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  • They were my brethren, my fellow beings, and I felt attracted even to the most repulsive among them, as to creatures of an angelic nature and celestial mechanism.  (source)
    brethren = fellow members of a community
  • He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.  (source)
    Brethren = brothers or members of the same group
  • Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren.†  (source)
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  • In the ballroom, they would join their brethren milling shoulder to shoulder, every other one of them puffing on a cigarette.†  (source)
  • You and your brethren possess something that is not yours.†  (source)
  • I no longer lingered after Friday prayer among my brethren.†  (source)
  • O brethren, Annie had yelled hi-de-ho until the whole yard was oogy.†  (source)
  • A small smudged sign beside it read: ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE FOUNTAIN OF MAGICAL BRETHREN WILL BE GIVEN TO ST MUNGO'S HOSPITAL FOR MAGICAL MALADIES AND INJURIES.†  (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)
  • For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.†  (source)
  • But because they can pass for human, they live in servitude to their hollow brethren, acting as scouts and spies and procurers of flesh.†  (source)
  • The catfish gobble up the guts of their fallen brethren.†  (source)
  • And Lot said unto the sinners who crowded at his door, I pray ye, brethren, do not do so wickedly!†  (source)
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