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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
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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
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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).
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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.
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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
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And then some of my blood-relatives will deem me ripe for replacement as King of Pontus.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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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
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[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
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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
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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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