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.

Papa was disappointed that none of the brothers had heard the Call.

The Fisher Body division, long controlled by the Fisher brothers under a voting trust even though General Motors owned a majority of its stock, followed an independent course for many years, but by 1947 and 1948 `` resistance had collapsed '' and its purchases from Du Pont `` compared favorably '' with purchases by other General Motors divisions.

The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.

Dickens suggests the economic evils of such a society on the first page of his novel in the description of Pip's five little dead brothers `` who gave up trying to get a living exceedingly early in that universal struggle '', who seemed to have `` all been born on their backs with their hands in their trousers-pockets, and had never taken them out in this state of existence ''.

They were disturbed by his idiotic bravado -- as, when his bodyguard, Yankee Schwartz, complained that he had been snubbed by Dave Miller, a prize-fight referee, chieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose beer-running league with Torrio and O'Banion, Frank, a policeman, and Max, the youngest.

As for the night being warm, he would have been comfortable naked on Mount Everest but his water brothers had little tolerance for changes in temperature and pressure ; ;

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

Andy Warhol had two older brothers — Pavol ( Paul ), the oldest, was born in Slovakia ; Ján was born in Pittsburgh.

From the marriage of Julia and Agrippa, Agrippina had four full-blood siblings: a sister Julia the Younger and three brothers: Gaius Caesar, Lucius Caesar and Agrippa Postumus.

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

Alcmene refused to marry Amphitryon until he had avenged the death of her brothers.

Thebe, Alexander's wife and cousin ( or half-sister, as the daughter of Jason of Pherae ), concealed her three brothers in the house during the day, had the dog removed when Alexander had gone to rest, and, having covered the steps of the ladder with wool, brought up the young men to her husband's chamber.

Together with his father and brothers, Alexios had conspired against Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos ( c. 1183 ), and thus he spent several years in exile in Muslim courts, including that of Saladin.

However, his succession could not have been foreseen at the time, as Alfred had three living elder brothers.

Alfonso requested support from Braccio da Montone, who was besieging Joan's troops in L ' Aquila, but had to set sail for Spain, where a war had broken out between his brothers and the Kingdom of Castile.

Adalbert had five full brothers: Soběslav ( Slavnik's heir ), Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej, Čáslav and a half-brother Radim ( Gaudentius ) from his father's liaison with another woman.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

Upon the death of the king his father, Pandion II, Aegeus and his three brothers, Pallas, Nisos, and Lykos, took control of Athens from Metion, who had seized the throne from Pandion.

Before his death in Herat, on June 9, 1863, Dost Mohammad Khan had nominated as his successor Sher Ali Khan, his third son, passing over the two elder brothers, Afzal Khan and Azam Khan.

Benjamin had two younger brothers, John and Richard, who both went on to become distinguished artists.

Palfrey's brothers each received lots of sixteen Negroes, and for bookkeeping purposes it was agreed that all lots were to be valued at $6,666.66.

Dinah's brothers, Simeon and Levi, agreed in Jacob's name to permit the marriage as long as all the men of Shechem first circumcised themselves, ostensibly to unite the children of Jacob in Abraham's covenant of familial harmony.

In 1682, the family agreed to adopt the principle of primogeniture, meaning George would inherit all the territory and not have to share it with his brothers.

To strengthen his claim and unite the two feuding nobel houses, Elizabeth and Margaret agreed that Henry should marry Edward IV and Elizabeth's oldest daughter, Elizabeth of York, who upon the death of her brothers became the Yorkist heiress.

Władysław agreed to divide the realm between the brothers, each to be granted his own province while he himself kept control of Mazovia and its capital at Płock.

Władysław I Herman, however, agreed to divide the realm between the brothers, each to be granted his own province while the Prince – Władysław I himself – kept control of Mazovia and its capital at Plock.

During a popular assembly, attended by both princes, it was agreed that none of the brothers would conduct war, sign peace treaties, or enter into alliances without the agreement of the other.

The NHL rejected the request and instead agreed to award an expansion franchise, the San Jose Sharks, to the Gund brothers.

In Sophocles ' account, the two brothers agreed to alternate rule each year, but Eteocles decided not to share power with his brother after his tenure was expired.

Hearing this, the brothers agreed to declare martial law effective on the next day, without consulting the cabinet.

Instead of fighting a civil war, the Ptolemy brothers agreed to rule Egypt jointly.

On the death of Charibert in 567, his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris.

The Payne brothers focused on the Queens and Kilkenney counties, and provided transportation, employment and homes to those who agreed to move.

The Koch brothers agreed to drop two lawsuits.

After his father's death on September 11, 1063, Ladislaus and his brothers agreed to accept the rule of their cousin who had come back followed by German troops, if they received their father's former duchy.

At 8pm EST on Friday 14 January 2011 the latest attempt at the longest hand-shake commenced in New York Times Square and the existing record was smashed by semi-professional world record-breaker Alastair Galpin and Don Purdon from New Zealand and Nepalese brothers Rohit and Santosh Timilsina who agreed to share the new record after 33 hours and 3 minutes.

The Bruce brothers agreed, on condition that they would support Edward as King of Ireland, as the brothers envisaged themselves as separate rulers of Scotland and Ireland, while Robert would regain Man and Edward possibly making an attack on Wales, with Welsh support.

After an interview in which the Guinness directors enjoyed testing the twins ' knowledge of records and unusual facts, the brothers agreed to start work on the book that became The Guinness Book of Records in 1954.

After an interview in 1954 in which the Guinness directors enjoyed testing the twins ' knowledge of records and unusual facts, the brothers agreed to start work on the book that would become the Guinness Book of Records.

An ABC News story in March 2002 repeated this, and during a report entitled " A Saudi Apology " for Dateline NBC on Aug 25 2002, NBC reporter John Hockenberry traveled to ' Asir, where he interviewed the third brother, Salah, who agreed that his two brothers were dead and claimed they had been " brainwashed ".

In 1885 the Kidson brothers decided to retire, and agreed to merge the firm with the Clydesdale Bank.

Even when uttered erroneously, their mother's word was supreme for the Pandavas, who then agreed to " share " the princess, who was subsequently married to all five brothers.

Batu eventually agreed to send his brothers and generals to the kurultai which Toregene convened in 1246.