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Example sentences for "distant cousin"

  • Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin.

  • A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin.

  • Probably he, too, if you knew, was a distant cousin.

  • DEAR MADAM, "I have had an interview with a certain Mr. Richard Woodroffe, who calls himself a distant cousin of my son.

  • Lady Louvaine's house in London had been obtained through the Earl of Oxford, a distant cousin of her husband, in whose household her son Walter had long before taken unwholesome lessons in fashion and extravagance.

  • Her husband had inherited Selwick from a distant cousin, known in the neighbourhood as the Old Squire.

  • We have driven to see the exceedingly curious old house of Badeley Clinton, of which my distant cousin, Mr. Dering, has married the widowed owner.

  • She was a Miss Doyle, a distant cousin of Sir Francis, and shortened his father's life by her vagaries and furies.

  • I went on to flattest Lincolnshire, to Revesby Abbey, to visit my distant cousin, dear Edward Stanhope's widow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    broadcast station; distant about; distant country; distant cousin; distant lands; distant object; distant period; distant place; distant point; distant points; distant relation; distant relative; distant thunder; distant view; fluid theory; getting very; good counsel; her carriage; isthmian canal; manifesting itself; must call; place between; slavery friends; stood like; take any; your honor