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Definition of Sistered
1. sister [v] - See also: sister
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sistered
Literary usage of Sistered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Hymns of the Rigveda by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (1890)
"10 Yea, she most dear amid dear streams, seven-sistered, graciously inclined,
... 12 Seven-sistered, sprung from threefold source, the five tribes' ..."
2. Collected Plays by Stephen Phillips (1921)
"From man or woman had I insolence, Who have sistered, wived, and mothered Emperors.
NERO. I speak no insolence — you weary me! AGRIPPINA. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hall Alderson, William Selwyn (1819)
"... advance of 10001., and the ship was accordingly re- 1819. sistered in his name.
Subsequently to this. ..."
4. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"He was no speaker, but a most instructive and fascinating talker ; and the
Declaration of Independence, even if it had not been sistered by innumerable ..."
5. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"Charlie Forsyth's motherless and un- sistered childhood and youth had brought
him to manhood without intimate knowledge of women. ..."
6. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1875)
"Charlie Forsyth's motherless and un- sistered childhood and youth had brought
him to manhood without intimate knowledge of women. ..."
7. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1840)
"... art sistered to me. This is good, For a most holy and baptismal sign, And now
I feel the spirit in my heart Never was I a brother yet before, ..."
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