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Example sentences for "elder brother"

  • Yorimasa determined to strike a blow for the Minamoto cause, and looking round for a figure-head, he fixed upon Prince Mochihito, elder brother of Takakura.

  • Prince Saho, elder brother of the Empress, plotted to usurp the throne.

  • The LycĂ©es "broke up" in confusion, and my father decided to send me to join my stepmother and the younger members of the family at Saint Servan, it being his intention to go to the front with my elder brother Edward.

  • Meantime, I was left in Paris, virtually "on my own," though I was often with my elder brother Edward.

  • Footnote 118: Elder Brother of the present Emperor of Marocco, Muley Soliman.

  • My late friend, Muley Abd Salam, elder brother to Muley Soliman, the reigning Emperor of Marocco, had a very large estate in this Wah, called Santariah.

  • He was often kept from being a fool, and worse, by that elder brother of his; and I advise every boy to have an elder brother.

  • He told me straight he was Roddie's elder brother, and that his name was Hugh Murchison.

  • There were three children--an elder brother, myself, and a sister.

  • My elder brother succeeded to the practice and is still in the same place, making both ends meet on a microscopic income.

  • Thakombau's elder brother, Wainiu, who was vasu to Somosomo, and had designs upon the succession to Tanoa, took the opportunity of betraying his intentions.

  • IV My elder brother and I had several ideals in common quite apart from my own literary ideals.

  • He took our enterprise more easily than my elder brother, but that was temperamental in both, and one was no more devoted than the other.

  • Long ago, long before our youth was passed, utter forgiveness passed between my elder brother and me.

  • Hold, bride and bridegroom, ere you wed each other, I claim young Robin as my elder brother!

  • Then you really feel yourself at liberty to tell me that my elder brother lives--that I may charge him with his cruel deceit, and transfer to his shoulders the hideous thraldom under which I have laboured for so many years!

  • There was something lordly in my elder brother, and his fellows were ever subject to his will.

  • I took no one into the secret but my brothers, and though my elder brother chid me, and bid me only be thankful to our cousin for all her goodness, I nevertheless began to watch and learn.

  • My elder brother," said he, "shall we two strip and set our knives between our teeth, and swim out to scalp those muskrats yonder?

  • Shall we rush upon them thus, O my elder brother?

  • Because you are my elder brother, And you speak to the Oneidas Very gently.

  • I listen, my elder brother," said the little maid of Askalege.

  • My elder brother was by name Pranadhara, and he was infatuated with love for a fickle dame, and I, my lord, am named Rajyadhara, and I was ever devoted to him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bade adieu; being elected; closely related; each type; elder brother; elder daughter; elder sister; elderly gentleman; elderly lady; elderly woman; had all; immense fortune; industrial conditions; must call; only more; proper treatment; quite clear; separate room; should have been glad; simple justice; social compact; special purpose; talk business; thirteen cities; twenty days; wretched state