Naturally she supported the Equal Rights Amendment, but since Jerry opposed it she waited until 1977 to get out in front of the sisterly protests with her placard.
One would have said that mademoiselle de la Mole had commenced again to cultivate the most scrupulous conventionality at the same time as her sisterly affection.
Wife and child, too, are Starbuck's—wife and child of his brotherly, sisterly, play-fellow youth; even as thine, sir, are the wife and child of thy loving, longing, paternal old age!
Liu thinks that the three women's joint business is founded on long-time trust and sisterly affection, while the three partners each have their own advantages, which also leads to their success.
Miss Bennet's astonishment was soon lessened by the strong sisterly partiality which made any admiration of Elizabeth appear perfectly natural; and all surprise was shortly lost in other feelings.
At two minutes to twelve the door-bell rang, and a look overspread the lady's face that was neither maternal, sisterly, nor amorous; but partook in an indescribable manner of all three kinds.
And me — the trouble I've been at, times and times, to come here and be sisterly — and him with things on his mind all the while that might make anybody's flesh creep.