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Besides, no one can doubt that the king's blood-relations should be at a distance from him, and occupied, not by warlike, but by peaceful business, whence they may get credit and the dominion quiet.
A Political Treatise 2007
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And I do assure you, I loved some horses, and even some cows for that matter, as if they had been my blood-relations; knowing as
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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“Kasendi” are henceforth considered blood-relations, and are bound to disclose to each other any impending evil.
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He folded the letter and replaced it in the envelope, with such a conscious hostility to all that his blood-relations did or said, as he had not felt since the day when, in their midst, he had struggled to assert his independence.
Maurice Guest 2003
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England, a number that will very well match, and all look like blood-relations.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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Many, wounded and helpless, would have been carried off by hunger had not the compassion of the women afforded them relief; for the kind-hearted women of Bonifacio, we are told, actually offered their breasts to their brothers, children, blood-relations, and sponsors; and there was no one during the terrible siege of Bonifacio who had not sucked the breast of a woman.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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God is as a real father, and all his subjects are as our blood-relations.
Life in a Thousand Worlds William Shuler Harris
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Hottentot our blood-relations; -- not that reason or Scripture objects to that, though pride may.
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'No, no, Dave,' twouldn't do, 'replied the planter,' the conversion wouldn't be genuwine -- besides, such things arn't proper, except with blood-relations -- and all the Yankees, you know, are first-cousins. '
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Wherefore the brethren of the Lord are so called, not by birth, as being born of the same mother; but by relationship, as being blood-relations of His.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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