Brother-jonathan Sentence Examples

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  • There he passed the next twelve years, becoming in 1785, through the retirement of his cousin, joint manager of the school with his elder brother Jonathan.

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  • If in his brother Jonathan it did not possess so brilliant a soldier, it had in him an astute diplomatist who knew how to exploit the internal troubles of Syria.

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  • This time he left the writing to his brother Jonathan Nolan, while he sat in director's chair once again.

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