cousinships

A bookful of gossip about flowers -- their loves and hates, thoughts and feelings, genealogy and cousinships -- is certainly always attractive.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

Even she and Lansing, in spite of their unmixed Americanism, their substantial background of old-fashioned cousinships in New York and Philadelphia, were as mentally detached, as universally at home, as touts at an International Exhibition.

The Glimpses of the Moon 1922

It must be very beautiful to belong somewhere, to have, for instance, cousinships in the neighborhood.

The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

Fictitious sisterships, brotherships, and cousinships are devices to push things along, well known to seventeen and even more advanced ages.

Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

He knew all the ramifications of New York's cousinships; and could not only elucidate such complicated questions as that of the connection between the Mingotts (through the Thorleys) with the Dallases of South

The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1899

Square as the birthplace of Society, knew by heart all the cousinships of early New York, hated motor-cars, could not make herself understood on the telephone, and was determined, if she married, never to receive a divorced woman.

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

That most successful of all courtiers, the astute Lord Beaconsfield, used to engage her Majesty in conversation about water-colour drawing and the third-cousinships of

Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

Somehow they were of the people, and still were full of family forms -- which seemed, one dimly made out through the false perspective of all the cousinships, the stronger and clearer note of New England; the note that had already determined a shy yearning under perusal of the Rollo and Franconia chronicles.

A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

Albany cousinships appearing to have converged and met, for the happy occasion, with the generations and sexes melting together and moving in

A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

They had each turned in her own mind, as it appeared from a comparison of ideas, to one of the most comprehensive of those cousinships which form the admiration and terror of the adventurer in Boston society.

The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878