A character might state he was an only child, yet later mention a sibling.

Eleanor had only one other legitimate sibling, a younger sister named Aelith but always called Petronilla.

Hadrian ’ s elder sister and only sibling was Aelia Domitia Paulina, married with the triple consul Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus, his niece was Julia Serviana Paulina and his great-nephew was Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, from Barcino ( Barcelona ).

The only remaining widespread uses of the Mach kernel are Apple's Mac OS X and its sibling iOS, which run atop a heavily modified Mach 3 kernel.

Her husband died of throat cancer on August 19, 1977 and her brother, her only sibling, died of cancer that November.

During these 9 years, the clock of the traveling twin in the screen seems to advance 3 years, so both twins see the image of their sibling aging at a rate only their own rate.

Caroline and her only full sibling, her younger brother Margrave William Frederick, left Ansbach with their mother, who returned to her native Eisenach.

His only surviving sibling was his sister Marie-Thérèse Charlotte de France, Madame Royale, who was not considered a candidate for the throne because of France's traditional adherence to Salic Law.

Three such sibling blades appear in The Revenge of the Rose and many more " brother blades " are seen in the novel Stormbringer, but only Mournblade and Stormbringer are named.

( 1 ) In Quebec, a child may be educated in English only if at least one parent or a sibling was educated in Canada in English.

Twin, sibling and other family studies indicate a partially heritable basis for impulsive aggression, but studies of serotonin-related genes to date have suggested only modest contributions to behavior.

Scrooge has only his nephew left but doesn't particularly care for him, likely due to Scrooge blaming him for his sister's death following childbirth ; in some retellings of the story Scrooge's father blames Ebenezer for causing his wife's death in childbirth with Fan as the older sibling.

In 1679, the 18-year-old Charles II married Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( 1662 – 1689 ), eldest daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans ( the only sibling of Louis XIV ) and his first wife Princess Henrietta of England.

Her only sibling, Francesco, succeeded their father as Duke upon his death in 1662, the year Mary turned four.

Her only full sibling, Rose Louise Hovick ( 1911 – 1970 ), was called " Louise " by her family members.

Walter having gained an English medical qualification, the Wintertons left Britain in 1948, arriving in Australia in November where Walter became a GP in Western Australia, first at Pingelly, then Mount Hawthorn ( North Perth ) and then, after the birth of George's only sibling, Peter, at Tuart Hill from 1953.

Like most characters, Moose has a sibling who is only featured a few times.

His only sibling, Henry " Pete " Bostwick, was killed in a car accident on June 20, 1973.

It appears that his father married twice and that among his numerous Claudian brothers and sisters, Clodius was a full sibling of only the two youngest girls, Claudia Metelli and Claudia Luculli.

Her only sibling, brother Nigel ( born 1952 ), works as a journalist for BBC Radio Bristol, having previously worked as a journalist in local newspapers since the 1970s.

However, throughout the series, viewers only see the sibling relationship from Helga's point of view.

He was the only surviving sibling of philosopher Jeremy Bentham, with whom he had a close bond.

Samuel Bentham was the only surviving sibling of Jeremy Bentham, five other siblings having died in infancy or early childhood, and their mother dying in 1759.

Adolescents with criminal siblings are only more likely to be influenced by their siblings, and also become delinquent, if the sibling is older, of the same sex / gender, and warm.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

He was only vaguely aware of the sluicing rain.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.