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  • In one place he declares that "without papa and mamma the garden would be to me what the wilderness was to John the Baptist;" while again he offers up a pathetic prayer for a baby-brother; and throughout we are struck by the fact that his religion was pre-eminently one of love.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

  • The doctor, luckily on the spot, attending to the baby-brother, was with her in two minutes.

    A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

  • ANNIE and her baby-brother went to ride with their papa and mamma.

    The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2 Various

  • In the hollow-cheeked, large-eyed girl of ten, whom I saw giving a cheerless oversight to her baby-brother, I did not so much marvel at it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

  • Again she looked back with tear-dimmed eyes; for tender memories of father, mother, baby-brother, and all childhood's associations, tugged at her heart-strings -- but there was now no dread and fear to paralyze her.

    Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

  • It wasn't my own money, and I'd no business to, but I was so sorry for the little boy and his mother and his darling baby-brother.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • "If you think you're our darling baby-brother –" said Oswald.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • Suppose it had been your darling baby-brother ill, and nobody hadn't given you nothing when they'd got pounds and pounds in their silly pockets?

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • "Never say I did not tell thee," she answered, unfolding a great embroidered cupboard cloth and holding it up critically "To-morrow thy father and mother come home, and thy baby-brother, and to-day sennight thy little cousins come to visit thee."

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

  • And a stout young nurse brought the baby, and Dickie loved it and felt certain it loved him, though it only said "Goo ga goo," exactly as your baby-brother does now, and got hold of Dickie's hair and pulled it and would not let go.

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

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