Her family sat in an affectionately earnest row and adjured her—four married sisters, four blissful brothers-in-law, her attractive stepmother, her father.
I seem to have heard that you did not like your brother-in-law, and that you were opposed to the marriage.
That very morning, when his wife had attempted to condole with her brother-in-law, Prince Peter had observed a look of pain on his brother's face.
Yet, as soon as she heard of the presence of her brother-in-law, she insisted upon seeing him.
His father-in-law, hisbrother-in-lawand another of his wife's relatives provided him with loans as well.
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Tagore wrote on this theme, suggesting the eroticism inherent in the forbidden crossing of boundaries, where the woman often becomes attracted towards herbrother-in-law.
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For most, dominion passed to a son or, more frequently, to a son-in-law, brother orbrother-in-law.
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Three years later she fled, suing herbrother-in-lawfor her fortune.
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She likes to get her 5%, even from her problembrother-in-law; so she does not call her money in.
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She is a far more consistent capitalist than herbrother-in-law.
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Growing loneliness probably led many women to seek solace in other relationships, and the chances of their getting close to their youngerbrother-in-lawmultiplied.
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The adulterer had both arms broken by the woman'sbrother-in-lawbut otherwise escaped punishment.
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Loaning a plot of land to one'sbrother-in-lawdoes not correspond to a right that the beneficiary would have over land, but to a non-obligatory transfer, a favour.
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They had refused to accept him as a ruling elder or member of the presbytery - apparently because he was trying to force hisbrother-in-lawin as minister.
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It disturbs, or may disturb, the carefree relationship which now hold husband, wife,brother-in-lawand sister-in-law together.
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I was speaking to my thenbrother-in-law, who was an outstanding fighter pilot.
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I have abrother-in-lawwho is a jazz trumpeter.
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Meanwhile, her prodigal sister and prodigalbrother-in-lawcontinue to live off the income of £20,000.
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That is more likely than her preferring abrother-in-law.
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