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  • With the help of your Red brethren, you deceived us with technological tricks and ruses, infiltrating my own family.†   (source)
  • Unlike my brethren, I've been known to fall in love with mortals.†   (source)
  • I will use all the power bestowed on me to further justice, to be merciful, to honor the inherent rights of all peoples, to respect the peace between all nations, to rule with kindness and patience, and to seek the wisdom and council of my peers and brethren.†   (source)
  • The catfish gobble up the guts of their fallen brethren.†   (source)
  • He held me for over a century and, even now, still has two of my brethren, whom I would free if possible.†   (source)
  • If this renegade didn't always mix with his rebel brethren, if he kept to himself when not engaged in battle, at least he was on their side.†   (source)
  • Moan, brethren, moan, for l have no strength left; Freak as the reed-weak-feeble as my voice-Oh, oh, thepain, thepain of feebleness.†   (source)
  • As I suggested earlier, syphilis and its various brethren were off-limits for most of the nineteenth century, so any references needed to be in code, as here.†   (source)
  • Said Sullivan, "It soon became noticeable that he was progressively and grossly apologizing to the Eastern men for the presence of their benighted brethren of the West."†   (source)
  • And Lot said unto the sinners who crowded at his door, I pray ye, brethren, do not do so wickedly!†   (source)
  • Then I put my heart back in my chest, remembering all the stories and warnings about my brethren SEALS.†   (source)
  • He and his group, the Circle, killed dozens of their brethren along with hundreds of Downworlders during the last Accords.†   (source)
  • Deuteronomy is the only book of the Pentateuch that refers to a written Torah as comprising the divine will: 'And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, from that which is in charge of the Levitical priests; and it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LoRD his God, by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them; that his heart may not be lifted up above his brethren, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left; so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.'†   (source)
  • O brethren, Annie had yelled hi-de-ho until the whole yard was oogy.†   (source)
  • Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.†   (source)
  • My point is that God created a prototype for a reasonably sturdy carbon unit, gave us a perfectly usable place to live, some excellent advice, as in 'words to live by'—most of which are misunderstood by the least of my brethren—and stood back to see what we'd do with it.†   (source)
  • Then, after a punishing ocean swim, they would be presented with their Trident and deemed SEALs by their brethren.†   (source)
  • How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country.†   (source)
  • He lifted his hand and waved, and I felt my face flush as I put the pot holder back with its hideous brethren.†   (source)
  • Free the power within us so that, like the mighty felines of the wild, we know the lithe suppleness of our animal brethren and we are not bound by human chains or caged by their ignorant weaknesses.†   (source)
  • The war with "our brethren" in America was "unjust ...fatal and ruinous to our country," he declared.†   (source)
  • Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.†   (source)
  • When a traveling Klansman wanted to locate brethren in a strange town, he would ask for a "Mr. Ayak"—"Ayak" being code for "Are You a Klansman?"†   (source)
  • It was just that, unlike a lot of my brethren, I learned early on that there is no way to make someone want you if they don't.†   (source)
  • And Jesus told them: Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of my brethren, you have done it unto me.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't do for our Gallic brethren.†   (source)
  • "My brethren are never careless," Hallyne insisted.†   (source)
  • And, unlike my fickle brethren, I've stayed true for over two millennia—even throughout his long imprisonment!†   (source)
  • Indeed, even as they struggle to survive, their PT brethren hold a memorial service in their honor.†   (source)
  • For outshining our brethren in wisdom and skill.†   (source)
  • All of you, my brethren: Protect and embrace these two American brothers in our midst.†   (source)
  • His other brethren form up behind him, dancing and somersaulting with the zeal of acrobats at a carnival.†   (source)
  • Yell so our slow-to-anger brethren can hear you.†   (source)
  • Then Tappan would speak about the reclamation of souls for the Lord God, the need to "take our black brethren to our breast and provide them with the jewels of Christianity and civilized knowledge."†   (source)
  • They were all sophisticated Afrikaners, and far more open-minded than nearly all of their brethren.†   (source)
  • When the Satos and their unfortunate brethren were moved out in 1943, the track became Camp Santa Anita, a massive ordnance storage site and open-air Army barracks for thousands of soldiers.†   (source)
  • Tip him well, friends and brethren, for that which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.†   (source)
  • Master Kwang, he said before sliding shut the screen, may your presence here be a blessing to this house as you have been a blessing to our brethren in New York.†   (source)
  • It appears like this inheritance was designed by Providence for a band of brethren united by the strongest ties.†   (source)
  • Somehow it had gotten loose, and now wanted to rejoin its brethren in the shelter.†   (source)
  • I had a piece of intelligence that I needed to share with our French brethren about the bombing of the Weinberg Center.†   (source)
  • He knew that unless he wanted to stand by the golden eagle on a winter Sunday and watch his congregation freeze between the "dearly beloved brethren" and the blessing, he must manage somehow to nail plywood over the bare studding and insulation behind it.†   (source)
  • That is all of our kindred that could be gathered in haste; but the brethren Elladan and Elrohir have ridden with us, desiring to go to the war.†   (source)
  • The most interesting thing about it had to be the fact that the wires which held it in place were clean, untarnished, bright and gleaming at their ends, as if they had just recently been cut, unlike their more oxidized brethren everyplace else where the specimen had been wired.†   (source)
  • Ah, that son of Noah's had been cursed, down to the present groaning generation: A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.†   (source)
  • I will regard his offspring even as my own brethren and I will teach them this Art by precept, by lecture, and by every mode of teaching; and I will teach this Art to all others.†   (source)
  • The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.   (source)
  • The problem with the Fannie Mae and its GSE brethren is...
    brethren = members of the same group
  • and that the good old house where so many of the brethren had been cheered and helped, and from which so many had gone out strengthened for the fight, was still hospitably open for the stranger and wayfarer.   (source)
  • Nor have We been wanting in attention to our British brethren.   (source)
  • Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.   (source)
  • I zapped one demon into a tiger and unleashed him on his brethren.†   (source)
  • You would deny the sacrifices my clan makes to bring comfort to our brethren?†   (source)
  • Around his neck hung a heavy rope noose—a "cable-tow" as the brethren called it.†   (source)
  • I should make sure my brethren don't go too overboard with the root beer?'†   (source)
  • Staggering to his feet, he pictured his three murdered brethren.†   (source)
  • More Urgals soon tamped the pitch down and clambered out of the tunnels over their burned brethren.†   (source)
  • Compared to some of my brethren—I am small!†   (source)
  • My brethren here simply do not appreciate Dean Martin's music.†   (source)
  • Bad luck for those poor ants, singled out while minding their own business amongst their brethren.†   (source)
  • You never deigned to visit us before, we who are more your brethren than any in the Varden.†   (source)
  • Have you forgotten so soon that I am one of your brethren?†   (source)
  • Their brethren from the cafe were running up to join them.†   (source)
  • Despite Mal'akh's new rank, the brethren had told him nothing.†   (source)
  • You shall henceforth lead your brethren into war whenever required by the gods.†   (source)
  • Tonight, however, like the brethren bearing witness, he was dressed as a master.†   (source)
  • You will not find a place among your brethren.†   (source)
  • In fact, I imagine my brethren in London have repaired the damage by now.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that several hundred of its brethren had just died, it did not back down.†   (source)
  • My brethren would have found out the truth about you soon enough.†   (source)
  • And once the chains are cut ...my brethren will fight to stop your passage.†   (source)
  • We must stand together with our Greek brethren!†   (source)
  • That age-old weakness of brethren you always root out and you always use.†   (source)
  • Unlike our speechless brethren, we cannot read minds here in the Fortress.†   (source)
  • Whom she meant by false brethren, she did not say.†   (source)
  • The squirrels in the enormous pine screamed warnings to their brethren as they noticed her arrival.†   (source)
  • Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of my brethren, you have done it unto me.†   (source)
  • You will not find a place among your brethren.†   (source)
  • "Brethren," Zeus said, "we are healed, thanks to the work of these demigods.†   (source)
  • We are in perils by land, and we are in perils by sea, and in perils by false brethren.†   (source)
  • I leave that crass behavior to my gusty brethren in the north.†   (source)
  • We are your most perilous and dutiful brethren, the song of our hearts at once furious and sad.†   (source)
  • The First Nome must keep in contact with our brethren all over the world.†   (source)
  • You will not find a place among your brethren.†   (source)
  • But all my brethren are free now, all finding places in this modern world of yours.†   (source)
  • Forty feet tall, he towered over his brethren.†   (source)
  • They've always stirred up their brethren against the Romans.†   (source)
  • Leo's brethren from Cabin Nine hurried around, fitting everyone with armor and passing out weapons.†   (source)
  • Like all his brethren, he'd been imprisoned in Tartarus for eons.†   (source)
  • Like all my brethren, I was born to answer a certain god.†   (source)
  • I fear its roar will draw the others—my brethren, hunting you.†   (source)
  • And have you marked the brethren Elladan and Elrohir?†   (source)
  • Annabeth went to join her brethren from the Athena cabin, who had set up a command tent and were directing operations.†   (source)
  • He dodged behind the Fountain of Magical Brethren: the spell zoomed past him and hit the wroughtgold gates at the other end of the Atrium so that they rang like bells.†   (source)
  • Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.—PHILIPPIANS 3:13-14†   (source)
  • And if a fish were slightly faster and more intelligent than its brethren, would it be able to escape a hunting osprey?†   (source)
  • Go down to the Department of Mysteries and see...Dumbledore, you — you will need to tell me exactly — the Fountain of Magical Brethren — what happened?' he added in a kind of whimper, staring around at the floor, where the remains of the statues of the witch, wizard and centaur now lay scattered.†   (source)
  • Withdraw, brethren!†   (source)
  • Your demigod brethren will be outraged, especially when they find the bodies of these two from Camp Half-Blood.†   (source)
  • You might as well put a fence around sheep, wolves, and chickens, and tell them to behave like brethren.†   (source)
  • "Brother Price," he said, "don't you sometimes think about this, as you share the food of your Congolese brethren and gladden your heart with their songs?†   (source)
  • Tempest was a strong spirit, and every time he plowed through one of his brethren, he discharged so much electricity, the other spirit vaporized into a harmless cloud of mist.†   (source)
  • She walked forward until she stood alone in the midst of the lush grass, then cried in the ancient language, "Come forth, my brethren!†   (source)
  • His brethren all grabbed hammers and chisels, yelled, "PEANUT BUTTER!" and charged behind Tyson into battle.†   (source)
  • No taller than the rest of its brethren, it was thicker than a hundred regular trees combined; in comparison, they looked as puny as windblown saplings.†   (source)
  • My brethren will follow.†   (source)
  • The House of the Temple—known among its brethren as Heredom—had always been the crown jewel of the Masonic Scottish Rite in America.†   (source)
  • NOW, MY BRETHREN!†   (source)
  • They worked together to overpower the intruder, never faltering, even when two were caught and killed and when several of their brethren fell off the stem to the ground below.†   (source)
  • The Temple Room was the same place in which Peter Solomon and his brethren had so foolishly initiated Mal'akh as one of their own.†   (source)
  • Now the Masons' most sublime secret—something that most of the brethren did not even believe existed—was about to be unearthed.†   (source)
  • Its glorious message had been read by millions of his brethren in countless languages around the world.†   (source)
  • "Brethren," Peter's familiar voice declared, "in the name of the Great Architect of the Universe, I open this lodge for the practice of Masonry in the first degree!"†   (source)
  • The Iron Sisters, Clary knew, were the sister sect to the Silent Brothers; unlike their brethren, they did not have their mouths or eyes sewed shut but instead lived in almost total solitude in a fortress whose location was unknown.†   (source)
  • It seemed absurd that any of our brethren could prove susceptible to Galbatorix's poisonous whisperings.†   (source)
  • Then they will be my servants, and I will send them out to find their brethren in the world, and those who remain will be Turned or killed.†   (source)
  • The Iron Sisters, Clary knew from her studies, were the sister sect of the Silent Brothers; even more retiring than their brethren, they were in charge of crafting Shadowhunter weapons.†   (source)
  • "These facts have given the last stab to agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us renounce forever these unfeeling brethren," he had written.†   (source)
  • Some were clad in the cloth-of-silver vestments and crystal coronals that marked the Most Devout; their humbler brethren wore their crystals on thongs about their necks and cinched white robes with seven-stranded belts, each plait a different color.†   (source)
  • With a roar of delight, his brethren began to brandish their bells in a quick and savage beat, whipping the congregation into such a frenzy, they jumped and yelled as if they had taken leave of their senses.†   (source)
  • But as he looked at the six of them—three couples, all focused on each other—he thought about the warning from Nemesis, the revenge goddess: You will not find a place among your brethren.†   (source)
  • Mr. Stone had long been suspected of liberal tendencies; he was too friendly, some thought, with his Yankee brethren; he had recently emerged partially damaged from a controversy over the Apostles' Creed; and worst of all, he was thought to be ambitious.†   (source)
  • Adam returned to Hot Springs on March 23, met by the pallbearers he'd named in his CACO form: friends from his youth, Jeff Buschmann, Heath Vance, and Sean Merriott; his brother and brother-in-law, Shawn Brown and Jeremy Atkinson; and his SEAL brethren, Dave Cain, Austin Michaels, and Christian Taylor.†   (source)
  • I apologize deeply for my delay, but your recent adventures with the president of the Stokerton council have caused quite a stir in all of Elysia—indeed a stir that will not be easily settled, I think—and I have been engaged in numerous council meetings all over the world, discussing your fate and pleading with our brethren for a moment of open-mindedness.†   (source)
  • According to the Reverend William Gordon, Washington called on those within the sound of his voice to " 'remember it is the fifth of \ larch, and avenge the death of your brethren.'†   (source)
  • Some people reproach the Southern States for the barbarous policy of considering part of their human brethren as property.†   (source)
  • They fell locked in battle with Nephilim, and their faerie brethren turned to stare as one by one the Endarkened warriors' bodies dropped to the floor.†   (source)
  • Captain Roberts was a member of the Conducive Brethren, who accepted a version of the Gospel of St. Mary Magdalene as, well, gospel.†   (source)
  • I expect her to explain why she chose to take that dagger for me, but she just limps away, her brethren supporting her.†   (source)
  • I speak for the others but I do not command them, for while many of us were bonded with Riders, more were not, and our wild brethren acknowledge no authority but their own.†   (source)
  • "Apparently," he said, "apparently our brethren in the Northland are not content merely with the Supreme Court's activities.†   (source)
  • A young Irish nobleman, Captain Francis Lord Rawdon, wrote of the suffering of his men encamped on Bunker Hill in early December, their tents "so shattered" they could as well have slept on the open ground— "and we hear with some envy of several little balls and concerts which our brethren have had in Boston."†   (source)
  • The brethren of an evil ideology that spawned the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 claiming almost 3,000 innocent lives.... While the American media strives daily to erase the memory of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and paint this war as an unjust occupation of a sovereign nation, men like Mike and Nate are out here hunting down and destroying the enemies of the very freedom that allows our media to try and discredit us.†   (source)
  • And she could hear the high-pitched squeaks of frightened animals warning their brethren of her presence.†   (source)
  • Past a mountain, the name of which Eragon had forgotten, and the elven city of Osilon, and then trackless acres of pines, each unique and yet nearly identical to its countless brethren.†   (source)
  • Jem clipped invisible pince-nez to his nose, cleared his throat, and said, "The text for the day, my brethren, is from the Psalms: 'Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, 0 ye gates.'†   (source)
  • He lives now in the shadows, where he lures and enslaves the lesser of his brethren—the ghuls, the wraiths, the cave chits—to punish them for their betrayal so long ago.†   (source)
  • The last dwarf in line spat on the floor toward Eragon before filing through an archway and out of the hall along with his or her brethren.†   (source)
  • Then, making a slight but definite dash mark with her pen before continuing, as if to signify her own break from the past, she said, "Let us separate, they are unworthy to be our brethren."†   (source)
  • Two of his brethren charged forward, but Carter appeared behind them, sword drawn, and sliced them into piles of sand.†   (source)
  • Roran looked over at the Urgals, who were clustered around Yarbog, talking with him in low grunts while two of their brethren wiped the grease and grime from Yarbog's limbs.†   (source)
  • To the long list of indictments against the King, he had added oneassailing the English people, "our British brethren," as a further oppressor, for allowing their Parliament and their King "to send over not only soldiers of our common blood, but Scotch and foreign mercenaries to invade and destroy us."†   (source)
  • The eagles circled overhead, crying out as if to alert their brethren: Hey, some tasty Greek demigods over here!†   (source)
  • Leo had thought she'd meant Narcissus, but now he wondered if the real lesson for him was Echo—invisible to her brethren, cursed to love someone who didn't care for her.†   (source)
  • Let my brethren and I tend to her.†   (source)
  • His brethren looked in awe.†   (source)
  • But since Nasuada's stratagem does not seem to put either of you in unreasonable danger, and by means of this you may have the opportunity to further your learning in Ellesmera, neither I nor my brethren shall object.†   (source)
  • At the time I blamed everyone—the gods who used men to act out their petty quarrels, the Ptolemaic rulers who had driven Egypt into the ground, my own brethren in the House for becoming weak and greedy and corrupt.†   (source)
  • Any of your brethren who survive the war, Gaea has promised to me, so that I may watch them die slowly in my new domain.†   (source)
  • Bob faced his brethren.†   (source)
  • My brethren have risen.†   (source)
  • My brethren hunt you.†   (source)
  • He had made up the family Trumps, which permitted the willer to touch his brethren wherever they might be.†   (source)
  • In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren.†   (source)
  • And last of all Aragorn greeted Eomer of Rohan, and they embraced, and Aragorn said: 'Between us there can be no word of giving or taking, nor of reward; for we are brethren.†   (source)
  • Aragorn and his knights, and the people of Lorien and of Rivendell, made ready to ride; but Faramir and Imrahil remained at Edoras; and Arwen Evenstar remained also, and she said farewell to her brethren.†   (source)
  • And ever, after such an outpouring, oh, what a relief have I witnessed in those sinful brethren!†   (source)
  • Never, on New England soil had stood the man so honoured by his mortal brethren as the preacher!†   (source)
  • Some dark specks in the snow, like knots upon a little thread, beginning at the convent door and winding away down the descent in broken lengths which were not yet pieced together, showed where the Brethren were at work in several places clearing the track.†   (source)
  • One point in which he had vastly the advantage over his four-footed brethren was his ability to recollect the good dinners which it had made no small portion of the happiness of his life to eat.†   (source)
  • Surely the goods of this world, it occurred in an accidental way to Bishop to remark, could scarcely be directed into happier channels than when they accumulated under the magic touch of the wise and sagacious, who, while they knew the just value of riches (Bishop tried here to look as if he were rather poor himself), were aware of their importance, judiciously governed and rightly distributed, to the welfare of our brethren at large.†   (source)
  • One of his clerical brethren—it was the venerable John Wilson—observing the state in which Mr. Dimmesdale was left by the retiring wave of intellect and sensibility, stepped forward hastily to offer his support.†   (source)
  • Partly supported by Hester Prynne, and holding one hand of little Pearl's, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale turned to the dignified and venerable rulers; to the holy ministers, who were his brethren; to the people, whose great heart was thoroughly appalled yet overflowing with tearful sympathy, as knowing that some deep life-matter—which, if full of sin, was full of anguish and repentance likewise—was now to be laid open to them.†   (source)
  • After my fellowship of toil and impracticable schemes with the dreamy brethren of Brook Farm; after living for three years within the subtle influence of an intellect like Emerson's; after those wild, free days on the Assabeth, indulging fantastic speculations, beside our fire of fallen boughs, with Ellery Channing; after talking with Thoreau about pine-trees and Indian relics in his hermitage at Walden; after growin†   (source)
  • If, heretofore, I had been none of the warmest of partisans I began now, at this season of peril and adversity, to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilections lay; nor was it without something like regret and shame that, according to a reasonable calculation of chances, I saw my own prospect of retaining office to be better than those of my democratic brethren.†   (source)
  • Then, moreover, as regarded his unceremonious ejectment, the late Surveyor was not altogether ill-pleased to be recognised by the Whigs as an enemy; since his inactivity in political affairs—his tendency to roam, at will, in that broad and quiet field where all mankind may meet, rather than confine himself to those narrow paths where brethren of the same household must diverge from one another—had sometimes made it questionable with his brother Democrats whether he was a friend.†   (source)
  • They existed like eagles, to prey on weaker brethren.†   (source)
  • Surely these endured Hunger, Thirst, Cold, Nakedness, of a kind beyond any conception St. Paul and his brethren could have had.†   (source)
  • But Wang Lung was fearful of the picture and pondered as to why a foreigner had given it to him, whether or not some brother of this foreigner's had not been so treated and the other brethren seeking revenge.†   (source)
  • He had a powerful, rather emotional delivery, which carried to a great distance, and when he launched at the congregation his opening phrase in clear, emphatic tones: "Calamity has come on you, my brethren, and, my brethren, you deserved it," there was a flutter that extended to the crowd massed in the rain outside the porch.†   (source)
  • Then the young man departed to the place where his brethren were, and told them that he had not gotten water.†   (source)
  • Ex-Inspector Blore came my way quite naturally, some of my professional brethren discussing the Landor case with freedom and vigour.†   (source)
  • Friends, human pals, men and brethren, there is no brief, digest, or shorthand way to say where it leads.†   (source)
  • This was the white shield carried by unfledged knights, and Lancelot insisted on this arrangement because he knew that three of his own brethren of the Round Table were going to fight on the other side.†   (source)
  • "Go now," she said, "to thy brethren, and take with thee water; moreover, thine and thy children's for ever the kingdom and supreme power shall be.... And as at the first thou hast seen me ugly, brutish, loathly—in the end, beautiful—even so is royal rule: for without battles, without fierce conflict, it may not be won; but in the result, he that is king of no matter what shows comely and handsome forth.†   (source)
  • If they endured martyrdom, they died among their brethren, their relics were piously preserved, their names lived in the mouths of holy men.†   (source)
  • Brethren now are we the children of God.†   (source)
  • "My righteous brethren are at work again," she said, in scorn.†   (source)
  • She longed to see Guy Pollock, for the confirming of the brethren in the faith.†   (source)
  • The deuce only knows what I am thought of by the brethren.†   (source)
  • Exchanging looks that were half rebellious with his brethren, he saw fit to be silent.†   (source)
  • Brethren, execute upon him the judgment written.†   (source)
  • I also desire to live in amity with my professional brethren.†   (source)
  • Is there one of my brethren in whom you have equal confidence with myself?†   (source)
  • The people have heard of the sufferings of their brethren and have spoken.†   (source)
  • "Hear me, brethren," said the Greek, calming himself with an effort.†   (source)
  • 'One of our hungry brethren, I suppose, Smike.'†   (source)
  • Some o' the brethren at Treddles'on are displeased with her for that.†   (source)
  • I know it will not be long before he will say, Are any of my red brethren dry?†   (source)
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