frère
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Observers have seen Bloom’s rabbi as a self-portrait, but it would be more accurate to view that figure as the artist’s alter ego, his spiritual frère.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2013
Come, Benjamin, put your arm around me and we shall be comfortably one, mon semblable—mon frère!
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2011
What do you know about it, mon semblable, mon frère?
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet the domestic tragedy of this new frère was known to the imperial king-maker!
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
The elder Prince was much interested about his frère, and anxious to see him; at first, however, he declared after a long contemplation, "pas beau frère!"
From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount
Sam is about to invent democracy, mes frères!
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
The frères Cormack built their company around a carefully constructed nostalgia.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2016
It is from a French intellectual and reads: “Ce n’est qu’un au revoir, mes frères / Ce n’est qu’un au revoir”, this being the French version of Auld Lang Syne.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016
But it's the faux-Marx frères who keep up the comic mayhem, with the clowning and impromptu quipping the Marxes perfected.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2012
Within six months of the Sardonyx Barty wrote La quatrième Dimension in French, which was published by Dollfus-Moïs frères, in Paris, with if possible a greater success; for the clerical opposition was even more virulent.
From The Martian by Du Maurier, George
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