However, after Leah’s marriage to Jacob, Leah’s sister Rachel also became a primary wife to Jacob — a marriage arrangement known as sororal polygyny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zilpah: Bible.] Reference

At the same time, it's about domesticity and family and sororal bonding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy Wayne: Interview With Jami Attenberg, Author of "The Melting Season"] Reference

"Poor Angela," Daphne said, entirely in control of herself now, and to all appearances full of sororal concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farthing] Reference

Life in MIT dorms and fraternal/sororal organization is "normal" for people who live in MIT dorms, and for people in e.g.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs] Reference

Ironically, as the sororal voices drop away owing to irreparable feuds or lost letters or death, the surviving sisters become more serious and open.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.] Reference

Vintage very kindly offered to send me a set of twins of my own and I've spent a week wondering whether I'd get fraternal or sororal, or one of each.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vintage Twins] Reference

Juan responded fullchantedly to her sororal sono-rity, imitating himself capitally with his bubbleblown in his patapet and his chalished drink now well in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

Sitting there on the bed, with every appearance of sororal coziness, I confided my discoveries that our mother had had a hysterectomy and that she had been institutionalized after our births.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. O. U.] Reference

" Then, thinking of Suzy, he added, "Fate has sought to compensate for the shortcomings of my parents in the sister production department by supplying me with the sweetest, loveliest sororal surrogates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

These constituted arrangements based on sororal polygyny, whereby the Zhou king married twelve women at one time, the rulers of subordinate states, nine women, and aristocrats lesser numbers according to their rank. 25.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

In 1938, Roger Hollis joined MI5, the British internal security service, sister agency (not that sororal relations were always affectionate) to MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service: spy-catchers and spies respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digging for Moles] Reference

To tell if their relationship's sororal or sapphistical!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I love Jet Noise] Reference

How do you all do, amanuenses both -- marital and sororal?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

To tell if their relationship's sororal or sapphisti-phistical!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I love Jet Noise] Reference

Though his wife goes beyond her sororal pedigree: a professor at.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Stories | The New York Observer] Reference

A sororal spirit actuated our women, and while our greatest entertainment missed some of the mere display which had marked the social events in the Federal City, they were happier gatherings, for we were a people united in interest and in heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference

First! acolyte Allison are, improbably, sisters - equally improbable is the fact that they are the daughters of a United States senator - and here is how Volpi illuminates the paradox of their sororal bond: "They could fight, insult each other, even wound one another with the most powerful verbal weapons, . . . but they would never separate forever because they were tied together by an invisible chain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The neocon Jennifer and the Earth First! acolyte Allison are, improbably, sisters - equally improbable is the fact that they are the daughters of a United States senator - and here is how Volpi illuminates the paradox of their sororal bond: "They could fight, insult each other, even wound one another with the most powerful verbal weapons, ... but they would never separate forever because they were tied together by an invisible chain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

OK, they’re not identical twins, but sororal ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yes, it’s Kagan for SCOTUS] Reference

To tell if our relationship’s sororal or sapphistical.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “I Am the Very Model of a Usenet Individual” –] Reference

Nor is this the self-effacing sororal companion of the poet’s youth, and helpmeet and support of his sedate later life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cover to Cover] Reference

Fraterno-sororal consent is disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Keep it in the Family] Reference

To tell if our relationship's sororal or sapphistical).    From Wordnik.com.  [I love Jet Noise] Reference

"Well -- no -- not in those words," shuffled Kidd, perceiving quickly wherein his error lay, "but -- ah -- I jumped at the conclusion, seeing his intense enthusiasm for the lady's beauty and -- er -- intellectual qualities, that he referred to you, and it is from yourself that I have gained my knowledge as to the fraternal, not to say sororal, relationship that exists between you.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq.] Reference