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Example sentences for "her cousin"

  • Rosarito looked with amazement at her cousin.

  • Rosario looked anxiously at her cousin, trying to read in his countenance, before he uttered it, the answer he would make to these charges.

  • Her cousin, mathematician though he was, understood.

  • It was quite evident that Emily meant to go and equally certain, in her cousin's mind, that the reason for the sudden departure was the scene with John Kendrick.

  • To Emily, who was eagerly waiting to hear the result of her cousin's visit to Solomon Cobb, Thankful told but a portion of the truth.

  • She came back to the apartment where she had left her cousin.

  • Her cousin's answer was not very satisfactory.

  • As they were coming home, and alone together in the carriage, she spoke to her cousin on the subject.

  • The homeliness of her own features only increased her admiration for those of her cousin, who had always filled, with her, the place of a younger sister and pet, although the difference in their ages was very trifling.

  • It was the first time I had heard her voice, and it surprised me; it was so like, and yet so unlike, that of her cousin.

  • She had regained by this time her self-possession, also, but not so entirely as her cousin.

  • Mrs Dale, who had expected much worse than this, began to thank him for his kindness, and to say that she also would have preferred to see her daughter married to her cousin.

  • Her cousin, who is the heir to the Allington property, is my nephew by his mother.

  • It was now dusk; and as they were sitting without other light than that of the fire, she knew that he could not discern the colour which covered her face as her cousin's name was mentioned.

  • Bell, therefore, had believed the matter to be over, and was thankful to her cousin, declaring within her own bosom that the whole matter should be treated by her as though it had never happened.

  • She spoke in a low voice, and in a tone that had in it something of almost imploring humility; but, nevertheless, it conveyed to her cousin an assurance that she was in earnest; an assurance also that that earnest would not readily be changed.

  • Next time she could speak to Guy alone, she told him he must not take all Charles said literally.

  • And William shall be in waiting to bring the pony the instant you are ready, and we can go home independently of every one else.

  • I have been gradually finding out that it must come to this.

  • Laura was very anxious to arrive at a right understanding of her cousin's opinion of Guy.

  • As he spoke, Laura entered from the dressing-room, and stood aghast at the words, and then looked imploringly at her cousin.

  • Without listening to her cousin's last words, she made a gesture to put him aside, and rose to hurry to her brother.

  • Some step she was determined to take about Lord Ballindine; and, if her cousin refused to act like a cousin and a friend, she would only be exactly where she was before.

  • As to Fanny, though very indifferent to the subject of her cousin's coming, she was not at all in a state of mind to dissipate the sullenness which prevailed.

  • Fanny told her lover the whole episode of Lord Kilcullen's offer to her; but she told it in such a way as to redound rather to her cousin's credit than otherwise.

  • You might find it here," suggested the innocent Susan to her cousin.

  • A stranger would not have noticed any difference in the treatment of her and of her cousin Ruth.

  • This touched Ruth's impulsively generous heart and woman's easy tears filled her eyes; her cousin's remark was so pathetic, the more pathetic because its pathos was absolutely unconscious.

  • Her cousin turned a shocked face from the window where she was carefully pasting newly-washed handkerchiefs, to dry in the night.

  • Susan reproached herself for her old impatience with Jinny's saintliness; there was no question of her cousin's courage and faith during this test.

  • Susan, always glad to be out at night, found something at which to stop in every shop window; she fairly danced along at her cousin's side, on the way back.

  • Susan contrasted her bright prospects with her cousin's dull lot, even while she cheerfully scolded Georgie for being so depressed and lachrymose.

  • You also observed that Mimi was disturbed in her mind at the way Mr. Caswall looked at her cousin.

  • Mimi suffered too on account of her cousin's suffering.

  • Lilla, of course, felt lonely in the absence of her cousin, but the even tenor of life went on for her as for others.

  • Mimi will try to make you look at her cousin.

  • Speechless with alarm, and trembling in every joint, the unhappy Clara had now lost all command of her limbs; and, clinging close to the side of her cousin, by her wild looks alone betrayed consciousness had not wholly deserted her.

  • The eyes of Miss de Haldimar followed those of her cousin, and rested on the dark hull of the schooner, with which so many recollections of the past and anticipations of the future were associated in their minds.

  • Sylvia passed quickly through the house-place, and went upstairs without speaking to her cousin Philip or to any one.

  • For the latter disliked the idea of her cousin's esteeming it necessary to accompany them home, and wanted to escape from him by setting off before he returned.

  • And she would in a way belong to him: her cousin, her mentor, her chaperon, her lover!

  • And from what you tell me of her cousin it would seem that her desire to placate them is not always to be depended upon.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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