"Consanguinity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... minds of the Veientes being excited by the contagious influence of the Fidenatian war, both from the tie of consanguinity, for the Fidenates also were Etrurians, and because the very proximity of situation, in case the Roman arms should be turned against all their neighbours, urged them on, they made an incursion on the Roman territories, ...
— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius
... that the practice of doing so makes marriage between even distant relations next to impossible. To guard against the chances of this, a rigid and suspicious system of restraint has been developed in cases of consanguinity; and relations must do all they can to avoid meeting. To sit in the same room, to meet on the same road, is undesirable. To converse is but just allowable, and then all who choose must hear what is said. So thorough, however, ...
— The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies • Robert Gordon Latham
... of remote consanguinity," I responded evasively, and the next question was hushed upon her awe-stricken tongue, as ...
— The Diary of a Goose Girl • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... though the joints of his hands were twisted and knotty. He expatiated upon Ben's long ungratified wish for a visit from me, and thanked father for complying with it. He mentioned the memento of the miniature, and gave every particular of Locke Morgeson's early marriage, explaining the exact shade of consanguinity—a faint one. I glanced at Mrs. Somers, who sat remote, in the act of inspecting me, with an eye askance, which I afterward found was her mode of looking at those whom she doubted or disliked; it changed its expression, as it met mine, into one of haughty wonder, that said there could be ...
— The Morgesons • Elizabeth Stoddard
... before long will involve Great Britain in a war who by unhappy Experience may learn the Folly of attempting to enslave a People who by the ties of Consanguinity and Affection ever were desirous of promoting her ...
— The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn • Henry P. Johnston
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