twin-sisters

America is especially responsible to the whole world for tobacco, since the two are twin-sisters, born to the globe in a day.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Various

Rav Cheyah made answer that the particle in verse 15, implies that Dinah must have been one of twin-sisters.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

It chanced that the birthday of two twin-sisters, whose behaviour had been always very good, was near; I promised that, on this occasion, the little present they had so well deserved should be delivered to them by an angel.

Chapter II. Book VIII 1917

They were the Misses Marion, twin-sisters, quite inseparable, and, because their minds had run in exactly the same groove for all of their lives and because they were of about equal mental readiness, apt to get the same impression at exactly the same time, and apt to attempt expression in exactly the same breath.

Sally of Missouri 1905

Churches, twin-sisters of the Reformation, may never be interrupted.

American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) 1894

In the case of Space we have the here and the _overthere_, equivalent in Time to the present and the _future_, but, though Time and Space are, as it were, twin-sisters, upon whose combined action depends our very consciousness of living, we do not treat them both equally.

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

In the last View I referred to the mysteries of Time and Space as twin-sisters; they have, as we saw, many aspects in common, and are the two modes or conditions under which all our senses act and by which our thoughts are limited.

Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

M. is a kind of supplement to her father; I love in her what I love in him, and she loves in me what he loves; we never had a jar in our lives, and are more like twin-sisters than mother and daughter.

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882

Un-nefer; in truth ‘Rekhti-merti-neb-Maāti’ (_i. e._, ‘twin-sisters with two eyes, ladies of double Maāti’) is thy name.

Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings Epiphanius Wilson 1880

And behind them are coming the two _chabines_, -- golden girls: the twin-sisters who sell silks and threads and foulards; always together, always wearing robes and kerchiefs of similar color, -- so that you can never tell which is Lorrainie and which Édoualise.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877