779 examples of brother-in-law in sentences

" "So'm I." "There's Jess over there can get us a special license from his brother-in-law.

So closing their eyes to what went on, they smiled, for in Frederic, when Claire should be old enough to marry, Gervais would find the brother-in-law and partner that he needed.

" Dr. Véron who publishes in his "Mémoires" the Morny-Maupas despatch, adds: "M. du Maupas sent to look for Victor Hugo at the house of his brother-in-law, M. Victor Foucher, Councillor to the Court of Cassation.

This man's name was Heli, and he was the brother-in-law of Zachary of Hebron, in whose house Jesus had in the preceding year announced the death of John the Baptist.

He treated her well and made her many presents, so that she was forced to believe he really was her brother-in-law.

This was the situation a month before election day when, to oblige his brother-in-law, Wharton was up-town at Delmonico's lunching with Senator Bissell.

Your brother-in-law lunched at home to-day with her and the children and they are now going to the Hippodrome.

On New Year's Eveit fell on a SundayTom Vallance, my brother-in-law, asked me to tea with him and his family in Clapham, where he lived.

I talked to Tom Valiance, my brother-in-law.

SIR, I am directed by the Board to acquaint you, that a passage to Gibraltar has been provided for yourself, Mrs. Buffa, your family and brother-in-law, on board the Active transport; and that you may embark on board that ship at Deptford immediately.

Then you will be my brother-in-law and the brother-in-law of the incomparable Dove.

His fiery poems have been the source from which many a German bard has derived his inspiration, and Freiligrath who now lives in sight of his tomb, has published an indignant poem, because an inn with gaming tables has been established in the ruins of the castle near Creuznach, where Hutten found refuge from his enemies with Franz von Sickingen, brother-in-law of "Goetz with the iron Hand."

He introduced me to Longfellow, Charles Eliot Norton, R.H. Dana, and other of his friends at Cambridge, and at a later visit to Agassiz, Emerson, Thomas G. Appleton (Longfellow's brother-in-law), Whittier, E.P. Whipple, Charles Sumner, and Samuel G. Ward, banker and a lover of art of high intelligence, the friend of poets and painters, and to me, in later years, one of the kindest and wisest of advisers and friends.

Mr. Heaton felt the ingratitude of the colonists even more keenly than his brother-in-law; for he knew how much had been done for them, and how completely they had forgotten it all.

No such message had come; and of course he answered his brother-in-law's questions

My brother-in-law wants me to go back to them for the 1st of September.

"This is Joseph Brant, the brother of Molly, my wife, and hence my young brother-in-law," said Colonel Johnson.

This is great, brother-in-law!

At this very moment Francis I. heard that the first prince of the blood, his brother-in-law the Duke of Alencon, who commanded the rear-guard, had precipitately left the field of battle.

"Sir," rejoined the Regent, with animation, "M. du Maine is my brother-in-law, but I prefer an open to a hidden enemy.

"But your brother-in-law, Edward of England, may object to having his sister divorced," suggested Hymbercourt.

Lord Henley, brother-in-law of Sir Robert Peel, Dr. Burton, and others of name and influence led the way.

They were the wife and brother-in-law of Captain Philip Horn, who was known to be a successful man, and who might be a rich one.

Mrs. M.G. (to her Brother-in-law).

At about the same time he read Gulliver's Travels, the tales of noble robbers written by Goethe's brother-in-law, Vulpius, the wildly fantastic stories of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Schiller's Robbers; but also Uhland's ballads, and the songs collected by Arnim and Brentano in The Boy's Magic Horn.

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