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She lifts the anti-witch laws and allows her sistern to return after years of exile.
MIND MELD: SciFi TV Shows That Deserve A Remake (with Videos) 2010
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Just watched a cute little movie on the internets about you and your brethren and sistern.
URGENT!!! 2008
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Ann should be exhorting her sistern to take up Second Amendment scholarship.
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Science Blogs written by people of color are pretty rare, so I would love to connect to my brethren/sistern.
Science, Education & Society: Thanks for the Love - Black Weblog Award Winers Announced The Urban Scientist 2008
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In this particular painting, the god painted her side is Anubis, who serves as the gatekeeper to the heart; Hathor is invoking him with her magical sistern and chants.
Goddess painting of the day: Hathor | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr 2007
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They were probably just as outspoken as men because one of the rules of the Guilds was that "the sistern as well as the brethren" may not engage in disorderly or contumacious debates.
Communism and Woman 2007
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On behalf of the future of our children, thank you, FDL and all your blog sistern and brethren.
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And about the Bay Area... where I lived for some time before moving to the South Yo, Episco-friend out there, it's the *sistern* who need help, not just the brethren!
PeaceBang Is Called To the Ministry Of Beauty PeaceBang 2006
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With his hands folded, Ray droned, "Naow, sistern, it behooveth us heuh in St. Timothee's Chutch," while Carl pounded the table in his delight at seeing old Ray, the broad-shouldered, the lady-killer, the capable business man, drop his eyes and yearn.
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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"Now, breddern and sistern, come up to de altar and have yo 'sins washed away."
Best Short Stories Thomas L. Masson 1900
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