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  • If this is your present temper, my friend, you will perhaps be glad to see a letter that has been lying here some days for you: it is from your cousin,

    Chapter 5 2010

  • Craig Hibbard said his wife, Cherriebelle Hibbard, was taken from their home in the 1200 block of Stepstone Court on Jan. 15 by his cousin,

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • England was extending her boundaries all the time -- Walter Raleigh had left for the Americas to establish a colony and been duly knighted for his success; another plot to overthrow Elizabeth and substitute her Catholic cousin,

    Dearly Beloved 2010

  • There were Japanese floor mats in the dining room and, in his bedroom, a sectional Japanese screen on which his cousin,

    'George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait' 2009

  • With considerable difficulty, Hume managed to extricate himself from this situation, accepting the invitation of his cousin,

    David Hume Morris, William Edward 2009

  • Farmer Mac faces heavy losses from holdings that include preferred stock of its cousin,

    U.S. stocks slip as Senate 2008

  • The main focus is on the government-backed buyers of home loans: Fannie Mae, created in 1938, and its younger cousin,

    U.S. Rethinks Roles of Fannie, Freddie 2008

  • Farmer Mac faces heavy losses due to its holdings of tens of millions of dollars worth of investments that have rapidly lost value, including preferred stock of its cousin,

    Farmer Mac Officials Discuss 2008

  • It faces heavy losses from holdings that include preferred stock of its cousin,

    U.S. stocks slip as Senate 2008

  • Trent near Sherborne in Dorsetshire; and then Miss Lane and her cousin,

    A Child's History of England 2007

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