Word: brother
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...made Amos Lawrence one of our most wealthy and honored citizens. "I made it a rule," he says, "to have property to represent forty per cent more than I owed"; and, following out this rule, he rose from a very small beginning to great opulence, as did likewise his brother Abbott, who came to Boston "with his bundle under his arm and $ 3 in his pocket" to enter into partnership with his brother. We might mention similar examples, but these are enough. We would commend them to students of Harvard who will sooner or later be launched into the busy...
Memoirs of a Brother. By THOMAS HUGHES, Author of "Tom Brown's School-Days." Boston: James R. Osgood...
...originally intended for the relatives and friends, and especially for the younger members of the family, of Mr. Hughes, cannot fail to interest every one who reads it. Few persons, in this country at least, were aware, before the appearance of these memoirs, that Thomas Hughes had an older brother George, who began life almost as brilliantly as the author of "Tom Brown," and who possessed the same traits of character which have given his younger brother so prominent and honorable a position. In the opening chapters of the book, Mr. Hughes, with characteristic modesty, recounts many of his brother...
Although the book is, as we have said, very interesting, the main purpose of the author is not to afford amusement; it is rather, as in his other works, to inculcate, by the force of example, manly and Christian character, and thus do honor to the memory of his brother...
...Magenta, which, as might be expected from its patrician descent, has never 'squalled' since it came into being, or showed any traces of infant depravity in attempting to scratch its big brother, has already gotten its legs and become playful. It has begun to poke sticks through the fence at its neighbors and natural playmates, the Courant and Record. Sweet infant prodigy, we warn you that it is not yet near enough to the millennium to make it at all safe for children, weaned or unweaned, to pursue their little games near the domicile of the asp." - Yale...