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Meanings of own brothers in English

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Usage of own brothers in English
1
Gideon said, They were my own brothers, the sons of my mother.
The Children's Bible
2
Not all my own brothers: my father had married twice, you see.
Grandmother Dear: A Book for Boys and Girls
3
I shall stand by my own brothers' sons against all the world.
My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
4
You see, these weren't some strangers but my own brothers and sisters.
English passengers
5
Sandy treated him as she did her own brothers, frankly, despotically, delightfully.
The Treasure
6
I never see a man I think equal to my own brothers!'
We Two: A Novel
7
One thing she refrains from asking: where are her own brothers.
And the rat laughed
8
Maybe I've met my own brothers and we never knew it.
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
9
So when I was about eight I created my own brothers and sisters.
The Guardian
10
A peddler of heads too-perhapsthe heads of his own brothers.
Moby Dick
11
Most or all would die here, and some of his own brothers too.
A Dance with Dragons
12
Her own brothers had killed her, and the Tir man had killed them.
The White Road
13
The women moved about among the men as if they were their own brothers.
The War Romance of the Salvation Army
14
His last conflict was with his own brothers, in front of his paternal mansion.
Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
15
The two things are as intimately related as own brothers.
The Moon Metal
16
Fidel's own brothers and sisters don't live half so well.
The bourne ultimatum
This collocation consists of:
Own brothers through the time
Own brothers across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common