sisterly kindness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : sisterly affection. From Dictionary.com.
There ought to be some kind of sisterly solidarity. From Wordnik.com. [Continuing the debate over sexual attraction, gender roles and power] Reference
I think you've begun to feel a kind of sisterly affection for Peter and would like to help him, just as much as I would. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary Of A Young Girl]
Lately, a new kind of sisterly love seems to be in the air. From Wordnik.com. [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference
That makes her grin a little, and she pats my hand kind of sisterly like. From Wordnik.com. [Shorty McCabe] Reference
Same-sex lovin 'between gals is "a new kind of sisterly love" and fashionable?. From Wordnik.com. [AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters] Reference
The piece starts out talking of the "new kind of sisterly love" that is "in the air,". From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The article outlines the "best friend" relationship, the "sisterly," relationship, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Blisstree] Reference
Don't expect sisterly uplift or gender generalizations. From Wordnik.com. [A Tough Sister Act] Reference
She moved up in a sisterly way to him and looked into his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Nell glanced at Falconer with a sisterly regard, and Drake said. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
Their sisterly affection for each other could scarcely be exceeded. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
"And Peace is to whistle," put in the small cherub with sisterly loyalty. From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
From pensive moods Esther rallies with pretty, dissembling, sisterly interest. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
“Okay, thanks for the sisterly advice,” Stacy said. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
Republicans convened in Philadelphia in a spirit of brotherly and sisterly love. From Wordnik.com. [Relaxation By Exhaustion] Reference
There had been nothing protective and elder-sisterly in her manner toward Marcia. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
And when Vito was sent to jail in 1998, Giusy, as she is known, did her sisterly duty. From Wordnik.com. [TALES OF A 'MAFIA MAMMA'] Reference
Now, with that bit of sisterly love out of the way, can they get on with the interview?. From Wordnik.com. [And Then There Were Three...] Reference
Her eyes were like clear blue pools but they mirrored only sisterly affection, he thought. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
With Evan she was all pity, all sympathy, full of familiar sisterly kindness and patience. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
It is the only thing I can do to show you how I appreciate your sisterly kindness toward me. From Wordnik.com. [A California Girl] Reference
I thought you would appreciate this sisterly attention more than rushing to greet you at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
There was nothing sisterly in it, nothing to remind either that the other had ever been beloved. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
"Probably not; however, you are so friendly, so sisterly, I might say, that I thought perhaps --". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
He believed she liked him, in a friendly sisterly sort of way, and that made him feel more hopeless. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
But, while admiring her sisterly devotion, Charles showed little disposition to yield to her solicitations. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Suiting her actions to her words, she wrote a long letter to Nell, pouring out her heart in sisterly fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Hill House] Reference
She never had any sisterly affection for me, although one of my eyes was a week longer getting open than hers. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
She was shy with the boys at first, but soon came to show them the same sisterly feeling that their sister did. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
She would part from him as an enemy who had taken advantage of her sisterly affection to inflict an insult upon her. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
This fact is immediately communicated to the stomach, which, in true sisterly fashion, mopes and sulks out of sheer sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
The meshes draw closer; now she promises a sisterly friendship: even that had been already invented in the fourteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
She treated him in a sisterly fashion that put to flight all sentimental illusions, but she had often to pacify his wounded vanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
'Whatever you do, dear,' she had said at parting, with her sisterly arms about his neck, 'you must not dream of following me to London. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
His tone had been kindness itself, the gentle kindliness that had won her childish sisterly love when first he began to visit her sister. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
Her treatment of Sophia was therefore marked by an air and tone of patronizing condescension, rather than by a tender, sisterly affection. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
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