It is on them alone that the future of their race depends, for all their relatives ( mothers, husbands, brothers, and unmated sisters ) have perished with the arrival of the cold weather.

However her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature.

Anne would have seen Weightman on her holidays at home, particularly during summer 1842 when her sisters were away.

If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.

" In a letter to his sisters in Oxford, England, Pasternak claimed to have finished translating one of Calderon's plays in less than a week.

* Two clades are sisters if they have an immediate common ancestor.

The reverse shows Caligula's three sisters, Agrippina, Drusilla and Julia Livilla, with whom Caligula was rumoured to have carried on incestuous relationships.

Graves's Caligula commits incest with all three of his sisters and is implied to have murdered Drusilla.

" Her father did have a natural aptitude for drawing and the sisters were charmed by his whimsical sketches of animals.

Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God, such as have both predicted things to come, and have made manifest the secrets of the heart ; let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer -- only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him ; let him show to me also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community has ever prophesied from amongst those specially holy sisters of his.

It is clear things have drastically changed: Gerald has lost his mind, Scarlett's mother is dead, her sisters are sick with typhoid fever, the field slaves left after Emancipation, the Yankees have burned all the cotton and there is no food in the house.

One consequence of haplodiploidy is that females on average actually have more genes in common with their sisters than they do with their own daughters.

In the tragedy, Iolaus, Heracles ' old comrade, and his children, Macaria and her brothers and sisters have hidden from Eurystheus in Athens, which was ruled by King Demophon ; as the first scene makes clear, their expectation is that the blood relationship of the kings with Heracles and their father's past indebtedness to Theseus, will finally provide them sanctuary.

Despite the act of incest being unacceptable within the Roman Empire, Roman Emperor Caligula is rumored to have had sexual relationships with all three of his sisters ( Julia Livilla, Drusilla, and Agrippina the Younger ).

Male rats have been recorded engaging in mating with their sisters, but they tend to prefer non-related females over their sisters.

An Italian nun named Sister Benedetta Carlini was documented to have seduced many of her sisters when possessed by a Divine spirit named " Splenditello "; to end her relationships with other women, she was placed in solitary confinement for the last 40 years of her life.

Facsimile of the first page of Macbeth from the First Folio, published in 1623Scholars also cite an entertainment seen by King James at Oxford in the summer of 1605 that featured three " sibyls " like the weird sisters ; Kermode surmises that Shakespeare could have heard about this and alluded to it with the weird sisters.

He is thought to have had two sisters, one married to Vykintas and another to Daniel of Halych.

His advisers, however, told him that he could not disinherit only one of his sisters, but that he would have to disinherit Elizabeth as well, even though she embraced the Church of England.

Carroll and the sisters got there first, as they walked the fastest.

He grew up there with his two sisters and his parents: William and Mary Carew Eccles ( both teachers, who home schooled him until he was 12 ).

The Latin inscription on their tomb, Regno consortes et urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis ( affixed there by James VI of Scotland when he succeeded Elizabeth as King James I of England ) translates to " Consorts in realm and tomb, here we sleep, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters, in hope of resurrection ".

" He recalled a conversation with Margaret, in which she discussed her public notoriety, saying, " It was inevitable: when there are two sisters and one is the Queen, who must be the source of honour and all that is good, while the other must be the focus of the most creative malice, the evil sister.

He also passed the first law towards gender equality in Sweden when he in 1845 declared that brothers and sisters should have equal inheritance, unless there was a will.

Yet close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes ’ s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly " writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not ' Bloomsbury ': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole ".

In May 1981, two spotted sisters gave birth there and each litter contained one king cheetah.

The relationship between the sisters is on the mend but there is obvious discomfort between Hank and Eddie.

He points to the fact that in The Shrew, there is only eleven lines of romance between Tranio and Bianca, but in A Shrew, there is an entire scene between Kate's two sisters and their lovers.

While being booked into jail, she listed her occupation as " Urban Guerilla " and asked her attorney to relay the following message: " Tell everybody that I'm smiling, that I feel free and strong and I send my greetings and love to all the sisters and brothers out there.

The mass grave near Ekaterinburg which held the remains of the Tsar, his wife, and three daughters was revealed in 1991, but the bodies of Alexei Nikolaevich and one of his sisters — either Anastasia or her older sister Maria — were not discovered there.

Following the rise of the Nazi Party and the annexation of Austria, Paul tried to persuade his sisters Helene and Hermine to leave Vienna, but they demurred: they were attached to their homes there, and could not believe such a distinguished family as theirs was in real danger.

From there he and Gretl, with some assistance from Ludwig ( who acquired British nationality in 1939 ), managed to use family finances ( mostly held abroad ) and legal connections to attain non-Jewish status for their sisters.

The violinist Yehudi Menuhim lived there as a boy ; the actresses Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland ( sisters ) were graduates of Los Gatos High School, John Steinbeck wrote Grapes of Wrath there, and Beat hero Neal Cassady lived there in the 1950s.

Maxene Andrews remembers visiting Costello with sisters Patty and LaVerne during his illness, and she also remembered how Costello's demeanor changed after the tragic loss of his son, saying, " He didn't seem as fun-loving and as warm ... He seemed to anger easily ... there was a difference in his attitude.

In 1436 when Jasper was about five years of age his mother Catherine of Valois once again was expecting another child, however she realised that she was dying from an illness, probably cancer, and sought the help of Bermondsey Abbey to be nursed by the sisters there.

Sam manages to get there first and warns Oda Mae and her two sisters, who quickly escape and take refuge in a neighbor's apartment.

Waynesboro is home to Renfrew Museum and Park, an historical museum depicting 18th century farm life, named after two young sisters who reputedly died there in 1764 during an Indian attack.

It is usually the rule for Scotland and baronies by writ in the United Kingdom ; although baronies by writ go into abeyance if there are several surviving sisters or their legitimate descendants.

His mother, Ramdulari Devi, took him and his two sisters to her father's house and settled down there.

It has been argued that the approach of Mrs Gaskell transferred the focus of attention away from the ' difficult ' novels, not just Charlotte's, but all the sisters, and began a process of sanctification of their private lives.

Enya has four brothers and four sisters, several of whom formed the band An Clann As Dobhar in 1968.

* Only place that both names his brothers and mentions his sisters (; Matthew has a slightly different name for one brother ).

She has two younger sisters named Heather ( born 1981 ) and Jennifer ( born 1984 ), who are also actresses.

It soon becomes apparent that Mr Collins has come to Longbourn to choose a wife from among the Bennet sisters ( his cousins ) and Elizabeth has been singled out.

In the name of Mary, who has obtained for me the favour of appealing to you, help me !” At that moment he disappeared and St. Lutgarda informed her sisters of what she had seen.

She has older sisters Kathy and Karen, and a younger brother Steven.

As with her fictional sisters, Belldandy and Urd, Skuld has her origins in Norse mythology.

She has a pair of sisters, the joyless Patty and Selma, both of whom vocally disapprove of Homer.

He has two sisters, Sue Elizabeth ( born 1966 ) and Lucy Katherine ( born 1969 ).

Iolanthe tells her sisters that she has a son, a half-fairy, half-human named Strephon (" He's a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are mortal ").

On 27 December Radio Kabul broadcast Karmal's pre-recorded speech, which stated " Today the torture machine of Amin has been smashed, his accomplices – the primitive executioners, usurpers and murderers of tens of thousand of our fellow countrymen – fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters, children and old people ..." On 1 January Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet Chairman of the Council of Ministers, congratulated Karmal on his " election " as leader, before any Afghan state or party organ had elected him to anything.

Plug has two sisters named Plugella and Plugena who look just like him but wearing women's clothes.

In fact Binoche has nicknamed her characters from this period as her " sorrowful sisters ".

Albany has developed a conscience-he is disgusted by the sisters ' treatment of Lear, and the mutilation of Gloucester, and denounces Goneril.

The two sisters lust for Edmund, who has inadvertently made promises to both.

The Baddeley family has remained active in British theatre ever since, including the 20th Century actress sisters Angela & Hermione Baddeley.

It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth .” Little Women has been read “ as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well .” Alcott “ combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children ’ s fiction, creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model .” Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the “ American Girl ” and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.

The second-oldest of four sisters, Josephine March is a tomboy ; Mr. March has referred to her as his " son Jo " in the past, and her best friend Laurie sometimes calls her " my dear fellow.

As her sisters grow up they begin to leave home, but Beth has no desire to leave her house or family.