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.

He suggested that they call on these brothers, who received them pleasantly.

Harold, with brothers Frank, Joe and William, took over at the death of their father, Harry M. Stevens, who put a few dollars into a baseball program, introduced the `` hot dog '' and paved the way for creation of a catering empire.

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.

Akira, who at this point planned to become a painter, moved in with him, and the two brothers became inseparable.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

* Salomon, a senator of great wealth who in 1106 engaged in a plot with four brothers of the Anemas family.

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.

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.

They have no misgivings about the death penalty ; their position is that evil-doers who deserve death should be killed, and that a king in particular is obliged to punish criminals and should not hesitate to kill them, even if they happen to be his own brothers and sons.

The locals got their revenge by setting fire to the new building, destroying its contents and in the process killing the three lay brothers who occupied it.

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

The charter had more than sixty signatories, including the brothers John, Nicholas and Moses of the Brown family, who would later inspire the College's modern name following a gift bestowed by Nicholas Brown, Jr.

In the Qur ' an, Benjamin is referred to as righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph.

This growing discontent was reflected in the continuing opposition of partisans of Carrera, who was executed by the Argentine regime in Mendoza in 1821, like his two brothers were three years earlier.

With Constantine ’ s death in 337, Constans and his two brothers, Constantine II and Constantius II divided the Roman world between themselves, after first deposing of virtually all of the relatives of their father who could possibly have a claim on the throne.

" I tell you the truth ," Jesus said to them, " no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life.

The youngest of three siblings, she had two older brothers: Richard ( who died before her birth ) and Paul, several years older.

Draugr also exhibit an immense and nearly insatiable appetite, as shown in the encounter of Aran and Asmund, sword brothers who made an oath that if one should die, the other would sit vigil with him for three days inside the burial mound.

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.

Although Zurvanism had died out by the 10th century the critical question of the " twin brothers " mentioned in Yasna 30. 3 remained, and Haug's explanation provided a convenient defence against Christian missionaries who disparaged the Parsis ( Indian Zoroastrians ) for their ' dualism '.

He has two brothers, Humberto Ortega, former General, military leader and published writer, and Camilo Ortega, who died during combat in 1978.

Beatty's other brothers were Charles Harold Longfield ( 1870 – 1917 ) who served with distinction in the South Africa wars before dying from complications after losing an arm in Flanders, Richard George ( 1882 – 1915 ) who died on active service in India, William Vandeleur Schruder ( 1873 – 1935 ) who became an army Major and Newmarket horse trainer, and one sister Kathleen Roma ( 1875 –).

In the 19th century, long after the demise of the other branches, the family claimed name and title of Counts Báthory, since their ancestor Michael had never consented to the sale conducted by his brothers, and in 1852 the Russian government confirmed the legitimacy of their claims.

The brothers Ahmad and Nasr conducted different policies towards the Ghaznavids in the South-while Ahmad tried to form alliance with Mahmud of Ghazna, Nasr attempted to expand, unsuccessfully, into the territories held by Ghazvanids.

Extensive breeding programs to bring back the aurochs were conducted by the German brothers Lutz and Heinz Heck.

A scientific advisor for the company, David A. Morton, PhD ( whose brothers Joe and Gordon helped found the company ), made the unfounded statement in 2006 that " emerging evidence that mangosteen has anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-microbial properties " exists, yet acknowledged the only study of humans consuming mangosteen pulp juice was conducted as a test of dysentery therapy in Singapore in 1932.

Later, ' Gypsy ' Smith himself and his brother Ezekiel conducted evangelical meetings at the church, one of the very rare occasions when the two brothers appeared on the same platform.

In one sense, it was only fitting that Crossfield conducted this experimental flight training because all pilots in this project had to unlearn their considerable flying experience and learn forgotten Wright brothers techniques.

A survey conducted around 2006 showed that 68. 2 % of respondents considered " blood " the most important criterion of defining the Korean nation, and 74. 9 % agreed that " Koreans are all brothers and sisters regardless of residence and ideology.

After the press widely reported that Ron had received a revelation to kill Brenda and Erica, the Lafferty brothers conducted a recorded press conference at which Ron pointed out that the " revelation " was not addressed to him, but to " Todd " drifter whom Ron had befriended while working in Wichita, Kansas and that the revelation called only for " removal " of Brenda and her baby and did not use the word, " kill.

Unusually, he conducted many prosecutions in person, including that of the Hosein brothers for kidnapping and murdering Muriel McKay ( whom they had mistaken for Rupert Murdoch's wife ).

In late 1894 or early 1895, Dickson became an ad hoc advisor to the motion picture operation of the Latham brothers, Otway and Grey, and their father, Woodville, who ran one of the leading Kinetoscope exhibition companies.

McLamore had visited the original McDonald's hamburger stand belonging to the McDonald brothers ; sensing potential in their innovative assembly line-based production system, he decided he wanted to open a similar operation of his own.

The brainchild of brothers Harold Toppel and George Toppel, Pueblo began as a single store operation on Roosevelt Avenue in the Puerto Nuevo section of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

From there the brothers soon moved, briefly, to a tiny ground floor + mezzanine operation in the Maynard House apartment building, on the southwest corner of William and Maynard Streets.

Needing water for the operation, the industrious brothers leased a woolen mill that stood on the Pascack Brook.

As the Bray theatrical operation started to diminish, the brothers began their own studio in 1921.

Using contacts from among the Montoneros ' many double agents ( allegedly including the leader, Mario Firmenich ), the agency kept the Born brothers in a known SIDE safehouse for nine months until their June 1975 release without public suspicion of SIDE involvement, a successful false flag operation that led to others ( albeit less ambitious ones ) in the following months.

The brothers had told Kroc that they were giving the operation, property and all, to the founding employees.

Rounds's brothers ), changed state law to allow for operation of small-scale ( 50, 000 gallons / year / facility ) liquor distilleries in the state.

The brothers opened a combination candy store, ice cream parlor, and manufacturing operation there in 1914.

The City Gas Company was founded in April 1870 by the Bank of California to compete with the gas monopoly held by the Donahue brothers ' operation.

Several of the five brothers ' first cousins, including the sons of Sam's youngest sibling Barney Schwartz and the sons one of Lena's cousins, also joined the operation.

Since the late 1960s, the Vario brothers had ventured into the junkyard business, most likely a front for a chop shop operation and would use an on-site trailer as an office to discuss business -- legal and illegal.

The Mayer brothers, later of Mayer China Company took over its operation in 1881 and he was no longer needed.

Also owned by this society is No. 70 Poplar ( usually running as K & ESR No. 3 Bodiam ), which was initially purchased by the Wheels brothers of Brighton in 1964 from BR, and was used in the early years of operation on the original Kent and East Sussex Light Railway as well as on the same restored heritage railway.

The brothers were distinguished by their commitment to the fledgling operation ; sleeping, if need be, on the counters of the store.

The brothers ( disguised as a nurse ) steal it after a surgeon removes it during an emergency operation.

Costa Coffee was founded in London in 1971 by the Italian brothers Sergio and Bruno Costa, as a wholesale operation supplying roasted coffee to caterers and specialist Italian coffee shops.

After the firm ceased operation, the family fortune was rapidly spent by Alden Weston's two brothers while Alden lived an austere lifestyle in the King Caesar House.