elder-brotherly

• “However, when she married she did not say to herself, “Never mind a mean action if it leads to the end in view,” as her brother would certainly have said in such a case; it is quite probable that he may have said it when he expressed his elder-brotherly satisfaction at her decision.”

  The Idiot

• “You're too hot to drink cold water,' said Cecil in a wise, elder-brotherly way.”

  Holiday Tales

• “She stopped, a little frightened, for he was standing before her, gripping her shoulders in a very elder-brotherly fashion.”

  The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century

• “Barry was very gallant, in an impersonal sort of way: he took a keen, elder-brotherly sort of interest in every pretty girl in the village, and liked to discuss their own love affairs with them, with a seriousness quite paternal.”

  The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne

• “And Laurie looked very elder-brotherly and grave all of a sudden.”

  Little Women

• “He broke into a laugh in which the odd elder-brotherly note was once more perceptible.”

  The Reef; a novel

• “Perhaps because they had first met at an age when eighteen months seemed an immense gap between them, Lance had never quite dropped the elder-brotherly attitude of St Rupert days.”

  Far to Seek A Romance of England and India

• “So don't worry over that," he commanded, in his kind elder-brotherly tone.”

  Far to Seek A Romance of England and India

• “His is essentially the artistic temperament, and he is a creature of moods, impish in some, poetic in others; an extraordinary fellow, like no one I ever saw, yet curiously fascinating, and I find myself growing oddly fond of him, in an elder-brotherly, protecting sort of way.”

  The Chauffeur and the Chaperon

• “The sense of elder-brotherly concern that forced the words from Faxon made him, as he spoke, slip his arm through Frank Rainer 's.”

  The Triumph Of Night 1916

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