Cousins

Examples

• Even cousins may be sorry to part; and in truth I am very, very sorry, Richard, though I know it's for your welfare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Her Ladyship kept her room when the ladies from the Rectory visited their cousins at the Hall. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Bedroom candlesticks bristle on the distant table by the door, and cousins yawn on ottomans. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I happened to ride back with my cousins and the groom. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mr. Franklin snatched a morsel from the luncheon-table, and rode off to Frizinghall--to escort his cousins, as he told my lady. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Of my relations with my two cousins you are ignorant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She was civil, kind, attentive even to her cousins; but still she usually had little to say to them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But if I had mine, glancing at the cousins, there should be no brambles of sordid realities in such a path as that. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My cousins have been so plaguing me! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• These private considerations, combined with political reasons, fixed his resolution of separating the cousins. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She cried bitterly over this reflection when her uncle was gone; and her cousins, on seeing her with red eyes, set her down as a hypocrite. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Volumnia is away next day, and all the cousins are scattered before dinner. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I had better tell _you_ than my aunt, she said, or than my cousins, or my uncle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Mary, she is not like her cousins; but I think I shall not ask in vain. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• We agreed that we were to be cousins, and nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The ladies having withdrawn, and the two cousins being left together, Pitt, the ex-diplomatist, he came very communicative and friendly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• My cousins say they are sure I have made a conquest; but for my part I declare I never think about him from one hour's end to another. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Do not hurry my aunt and cousins; give them time. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yes, mamma—yes, aunt, said both the cousins together. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He had formerly visited at Stanhill, but it was too long for his young cousins to remember him. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• They may metaphorically be called cousins to the same millionth degree, yet they differ widely and in different degrees from each other. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• There was no room in England so pleasant as that small parlour when the three cousins occupied it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There's but one thing, then; you must go straight to your cousins, the Stepneys. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• We have no word for cousins--they are either brothers or sisters, and we do not know what are cousins two degrees removed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hundreds, says Sir Leicester, eyeing the cousins with increasing dignity and swelling indignation, hundreds of thousands of pounds! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• On these national occasions Sir Leicester finds the cousins useful. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We are cousins; yes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Some directions necessary to be given to her foreman, John, delayed her behind her cousins as they neared Fieldhead on their return. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Volumnia, as one of the more privileged cousins, in a luxurious chair between them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He thought it a pretty sight to see the two cousins so busy in their little arrangements about the table. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Editor: Meredith