kinswoman

• “An old ally has turned against him; his wise advisor has gone missing; and a young kinswoman is wreaking havoc.”

  Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Take Five Interview: Juliet Marillier and The Well of Shades

• “By assuring me that my kinswoman is my sincere friend?”

  Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

• “But I cannot help being glad for you that his kinswoman will be your servant, for you are ill fitted to grow maize with the painted savages, ma plus douce!”

  Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty

• “I'll have my own way; there is no hurt I hope in providing for a near kinswoman, that is left to starve by a still nearer relation.”

  Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph

• “So home, where I found Mrs. Lodum speaking with my wife about her kinswoman which is offered my wife to come as a woman to her.”

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb 1662/63

• “And accept, for all the kindness you have ever shown me, as to one whom you did not disdain to call a kinswoman, the assurance of my undying gratitude.”

  The Parisians — Volume 11

• “I am well aware, Master Bridgenorth," said Lady Peveril, "that my kinswoman is a Catholic; [*] but her son is educated in the Church of”

  Peveril of the Peak

• “A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secrets of the Tudor Court

• “It was not just the loss of a former mistress and a former queen that left me stunned and shaken, but the sudden void that can only be created by the death of a kinswoman.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secrets of the Tudor Court

• “King Henry stopped to speak a few brief words to the woman who was seated on the other side of me, my kinswoman Dorothy Bray, then abandoned her for a redhead with a noble nose and a nervous smile.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secrets of the Tudor Court

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