1 There was hardly a family in Georgia who could not own to their sorrow at least one male member or relative who gambled, losing money, houses, land and slaves.
2 Their young brother Dallas was their darling and the only relative the maiden ladies had in the world.
3 Except for Aunt Pittypat and Uncle Henry and you, she hasn't a close relative in the world, except the Burrs in Macon and they're third cousins.
4 His sister, his only relative, had moved to Texas with her husband years ago and he was alone in the world.
5 No friend or relative stood up with them at their marriage.
6 It's a relative quality, after all.
7 Another aspect of the same idea had presented itself to her, and she felt that it was beneath her dignity to have her nerves racked by a dependent relative who wore her old clothes.
8 As for Carol, she was an orphan; her only near relative was a vanilla-flavored sister married to an optician in St. Paul.
9 They had two meals with Carol's sister, and were bored, and felt that intimacy which beatifies married people when they suddenly admit that they equally dislike a relative of either of them.
10 The true Main Streetite defines a relative as a person to whose house you go uninvited, to stay as long as you like.
11 Mrs. Bogart showed herself perfectly willing to be an associate relative.
12 From its relative situation then, I should call this high hump the organ of firmness or indomitableness in the Sperm Whale.
13 Their agreement with him was made before they left the old country, through a cousin of his, who was also a relative of Mrs. Shimerda.
14 This change had brought them nigher to each other, however, while it altered their relative positions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 20 15 At all events, a short, squab female relative who was present at his birth exclaimed as she lifted up the baby: "He is altogether different from what I had expected him to be."