brotherless

That day, Aura went from being fatherless to being brotherless and, the following winter, to being motherless after Mamá died from grief.

The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

He set off on his own — fatherless and brotherless, pursued as a terrorist by the Americans and no longer able to trust the insurgency's fiercest supporters.

Portrait of a Shadow 2009

Stricken motherless and brotherless at once — for in the loss of little Paul, that first and greatest loss fell heavily upon her — this was the only help she had.

Dombey and Son 2007

There are so many women like them -- widows, fatherless daughters, brotherless sisters -- that the town of only 3,500 residents is served by four daily buses from Tuzla and Sarajevo, two hours away.

BALKANS TRAGEDY 2007

How many fatherless, brotherless, sonless families have mourned all their lives the unhappy resort to this dreadful practice!

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

If Perkins was brotherless and sisterless, was not Lucy likewise an only child?

The Bedford-Row Conspiracy 2006

Deprived the challenge of the Kielmark's explosive character, the future seemed brotherless and empty.

Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

He who seeks for a faultless brother will have to remain brotherless.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

Martha was one of those fatherless, brotherless, husbandless women who, because of their state, can retain their illusions about men.

Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

So Erik, having half fallen, said that "bare was the back of the brotherless."

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo