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Example sentences for "paternal uncle"

  • A cousin (the daughter of a paternal uncle) is often chosen as a wife, on account of the tie of blood, which is likely to attach her more strongly to her husband; or on account of an affection conceived in early years.

  • My father was a King and he had a brother who was a King over another city; and it came to pass that I and my cousin, the son of my paternal uncle, were both born on one and the same day.

  • I took to wife my cousin, the daughter of my paternal uncle,[FN#117] and she loved me with such abounding love that whenever I was absent she ate not and she drank not until she saw me again.

  • My father was a King and he had a brother who was a King over another city; and it came to pass that I and my cousin, the son of my paternal uncle, were· both born on one and the same day.

  • I took to wife my cousin, the daughter of my paternal uncle,[117] and she loved me with such abounding love that whenever I was absent she ate not and she drank not until she saw me again.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acquired characters; country like; dear knows; each session; evil things; help myself; inverted image; little grated; magnetic pole; natural thing; nothing more; other fields; other lives; paternal authority; paternal government; paternal power; paternal uncle; physical properties; remarkable degree; sent down; still holds; then walked; thinking being; white raiment; will readily