Brother Sentence Examples
She remembered her brother and his love.
She wept because her brother teased her very much.
We'll meet soon, brother, she'd said.
Your brother had to take at least one life to become one of them.
Her brother was a vamp.
I have to find my brother.
His brother, Darian, however, tended to follow her around like a lost puppy.
He smiled, and she gazed at him, wondering when he and her brother had grown from youths into handsome young men.
I'll see you soon, brother.
You have little time to await them, brother.
AdvertisementRespect for his brother's memory stopped him.
She is very quick-tempered and wilful, and nobody, except her brother James, has attempted to control her.
Bianca looked from her pale brother lying too still on the hospital bed to the smiling nurse.
She was so used to her brother that she didn't notice him grow up, but she saw it in Kyle.
He'd saved her brother, her, the world.
AdvertisementSean was like a brother to me.
Sleeping with her made him feel … guilty, like he was betraying his brother's memory.
It's not every day your little brother turns 300K.
I don't know if I trust my wife, brother.
He paced, mind racing with memories he could no longer suppress, thoughts of his brother, of Claire, of Darian's death.
AdvertisementTheir skin coloring and complexions were similar enough for them to be brother and sister, despite the size difference.
Ashley, on the other hand, was still a virgin, and Xander guessed her brother was as responsible for that as Jessi's lectures.
After being educated at Cracow, he made the grand tour with his brother Mark and returned to Poland in 1648.
But he, my younger brother, had five little ones, while I, you see, only left a wife behind.
On the other hand, if Sarah was telling the truth, there was another side to Giddon - a loyal brother.
AdvertisementShe was the middle of two sisters, but Mom fussed over their baby brother.
What kind of comment was that to make about her brother?
Your brother's sexual preferences are none of my business.
He's not my real brother.
My parents, now residing in Florida, would attend the ceremony along with my older brother and his family who would fly in from Seattle, Oregon.
The brother Jude killed himself in jail and this guy was apparently seeking revenge.
Do you remember the older brother?
Why couldn't she heal her brother?
She was used to the teenage fits of temperament after spending the summer with her newly turned twenty-year-old brother.
At under five and a half feet, she wasn't sure how she was supposed to find her brother among the people around her.
She didn't see her brother's bleached hair and familiar face anywhere in the crowd.
Where was her brother?
Whatever Natural talent she had, she'd somehow turned her brother from a vamp back into a human.
Bianca said, glaring up at her brother.
You're no brother of mine, Darian.
As pissed as he was, Darian was his brother.
As if noticing him for the first time, Darian stared at Bianca's brother, an odd look crossing his face.
Bianca inched closer, panicked gaze on her brother.
Her brother rose, helping Bianca to her feet.
She crawled and clawed her way to Dusty, looking wildly for her brother.
It was where she belonged, now that she'd helped those that needed it and lost her brother.
She'd lost her father and her brother.
Damian laughed, thrilled to be back with his adopted brother and to see the glow in his face.
Her brother was alive.
Damian would never kill his brother, Jule, but if the woman was dangerous enough to warrant a Watcher's attention, he couldn't look the other way.
You and Dusty better catch up, Damian teased his brother's mate.
He couldn't get over seeing his brother whenever he wanted, after so long without him.
He'd sensed the arrival of his brother just before Yully left the cottage.
This charmer is my brother, Dusty, Bianca's mate.
Han's brother Laney, one of Damian's oldest Guardians and the station chief for NOVA sector, leaned in the doorway to the main house with a smile.
He recognized the procedure but hadn't heard of it being used since before his brother, Darian, had died thousands of years ago.
Damian grimaced, recalling the last time he'd seen the beautiful woman, his slain brother's wife.
Yet, she was all that remained of his brother, and he cherished the connection.
She was the greatest find since he'd taken over the war from his slain brother.
He'd seen from burying his brother that a king's greatest weakness was the woman at his side.
My brother inherited the title when he died.
My brother loved her with all his soul.
He had an interest in a plumbing supply store his brother Ralph operated.
Why didn't you and your brother come forward after your uncle was killed?
He was glad Kiki brought him and just as troubled by his brother's doubt.
Before you run off and kill your brother, you should probably see her safe.
Xander suspected the protective older brother was about to say something to him about upsetting Jessi.
He was accompanied by his brother, the Grey God, Darian, whose unusual power bent the air around him in a mix of light and shadows.
Older by ten years, Darian's hair was dark and his body whip like, compared to his brother's thicker frame.
Xander saw the subtle signal Damian gave his brother.
My brother is the only one on the planet who isn't instantly fried by their magic, which means you've got a bigger decision to make.
Dusty's wife was the sister of Jonny, making him the brother with the most personal connection to the Black God.
She'll run to her dear brother, the Black God, who will crush you.
Bianca, Dusty's mate, was a Healer of extraordinary power, who had turned her brother from a vamp into a human again at one point.
Having taken holy orders his advancement in the Church was very rapid, mainly through the influence of his brother Andrew.
He was murdered by his wife's brother at her instigation.
Eadberht showed considerable independence in his dealings with the church, and his brother Ecgberht, to whom the well-known letter of Bede is addressed, was from 734 to 766 archbishop of York.
Moll JEthelwald, who may have been a brother of Eadberht, succeeded, and after a victory over a certain Oswine, who fell in the battle, abdicated and became a monk probably under compulsion in 765.
He died in 926, and his brother and successor Guthfrith was soon afterwards expelled by "Ethelstan and fled to Eugenius, king of Strathclyde.
Peace was made with King Edmund by the capture of King Anlaf, and a good deal later by the confirmation of King Raegenald, brother to Anlaf Godfreyson and cousin to Anlaf Sihtricson.
Shortly afterwards, however, part of it at least came into the hands first of Eadulf and then Aldred and another Eadulf, the brother and sons respectively of Uhtred.
On the 13th of April 1396 he obtained ratification of the parsonage of St Stephen's, Walbrook, presented on the 30th of March by the abbot of Colchester, no doubt through his brother Robert, who restored the church and increased its endowment.
This year his brother Robert was senior sheriff of London.
It was not until 1526 that the embassy was dismissed; and not many years afterwards the negus entreated the help of the Portuguese against Mahommedan invaders, and the viceroy sent an expeditionary force, commanded by his brother Cristoforo da Gama, with 450 musketeers.
The third brother was Felix Wakefield (1807-1875), an engineer.
Simpson, that is my brother, brought me some beautiful pond lilies yesterday--he is a very brother to me.
She prayed for her brother as living and was always awaiting news of his return.
She almost quarreled with her brother about him.
Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, Smolyaninov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an acquaintance--he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor.
And suddenly Brother A. came and, taking my arm, led me to a building to enter which we had to pass along a narrow plank.
Her brother often wondered as he looked at her.
She feared for her brother who was in it, was horrified by and amazed at the strange cruelty that impels men to kill one another, but she did not understand the significance of this war, which seemed to her like all previous wars.
But again the sense that she represented her father and her brother gave her courage, and she boldly began her speech.
Makar Alexeevich, the brother of my late master--may the kingdom of heaven be his--has remained here, but he is in a weak state as you know, said the old servant.
Pierre knew that Makar Alexeevich was Joseph Bazdeev's half-insane brother and a hard drinker.
And as long as my sister Natasha was engaged to her brother it was of course out of the question for me to think of marrying her.
She was agitated and incessantly tortured by the thought of the dangers to which her brother, the only intimate person now remaining to her, was exposed.
She did not talk about her brother, diverting the conversation as soon as her aunt mentioned Andrew.
He pushed the thought of his slain brother away but couldn't escape the lingering sense of unease.
My love, we've been destined for each other since I wed your brother thousands of years ago.
Damian's brother was somewhere inside the scarred shell of a man before him.
He was there to save your brother when Isac finished and kept him under control using Claire's blood.
He reached out to his brother and touched his head to Darian's forehead.
Darian didn't resist, and Damian delighted in the idea that the sound of him breathing meant his brother was truly alive.
Darian stood obediently, and Damian's throat tightened again to know his brother was at his side.
He hadn't yet reconciled how he felt about seeing his brother alive and in so much pain.
Not now, added her husband, hurrying after his brother.
My brother Ralph and I used to summer here when we were children.
The only picture was of a teenage boy, apparently the deceased brother.
Paul was number three in the computer line, behind Brandon Westlake, and brother Joseph.
Your brother Ralph is dead.
Your brother found this place, right?
I plan on returning to see what my brother is doing with all those histories he's not sharing.
He knelt beside his brother.
On it was one soul, that of his brother Kris, who had given up his life to get Katie out of Death's underworld.
Andre was rendered dead-dead while Rhyn was stuck in Hell, killed by the same brother who held Rhyn prisoner.
You have much to learn about diplomacy, little brother.
Sometimes his brother let him out for a furlough, claimed he was free, and then yanked him back.
When he was out of Hell, he'd already planned on kicking the ass of their eldest brother, Andre, and killing Kris.
He dismissed his uneasy thoughts at his eldest brother's accented voice.
He shook the hand of his brother and friend, whose black skin clashed with his.
Kris chuckled, at ease with his brother despite the unprotected penthouse on the top floor of a building that could be easily leveled by a single explosive charge.
Being underground meant he was a much harder target to hit, yet despite his attempts to convince his brother to act likewise, he'd not yet succeeded.
You know me well enough, brother.
Kris chuckled, aware his older brother could wait him out.
You know my brother Kris.
My brother's people found you and identified your unique gift for…blocking their natural talents.
Rhyn sat up, eyeing his brother warily.
You, brother, will take a mate?
Even as Rhyn spoke, he was disturbed by the thought of the frazzled but sweet woman across the hall from him falling to his brother.
The only brother who'd accepted him and treated him half decently was gone?
In the darkness of his cell, he admitted this was true, but he also knew no one could've saved his brother but him.
I'll miss my dear brother.
Katie, my brother Tamer, who's in charge of Africa, Kris grated.
If he did, he hoped he had a brother like Rhyn.
He stood in the gently lit bedroom of his brother, Kiki.
The only brother not to declare outright war on him, Kiki was a distant second to Andre in his tepid support of their black sheep of a young brother.
Despite the animosity boiling at the back of his brother's gaze, Kiki's pragmatism snapped to the forefront.
His brother snapped his mouth closed and extended his hand, pulling Rhyn and Katie with him into the shadow world.
Rhyn ignored his brother as the lean man paced and pulled at his hair in frustrated silence.
Rhyn said nothing, giving his brother a bitter smile.
He's your brother, for God's sake.
Have you learned some control of that demon power, little brother?
He'd broken the Code for a brother who'd never cared one ounce for him and accepted his place in Hell.
Rhyn didn't want to leave it be, not when his own brother had attacked his woman.
His brother had no idea the depth of emotion even a half-demon could feel.
The largest statue was Andre, their eldest brother who had recently become dead-dead, standing over Europe.
Rhyn snorted and faced Sasha, the brother charged with governing Australia, and the first to abandon the Council in favor of serving the Dark One.
Rhyn watched him go, wondering just what his brother was planning, and how he.d figure it out before Katie was hung on the wall next to his mother.
Rhyn had become like a brother to him, and the idea of killing his mate reopened wounds that hadn.t bled since he stood in this place thousands of years before.
Kris is your brother, and family should stick together.
Rhyn nearly decked him when the blond brother shoved him back.
At Kris.s angry response, Rhyn shoved his brother out of his path.
Whatever that brings, you.ve been my only brother and friend, Rhyn replied in the same tone.
Each one represented a millennium, and this creature had been around longer than Rhyn.s deceased brother, Andre.
Help a brother out, Rhyn.
He.d suspected Sasha was there for more than one reason and didn.t doubt his brother had a plan.
You forget, Kris, he was my brother, too, and I considered him a friend.
Sasha may not have pulled the trigger on Andre, but someone he knew where to find their oldest brother, who had been protecting Katie when he was rendered dead-dead.
Unless Sasha posed a direct threat to the Council, Kris was forbidden from buying an assassination, despite suspecting his brother wasn.t as innocent as he proclaimed.
What pushed you to the Dark One, brother?
Kris looked at him sharply, suspecting his brother was trying to play on his emotions.
Without a doubt, brother, which is why I hope your meeting with Darkyn goes well.
Sasha wasn.t that stupid, though Kris wondered what game his brother played.
If you will not return your brother as you are obligated, then you must return this.
My brother Kris is too good, as you know.
It.ll be hard to get my brother alone outside the castle where Darkyn can snatch him.
Toby would make an awesome older brother, she realized, unlike her flaky sister.
His eldest brother appeared less frustrated than normal.
Kris was crushed, and Rhyn wasn.t sure how his eldest surviving brother hadn.t expected the rest of them to walk away.
Rhyn walked out of the room, furious at his brother.
Rhyn snatched his brother by the front of his shirt and slammed him into the ground.
Kiki glared at him, but Rhyn knew this brother to be the easiest of the three to sway.
Rhyn eyed him and started down the hall, not caring what his brother thought of anything at the moment.
Her face grew red at his easy dismissal of his youngest brother.
You take great precautions to safeguard Toby, and yet, you rejected your own brother?
I.m sworn to protect Toby, and I.ve done my duty in protecting Sasha, who is also my brother, according to the Code and the oaths I swore to my father and the Council!
Instead, he found himself mulling over the advice from another brother.
His brother poked his head from the burnt-out remains of Kris.s own chamber.
His dead-dead brother was right, or Hannah wouldn.t bear Kris.s name.
She nodded, relief on her face, and he turned away from his injured brother.
He missed the resentful look that usually crossed his brother's face.
Kris looked at his condemned brother anew, not sure how to take Rhyn.s newfound intent and resolve.
Unconcerned with what his brother might want, he rested back again.
His face was white with pain, and Rhyn looked over his brother.
He lowered his arm enough to see his determined brother, unsteady on his feet with one arm in a sling.
Rhyn saw enough to see that what his brother said was true.
He wants to hook you up with his brother, by the way.
My oldest brother Kisolm needs a woman.
Romas's eldest brother, who sat across and down the table from her, rose, a look of anger on his face.
Romas's brother spoke to the group.
She blinked out of the spell and saw Romas's oldest brother, his eyes glittering with anger.
The hunky stranger spoke to Romas's oldest brother.
Whatever they discussed, Romas's brother was getting more pissed; his grip on her tightened until she gave a verbal, "Let me go!"
He took her free arm and drew her away from his brother.
From what I understood, that guy and Romas's eldest brother have personal issues with each other and are constantly hazing each other.
You're sure your brother won't try anything after what that guy said?
He wasn't a criminal, a thief, or murderer but someone who happened to have a bone to pick with Romas's brother and managed to get caught.
But he'd won her as Kisolm's younger brother, Romas, had decreed, which should alleviate any accusations brought on by their clan, if Kisolm's father talked some sense into the arrogant crown prince.
Brother, she is your intended?
It was a sign, brother.
My brother says your home is very different, that we need to teach you everything.
But my brother did not choose her.
My brother requests it!
It's my duty as their brother.
It's part of their permanent collection and I wasn't supposed to even take it out, but I'm sure if you explain about the book your brother is writing, they'll let you make a copy of it.
And what about the book the Quincy brother is writing?
John and an older brother Dominic owned a bunch of different places.
Remember, she said her brother was writing a book about the family.
I care even less if your brother writes Saint Among the Sinners or Sinner Among the Saints.
The two stayed together through the years, even attempting to be lovers once, though they quickly realized theirs was a relationship of brother and sister.
Emily would reprimand him, "No brother of mine will act like a savage."
They always told people they were brother and sister.
My love for her is not romantic; it is that of a brother, father and son all wrapped up in one.
Yes. He's my brother.
And how is having a brother not important?
My brother is a wild card.
There was no good time for Katie's brother to visit, but this had to be the worst.
Anyway, you don't know what it's like to have a bossy brother.
I don't know anything about your brother - except the fact that he got you through school.
He appointed himself as my big brother... when we were still toddlers, I think.
Into this chaos, Katie had invited her sophisticated brother.
They completed the morning chores and then Katie headed out to pick up her brother at the airport.
She wished she could share Katie's faith in her brother, but the only picture she could summons was a short, pale, overweight man with more brains for business than aptitude in mechanics.
Could this hunk be Katie's brother?
This is my brother, Alex Barnett.
I was talking about having your brother as a guest for lunch... and you know it.
You're ogling my brother, aren't you?
Losing Josh was like losing a brother.
More important, when would she stop viewing him as a big brother?
Fear that she was also loosing the only brother she had ever known.
Maybe Josh never pushed me about sex because we're too much like sister and brother.
Carmen expected him to switch to being a big brother now.
I fought side by side with his older brother years ago at the end of the war; I know the type of honor that runs in his family.
He didn't feel up to the task, not when failure meant breaking the man he viewed as his brother.
I did it for a man I see as my brother.
Rhyn had lost his mate the same day he earned some small piece of respect from his brother.
Rhyn listened to his brother pad away in the soft sand. He'd spent thousands of years in Hell wishing to be dead-dead. Tomorrow, he'd have his chance.
When his eldest brother died, he'd felt pain and anger, but he'd never felt the crippling ache he did standing on the rocks near the ocean staring at Katie.
Are you really going to let your jackass brother send you on a suicide mission?
It had been their eldest brother's before his murder, and their father's before that.
These are what souls look like. She let me keep my mother and brother's.
He called another portal and strode through it to the house of the one brother he'd come to almost trust. Kiki's feet were propped on a cast iron table while he gazed intently at the screen of his trusty iPad.
Rhyn squinted towards the sound of his brother's voice, struggling to balance the sensations within him.
Rhyn grabbed the arm where his brother had shot him.
Gabriel is more of a brother to me than my own brothers.
Kiki left, and Kris felt he'd frustrated the one brother willing to help him.
Rhyn thought of Kiki, suspecting his brother went to Kris. He wondered who Kris sent after him to make sure he didn't follow through on his threat to confront Death. "We only have today," he said.
A similar scene flashed before Kris. One from long ago, when another blond woman had fallen to the devil that was his brother.
No, Kris, you deserved that for letting our brother get taken by demons.
Kris's confident response rankled Rhyn. He leaned his back against a tree and faced his eldest surviving brother. "I promised Kiki I'd tell you something," he started.
Rhyn gasped and struggled to sit. Kiki's still body lay a few feet from him, the ocean lapping at his brother's feet. The Caribbean night was humid and warm, and the moon large over head.
The convent members who managed the Sanctuary had replaced the wall Rhyn knocked down with a row of brown tents that matched their dresses. Rhyn eased between two of them, aware of Kiki's fading pulse. He set his brother down on the ground and looked around wildly, hoping they hadn't sent Katie's Ancient Healer, Lankha, home to the underworld.
Rhyn paced under the watchful gaze of the convent member, itching to leave Kiki to find Katie. Instead, he forced himself to wait. He'd lost one brother this night. He wanted to make sure Kiki was okay before leaving him.
Gabe took the necklace, looking at the two emeralds on the black leather-like cord. He'd missed his necklace after eons wearing it. He'd missed his mother and baby brother. He squeezed them in his hand in the only hug he could give his dead family.
Her smile lit the table and she and her little brother, who was being the perfect gentlemen in his spring suit, were obviously the pride and joy of Ma and Pa.
From what you say the odds are high it's only a matter of time until his brother floats in.
Both these kings were slain by .Ceadwalla in the following year, but shortly afterwards the Welsh king was overthrown by Oswald, brother of Eanfrith, who reunited the whole of Northumbria under his sway and acquired a supremacy analogous to that previously held by Edwin.
After studying the arts at Toulouse and law at Orleans and Bologna, he became a canon at Bordeaux and then vicar-general to his brother the archbishop of Lyons, who in 1294 was created cardinal bishop of Albano.
He refused to use his full influence in favour of the candidacy of Charles of Valois, brother of Philip IV., lest France became too powerful; and recognized Henry of Luxemburg, whom his representatives crowned emperor at the Lateran in 1312.
She rode across country with her brother, she went out shooting with Deschatres, she sat by the cottage doors on the long summer evenings and heard the flax-dressers tell their tales of witches and warlocks.
Lui et elle, the rejoinder of the poet's brother Paul de Musset, was even more a travesty of the facts with no redeeming graces of style.
He made his home with his elder brother Piero at Florence throughout the agitation of Savonarola and the invasion of Charles VIII.
Giovanni's younger brother Giuliano was placed at the head of the republic, but the cardinal actually managed the government.
Leo had intended his younger brother Giuliano and his nephew Lorenzo for brilliant secular careers.
After the death of her brother William Parr, marquess of Northampton, his share of the barony called Marquis Fee reverted to Queen Elizabeth.
His father, dying in the following year, commended him to the care and favour of his brother and successor, Henry III., who faithfully fulfilled the charge.
His brother Polydectes, who was king of the island, fell in love with Danae and married her.
For the earl of Athole had forced his brother, Andrew Stewart, prebendary of Craig, upon the chapter, and had put him in possession of the bishop's palace.
The queen appealed to the pope and was seconded by her brother of England, with the result that the pope's sanction was obtained on the 18th of February 1515.
He first studied theology at Giessen, but after the campaign of 1814, in which, like his brother August, he took part as a Hessian volunteer, began the study of jurisprudence, and in 1818 established himself as Privatdocent of civil law at Giessen.
His brother, Peter Van Brugh Livingston (1710-1792), was a prominent merchant and a Whig political leader in New York.
Another brother, Philip Livingston (1716-1778), was also prominent as a leader of the New York Whigs or Patriots.
He resigned the crown to his brother Ramiro and went into a religious house.
At the age of eight he was taken in charge by an elder brother of his father, Howard Hastings, who held a post in the customs. After spending two years at a private, school at Newington Butts, he was moved to Westminster, where among his contemporaries occur the names of Lord Thurlow and Lord Shelburne, Sir Elijah Impey, and the poets Cowper and Churchill.
In 938 it was given by the German king, Otto I., the Great, to Arnulf's brother, Bertold I., with greatly reduced privileges.
When Conradin was executed in 1268 Louis inherited his lands in Germany, sharing them with his brother Henry.
By the treaty of Pavia in this year, Louis granted the Palatinate of the Rhine and the upper Palatinate of Bavaria to his brother's sons, Rudolph II.
In 1802 he abdicated in favour of his brother Victor Emmanuel I., who in 1806 returned to Cagliari and remained there until 1814, when he retired, leaving his brother, Carlo Felice, as viceroy.
Throughout the revolutionary years he supported his brother's policy, became a member of the Erfurt parliament, and, after the collapse of the national movement, returned to the service of the duchy of Nassau.
On his brother's murder he fled to Messenia (241 B.C.).
Polybius accuses Cleomenes of the murder, but Plutarch is probably right in saying that it was the work of those who had caused the death of Agis, and feared his brother's vengeance.
Less resolute and reliable than his brother Guillaume, the cardinal had brilliant qualities, and an open and free mind.
She had acted in the same way with his elder brother, who had been ill a year or two previously, but on his recovery the boy continued to be educated as a Jew.
When Alphonso died in 1291 James became king of Aragon, and left his brother Frederick as regent of Sicily.
In the summer of 1516 Margaret went to her brother's court in London, while Angus, much to his wife's displeasure, returned to Scotland, where he made his peace with Albany and was restored to his estates.
He had been constable of Jerusalem, but in 1194, on the death of his brother, he became king of Cyprus, as Amalric I.
He is said to have convinced their king Sigeberht of the truth of Christianity by his arguments, and at his request sent Cedd, a brother of Ceadda, on a mission to Essex.
About this time he is thought by many to have obtained some footing in the kingdom of the Picts in succession to their king Talorcan, the son of his brother Eanfrid.
Vansittart's brother, Robert Vansittart (1728-1789), who was educated at Winchester and at Trinity College, Oxford, was regius professor of civil law at Oxford from 1757 until his death on the 31st of January 1789.
His brother, Siegmund Jacob Baumgarten (1706-1 7 57), was professor of theology at Halle, and applied the methods of Wolff to theology.
On the birth of Avicenna's younger brother the family migrated to Bokhara, then one of the chief cities of the Moslem world, and famous for a culture which was older than its conquest by the Saracens.
Her early years were clouded by the execution of the duc de Montmorency, her mother's only brother, for intriguing against Richelieu in 1631, and that of her mother's cousin the comte de Montmorency-Boutteville for duelling in 1635; but her parents made their peace with Richelieu, and being introduced into society in 1635 she soon became one of the stars of the Hotel Rambouillet, at that time the centre of all that was learned, witty and gay in France.
On her return she fell in love with the duc de la Rochefoucauld, the author of the Maxims, who made use of her love to obtain influence over her brother, and thus win honours for himself.
She was the guiding spirit of the first Fronde, when she brought over Armand, Prince de Conti, her second brother, and her husband to the malcontents, but she failed to attract Conde himself, whose loyalty to the court overthrew the first Fronde.
There she became more and more Jansenist in opinion, and her piety and the remembrance of her influence during the disastrous days of the Fronde, and above all the love her brother, the great Conde, bore her, made her conspicuous.
On her death in 1679 she was buried with great splendour by her brother Conde, and her heart, as she had directed, was sent to the nuns of the Port Royal des Champs.
On the 13th of February 1880, the minister of war, Dr Carlos Pellegrini, summoned the principal officers connected with the Tiro Nacional, General Bartolome Mitre, his brother Emilio, Colonel Julio Campos, Colonel Hilario Lagos and others, and warned them that as officers of the national army they owed obedience to the national government, and would be severely punished if concerned in any revolutionary outbreak against the constituted authorities.
The chief signed works by Jacopo the younger and his brother Luca are at Anagni and Subiaco.
In 1703 she supported the Methuen Treaty, which cemented still further the alliance between Portugal and England, and in 1704 she was appointed regent of Portugal during the illness of her brother King Pedro II., her administration being distinguished by several successes gained over the Spaniards.
In 1661 the grandson of his brother George was created a baronet, and from him the title has descended to the Smith family of the present day.
In compliment to King Philip, the general command of the league's fleet was given to his natural brother, Don John of Austria.
His son, BoccHus, was king of Mauretania, jointly with a younger brother Bogud.
Dio Cassius says that Bocchus sent his sons to support Sextus Pompeius in Spain, while Bogud fought on the side of Caesar, and there is no doubt that after Caesar's death Bocchus supported Octavian, and Bogud Antony, During Bogud's absence in Spain, his brother seized the whole of Numidia, and was confirmed sole ruler by Octavian.
In December 1797 he joined his brother and some others in the formation of the "Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at Home," in building chapels or "tabernacles" for congregations, in supporting missionaries, and in maintaining institutions for the education of young men to carry on the work of evangelization.
Returning to Scotland in 1819, he lived partly on his estate of Auchengray and partly in Edinburgh, and like his brother took an active part,.
Till middle life he was also lieutenant-general in Aragon for his brother and predecessor Alphonso V., whose reign was mainly spent in Italy.
In 1755 he inherited from his elder brother, Louis Auguste de Bourbon (170o-1755), prince de Dombes, great estates, part of which he sold to the king.
At the death of a man, his widows passed to his brother of the same totem class.
On the death of his elder brother in September 1843 Henry Smith left Rugby, and at the end of 1844 gained a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford.
Brother of Darius I., and, according to Herodotus, the trusted adviser of his nephew Xerxes.
At all events, during the first months of the reign of Artaxerxes I., he was the ruling power in the state (therefore the chronographers wrongly reckon him as king, with a reign of seven months), until Artaxerxes, having learned the truth about the murder of his father and his brother, overwhelmed and killed Artabanus and his sons in open fight.
By his beloved consort Ulrica Leonora of Denmark, from the shock of whose death in July 1693 he never recovered, he had seven children, of whom only three survived him, a son Charles, and two daughters, Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein, and Ulrica Leonora, who ultimately succeeded her brother on the Swedish throne.
Finally in 924 Lorraine passed in the reign of Henry the Fowler under German (East Frankish) overlordship. Henry's son, Otto the Great, owing to the disordered state of the country, placed it in 953 in the hands of his able brother, Bruno, archbishop of Cologne, for pacification.
Two other bastards were placed on the episcopal throne of Liege, an illegitimate brother on that of Cambrai.
The duchess, herself aggrieved by the dictatorial manners of the cardinal, likewise urged upon her brother the necessity of the retirement of the unpopular minister.
At their instance, and carrying with them instructions from the regent and the council, the marquis of Berghen and Hoorn's brother (the lord of Montigny) were persuaded to go to Spain and lay before Philip the serious character of the crisis.
The regent therefore represented to her brother that the disorders were entirely put down and that the time had come to show mercy.
William had meanwhile succeeded in raising a force in Germany with which his brother Louis invaded Friesland.
Aremberg himself was killed, as was Adolphus of Nassau, a younger brother of William and Louis.
Meanwhile Philip had appointed his natural brother, Don John of Austria, to be governor-general in the place of Requesens.
On the 6th of October, at the secret invitation of the Catholic nobles headed by the duke of Aerschot, the archduke Matthias, brother of the emperor, arrived in Brussels to assume the sovereignty of the Netherlands.
At the same time John Casimir, brother of the elector palatine, at the invitation of the Calvinist party and with the secret financial aid of Queen Elizabeth, entered the country at the head of a body of German mercenaries from the east.
This famous compact was the work of John of Nassau, at that time governor of Gelderland, and did not at first commend itself to his brother.
After his retirement from the public service in 1863 he supported in the Bohemian Landtag and the Austrian Reichsrat the federal policy of his brother Leo.
The principal features of his reign were a struggle against his brother general, Thomas, who aimed at the throne (822-824); the conquest of Crete by the Saracens in 823; and the beginning of their attacks upon Sicily (827).
In later tradition, Sarpedon was the son of Zeus and Europa and the brother of Minos.
Her brother, the actor Nicolas Desmares (c. 1650-1714), began as a member of a subsidized company at Copenhagen, but by her influence he came to Paris and was received in 1685 sans debut - the first time such an honour had been accorded - at the Comedie Frangaise, where he became famous for peasant parts.
On the arrival of Alva at Brussels, Count Louis, with his brother William, withdrew from the Netherlands and raised a body of troops in defence of the patriot cause.
Alva then advanced to meet the invaders with a large army, and at Jemmingen (July 21), with very slight loss, annihilated the levies of Louis, who himself escaped by swimming from the field across an estuary of the Ems. He now joined the army of his brother William, which had in October to beat a hasty retreat before Alva's superior skill.
William made an attempt to relieve his brother, but failed, and Mons had to surrender (September 17).
In the disorderly flight both Louis and his younger brother Henry, refusing to abandon the field, lost their lives.
The pope, naturally on the side of order, staunchly supported this regenerator of the realm, and in his own brother Coloman, who administered the district of the Drave, Bela also found a loyal and intelligent co-operator.
He was chosen emperor in his forty-third year by the officers of the army at Nicaea in Bithynia in 364, and shortly afterwards named his brother Valens colleague with him in the empire.
A father might, however, execute a deed granting a daughter power to leave her property to a favourite brother or sister.
Highton and his brother Edward Highton, and ' See Arthur Young, Travels in France, p. 3.
Visiting England in 1856, Field entered into an agreement with Bright and with John Watkins Brett, who with his brother Jacob had proposed the constructing of an Atlantic cable eleven years previously, with the object of forming a company for establishing and working electric telegraphic communication between Newfoundland and Ireland.
All creatures he called his "brothers" or "sisters" - the chief example is the poem of the "Praises of the Creatures," wherein "brother Sun," "sister Moon," "brother Wind," and "sister Water" are called on to praise God.
In his last illness he was cauterized, and on seeing the burning iron he addressed "brother Fire," reminding him how he had always loved him and asking him to deal kindly with him.
Let them be responsible before Thee at the Day of Judgment, if any brother by their negligence, or their bad example, or by a tooseverepunishment, shall go astray."
Having consolidated their possessions on the mainland, the Normans, under Robert Guiscards brother, the great Count Roger, undertook the conquest of Sicily in 1060.
Therefore, when he died in 1458, he bequeathed Naples to his natural son Ferdinand, while Sicily and Aragon passed together to his brother John, and so on to Ferdinand the Catholic. The twenty-three years of Alfonsos reign were the most prosperous and splendid period of South Italian history.
Lucchinos brother John, arch bishop of Milan, now assumed the lordship of the city, and extended the power of the Visconti over Genoa and the whole of north Italy, with the exception of Piedmont, Verona, Mantua, Ferrara and Venice.
He was resentful of the time his father spent with his brother.
In the next year Ferdinand, brother of Charles, was elected emperor.
Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla were formed into a duchy for Don Philip, brother of Charles III.
Finally, after the proclamation of the French empire (May 18, 1804) Napoleon proposed to place his brother Joseph over the Italian state, which now took the title of kingdom of Italy.
A fortnight later his consort Caroline arrived, and soon showed a vigour and restlessness of spirit which frequently clashed with the dictates of her brother, the emperor and the showy, unsteady policy of her consort.
Both King Victor Emmanuel and his brother Charles Felix had no sons, and the heir presumptive to the throne was Prince Charles Albert, of the Carignano branch of the house of Savoy.
His government, however, was not characterized by cruelty like those of his brother despots, and Guerrazzi and the other Liberals of 1849, although tried and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, were merely exiled.
Cranmer suggested that if the canonists and the universities should decide that marriage with a deceased brother's widow was illegal, and if it were proved that Catherine had been married to Prince Arthur, her marriage to Henry could be declared null and void by the ordinary ecclesiastical courts.
During the first week of April Convocation sat almost from day to day to determine questions of fact and law in relation to Catherine's marriage with Henry as affected by her previous marriage with his brother Arthur.
Soon after the accession of Nero, Vologaeses (Vologasus), king of Parthia, overran Armenia, drove out Rhadamistus, who was under the protection of the Romans, and set his own brother Tiridates on the throne.
This prince, a brother of the emperor Henry VII., ruled from 1307 to 1354, and was the real founder of the power of Trier.
According to Bede she took the veil in 614, when Oswio was king of Northumbria and Aidan bishop of Lindisfarne, and spent a year in East Anglia, where her sister Hereswith had married ZEthelhere, who was to succeed his brother Anna, the reigning king.
He soon began to give proofs of the violence for which he afterwards became notorious; when in 1497 his brother Giovanni, duke of Gandia, was murdered, the deed was attributed, in all probability with reason, to Cesare.
But it is more probable that Cesare, who contemplated exchanging his ecclesiastical dignities for a secular career, regarded his brother's splendid position with envy, and was determined to enjoy the whole of his father's favours.
An example of this is found in the ninth canon of Chalcedon, which also illustrates the enforcement upon a clerical plaintiff in dispute with a brother cleric of that recourse to the arbitration of their ecclesiastical superior already mentioned.
The establishment of The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 gave her a constant vehicle for her writings, as did also The Independent of New York, and later The Christian Union, of each of which papers successively her brother, Henry Ward Beecher, was one of the editors.
Verus, a weak, selfindulgent man, had a high respect for his adoptive brother, and deferred uniformly to his judgment.
The word signifies horned cattle, and is found in Shakespeare's own writing, in the restored line "It is the pasture lards the rother's sides" (Timon of Athens), '' where "brother's" was originally the accredited reading.
Her character seems in general to have resembled that of her brother.
With Albert was associated his brother Gebhard, and another member of the family was Johann Gebhard, elector of Cologne from 1558 to 1562.
When in 221 Molon, the satrap of Media, rebelled against Antiochus III., his brother Alexander, satrap of Persis, joined him, but they were defeated and killed by the king.
A Persian king, Artaxerxes, who was murdered by his brother Gosithros at the age of 93 years, is mentioned in a fragment of Isidore of Charax (Lucian, Macrobii, 15).
Sir William Howard of Lingfield, younger brother of the great admiral, carried on the Effingham line, his great-grandson succeeding to the barony on the extinction of the earldom.
Married in 1577 to one of the three co-heirs of the Lord Dacre of Gilsland he suffered under Elizabeth more than one imprisonment with his brother the unfortunate earl of Arundel.
After the death of his mother in 1463, and of her principal supporter, James Kennedy, bishop of St Andrews, two years later, the person of the young king, and with it the chief authority in the kingdom, were seized by Sir Alexander Boyd and his brother Lord Boyd, while the latter's son, Thomas, was created earl of Arran and married to the king's sister, Mary.
He was succeeded by his son who was followed on the throne by his brother, one of the great builders of Elam.
The Elamite king was dethroned and imprisoned in 700 B.C. by his brother Khallusu, who six years later marched into Babylonia, captured the son of Sennacherib, whom his father had placed there as king, and raised a nominee of his own, Nergal-yusezib, to the throne.
His brother Ummanmenan at once collected allies and prepared for resistance to the Assyrians.
The Assyrians pursued the Elamite army to Susa, where a battle was fought on the banks of the Eulaeus, in which the Elamites were defeated, Teumman captured and slain, and Umman-igas, the son of Urtaki, made king, his younger brother Tammaritu being given the district of Khidalu.
After his release he engaged in commerce at Hamburg with his brother Charles and the duc d'Aiguillon, and did not return to France until the Consulate.
The one claimed an existing kingdom, and obtained full possession of it in a comparatively short time; the other formed for himself a dominion bit by bit, which rose to the rank of a kingdom I Roger de Hauteville, the conqueror of Sicily, was a brother of the first four dukes or counts of Apulia, and was invested with the countship of Sicily by the pope before starting on his adventure.
Prince Mikhail Dmitrievich (1795-1861), brother of the last named, entered the Russian army in 1807 and took part in the campaigns against Persia in 1810, and in 1812-1815 against France.
He traced his descent from Pybba, the father of Penda, through Eowa, brother of that king, his own father's name being Thingferth.
He never recovered his elasticity of spirits, though he continued to occupy himself with his favourite pursuits, and to frequent the society of his brother philosophers.
Eorpwald, the son of Radwald, was converted to Christianity by Edwin, but was soon afterwards slain by Ricberht (627 or 628), whereupon the kingdom again became pagan for three years, when Sigeberht, the brother of Eorpwald, became king and founded a see for Felix at Dunwich.
Before 644, however, Sigeberht resigned the crown in favour of his brother Ecgric and retired to a monastery.
In 654 Anna was slain by Penda of Mercia, and was succeeded by his brother 2Ethelhere, who was killed in 655 at the Winwaed, fighting for the Mercian king against Oswio of Northumbria.
He dwells with great force upon the different treatment applied by Ford to the characters of the two miserable lovers - brother and sister.
The complicated plot is constructed with greater skill than is usual with this dramatist, and the pathos of particular situations, and of the entire character of Penthea - a woman doomed to hopeless misery, but capable of seeking to obtain for her brother a happiness which his cruelty has condemned her to forego - has an intensity and a depth which are all Ford's own.
So intensely aristocratic (hence his nickname 6 AoXoiSopos, "he who rails at the people") was his temperament that he declined to exercise the regal-hieratic office of 1 3avLAeus which was hereditary in his family, and presented it to his brother.
His successor, Basil, tried to get himself elected grand-prince of Lithuania when the throne became vacant by the death of his brother-in-law in 1506, but the choice fell on the late prince's brother Sigismund, who was likewise elected king of Poland.
Under the influence of the great nobles who had unsuccessfully opposed the election of Godunov, the general discontent took the form of hostility to him as a usurper, and rumours were heard that the late tsar's younger brother Dimitri (Demetrius), supposed The to be dead, was still alive and in hiding.
In reality the younger son of Ivan the Terrible had been strangled before his brother's death - by orders, it was said, of Godunov - and the mysterious individual who was impersonating him was an impostor; but he was regarded as the rightful heir by a large section of the population, and immediately after Boris's death in 1605 he made his triumphal entry into Moscow.
The heir to the throne was the late tsar's eldest brother, Constantine, but he declined, for private reasons, to accept the succession, and a few days elapsed before the second brother, I., Nicholas, was proclaimed emperor.
Nicholas was a blunt soldier incapable of comprehending his brother's sentimental sympathy with liberalism.
Beaufort and his brother Henry, bishop of Winchester, were opposed to Arundel and supported by the prince of Wales.
Arundel again became chancellor, and the king's second son, Thomas, took his brother's place.
The American engineer is more fortunately situated than his English brother with regard to the possibility of a solution, as will be seen from the comparative diagrams of construction gauges, figs.
Already during his brother's lifetime, as duke of Schleswig, Valdemar had successfully defended Denmark against German aggression.
Tiridates adopted the name of his brother Arsaces, and after him all the other Parthian kings (who by the historians are generally called by their proper names), amounting to the number of about thirty, officially wear only the name Arsaces.
On the 2nd Anne herself was committed to the Tower on a charge of adultery with various persons, including her own brother, Lord Rochford.
For a few months he worked as a legal reporter for the Cincinnati Times (owned by his brother C. P. Taft), and then for the Cincinnati Commercial.
He tried to mediate between his brother Philip the Bold of Burgundy and his nephew Louis, duke of Orleans, and later between John "sans Peur" of Burgundy and Orleans.
In 1248 he accompanied Louis in the crusade to Egypt, but on the defeat of the Crusaders he was taken prisoner with his brother.
In 41 B.C. her husband died, and she was married to Marcus Antonius, with the idea of bringing about a reconciliation between him and her brother.
His elder brother was drowned in the Thames in the following year; and in 1814, on the death of his father, he took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Auckland.
He took no part in the war, but his brother, who was an officer in the Prussian army, was killed in Bohemia.
His brother Domhnall (Donnell) was king of Ailech, a district in Donegal and Derry; the royal palace, the ruined masonry of which is still to be seen, being on the summit of a hill Boo ft.
Characteristically, she temporized; but finding that O'Neill was in danger of becoming a tool in the hands of Spanish intriguers, she permitted him to return to Ireland, recognizing him as "the O'Neill," and chieftain of Tyrone; though a reservation was made of the rights of Hugh O'Neill, who had meantime succeeded his brother Brian as baron of Dungannon, Brian having been murdered in April 1562 by his kinsman Turlough Luineach O'Neill.
The latter, as a counterpoise to Turlough, supported his cousin Hugh, brother of Brian, whom Turlough had murdered.
He succeeded his brother, Brian, when the latter was murdered by Turlough in 1562, as baron of Dungannon.
In Dublin, whither he proceeded with Mountjoy, he heard of the accession of King James, at whose court he presented himself in June accompanied by Rory O'Donnell, who had become chief of the O'Donnells after the departure of his brother Hugh Roe.
Owen Roe O'Neill (c. 1590-1649), one of the most celebrated of the O'Neills, the subject of the well-known ballad "The Lament for Owen Roe," was the son of Art O'Neill, a younger brother of Hugh, 2nd earl of Tyrone.
Through an elder line from Neill Mor was descended Brian Mac Phelim O'Neill, who was treacherously seized in 1573 by the earl of Essex, whom he was hospitably entertaining, and executed together with his wife and brother, some two hundred of his clan being at the same time massacred by the orders of Essex.
Dying unmarried, when the earldom therefore became extinct, Charles was succeeded as Viscount O'Neill by his brother John Bruce Richard (1780-1855), a general in the British army; on whose death without issue in 1855 the male line in the United Kingdom became extinct.
His brother resigned his rights of succession to his son, and Francis Joseph was proclaimed emperor.
His elder brother had been the husband of the heiress Sibylla; and on the death of Sibylla, who had carried the crown to Guy de Lusignan by her second marriage, Conrad married her younger sister, Isabella, now the heiress of the kingdom, and claimed the crown (1190).
This was Bonif ace of Montferrat, the younger brother of Conrad, who was chosen leader of the Fourth Crusade in 1201, on the death of Theobald of Champagne.
Here, thirteen years later, Herwig and her brother Ortwin find her washing clothes by the sea; on the following day they attack the Norman castle with their army and carry out the long-delayed retribution.
Israel was divided into two camps, until, on the death of Tibni and his brother Joram, Omri became sole king (c. 887 B.C.).
According to Assur-bani-pal all the western lands were inflamed by the revolt of his brother Samas-sum-ukin.
The Judaeans made Jehoahaz (or Shallum) their king, but the Pharaoh banished him to Egypt three months later and appointed his brother Jehoiakim.
Jehoiakim's brother, Mattaniah or Zedekiah, was set in his place under an oath of allegiance, which he broke, preferring Hophra the new king of Egypt.
When Seleucus was assassinated by Heliodorus, Antiochus IV., his brother, who had been chief magistrate at Athens, came xv.
His brother and deputy was killed in a serious riot, and an accusation was laid against Menelaus before Antiochus.
Jonathan, who succeeded his brother Judas, was captain of a band of fugitive outlaws.
The Sadducean nobility continued in power under his brother and successor Alexander Jannaeus (103-78); and the breach between the king and the mass of the people widened.
But Salome Alexandra, his brother's widow, who released him from prison on the death of her husband and married him, was connected with the Pharisees through her brother Simon ben Shetach.
When Aretas intervened in the interest of Hyrcanus and defeated Aristobulus, the usurper of his brother's inheritance, the people accepted the verdict of battle, sided with the victor's client, and joined in the siege of Jerusalem.
The king imposed a fine upon them, and the wife of PherorasHerod's brother - paid it on their behalf.
In violation of the Law he married a brother's widow, who had already borne children, and in general he showed himself so fierce and tyrannical that the Jews joined with the Samaritans to accuse him before the emperor.
As he was reading the Law at the feast of tabernacles he burst into tears at the words " Thou mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother "; and the people cried out, " Fear not, Agrippa; thou art our brother."
The emperor granted the petition, which indeed the procurator had permitted them to make, and further transferred the nomination of the high priest and the supervision of the temple from the procurator to Agrippa's brother, Herod of Chalcis.
A small pamphlet containing his Souvenirs 1848-1850 was published in 1901 by his brother Antoine Leon Philibert Auguste de Gramont, duc de Lesparre.
After the death of her father in 1767 she obtained permission to learn millinery and dressmaking with a view to earning her bread, but continued to assist her mother in the management of the household until the autumn of 1772, when she joined her brother William, who had established himself as a teacher of music at Bath.
When her brother accepted the office of astronomer to George III., she became his constant assistant in his observations, and also executed the laborious calculations which were connected with them.
Though she returned to Hanover in 1822 she did not abandon her astronomical studies, and in 1828 she completed the reduction, to January 1800, of 2500 nebulae discovered by her brother.
Philopator Philadelphus Neos Dionysus, nicknamed Auletes, the flute-player (80-51), setting his brother as king in Cyprus.
In that war the young king perished and a still younger brother, Ptolemy XiII.
On his accession, King George signed an act resigning his right of succession to the Danish throne in favour of his younger brother Prince Waldemar.
Other noteworthy peaks are Black Brother (6690 ft.) and Hairy Bear (6681 ft.), the next highest mountains.
Berthaire was killed by his brother Hermannfried, who took Radegunda and educated her, but was himself slain by the Frankish kings Theuderich and Clotaire (529), and Radegunda fell to Clotaire, who later married her.
She left him when he unjustly killed her brother, and fled to Medardus, bishop of Poitiers, who, notwithstanding the danger of the act, consecrated her as a nun.
He associated himself closely with his greater brother, the grand pensionary, and supported him throughout his career with great ability and vigour.
Compelled by illness to leave the fleet, he found on his return to Dort that the Orange party were in the ascendant, and he and his brother were the objects of popular suspicion and hatred.
Louis Charles became dauphin on the death of his elder brother on the 4th of June 1789.
Its style is mainly Early English, and among those buried here are Gower, Fletcher and Massinger, the poets, and Edmund, brother of William Shakespeare.
Elhanan of Bethlehem slew the giant Goliath of Gath, and David's own brother Shimei (or Shammah) overthrew a monster who could boast of twenty-four fingers and toes.
On the accession of her brother Edward, Æthelflaed and her husband continued to hold Mercia.
This noble queen, whose career was as distinguished as that of her father and brother, left one daughter, Ælfwyn.
The result was a whole series of wars with the Teutonic Order, which now acknowledged Swidrygiello, another brother of Jagiello, as grand-duke of Lithuania; and though Swidrygiello was defeated and driven out by Witowt, the Order retained possession of Samogitia, and their barbarous methods of "converting" the wretched inhabitants finally induced Witowt to rescue his fellow-countrymen at any cost from the tender mercies of the knights.
Henry Seymour Conway's elder brother, Francis, 2nd Baron Conway, was created marquess of Hertford in 1793; his mother was a sister of Sir Robert Walpole's wife, and he was therefore first cousin to Horace Walpole, with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship throughout his life.
The modern history of Tanjore begins with its conquest by the Mahrattas in 1674 under Venkaji, the brother of Sivaji the Great.
He gave strenuous support to the Spartans; evidently he had already then formed the design, in which he was supported by his mother, of gaining the throne for himself after the death of his father; he pretended to have stronger claims to it than his elder brother Artaxerxes, who was not born in the purple.
Of this school, which had Lagrange for its professor of mathematics, we have an amusing account in the life of Gilbert Elliot, 1st earl of Minto, who with his brother Hugh, afterwards British minister at Berlin, there made the acquaintance of Mirabeau.
Morland, and a new emir, Abbas, a brother of Alieu, installed.
Daniel was a frail but clever child, and his family made great sacrifices to give him and his elder brother Ezekiel a good education.
Their founder was Johann Conrad Beissel (1690-1768), a native of Eberbach and one of the first emigrants, who, after living as a hermit for several years on Mill Creek, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, founded the sect (1725), then again lived as a hermit in a cave (formerly occupied by another hermit, one Elimelech) on the Cocalico Creek in Pennsylvania, and in 1732-1735 established a semi-monastic community (the "Order of the Solitary") with a convent (the "Sister House") and a monastery (the "Brother House") at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster county, about 55 m.
The emperor, in acknowledgment, gave him the government of Judea, while the kingdom of Chalcis in Lebanon was at his request given to his brother Herod.
By the death of his elder brother, killed near Ticonderoga on the 6th of July 1758, he became Viscount Howe - an Irish peerage.
It was doubtless because of his known sentiments that he was selected to command in America, and was joined in commission with his brother Sir William Howe, the general at the head of the land forces, to make a conciliatory arrangement.
He considered that he had not been properly supported in America, and was embittered both by the supersession of himself and his brother as peace commissioners, and by attacks made on him by the ministerial writers in the press.
His Irish title descended to his brother William, the general, who died childless in 1814.
On the death of Ladislaus (1095), he returned to Hungary and seized the crown, passing over his legitimately born younger brother Almos, the son of the Greek princess Sinadene.
Five years later, however, fearing lest his brother might stand in the way of his heir, the infant prince Stephen, Coloman imprisoned Almos and his son Bela in a monastery and had them blinded.
In 1785 Bentham started, by way of Italy and Constantinople, on a visit to his brother, Samuel Bentham, a naval engineer, holding the rank of colonel in the Russian service; and it was in Russia that he wrote his Defence of Usury.
During nearly a quarter of a century he was engaged in negotiations with the government for the erection of a "Panopticon," for the central inspection of convicts; a plan suggested to him by a building designed by his brother Samuel, for the better supervision of his Russian shipwrights.
But although in his father's lifetime he several times filled the office of consul, and after his death was nominally the partner in the empire with his brother Titus, he never took any part in public business, but lived in great retirement, devoting himself to a life of pleasure and of literary pursuits till he succeeded to the throne.
The death of Titus, if not hastened by foul means, was at least eagerly welcomed by his brother.
At his brother's death he succeeded to his vacant chair in the Academy.
This is by no means the case; on the contrary, he is rather to be commiserated for his connexion with a brother who outshone him as he would have outshone almost any one.
Two are usually reprinted as his masterpieces at the end of his brother's selected works.
She refused all offers of marriage so that she might remain by the side of her brother, whom she loved passionately.
Like her brother, she had all the domestic virtues, and, as was to be expected of a sister of Louis XVI., she was in favour of absolutist principles.
From May 1820 till July 1821 Mill was in France in the family of Sir Samuel Bentham, brother of Jeremy Bentham.
His intervention in the west was solicited by Ptolemy, Ceraunus, who, on the accession to the Egyptian throne of his brother Ptolemy II.
Berenice's brother, Ptolemy III., who had just succeeded to the Egyptian throne, at once invaded the Seleucid realm and marched victoriously to the Tigris or beyond, receiving the submission of the eastern provinces, whilst his fleets swept the coasts of Asia Minor.
In Asia Minor his younger brother Antiochus Hierax was put up against him by a party to which Laodice herself adhered.
At Ancyra (about 235 ?) Seleucus sustained a crushing defeat and left the country beyond the Taurus to his brother and the other powers of the peninsula.
The true heir, Demetrius, son of Seleucus, being now retained in Rome as a hostage, the kingdom was seized by the younger brother of Seleucus, Antiochus Iv.
He failed to take Alexandria, where the people set up the younger brother of Philometor, Ptolemy Eurgetes, as king, but he left Philometor as his ally installed at Memphis.
When Demetrius was taken prisoner by the Parthians, his younger brother Antiochus Vii.
Grypus (141-96), who succeeded in 126 the younger brother of Seleucus V., the sons of Grypus, Seleucus VI.
Leaving Edward, now his only brother in blood and almost his equal in arms, in Galloway, he suddenly transferred his own operations to Aberdeenshire.
The enthusiasm of the nation he had saved forgot his tardy adhesion to the popular cause, and at the parliament of Ayr on the 25th of April 1315 the succession was settled by a unanimous voice on him, and, failing males of his body, on his brother Edward and his heirs male, or failing them on his daughter Marjorie and her heirs, if she married with his consent.
In the autumn of 1316 Robert came to his brother, and together they traversed Ireland to Limerick.
The hostility of Arran and his brother Archbishop Hamilton forced Mary into friendly relations with the lords who favoured the Protestant party.
The lords of the Congregation sought help from Elizabeth, while the regent had recourse to France, where an expedition under her brother, Rene of Lorraine, marquis of Elbeuf, was already in preparation.
The date of his birth has been disputed, and certain curious facts have been cited in proof of the assertion that he was born on the 7th of January 1768, and that his brother Joseph, who passed as the eldest surviving son, was in reality his junior.
Napoleon seconded his efforts, and soon they had the help of the third brother, Lucien, who proved to be most eager and eloquent.
For the present their means were very scanty, and, as the ardent royalism of his brother officers limited his social circle, he plunged into work with the same ardour as before, frequently studying fourteen or fifteen hours a day.
No one, said his younger brother Lucien, liked to thwart him.
General du Teil, younger brother of the baron, had recently published a work, L' Usage de l'artillerie nouvelle; and it is now known that Bonaparte derived from this work and from those of Guibert and Bourcet that leading principle, concentration of effort against one point of the enemy's line, which he had advocated at Toulon and which he everywhere put in force in his campaigns.
The situation was saved solely by the skill of his brother Lucien, then president of the Council.
In order to strengthen this compact, he arranged a marriage between the daughter of the king of Bavaria and Eugene Beauharnais; and he united the daughter of the Elector of Wurttemberg in marriage to Jerome Bonaparte, who had now divorced his wife, formerly Miss Paterson of Baltimore, at his brother's behests.
Here Arsaces and his brother Tiridates are derived from the royal house of the Achaemenids, probably from Artaxerxes II.; the young Tiridates is insulted by the prefect Agathocles or Pherecles; in revenge the brothers with five companions (corresponding to the seven Persians of Darius) slay him, and Arsaces becomes king.
He is killed after two years and succeeded by his brother Tiridates, who reigns 37 years.
He died early, and was succeeded not by one of his sons but by his brother, Mithradates I., who became the founder of the Parthian empire.
The Prussians and a Saxon contingent, commanded by Frederick the Great and his brother Prince Henry, were opposed to two Austrian armies under Loudon and Lacy.
Thus while among his own colleagues he seemed merely a hypocritical and arrogant priest, in his relations with his brother humanists, such as Cosimo de Medici, he appeared as the student of classical antiquities and especially of Greek theological authors.
The history of the false Smerdis is narrated by Herodotus and Ctesias according to official traditions; Cambyses before his death confessed to the murder of his brother, and in public explained the whole fraud.
Mrs Elizabeth Fry lived in a house in Upton Lane, on the confines of her brother's park.
In reply to this the French sovereign despatched Andrew as his ambassador to the great Khan Kuyuk; with Longjumeau went his brother (a monk) and several others - John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert "le sommelier," Gerbert of Sens, Robert a clerk, a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.
He was succeeded by his brother Isma`il b.
Menelaus succeededTyndareus, and Agamemnon,with his brother's assistance, drove out Aegisthus.
When Paris (Alexander), son of Priam, had carried off his brother's wife, he went round to the princes of the country and called upon them to unite in a war of revenge against the Trojans.
He was not jealous of brother friars because of their funds, instruments and materials for copying and their ability as skilled copyists.