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
"Certainly, mon bon frère," she replied; and as he inclined his face toward her, she imprinted a slight kiss on his cheek.
From A Romance of the Republic by Lydia Maria Francis Child
He was never done with his allusions to 'mon cher futur beau frère à Vienne,' and he playfully called his sister 'la petite fiancée.'
From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay
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
There were twenty-two of us in all, pères et frères, and two or three weeks afterwards seventeen were down with fever.
From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker
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