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"Next of kin" Quotes from Famous Books

... came to an understanding of her unquestioning acceptance of Mrs. Bishop's attitude. Carroll truly believed that none but herself could perform for her mother the various petty offices that lady demanded from her next of kin, and that her practical slavery was due by every consideration of filial affection. To Orde's occasional tentative suggestion that the service was of a sort better suited to a paid companion or even a housemaid, she answered quite seriously ...

— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White

... This will hold until a better claim is established. Now, if Smith had discovered this lead, and was, as the lawyers say, 'seized and possessed' of it at the time of his death, M'liss, of course, as next of kin, ...

— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear ...

— The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book • Various

... slow voice. "Love is the soul of the world. I am no better than a mouthing fool, but I believe the perfect lover to be next of kin to the angels." ...

— The Proud Prince • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... the jungles of Boorabul. For the jingling jungles to jangle in, With a moony maze of mellado mull, And a protoplasm for next of kin. O, sweet is the note of the shagreen shard And mellow the mew of the mastodon, When the soboliferous Somminard Is scenting the shadows at set of sun. And it's O for the timorous tamarind In the murky meadows of Mariboo, For the suave sirocco of Sazerkind, And the pimpernell pellets ...

— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells

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