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
"Mon cousin" was offered and refused; "mon frère," which Cromwell sought, was offensive to the pride of the monarch; and, as a temperament between the two, "monsieur le protecteur" was given and accepted.
From The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Belloc, Hilaire
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
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
Strict Ultramontanists, these brethren have been somewhat unjustly nicknamed the frères Ignorantins.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
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