"First cousin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was my first cousin. We fought side by side at Limerick. I was not one of those who cared to enter foreign service. My estates were confiscated, and I have ever since lived here on the wreck of my fortune, ...
— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty
... (Melanesians of British New Guinea, p. 82); whereas it will be seen that among the Mafulu it only extends, as between people of the same generation, to first cousins. But a Mafulu native who was grandson of the common ancestor would be prohibited from marrying his first cousin once removed (great-granddaughter of that ancestor) or his first cousin twice removed (great-great-granddaughter of ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson
... contracted by the principal actors on the world's stage. How bewildering these alliances were may be judged from what Mr. Tarn says of Stratonice, the daughter of Antiochus I., who married Demetrius, the son of Antigonus: "Stratonice was her husband's first cousin and also his aunt, her mother-in-law's half-sister and also her niece, her father-in-law's niece, her own mother's granddaughter-in-law, and perhaps other things which the curious may work out." Mr. Tarn has ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring
... that Mr. Lax was as well-known in Headford as the parish priest. Why, he's first cousin to ...
— The Landleaguers • Anthony Trollope
... Camelford was, I believe, his first cousin; Sir Sidney's mother and Lady Camelford being sisters. But Lord Camelford was then ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey
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