cousins-german

Two cousins-german, six more distant kinsmen, his factor and his chamberlain, were all hollow votes; and the

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

Mazarin eagerly solicits, and to gratify whom he expels from France the heirs of Charles I., cousins-german of Louis XIV. — these, and a thousand similar examples, easily to be found in the records of history, totally disturb and derange my ideas, and I no longer know what I am doing or where I am.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Cardinal Mazarin, in order to please him, banished from France the two sons of Charles I., the two grandsons of Henry IV., and the two cousins-german of Louis XIV.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Fo, then, was the nephew of that emperor, and the grandson of the elephant and the monarch were cousins-german; therefore, according to the laws of the state, the race of the emperor being extinct, the descendants of the elephant become the rightful successors.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Besides, they were related, being born of cousins-german.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Here Clunie and Lochiel, who were cousins-german, were chiefly supplied with provisions by Macpherson of

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

The four men who were called his brothers, and among whom one at least, James, became of great importance in the early years of the development of Christianity, were his cousins-german.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Various 1909

If the dead man left no children, all his brothers inherited his property, having equal shares therein; and if he had no brothers, his cousins-german would inherit; if he had no cousins, all his kinsmen.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 05 of 55 1582-1583 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century Various 1906

Then this Elizabeth and our Lady were cousins-german, daughters of two sisters.

The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

She reminds us that we are brothers to the chowder-doomed clam and the donkey; lineal scions of the pansy and the chimpanzee, and but cousins-german to the cooing doves, the quacking ducks and the housemaids and policemen in the parks.

Whirligigs O. Henry 1886