Money used to accommodate American relative

Usage examples of cousin.

Besides father and mother, three sons, and a hired girl, there was nearly always an Adams or Boylston cousin, aunt, uncle, grandparent, or friend staying the night.

In addition to the lawyer son Samuel, there were sons Edmund and Josiah, who was also a lawyer, as well as a daughter, Hannah, and a cousin, Esther, who, for Adams and his friends, were the prime attractions.

She rejoiced that she had missed the family meal, for it was not easy to sit at the table with Grandmother and Cousin Tom and Aunt Alphonsine, unspoken comments on her position hanging from each face like stalactites.

Then it occurred to him that his cousin, Sir Alured was in town, and that he had better see his cousin before he came to any decision.

The bloodlines of most Amish, and those Mennonites descended from them, are so tangled and intertwined that most of us are our own cousins.

For some strange reason, my Amish cousin and the Hollywood whiz kid had hit it off.

All the ammonites vanished, but their cousins the nautiloids, who lived similar lifestyles, swam on.

Madame Gennaro was very angry and told my newly-found cousin that he might have avoided enacting such a scene before her husband, knowing his disease, but he answered that he never thought the circumstance likely to provoke mirth.

Marcoline smiled and I answered that she was my cousin, and that we were both Venetians.

William Hush and all his cousins sold apples by the ton and illegal homemade apple brandy by the barrelful.

Tallant, you cherish hopes of seeing Arabella married to her cousin Tom?

We were obliged to confess that there were no Families in Little Arcady, in the true sense of the term, though we did not divine its true sense until she favored us with the detail that her second cousin had married a relative of the Adams family.

Even though the young Arii had seen me he would not have raised his hand to harm me, for he too would gladly see the ship cast away and broken upon the reef, so that he need not leave my cousin Alrema.

An admission of fear of anything is hard to elicit from the weakest of Indian tribes, but all who lived within raiding distance of the Apache, save the Navaho, their Athapascan cousins, freely admit that for generations before their subjugation the Apache were constantly held in mortal terror.

I could not ask his Avarians to press into battle against their brothers and cousins.