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 ''.

In 1198 he was able to procure a five years ' truce with the Muslims, owing to the struggle between Saladin's brothers and his sons for the inheritance of his territories.

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.

In the narrative, just prior to this test, when Joseph had first met all of his brothers ( but not identified himself to them ), he had held a feast for them ; the narrative heavily implies that Benjamin was Joseph's favorite brother, since he is overcome with tears when he first meets Benjamin in particular, and he gives Benjamin five times as much food as he apportions to the others.

One of his four brothers, Abraham, died of a heart problem at the age of five.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

He had six siblings: five brothers and one sister, all of whom died in infancy.

The term was popularized by the The Fundamentals, a collection of twelve books on five subjects published in 1910 and funded by the brothers Milton and Lyman Stewart.

Hank had two brothers, Ben, four years older, and Joe, five years younger, who also played baseball, and a sister, Lillian, two years older.

Murad began his reign by having his five younger brothers strangled.

Draupadi marries the five Pandava brothers.

Apart from the famous example of fraternal polyandry in the Mahabharata between the five Pandava brothers and Draupadi, there are other instances, both in Hindu history and folklore.

The Indian epic the Mahabharata includes the polyandrous marriage of Draupadi to the five Pandava brothers.

The five prominent Musahiban brothers included Nadir Shah, the eldest, who had been Amānullāh's minister of war.

" In a five star review for Empire Magazine, Ian Nathan wrote, " For those who delight in the Coens ' divinely abstract take on reality, this is pure nirvana " and " In a perfect world all movies would be made by the Coen brothers.

" When his father died in 1347, Louis succeeded him as Duke of Bavaria ( as Louis VI ) and Count of Holland and Hainaut together with his five brothers.

Although not directly aligned with the Young Germans, the brothers and five of their colleagues reacted against the demands of King Ernest Augustus I, who in 1837 dissolved the parliament of Hannover and demanded oaths of allegiance from civil servants — including professors at the University of Göttingen.

His five brothers and his father are miners ; after the eldest brother, Ivor, is killed in an mining accident, Huw moves in with his sister-in-law, Bronwen, with whom he has always been in love.

In the United States, there was one remaining active Shaker community, at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, which as of January 2011 has only five members: Sister June Carpenter, Brother Arnold Hadd, and Sister Frances Carr ( and two other brothers ).

Doubts have been raised because the Castiglioni brothers also happen to be the two filmmakers who produced five controversial African shockumentaries in the 1970s — including Addio ultimo uomo, Africa ama, and Africa dolce e selvaggia — films in which audiences saw unedited footage of the severing of a penis, the skinning of a human corpse, the deflowering of a girl with a stone phallus, and a group of hunters tearing apart an elephant ’ s carcass.

She had five brothers and four sisters, as well as three half-siblings from her father's relationships with mistresses.

So after the War of Wrath the two remaining oath-takers, Maedhros and Maglor, stole the two Silmarils from the camp of the victorious West ( the other five brothers were dead by this time ).

Exodus 28: 8 ) represents Caiaphas, as figurehead of the Sadducees, then Annas is intended by the " father " in Luke 16: 27, and the " five brothers " Luke 16: 28 are Annas ' five sons.

In support of this is the coincidence that the father and five brothers who will not be convinced even if the parable Lazarus is raised from the dead ( Luke 16: 31 ) predict that Caiaphas, Annas, and the five sons of Annas would not believe and plotted to have the real Lazarus killed when he was raised ( John 12: 10 ).

The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

For every rude word of Mr. Banks's the family had five in apology.

A driver of a dairy truck, who begins work at 1 a.m. finishes before breakfast, then goes out and grows a garden, and who has used the cannery to save and feed a family of five, asked, `` What in the world will we do ''??

A family of five plans to go together either to the beach or to the mountains, and a coin is tossed to decide.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

Starr Jones gets up every morning at five o'clock, milks his family cow, attends to farm chores, and then takes a two-hour train trip to New York.

In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.

Born to a wealthy family in Paris, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier inherited a large fortune at the age of five with the passing of his mother.

Anthemius of Tralles ( c. 474 – before 558 ; ) was a Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople ( present-day Istanbul in Turkey ) and architect, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Justinian I. Anthemius came from an educated family, one of five sons of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician.

For the next five years, Anne spent no more than five or six weeks a year with her family, during holidays at Christmas and in June.

* five of the infinite family of prisms.

Legend has it that for five great Gaelic families — the O ' Gradys, the O ' Neills, the Ó Briains, the Ó Conchobhairs, and the Caomhánachs — the lament would be sung by a fairy woman ; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.

These dolmens are set in clusters of two to five dolmens presumably for the burial of a family.

Before the 20th century many double basses had only three strings, in contrast to the five to six strings typical of instruments in the string family or the four strings of instruments in the violin family.

* The Ichijō family ( 一条家-ke ), one of the five regent houses ( go-sekke ) of the Fujiwara clan in Japan

Given that the bulk of family chores fell to women, and that they were five times more likely than men to head a single-parent family, the shortcomings of Finland's child day-care system affected women more than it did men.

Traditionally, five subfamilies have been distinguished within family Felidae based on phenotypical features: the Felinae, the Pantherinae, the Acinonychinae ( Cheetahs ), the extinct Machairodontinae, and the extinct Proailurinae.

He had five servants, three coloured and two black: " We are one great big family together ; we have the best of relationships.

Puccini was born in Lucca in Tuscany, into a family with five generations of musical history behind them, including the composer Domenico Puccini.

The five surviving Python members decided to stay away from Chapman's private funeral, to prevent its becoming a media circus and to give his family some privacy.