practical interest in Indian affairs.

Other educational institutions include Troy Academy (1834), a non-sectarian preparatory school; La Salle Institute (conducted by the Brothers of the Christian Schools); St Joseph's Academy (Roman Catholic) and St Peter's Academy (Roman Catholic).

Within a few months of the same age, the two became brothers in intellectual and artistic cameraderie.

Its members were called Brothers and Knights, and its officials Commanders.