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  • Michael possessed no trace of hysteria, though he was more temperamentally excitable and explosive than his blood-brother

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • I waited, observed and realized the Giants probably made their way back to their sanctuary, leaving their little blood-brother behind.

    I am a glutton for hunting and war stories. Here is your chance to tell one or two. 2009

  • I waited, observed and realized the Giants probably made their way back to their sanctuary, leaving their little blood-brother behind.

    I am a glutton for hunting and war stories. Here is your chance to tell one or two. 2009

  • But if fear was new-born in the hearts of the Unwise Men, the black man was born in a house of fear; to him poverty of the ugliest and straitest type of father, mother, and blood-brother.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • "And I shall take my sixty rounds - do thou likewise, blood-brother."

    Fiancée 2010

  • "Be sullen, and speak little - and be a good soldier, blood-brother, for the credit of Ilderim Khan."

    Fiancée 2010

  • And just as passionately as he did ten years earlier when his musical journey began in the twilight dusk of a mid-summer's eve, in a tiny village church hall in the north of England -- playing Eddie Cochran's Twenty Flight Rock to someone he'd just met who was to become his musical blood-brother and fellow Musketeer.

    Martin Lewis: Many Years From Then: Sir Paul McCartney Receives the Kennedy Center Honor Martin Lewis 2010

  • He betrays an occasional fellow-feeling, at a safe distance, for such rascals as Rudi von Starnberg, and has a half-amiable tolerance of acquaintances whom he has no cause to detest, like his old chief, Colin Campbell, and his Afghan blood-brother, Ilderim Khan.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • And just as passionately as he did ten years earlier when his musical journey began in the twilight dusk of a mid-summer's eve, in a tiny village church hall in the north of England -- playing Eddie Cochran's Twenty Flight Rock to someone he'd just met who was to become his musical blood-brother and fellow Musketeer.

    Martin Lewis: Many Years From Then: Sir Paul McCartney Receives the Kennedy Center Honor Martin Lewis 2010

  • And just as passionately as he did ten years earlier when his musical journey began in the twilight dusk of a mid-summer's eve, in a tiny village church hall in the north of England -- playing Eddie Cochran's Twenty Flight Rock to someone he'd just met who was to become his musical blood-brother and fellow Musketeer.

    Martin Lewis: Many Years From Then: Sir Paul McCartney Receives the Kennedy Center Honor Martin Lewis 2010

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