Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

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.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

These " abbots " are appointed by the brothers and sisters of Redwall to serve as a superior and provide paternal care, much like real abbots.

She had three elder brothers, Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and the future Emperor Caligula, and two younger sisters, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.

The first years of his reign were marked instead by internal disturbances between Afonso and his brothers and sisters.

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

Although one of his brothers became a clergyman and one of his sisters a missionary, Attlee himself is usually regarded as an agnostic.

Celibacy not only for religious and monastics ( brothers / monks and sisters / nuns ) but also for bishops is upheld by the Catholic Church traditions.

Suetonius writes that after the banishment of his mother and brothers, Caligula and his sisters were nothing more than prisoners of Tiberius under the close watch of soldiers.

His mother, surnamed Dan, died early in Deng's life, leaving Deng, his three brothers and three sisters.

It is not uncommon to find individuals who seemingly hold diametrically opposed beliefs within the same congregation affirming one another's journeys of faith as sisters and brothers in Christ.

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

Macaria, one of the daughters of Heracles, and her brothers and sisters hid from Eurystheus in Athens, ruled by King Demophon.

It is significant to him that the author notes that “ your brothers and sisters in all the world are undergoing the same kinds of suffering ” ( 5: 9 ), indicating suffering that is worldwide in scope.

May you be like the empress of your mother-in-law, father-in-law, sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law ( sisters and brothers of the groom ).

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

He had several sisters and two brothers, Hasdrubal and Mago.

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.

In ancient China, first cousins with the same surnames ( i. e., those born to the father's brothers ) were not permitted to marry, while those with different surnames ( i. e., maternal cousins and paternal cousins born to the father's sisters ) were.

A number of Goler children were victims of sexual abuse at the hands of fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, cousins, and each other.

Some jurisdictions forbid first-cousins to marry, while others limit the prohibition to brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles.

She invited him, his brothers, and his sisters to join her on meditation retreats.

He was born in 1591 at Büttgen in the duchy of Jülich as the eldest son with eight more brothers and sisters.

I'm going to become a good nurse, and I've got two baby brothers that are going to have college if I have to work at my profession until I'm an old maid to give it to them ''.

Police said the boys are natural brothers and were adopted as small children by the Dresbachs.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

However, the Greeks thought of the two qualities as complementary: the two gods are brothers, and when Apollo at winter left for Hyperborea, he would leave the Delphic oracle to Dionysus.

* 1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

His brothers are comedic actor Bob Einstein, better known by his stage name " Super Dave Osborne ," and Cliff Einstein, a partner and longtime chief creative officer at Los Angeles advertising agency Dailey & Associates.

By the end of Judges the Israelites are in a worse condition than they were at the beginning, with Yahweh's treasures used to make idolatrous images, the Levites ( priests ) corrupted, the tribe of Dan conquering a remote village instead of the Canaanite cities, and the tribes of Israel making war on the Benjamites, their own brothers.

There are no remaining descendants in male line from any other of Napoleon's brothers.

The Cheng brothers, Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao, are considered the founders of the two main schools of thought of Neo-Confucianism: the School of Principle the first, the School of Mind the latter.

The hosts of Car Talk are brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, known on the air as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.

His brothers are Damian Elwes, an artist, and Cassian Elwes, a producer and agent.

Kleobis and Biton, two brothers renowned for their strength, are modeled in two of the earliest known athletic statues at Delphi.

Football authority and College Football Hall of Fame coach David M. Nelson wrote that " E. B. Cochems is to forward passing what the Wright brothers are to aviation and Thomas Edison is to the electric light.

The brothers betrayal and execution are also mentioned in the book.

In Saxo's version, two brothers, Orvendil and Fengi are given the rule over Jutland by King Rørik Slyngebond of the Danes.

Hengist ( or Hengest ) and Horsa ( or Hors ) are figures of Anglo-Saxon, and subsequently British, legend, which records the two as the Germanic brothers who led the Angle, Saxon, and Jutish armies that conquered the first territories of Britain in the 5th century.

Other founding horse-associated twin brothers are attested among various other Germanic peoples, and appear in other Indo-European cultures.

After the brothers are brought before him, Vortigern looks over their company and observes that the brothers " excelled all the rest both in nobility and in gracefulness of person.

The Germanic peoples are attested as venerating a divine pair of twin brothers in several sources.

Various brothers are mentioned in Germanic legends as founding figures.

But Americans who serve today in West Berlin -- your sons and brothers --[...] are the Americans who are bearing the great burden.