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Example sentences for "four brothers"

  • He is depicted with horns; he was one of four brothers, and only after a desperate struggle did he drive his fraternal rivals from the field.

  • As the Algonkins spoke of the Abnakis, their white ancestors, as in Mexican legends the early Toltecs were of fair complexion, so the Aymaras sometimes called the first four brothers, viracochas, white men.

  • When you cut the slippered trail of a Chinaman whose name begins with Low or Chu or Tching or Quong, that Chinaman is a Four Brothers.

  • Tony might not have said this had he recalled that Low Foo was a Four Brothers, and understood that no one not a Hip Sing Tong was in the crowd.

  • These are the On Leon Tong, the Hip Sing Tong and the Four Brothers.

  • So, with a very heavy heart, he returned to the house of the two brothers, and to his great surprise found his own four brothers standing in front of it, all in black.

  • Suddenly, however, one of them ran a flag smartly up her halliards and fired a gun across the bows of the Four Brothers, as a signal to bring her to.

  • The affair of the Badger revenue cutter and the Vre Brodiers, or Four Brothers, smuggling lugger was the next exciting event.

  • The Four Brothers was a Folkestone boat, and her crew of twenty-six were chiefly Folkestone men.

  • As a rule, each is a twin or one of four brothers born at one birth; very generally at the cost of their mother's life, who is a virgin, or at least had never been impregnated by mortal man.

  • The fragments of its chronicles, as preserved to us in the Books of Chilan Balam and by Bishop Landa, tell us that its site was first settled by four bands who came from the four cardinal points and were ruled over by four brothers.

  • According to an unpublished work by Fuentes, Votan was one of four brothers, the common ancestors of the southwestern branches of the Maya family.

  • Its first inhabitants flowed in abundantly towards the valley of Cuzco, conducted by four brothers.

  • I can't help being young; that fact does not prevent my having the care of four brothers.

  • Yes, I am very angry and very determined, and I am not the sister of four brothers, and I have not got to fight my own way in the world, for nothing.

  • But, my dear, four brothers to support and start in life means a very heavy burden for such slight shoulders as yours to carry.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four blades; four degrees; four different; four dollars; four eggs; four grains; four great; four hours after death; four legs; four millions; four nights; four onions; four pages; four pairs; four persons; four pounds; four quarts; four species; four table; four winds; fourteen feet; fourteen hundred; fourteen miles; fourteen years; fourth inches; warm through