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broth·er and sis·ter

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  1. Brother and Sister

    "Brother and Sister" (also "Little Sister and Little Brother"; German: Brüderchen und Schwesterchen) is a European fairy tale which was, among others, written down by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 11). It is a tale of Aarne–Thompson Type 450. In Russia the story was more commonly known as Sister Alionushka, Brother Ivanushka, and collected by Alexander Afanasyev in his Narodnye russkie skazki.

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  1. Brother and Sister

    Brother and Sister is a well-known European fairy tale which was, among others, written down by the Brothers Grimm in their collection of Children's and Household Tales. It is alternatively known as Little Sister and Little Brother or Brüderchen und Schwesterchen.

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    Read the full text of the Brother and Sister poem by David Herbert Lawrence on the Poetry.com website.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of brother and sister in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of brother and sister in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of brother and sister in a Sentence

  1. Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Chapter 13:

    Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

  2. Hugh Grant:

    We’re like brother and sister.

  3. Thaksin Shinawatra:

    People can see that the brother and sister have fled, deserting those that served them, who are in jail, from cabinet ministers to ordinary folk.

  4. Shayla Sulack:

    She’s missed so many things – she wants to go to a Dodgers game, and Daddy has taken her brother and sister and she sat on the couch and watched it on TV and tried to see if she could see them, i don’t like the word ‘normal’, but I’m ready to have something normal for her.

  5. Carrie Goldman:

    They don't share the same genes, but they can share the love of 'Star Wars,' when she was 5, Katie connected to the idea of Leia as someone who was also adopted and identified with her. And when we found her birth brother and sister and introduced her to them, to her it felt like when Luke and Leia are reunited.

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