It also applies to the half-brother and half-sister. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
Susan was our half-sister by our Pa's last marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
I was heartily thankful that she was only a half-sister to. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
"First, let me ask if flattery is not half-sister to falsehood?". From Wordnik.com. [Medoline Selwyn's Work] Reference
Amsterdam and Troy, subsequently sending him to my half-sister at. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
Oh, that IS modest (becomes half-sister giddy half-sisterébouler). From Wordnik.com. [Kog Zadare, only living person...] Reference
It came from the wife of the Sheriff, who was a half-sister of the Turners. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The girl had the seductiveness of her half-sister, Judith, without a hint of. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
You hate her, even though she is your half-sister, but I find her enchanting. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
Sensibility was the sister of sentimentality and the half-sister of sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Mackenzie's half-sister, singer China Phillips says she believes it did happen. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2009] Reference
My half-sister at Sidney was sent for, came to Catskill, and became bail for me. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
THOMAS: And so Kathleen began a quest to search for her long - lost half-sister. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2002] Reference
About three years ago, his older half-sister was killed in an automobile accident. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2005] Reference
Tewkesbury, and his half-sister, Maud or Matilda, played the parts we know so well. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
Missouri and found her sister and half-sister and her mother and brother or cousin. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6] Reference
He had a half-sister much younger than himself who once visited here on her way South. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
Ma hated to leave Miss Rebecca Bowen 'cause in the first place she was her half-sister. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
My half-sister say I must always remember de Christmas day cause dat de day I was born. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
Marie Wieck, won some fame as a pianist, but was far surpassed by her elder half-sister. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
HENRY: The mayor added he spoke to the president's half-sister about renaming the beach. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2010] Reference
More modeling pics of Kendall Jenner, 14-year-old half-sister to the Kardashians, are out. From Wordnik.com. [Kendall Jenner In New Modeling Pics (PHOTOS)] Reference
She could not work now, and she went to board with her half-sister, the Deerfield tailoress. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
And, after they figured this out, information got out, and a half-sister came forward as well. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2009] Reference
Since among the Athenians it was lawful to marry a half-sister, if not born of the same mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
In the house only Duncan and his half-sister Della survived; they in fact escaped the contagion. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
ELIZABETH, daughter of Henry VIII. by Anna Bullen, his second wife, succeeded her half-sister Mary. From Wordnik.com. [A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses] Reference
He's only a half-brother-in-law, because she is only a half-sister to me, her ma marrying my old man. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920] Reference
Byron (1783-1851), the poet's half-sister, who, in 1807, married her first cousin, Colonel George Leigh. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
In 1462, however, his son Jacques married Louis's half-sister, Charlotte de Valois, daughter of Agnes Sorel. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Worthington, Mass., where I had another half-sister, who was married to Mr. Josiah Bartlett, and was well off. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
In the following year she might be seen in a hand-carriage with her half-sister, the Princess Feodora of Leiningen. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901] Reference
So I began life anew, in Worthington, as a Doctor, and aided by my half-sister and her friends, I soon secured a remunerative practice. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story] Reference
Upon his departure from the Netherlands Philip entrusted their government to his half-sister, Margaret, Duchess of Parma, as Regent. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
The following morning the post brought news of the sudden death of the half-sister at Lahore with whom I had stayed on my way to Peshawar. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
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