If I should be taken home on a hurdle one fine morning, she'd shed some cousinly tears over my inanimate body; but as for the other thing, not one bit of it.
The idea of cousinly intimacy to girls is undoubtedly very pleasant; and I do not know whether it is not the fact that the better and the purer is the girl, the sweeter and the pleasanter is the idea.
These cousinly walks along the banks of the Lurwell were not probably favourable to Mr. Gilmore's hopes.
Our laudable efforts at cousinly friendship usually produce war-whoops that bring the two mammas each to snatch her own offspring from the fray, with a scolding for the sake of appearances though believing the other the only guilty party.
Why didn't I think of it--but then his way is so free and cousinly with us all.
She received the cousinly salutation without any evidence of displeasure or any token of confusion.
Bertha has only bestowed upon me a cousinly regard," answered Maurice, evidently more surprised and embarrassed than pleased by the unexpected communication.
What did Roy's cousinlykindness amount to, with Arúna?
What did they amount to, her smiles and flashes of sympathy, her kind, cousinly ways?
His insistence on the cousinly privilege of protecting her had arisen from a private confession that she shrank from joining the orthodox group of maidens who would go forth at sundown, to try their fate.
On bidding him good night, she had kissed him in the most perfunctory manner--merely the cousinly peck of a dozen years ago--and had given no thought to the fact that he was driving home in an open car without an overcoat.
It was only then that, turning the letters over, it occurred to him to doubt if the second was a cousinly salutation.
At Christmas he wrote the two girls a single perfunctory page of cousinlygreeting that arrived with his presents, a couple of Russian silver belts.
Suddenly it flashed into his mind that she had asked his escort to avoid a tete-a-tete with the agreeable attache, with a crowd of associated inferences not calculated to increase his cousinly regard.
His tone of cousinly courtesy to Ella was perfect; his air of well-regulated enjoyment positively exhilarating.
The fact threw her into almost cousinly relationship with Newland Archer's children, and nobody was surprised when Dallas's engagement was announced.
There was a cousinly murmur of pleasure between the ladies, and Mrs. Mingott held out Ferrigiani's model to the banker.
She was a little afraid of another tete-a-tete, as she fared so badly at the last, and had assumed a calm and cousinly air which she flattered herself would plainly show on what terms she wished to part.
I'm glad he didn't, for then I should have missed this touching tableau of cousinlydevotion and brotherly love.
Perhaps he will not be content with a cousinly regard," said Mrs. Harrington, mysteriously.
This is the deplorable result of trying to ferment the small beer of cousinly affection into the Maronean wine of passionate love," thought Lord Mallow.
The Duke, at first inclined to resent the scandal of an elopement and the slight offered to his favourite, Rorie, speedily reconciled himself to a marriage which was more materially advantageous than the cousinly alliance.
And the company went to Pembridge Square after the service, gazed admiringly at the wedding presents, and drank the health of the bride and bridegroom, and gathered with cousinly curiosity round the returned Prodigal.
Daily Volumnia has a little cousinly talk with Sir Leicester on the state of the nation, from which Sir Leicester is disposed to conclude that Volumnia is a more reflecting woman than he had thought her.
Mr. George undoubtedly thinks it best to escort her on his arm to the door of her cousinly chamber, and the maid as undoubtedly thinks it best to hustle her into bed with mighty little ceremony.
In the same letter, speaking of Miss Grove's coldness, Shelley speaks also of the failure of his sister's efforts to make the self-possessed beauty regard him with feelings warmer than those of cousinly kindness.
A cousinly kiss, a little sympathy, a few dear little surrenders of each of us to the other: that's all I intended.
One was the night when they sat together for the last time in the dark garden at Silorno, and he wondered whether the suggestion of a cousinly kiss would disturb her.
What had kept him back was the knowledge that it would not be quite a cousinly kiss on his part.
Nor did they struggle against it; neither of them made any secret of their admiration for the conduct of the other, and the scrupulous appellations of Miss Conway and Lord Fitzjocelyn were discarded for more cousinly titles.
She took pains to let me know, however, that the fact of my being a "War Democrat" would not by any means constitute a bar to our future good-fellowship and cousinly acquaintance.
I believe it wholly," answered Stephen, taking his seat beside her again and looking down into her face teazingly with a cousinly freedom.
I asked, involuntarily, meeting her half way down the long room, and taking both her hands in cousinly greeting.
He was even more unhappy than I, for he had deserted home, parents, and religion for his idol, who but treated him with cousinly kindness.
He alone failed to see that there was naught but cousinly regard, and a degree of gratitude and pity in her heart for him.
But there was no indication of reluctance to cousinly recognition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cousinly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
