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  • Clearly she said that only blood-relatives are expected to come running in the middle of the night.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Clearly she said that only blood-relatives are expected to come running in the middle of the night.

    Just so you know, my phone works in the middle of night 2009

  • In S2E14, the Fringe team comes in to the coffee shop and they are confused how all these un-realted people are killed (cos they thought it was just blood-relatives, after the wedding scene).

    Solution to the Fringe Glyph Cipher 2009

  • One person, however, I may distinguish, as she is now no more, who, living to the utmost term of human life, honoured me with a great share of her friendship — as, indeed, we were blood-relatives in the Scottish sense — Heaven knows how many degrees removed — and friends in the sense of Old England.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Not to be confused with blood-relatives of the President.

    Think Progress » McCain Calls For Escalation In Iraq, Suggests Putting More Troops On The Ground 2006

  • And then some of my blood-relatives will deem me ripe for replacement as King of Pontus.

    The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

  • This departure from the parental condition, and the lack of agreement with others even of its closest blood-relatives, are two familiar forms of variation.

    The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

  • [18] Agnates (_agnati_) are relatives by blood or through adoption on male side only; cognates (_cognati_) are blood-relatives on either male or female side.

    The Twelve Tables Anonymous

  • Strictly speaking, therefore, the European War was not a race-war at all, but a domestic struggle between closely knit blood-relatives.

    The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916

  • The blood-relatives of Bertha, akin by second kind to Sarah, become akin by the third kind of affinity to Robert.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

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