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A renowned theater director who has embarked on a kind of permanent vacation in his 60s, he continues: “I am wifeless, childless, brotherless, sisterless, I am my well-known self, made glittering and brittle by fame.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

My extended family consists almost entirely of fatherless, brotherless and husbandless women.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011

For the first time in his life, the fatherless, motherless, brotherless, sisterless stray of the streets felt himself alone.

From Sir Gibbie by MacDonald, George

Would life be quite brotherless as long as he remained at his side?

From Roger Ingleton, Minor by Reed, Talbot Baines

He was all the world to me, for I was alone, an orphan, sisterless and brotherless.

From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes