"Speaking of which'this is my foster-brother, Keman.". From Wordnik.com. [Elvenborn]
"My prince and my foster-brother," said the maimed man. From Wordnik.com. [His Disposition] Reference
It was Mark Field, Antony's own man and foster-brother. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The Prince, in great anger, sent his foster-brother with. From Wordnik.com. [The Blue Fairy Book] Reference
Cyrenean, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
'An easy question: his own dear ardent foster-brother, Fer Diad Mac. From Wordnik.com. [Táin Bó Cúalnge. English] Reference
Foster-sister and foster-brother may marry, as Saxo notices carefully. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Jarmerik, meantime, with his foster-brother of the same age as himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Cei, the elder foster-brother with whom he had been brought up, was dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Wicked Day]
Chief's foster-brother -- who, ever since the visit to the cave had taken. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Diarmaid's foster-brother, killed him; and Maelmor was immediately slain. From Wordnik.com. [The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings] Reference
'Oh, let's have a little fun with him,' said Draig, Gwalchmai's foster-brother. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk Eternal]
The foster-brother in the East is held dear as, and often dearer than, kith and kin. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The relationship, like that of foster-brother, has its rights, duties and privileges. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Stagshawbank Fair, and had gleaned certain information of his foster-brother Alastair. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Donald kneeled down in the grave and kissed like a lover his foster-brother on the brow. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
And I missed my foster-brother Alcuin, who was too gentle a soul to have died as he did. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
The tears which his own fate could not draw forth fell fast for that of his foster-brother. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
Caswallon had been raised in the house of the Hunt Lord, Padris, as foster-brother to Cambil. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk Eternal]
Then was he a little wroth, and rode back wondering how he should obtain a sword for his foster-brother. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
I informed him through his foster-brother that I would speak to the army and strive to the best of my ability. From Wordnik.com. [De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Campaigns of Emperor Herakleios (620-6), according to the Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor] Reference
I bequeath also to the same good woman thirty guineas, for mourning for her and for her son, my foster-brother. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Avenel, who beheld with painful interest the sort of ordeal to which her foster-brother was about to be subjected. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
No relatives, I believe, were here, except Captain Davis, a foster-brother, belonging to the 2d Minnesota Regiment. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
Thus the position of foster-brother of a Rajput was an honourable one, even though the child might be illegitimate. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
It will be a great satisfaction to me to hear of your perfect recovery; and that my foster-brother is out of danger. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The newly-acquired tact and intelligence of her foster-brother was as yet insufficient to enable him to give an answer. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
Baxters, whose son was employed with his foster-brother, Charles Clairmont, in Constable's publishing house at Edinburgh. From Wordnik.com. [Biography in the DNB] Reference
He eventually has to fight and kill his best friend and foster-brother Ferdia and even his son Connla in the name of honor. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Another Quote from a Child Custody Case,] Reference
Now she had a foster-brother, by name Marzawán,283 who was travelling in far lands and absent from her the whole of this time. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Myself have seen and known even a baby envious; it could not speak, yet it turned pale and looked bitterly on its foster-brother. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
My older, more hyper, crazier dog, Ajax, mounts his foster-brother Boston when he's feeling vulnerable; it appears to reassure him. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 134] Reference
Mary Avenel, apprehending that you nourished malice against her foster-brother under a friendly brow, did advisedly send up the old man. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
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