As she talked, the other four women nodded and exclaimed, sounding very much like a convocation of brainy, tough and wryly affectionate sisters.

It began: my dear William, and ended: your affectionate sister.

Your affectionate sister, Helen.

Your affectionate sister, Robyn.

Stasia and Teresa, two affectionate sisters, quarrelled over it and wouldn't speak to each other.

Do not say one word of this to our folks, nor give the least hint.-I am, your sincere friend and affectionate sister, Susannah Wesley.

She may have assumed that she would be dealing only with Edmund's affectionate sister, not with hard-headed suspicious business men.

"To have so kind-hearted, so affectionate a sister," replied Henry warmly, "must be a comfort to him under any distress."

She is an affectionate older sister to Zero, who she usually calls "Skankabelle".

Lind preferred a platonic relationship with Andersen, and wrote him in 1844, "God bless and protect my brother is the sincere wish of his affectionate sister."