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  • She might pretend nothing more than a kinswoman's interest in him now, with her friends around her, but he had marked her, he could tell.

    Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003

  • Hanua instantly grabbed a pouch of medicines and rushed to her kinswoman's side.

    Mind Meld Vornholt, John 1997

  • He'd gathered about a hundred men, those who'd stood watch over his kinswoman's holdings plus some new recruits.

    And Other Tales Of Valdemar Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • By dint of chafing and bathing in the spring, still foul and red with the blood of the Piankeshaws, the limbs of the soldier soon recovered their strength, and he was able to rise, to survey the scene of his late sufferings and liberation, and again recur to the harassing subject of his kinswoman's fate.

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • "It is Telie Doe!" shouted Forrester, leaping from his kinswoman's side, and rushing with the speed of light to her assistance.

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • I stood looking at her young kinswoman's face, noting the granite under the velvet softness of its youth, and divining the flame underlying the granite.

    Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

  • These ideas, perhaps devised to dispel his kinswoman's fears, were scarce uttered before they appeared highly reasonable to the inventor himself; and he straightway rode to Dodge's side, and began to question him more closely than he had before had leisure to do, in relation to those wondrous adventures, the recounting of which had produced so serious a change in the destination of the party.

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • Such were the expressions with which the young soldier endeavoured to reassure his kinswoman's courage, his own confidence remaining still unmoved; although in secret he felt somewhat surprised at the coincidence between the girl's recommendations of the by-road and the injunctions of his morning dream.

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • The idea of how to secure to himself the advantages of his young kinswoman's fortune takes possession of the husband's mind.

    A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

  • I was much affected by what seemed to me the dramatically fitting outcome of my old kinswoman's Quixotism.

    Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

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