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... glad that you are so comfortably left; I am your big brother. Good-bye again. (Looks round.) This little blue and white room and its dear inmates, may they be unchanged when I ...

— Quality Street - A Comedy • J. M. Barrie

... had died four years before; but he had a mother, who had to work very hard to keep the children clean and get them enough to eat. He had, too, a big brother Tasso, who worked for a gardener, and every Saturday night brought his wages home to help feed and clothe the little children. Tasso was almost a man now, and in that country as soon as you grow to be a man you have to go away and be a soldier; so Lolo's mother was troubled ...

— The Story Hour • Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin

... sweet. In the long run, says Paul Diacre, the best lard turns rancid. Little Jehan Frollo, surnamed (du Moulin) "of the Mill" because of the place where he had been reared, had not grown up in the direction which Claude would have liked to impose upon him. The big brother counted upon a pious, docile, learned, and honorable pupil. But the little brother, like those young trees which deceive the gardener's hopes and turn obstinately to the quarter whence they receive sun and ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... we haven't got your big brother here, Dinny," said Dick sarcastically. "He could have ...

— Off to the Wilds - Being the Adventures of Two Brothers • George Manville Fenn

... this volume the girls travel to the seashore and put in a vacation on an island where is located a big radio sending station. The big brother of one of the girls owns a steam yacht and while out with a pleasure party those on the island receive word by radio that the yacht is on fire. A tale ...

— The Curlytops and Their Playmates - or Jolly Times Through the Holidays • Howard R. Garis

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