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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

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

Constance, motherless and sisterless, and with no woman friend to turn to more understanding than Annette, had been surprised in passionate weeping by Nora, the night after the Marmion catastrophe.

From Lady Connie by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

To all present Mr. Stuart enlarged upon the duty of charity toward him, a homeless vacation visitor, starving from eating only hotel food, and toward his daughter, a sisterless girl with a longing for friends.

From The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade by Crane, Laura Dent

Though sisterless now, she was not without duties, and Benyon could easily see that life would press hard on her unless some one should interfere.

From Georgina's Reasons by James, Henry