That is a classical line, young lady; and, being rendered into English, is, `a lad of an ingenuous countenance, and of an ingenuous modesty;' for this was a virtue in great repute both among the Latins and Greeks.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“David,” said he, “I love you like a brother.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

“There are whiles,” said he, “when ye are altogether too canny and Whiggish to be company for a gentleman like me; but there come other whiles when ye show yoursel’ a mettle spark; and it’s then, David, that I love ye like a brother.”
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

‘And I have no doubt she loves you like a brother?’ said I. ‘Humph!’ retorted Steerforth, looking at the fire.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"You'll see mamma some day, Daria, if you're a very good girl; and meantime, you know, she would like you to learn your lessons, and be as obedient as possible to Var-Vara."
— from Soap-Bubble Stories For Children by Fanny Barry

It is no use to treat them like young ladies and being afraid of hurting them. ”
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

If you could only fire Jack for good and all, he’d love you like a brother, Dick!”
— from The Lucky Seventh by Ralph Henry Barbour

"Come in, boys," she said, "and learn your lessons, and be quiet for a while; I'll give you plenty of paper"; adding, as a farther argument, "your father will be at home directly, and you know he will not want a noise in the house."
— from Gritli's Children by Johanna Spyri

I love ye like a brother.
— from The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling

If a man's puttin' his heart an' soul, an' blood, an' beef-steak, an' bones into paintin' picters, you can talk farmin' to him all day, an' he's dumb; but jest show him 'at you see what he's a-drivin' at in his work, an' he'll love you like a brother.
— from The Song of the Cardinal by Gene Stratton-Porter

You're a Protestant, and don't I love you like a brother?”
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

Fancy a man like you letting a boy get the best of him in this manner.
— from Yankee Boys in Japan; Or, The Young Merchants of Yokohama by Henry Harrison Lewis

Now, Lancelot loves you like a brother, and I love Lancelot like a father, and I am quite prepared to take you to my heart for Lancelot’s sake, for he is scarce likely to be deceived in you.
— from Marjorie by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy

"He said he loved you like a brother, and would confide to you without fear or hesitation all he loved best—his wife, his child—knowing that they would be guarded and held sacred as though they were in the holiest niche of the mosque.
— from Mohammed Ali and His House by L. (Luise) Mühlbach