'I love my cousin cousinly – no more.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Leigh] Reference

She worked the cousinly relationship to the limit.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference

Daily Volumnia has a little cousinly talk with Sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bleak House] Reference

Nannie swallowed a grimace and proffered a cousinly hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Plains] Reference

She is fond of him in a cousinly spirit, and delighted at his visit.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

Nevertheless, Sophie's cousinly concern could rapidly become a distraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady of Expectations]

The cousinly Arkansas touch pops up in Clinton's world in unexpected places.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE INNER CIRCLE] Reference

Another family with whom the Austens were on cousinly terms were the Cookes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

In the state capitol he was greeted with cousinly backslaps and gifts of Cajun sauces.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Grenades Will Land'] Reference

Bess, who, with much cousinly feeling, often wished “them ear - rings” might come to good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Bede] Reference

Three girls aged 7, 8 and 9 giggled and played their way through almost 48 hours of cousinly fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sisters, Cousins and Conversations] Reference

But in a cousinly state, where everyone seems related, they only icily acknowledged each other's presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anxious In Sioux Falls] Reference

Even your cousin Potney from cousinly Merry Olde laid a bodacious cultural difference or two on the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates]

The first meeting of the kings had to take place timidly, under the shelter of this cousinly relationship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V] Reference

The Penford novel mentions only a cousinly relationship apparently only through Isabella's marriage to Edward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The warrior heroine in cover art] Reference

Unless you can treat her with cousinly regard you should not have taken what has been given to you as a cousin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Anna] Reference

He heard, as I did, the faint threat in the cousinly concern, and at least it gave him an excuse for a face-saving exit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longshot]

Indeed, I know that it only requires that you and I should have a little cousinly talk on this matter to be quite in accord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Thorne] Reference

For the cousinly affection of two years ago, had in both of them merged into deep intense love, which ended only with their lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference

I lounge upon a smoky afternoon of August, but a pocket Elia is as coveted and as cousinly a companion as a pocket Walton, or a White of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference

"I believe it wholly," answered Stephen, taking his seat beside her again and looking down into her face teazingly with a cousinly freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884] Reference

'For shame, Maurice, cousin is that cousinly does!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Step-Mother] Reference

Domenico and Antonio there was a mild cousinly feud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1] Reference

Abbey, she felt that she had a sort of cousinly affection for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference

'Shall I, Elleen?' asked David, with a twinkle in his eye of cousinly teasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Penniless Princesses] Reference

With assurance of my distinguished consideration and warm cousinly regard, I remain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Claimant] Reference

'Why didn't I think of it -- but then his way is so free and cousinly with us all.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Step-Mother] Reference

My father sends you his uncle's blessing, and a thousand cousinly kisses from my sister.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

In the intensity of her emotions she forgets to be formal, and becomes natural and cousinly once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Terrible Secret] Reference

His face, his voice, his pleasant smile held no emotion whatever, save that of kindly, cousinly regard.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Terrible Secret] Reference

She took a warm interest in Dan's welfare, though there was nothing but cousinly affection between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Errand Boy] Reference

Englishmen; and at once, with cousinly minds, they fell to chatting upon the nothings agreeably and seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference

"You must think whether you have compensation," said the lady, and he received it in a cousinly squeeze of his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference

But Clara had also made up her mind, and would not be made to think that her cousin could mean anything that was more than cousinly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belton Estate] Reference