"Foster-sister" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... be dipped every morning in some spring, that at that time had much celebrity. Old Ford was left behind. At Bath I remained three years, Joe Brandon doing no work, and persuading himself now, that he actually was a gentleman. In my third year, my foster-sister, little robust, ruddy Mary, died, and the weakly, stunted, and drooping sapling lived on. This death endeared me more and more to my nurse, and Joe himself was, by self-interest, taught an affection for me. He knew that if I went ...
— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard
... devoted to her. I know that she [Footnote: Letter written about the rumour current, that George Sand had meant to depict the Empress in one of the chief characters of her novel, Malgre tout; the letter was sent by Flaubert to Madame Cornu, god-child of Queen Hortense, and foster-sister of Napoleon III.] is very kind to unfortunates who have been recommended to her; that is all that I know of her private life. I have never had any revelation nor document about her, NOT A WORD, NOT A DEED, which would authorize ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
... Haraldsson. "Leif's foster-father had that name. It is not possible that it is my little foster-sister from Greenland!" ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... talks about herself. But from her maid and foster-sister, an old woman who died a while ago, I heard a little of the story, and guessed the rest—one easily can," ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock) |
