Charles always wondered if first cousins produced sickly children, and now here was his father confirming that concern. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He only knew what his cousin Samuel Mudd had told him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an only child I might get lonely sometimes, but cousins are the best. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t long before Wes got a chance to see the inside of her cousin’s house, and the water bed in her cousin’s bedroom. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She could have just one evening of fun, one small taste of the indulgence she had heard about the cousins enjoying time and time again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered if my cousin Joana was also on a train somewhere. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma said the grace, and after my cousins said “Amen,” I still had my eyes closed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy was my second cousin once removed and I'd known Tom in college. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The only children who come over every day, without fail, are my cousins, Dennis and Lily. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

His cousin delivers fish wrapped in foreign newspapers, and he hears the Germans aren’t doing well in their war against Russia. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The Warren doesn’t know about this. It’s one of the few places we can’t get into. My aunt’s best friend’s cousin said they’ve caught every kit sent here.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Only a few days have passed since the thing with Q and me finding out what my cousins really do for money. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Harriet,” Smith said, “I have brought all my young cousins to see you. I want you to make good abolitionists of them by telling them the history of your life.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

To my complete shock, my cousin and the rest of her classmates start taking off their clothes right in front of each other. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In another place, his little sister lifted her head to sing to the moon, and a hundred small grey cousins broke off their hunt to sing with her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their account would claim my brothers first, then it would spread to my aunts, uncles, cousins, the whole valley. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Whenever we invite Dad’s cousins to Passover Seder at our house, Bubbe will get up from the table and say, “The shiksa needs my help in the kitchen.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Salim's cousin Ted had worked it out, they said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had known him since he was a kindred swelling of her first cousin’s belly. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yes, you mould say “a cousin of my mother’s”, “a child of hers”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The good-for-nothing cousin came up for air, empty-handed again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I had not just cousins but also cousins of cousins, and those cousins of cousins had kids, none of whom I’d ever leave out and all of whom made the day more meaningful and merry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a dining room with a big table for when Aunt Joan and my cousin, Curtis, come over, but the kitchen is for us. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On another occasion two small boys in Wisconsin, cousins, died on the same night. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She tried to be more precise, however, saying that she was going to spend her last years with a first cousin who lived in Riohacha. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My cousin Neda is eight years my senior, but she always spoke to me as if I were on her level. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, don't be too sure,” said a “cousin.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

They remembered the very same places in Narnia—"the grasslands up above Beaversdam" and found that they were some sort of second cousins once removed. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Can’t one cousin visit another cousin? It’s a lonely country. Maybe I missed the sight of your monkey’s face.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to have some kind of help from this cousin she’d never even heard of before. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There, cousins," he said, "dismiss it all from your minds and be comforted. Here is water and there is grass. You shall have a hot mash when I have milked my other cousins, the goats." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks, Kumalo’s senior cousin complained to one of the other women about the new wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Feliciano, as we stood next to each other in lineup one day, murmured, “You know that inmate who attacked Pitkin? Turns out he’s the cousin of my friend’s girlfriend.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nas once called sleep the cousin of death, and I suddenly get that. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His cousin s wife, Ojiugo, had once said, “English people will live next to you for years but they will never greet you. It is as if they have buttoned themselves up.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Fern was out of earshot I asked my cousin, “What about Sophie?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then came Briony with an arm round her cousin’s shoulders. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The priests say even first cousins never should marry,” she said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Day after day, with nothing to do, the cousins and I walk to the beach. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less and less often, as the summer set in, did her tart tongue discomfort her cousin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

"That was his cousin. I knew his whole family history before he left. He gave me an aluminum putter that I use today." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even wait to get it all the way unwrapped from the curtains of George Washington’s cousin. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It's a habit that started when I was young because my only cousin on this side doesn't speak Bangla. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I have to go for prayers. If you need anything, ask your cousins,” he said, taking a kettle from the stoop and beginning to perform ablution. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mami chatted about New York, my cousins, movies, and tall apartment buildings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go talk to her? You have that secret cousin bond. Let her know how terrible you feel and that you’re sorry.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re a good dancer, cousin,” she said, and her heart jumped again, maldng her think she might die right then and there in Lefty’s arms, but of course she didn’t; they danced on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

With supplies in hand, the cousins stepped to the glass double doors separating them from the bright day and paused. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

After four or five more minutes, my mother, my aunt, and my cousin and me came up on the park. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Just make sure that they have little brothers or cousins for us,” Layla says as she stares into her phone. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Me and my cousins slept in blue metal beds and shared boxes for our clothes. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I noticed that he stiffened at the mention of my cousin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Competing with a wailing baby at the back of the room, I tried to evoke that hot summer of 1935, when the cousins came down from the north. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was supposed to go to a few Celtics games, but now they’re giving the tickets to my uncle and cousins,” Trevor said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“That would make you and your cousin enemies.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And when the king beckoned his cousin Marghaz closer, leaned down, and whispered in his ear, he liked that even less. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My cousins are whispering to one another at the top of the steps. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Cathy’s father will have to fly to France one day and find her great great distant grand cousin on her father’s side and inherit the family house. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his cousin Gerald were on their way over to Cherie’s house to kick it with her brother and they stopped in at a liquor store to get something to drink. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My whole life I’d slept in a room with my mom or on the floor with my cousins. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The fish lost the fight. My cousin wrapped it up so tight it couldn’t budge.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

My great aunts and my cousins and their children and everyone were also smiling. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A memory washes over me—Maddy’s sleepover birthday party in fourth grade, when her favorite younger cousin asked if I’m going to hell because I’m not Christian. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My own cousin was arrested and whipped by police for getting caught socializing with the opposite sex. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Well, all during the Junior Prom Buddy treated me like a friend or a cousin. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Her self-entombed cousin, on the other hand, had never left it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The most obvious examples are iterated possessives such as my mother’s brother’s wife’s father’s cousin. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Officer Manit started to ask the cousin what his name was, but before he could say anything, Somkit leaned over the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mami’s mother had been one of fifteen children, and Mami had endless aunts, uncles, and cousins in the barrios that stretched like tentacles from the wide avenues and shady plazas. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Since they were cousins, the family money would stay within the family, just as it had when Emma’s brother Jos had married Charles’s sister Caroline. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know anything about your cousin,” I say, aware that she can’t probably understand anything I’m saying because I’m blubbering so hard. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Jontay raises his hand and says, “My cousin goes to Dunbar High School—in Dayton. He told me Dunbar was from Dayton, Ohio, and the school was named after this dude!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse,” Scythe Faraday had been fond of saying. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was family everywhere within walking distance, so many cousins, so much history. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The door opened, and my cousin Sala stood behind it, tears running down her face. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Bite your tongue, cousin. Haven't you had enough brushes with death for one day?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He squinted, examining the passing women, until finally she called out to him, “Over here, cousin. Don’t you recognize me? I’m the irresistible one.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And though I miss my cousin, I’m happy that he can live his life unchained. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His parents kicked him out again, and he’s been staying on his cousin’s couch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Letters arrive from her parents, from her husband’s parents, from aunts and uncles and cousins and friends, from everyone, it seems, but Ashima’s grandmother. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I talk and talk to my cousin Pilar late at night on the beach. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the one who told her friends how excited she was about her cousin coming from Haiti. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I had changed into my nightgown and settled in at my desk to write my cousin Joana a letter. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Some of my cousins have come down from the Bronx and my grandparents came from the city on a train that goes under the ground. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I was sure Mother would have told every brother, cousin, aunt and uncle the story she had told Erin: that I was possessed, dangerous, taken by the devil. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His mother sets aside the things he doesn’t like, which is most everything, to give to his cousins the next time they go to India. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed more and more that it could have been one of the cousins from Virginia who had killed Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The doors of our home were always open to uncles, aunts, cousins, friends, visitors. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"We're going to light candles all over," another little cousin adds. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She is the cousin who has never minced her words. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

No way could I go up to these Spark cousins myself. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course Obinze did not look well, shoulders hunched from stress, in clothes borrowed from his cousin. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the foreground, black silhouettes, the two boys and Joe’s cousin, moved in a lazy kind of athletic ballet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's against the law to marry that doctor-to-be. He's your cousin." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin used to stand on her head and let out enough thread to form a balloon. Then she’d let go and be lifted into the air and carried upward on the warm wind.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Forgiveness comes only from the gods. What of Ser Lan- cel, who was your cousin and your lord husband’s squire? Did you take him into your bed to win his loyalty as well?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His cousins grabbed on to the sixth car from the end. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kids simply went “down south” every summer—shipped out sometimes for the whole season to run around with their second cousins back in Georgia, or Louisiana, or Mississippi. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I am Señor Diaz. My cousin Tomás is the man you wish to see, not me. Lucky for you, he is here now behind my shop. Come along.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” says Alyssa, “I don’t have a cousin who works for the LA Times.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So I believe them when my cousins say they’ve made twenty thousand dollars already. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Have you heard that? I want to send a letter to my cousin.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I know they probably don’t understand, but my cousin Lupe wants to be a teacher and she says you’re supposed to read to babies, and they don’t understand either, so I figure it can’t hurt. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Our cousin is also invited,” Minerva said with that stiff tone she always used with Jaimito. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered how old his cousins were, and which rooms they were sleeping in, and whether they had red hair, too. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And my other cousin has been out of work for two years since he injured his hand. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dad lost a cousin in a drunk-driving accident in the fifties or seventies or whatever, and there is a zero-tolerance rule in our house. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: What did you do when you first heard that your cousin was dead? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A closet cousin," Fifi says, searching her purse for a photo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When the grain got ripe in the fields, Uncle Henry came to work with Pa, and Aunt Polly and all the cousins came to spend the day. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spat was with an older cousin, who thought Maria Isabel was showing interest in her boyfriend. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Not from around here. Might be your cousin.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some of my cousins there were around my age, and I could tell they didn’t know how to wrap their heads around what had happened to us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by grandparents and dozens of aunts and uncles and cousins, in a community where neighbors counted as family, pitching in when relatives couldn’t, Dorothy’s children’s lives would change very little. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

No one in Clover could take all ten children, so relatives divided them up —one with this cousin, one with that aunt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her cousins all around her—the way it was before she left. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Misha’s little cousins each touched their tongues to the wine and then passed it on with a grimace. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow I’m taking you to visit your cousins,” Mami said some weeks later. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She told me a story about her cousin’s dog who ate corn right off the stalks in her grandaddy’s garden and got so sick he almost died.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Okay, Lou, show your cousins where to look. You can fill these up.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take my cousin and go away, down to the dambo where we could play and I could think. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

My cousin stiffened under the sheriff’s questions and rebuke and could only say, “Sorry, Sheriff Charles.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Crazy baby cousin always takes my things and messes with them. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When Martin appeared, introduced by one of her cousins who worked at the shipping company, she had tired of the gossip and long relinquished an interest in happiness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She spoke against the white man who was her cousin. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There was even one clique of girls—Rosemary called them “the Snubs”—who never spoke to her, though three were in her Hebrew class and one was actually Rosemary’s cousin. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crept by Mr. Lucas, who was asleep on the sofa, and picked my way through my uncle and cousin camped out on the living room floor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

So he was courteous then and he said, “Well, and my cousin, welcome to your home again.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"May I give my cousin a quick tour before the bell, Dr. Williams?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the car, Mong’s cousin held up her hand for us to stop and said: “All right, nobody gets in without telling me their full name, first and last.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You tried to act all down and then you dogged my cousin.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

So, whichever of the girl cousins could control their bladders for several hours and would not try to drink the turpentine were enrolled in Saturday art lessons. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I stared at Mong, trying to figure out why his cousin wouldn’t do what she just said she would. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dinka cows look wilder than their American cousins and have thick horns that are two to three feet long. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Mehrdad woke up one day and decided that he wanted his nieces and nephews to grow up as close to each other as he was with his cousins in Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But since my cousins moved away, the rules have both tightened and loosened in odd ways. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The mums went off for coffee, just as we'd planned, and Salim and the two Sparks cousins joined the ticket queue. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Honestly, he probably still thinks of me as his cousin's weird twelve-year-old stepson. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“If it isn’t my two favorite cousins. Come right in.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were both related to Robin Lacks, the father of Albert, Ben, and Winston Lacks, which meant they were also Henrietta and Day’s distant cousins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her cousin’s hands were cold, and Nhamo knew that she was frightened, too. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister and I tried to find common ground with our half-American cousins, but that took a while to pan out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ophie had imagined that the “cousins” would be children like her own cousins, just maybe white and a little bit nicer, judging by how excited Richard was to see them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

On Facebook, he posted a picture Ifemelu had taken of him standing on the verandah with Ranyinudo’s cousins, and he captioned it: No lions yet to eat me, folks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My uncle, aunt, and cousins laughed so hard that they couldn’t stop for hours, even after the story had ended. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I have a whole family full of uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, grandmothers, and whatnot. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I decided that I was going to report him so that he would no longer be able to scar anyone else the way he scarred the lives of my cousin and me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My Uncle Clyde and Auntie Nina are staying with us for a while. My cousins Kay, Bernice, and their baby brother, Allen, too.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"And you as well, cousin. I had no notion you had such a lovely voice." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With all the cousins getting ready for the festivities, he was probably still sitting on his bed like a buddha, waiting for a pair of feet. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were, in fact, distant cousins, something they never found out. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother even went so far as to set me up with a third cousin, who is thirty-five and beautiful and clearly homosexual. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Like my cousin who got stopped on his bike and handcuffed. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want no drama, but you have to promise not to tell your cousins.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ralph discovered he even missed—sort of—his little brothers and sisters and cousins. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt and cousins would be there whenever she was on the outs with Dinky. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That’s when I see the second cousins and great aunts and uncles whose names I barely recognize. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not to my parents or anyone here. Just my cousins. The twins.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I don’t know. My mom was saying my cousin who’s a little older than you is having one.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He looped an arm over Sheed’s shoulder, hoping his cousin didn’t have his usual awkward smile. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cristiana was of high birth, for her father was the queen’s cousin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His hand in mine is warm, and for a moment, I feel brand-new, as if like my cousin Primadonna, I am beginning to live up to this new name—Fabulous. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She definitely arrived in Albania, because she met her second cousin there. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At one point, one of the girls, a second, third, or fourth cousin of mine, gave me a sideways look and said, just a touch hotly, “How come you talk like a white girl?” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s because he’s friends with this guy, Fizz’s cousin. That’s why.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then he marched back to Laxmi’s cousin and tugged at a pocket of her overcoat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My cousin's shout comes from the bench: "Whack it, Anna! And then run to Jenna. Martha, take it easy on her, will you?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve never gone to another girl’s house in America, unless you count my cousin Lily’s house. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

There were aunts, uncles, cousins — the home behind the red gate doors was really a village of relatives. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

But then, Elizabeth had been visiting in San Francisco with her cousins the last few days, so April wasn’t really up to date on the Chung family news. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother and Sonia have gone to India for three weeks, to attend a cousin’s wedding, and this year Gogol and his father will spend Thanksgiving at the home of friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said how about my dad’s cousin in Idaho who has a ranch, or her mom in Sarasota, who has a condo, or his old buddy Cal, who lives in Maine in a trailer. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And he was both Hershey’s brown and clay red and too good-looking to be my cousin. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

When I asked cousins and other Chinese children whether their mothers had cut their tongues loose, they said, “What?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony suspected that behind her older cousin’s perfect manners was a destructive intent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the house of the sick person, usually a cousin or aunt or uncle of ours, I put a holy look on my face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin could have gotten you a better one for a third of the price, Mirian tells her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Again, I’m left out of my cousins’ circle and I know for sure that I’m not the Fourth Bee. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I’m going up to Rhode Island to see my cousins.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“My cousin is down on the lower deck. Please, help me go find her.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We had a cousin who would sit on the couch, drink a beer, and take her teeth out, making them go chomp! chomp! and causing us to run from the room. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not illegal or anything. First cousins can marry even. We’re only second cousins. Milton went and looked up all the statutes.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My cousins go back and forth with their jokes and playful insults. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Some of the people are saying the Eight Sages took you away to teach you magic,” said a little girl cousin. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We wanted you to come in without your cousins, Fabiola,” she says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“If you’re gay, it’s fine. My cousin’s gay. Doesn’t bother me.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In an instant, my fierce bargaining cousin is back to the sweet girl I’ve spent every minute of the last few weeks with—and begun to love like an older sister. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

A cousin in London had sent them as a twelfth birthday present, even though Calder’s birthday wasn’t until the end of the year. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Parker did not know much about the American language—but he understood the American dollar very well, and he had used his money and influence to admit his cousin to the asylum without delay. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She wiped the cut on her head with some leaves and smiled in a glassy way at her cousin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only cousin who likes to hang out with Blacks and Latinos. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best part was that my cousin, Curtis, gave me another iTunes gift card that I want to use to listen to the music we listen to in therapy. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was Mudd’s hope that George would act as a go-between, alerting the police to the fact that his Good Samaritan cousin might just have “accidentally” aided the men who killed Lincoln. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The smell is still Korean, irreparably so, cousin to that happy stink of my mother’s breath. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t talk about the SIM’s visit or my cousins’ leaving for New York City, but I can have Sam for a best friend even if he is a boy. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The Philadelphia cousins brought apple pie and tried to pretend nothing was different. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And almost that long since I’d last seen my mother and father, my uncles and aunts and other cousins. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jumping to help her cousin, Omakayas felt as proud and bold. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A whole section was stuffed with matching outfits—mother-daughter, sisters, maybe even cousins. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She looked like an Aztec goddess, but her face was that of a Mexican girl, the face of our many friends and cousins, a teenager, like us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Laura and Mary and the cousins stood and looked at him. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wildlife was limited to buzzards, raccoons the size of huskies, domestic pets left to run feral, and hordes of cockroaches that had regained the ability to fly like their southern cousins. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Where would I be with my pretend cousin who wouldn’t be my cousin if it weren’t for Peeta? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

His cousin had a similar store, as did many other immigrants in his new community. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed out of trouble, was helpful and obedient at home, and spent evenings doing his homework with help from his cousin's husband. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Gone, nothing! That child rode that bicycle across the creek to fool with her cousin and Miss Trotter.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I would be if I married your cousin.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I also have two brothers and a sister. A pair of widowed aunts. Nieces, nephews, cousins. I had thought you might consent.. ” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The Overlander speaks true, cousin, you look like a shorn sheep.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t told him that whenever I went to the bush with my cousins to fetch firewood, my mind would begin to wander to things I had seen and done in the past. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One of the boyfriend’s cousins left behind a wife and son, two months old. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Lafayette Baker seized the telegram, rushed back to his headquarters, and alerted his cousin Luther Byron Baker to the news of the sighting. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After leaving Dublin, I took a quick tour of London, but I couldn’t wait to get to Paris to meet Zlata’s cousin, Melika. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And lately, almost not at all about the other cousins. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was only going in to find you and your cousin.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever the doors parted, she shouted, probably embarrassing the American cousins, but she didn’t care. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Lancelot mounted his horse, got his bearings by asking several peasants where he was, and rode off toward the forest of fire apple tree where he had lost his cousin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah fought back with fists and teeth, and soon the cousins left her alone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She lay down again in the boat and fell into a sleep as profound as any she had had surrounded by the breathing of her cousins in the safety of the girls’ hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my three Lamb cousins piled out of the back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Your aunty and cousins will be here soon.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she went back and told Charles of her failure, he sent a letter to his cousin Fox, who had visited Malvern before and had written to Charles describing the grave. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who loved to run on the beach with his cousin. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We distribute ourselves in several cars, driven by boy cousins. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So it was with excitement and not a hint of misgiving that I waved good-bye to my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, ready to begin a new life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I grew up among nineteen first cousins, and they each played a pivotal role in my childhood and teen years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I almost want him to keep yelling it out just so Tonesha and this cousin of hers can hear it. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I assumed my friends also came with a tribe of outspoken aunts, uncles, and cousins they saw on a regular basis. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Begging your pardon, sir, but was Clara your sister? Or your cousin?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

So, we did what we had to; my sister moved in with the neighbors and I’m living with a cousin who offered to take me in. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One day her stomach was hurting real bad, and I told my cousin to call the ambulance. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was with my mom’s sisters, my gram and grandpa, her friends and cousins all around. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cousins were very good at being very, very bad. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was no way Helen and the cousins hadn't stolen their money outright. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She then heard that her beloved cousin Gerrit Smith had helped to fund the raid. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Now I have bad news. Your fantastic new suit is going to get dirty. You can blame your cousin for it.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I had to let the Thibaut girls do the hard work of covering for me, explaining me to their brother as a cousin he’d never heard of before. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We always spoke with a purpose back home, especially at the table, but my cousins seemed to simply speak and speak and speak. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

With them is a big girl who I found out recently is Stephanie, Tyler’s cousin. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

My brother and some of his boy cousins had found a long bamboo stick and were poking the water as if they could make the boat go faster. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course the whole conversation was carried on in German, because not only do they speak it at home with their mother, but as their cousin I’m expected to understand it too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was like talking to somebody’s cousin who just stopped by to say howdy before getting on back to wherever he came from. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins shift a little, and he pulls out something that he puts into his mouth—a toothpick. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I had no idea my cousin was still thinking about the locker-room situation as much as Jenna and me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In her determination to cheer up her cousin, Laxmi had forgotten about the boy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The cousin said nothing, but when Kumalo shook his fist at her she told the truth. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"Thanks, cousin, but I don't drink. I like to stay alert." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When Martha arrived, she was accompanied by her cousin Melville Vaughan, a biology professor at the University of Central Oklahoma. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They are the cousins, Lucy says, and always jealous. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home, my cousins were asking me what happened. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few years later, an older cousin told him what a miscarriage was, and confided that Roy’s mother had lost a baby girl. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we wind along the narrow mountain roads, I try to re- member everything I can about what happened to my cousins Zoyla and Gregoria. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rented it from some shirttail cousin on my father’s side. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Abuela’s cousins, who still lives in their old house, had found them at the back of a closet where Abuela had hidden them before she left. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The chemical came in two forms—DNA and RNA, molecular cousins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Their driver was one of the cousin’s slaves, a small man with a wheel tattooed upon one cheek, naked but for a breechclout and a pair of sandals. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Emmett pauses, closes his eyes, then mutters, “I begged my cousins not to tell my uncle and aunt. ‘I don’t want to be sent back to Chicago,’ I said. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

For the second time that evening, Briony felt a flowering of tenderness for her cousin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Before they could dry, I went and joined my cousin to show my respect. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

George had a close relationship with an Egyptian cousin, Henri Curiel, a leading Communist organizer who later moved to France and was assassinated in 1978, most likely for his political activities. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He asks, “So, is Shayleen your sister, your cousin, or what?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The kids were still enjoying the time spent with their cousins—the laughter rattling the house was testament to it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I watched the Katrina coverage with a knot in my stomach, knowing that if a disaster hit Chicago, many of my aunts and uncles, cousins and neighbors, would have suffered a similar fate. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A pair of explorer cousins marched towards the shed with sticks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“What do you want for the cure, cousin?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My cousin Valeria, who is only a few years older than I am, has three kids now, and they all look like eaglets. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Margaery stands accused as well. Her and those cousins of hers. How is it that the sparrows freed her and not me?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bren had been in love with my cousin Vanessa for as long as I could remember. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There is only one bathroom in my great aunt’s house, so this turns to trouble when all the beer starts to hit my cousins. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

That worked out for her because the night before she'd gone to a birthday party for one of Lydia's cousins and she'd gotten back late. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know for sure? What if you have brothers and sisters? Or cousins, like me and Otto?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Our chimpanzee cousins usually live in small troops of several dozen individuals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been very bad for the whole family, especially Eric’s little cousins and nieces and nephews. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, a cousin exclaimed after a visit that the only place to be sure not to find a child was in the nursery. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of that nonsense. I’m a Parslow, same as Roger’s father. He’s my second cousin. I bet you didn’t know that, ’cause I bet you never asked, Miss Lyra. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She turned, and he saw his three little cousins jammed in the doorway, staring at him. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I passed the rest of that day trying to say less to my cousin, feeling put off by her hostility, but also wanting her to see me as genuine—not trying to flaunt some advantage. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And mother rabbits would tell their kittens that if they did not do as they were told, the General would get them—the General who was first cousin to the Black Rabbit himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in their adolescent days during summer visits, the four girls used to shock their Island cousins with stories of their escapades in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That was extreme, of course, but how about her friend’s cousin who, married away into the countryside, was made to take baths in a big copper vat? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I miss everything about Syria: my house, my friends, my aunts and uncles, my cousins. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Friday night and I’m spread out on the couch watching a daytime talk show I’d recorded about second cousins claiming to be telepathic. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even her cousin Lancel, who once had claimed to love her, was one of her accusers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We’re all holding hands now and I smile even brighter because I see that my beloved aunt and cousins pray, too. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Before the war, Jack had had parents, a brother, a sister, a grandfather, uncles, aunts, and cousins—eighty people in all. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I tell them I’m her cousin and I’ll be fifteen in August. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I liked to stay up late with our cousins. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ophie carried a tray of champagne flutes very carefully, holding the silver tray with both hands as the Carutherses’ various cousins each took a flute, exclaiming over having champagne. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

One morning Mrs. Hoffman asked me to go to a neighboring store—it was owned by a cousin of hers—and get a can of chicken a la king. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent the last four nights at his cousin’s place, not moved to flee by the great risk of capture he faced. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I was playing with my cousins. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was the first time she did not look on proudly and enjoy my cousins’ arguments. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond a doubt, too, it had made for an easier relationship with her cousin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But Anatole not being from here, that explains why he doesn’t have his mother and father and fourteen hundred cousins living with him like everybody else does. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the cousins teased Joe, saying, “Maybe he thought that ice water might’a cool him off, but he so hot for her, that water nearly started boiling!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The taste of blood was on his tongue, and his ears rang to the song of the hundred cousins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Now, my cousin Alfie can be quite particular about the way his wife should look. He's been through quite a few." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Luma learned that the boys lived in all kinds of improvised family arrangements, often not with parents but with uncles, aunts, and cousins. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The cousins and the villagers came bearing bright orange jams, silk dresses, silver embroidery scissors. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also newly rich and newly disoriented: one week he was broke and squatting in his cousins flat and the next he had millions of naira in his bank account. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The rest of Suzanne’s family was not particularly close-knit, except for two of her favorite female cousins who helped her out as much as they could. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With each braid, with each touch, I begin to know and understand my dear cousins, my sisters from another mother. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

That was, if the cousins hadn’t cleaned out the icebox once again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She started dancing as though she were the awkward cousin at a bat mitzvah. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

One week later the invitations were printed, and two weeks after that she was adorned and adjusted by countless aunts, countless cousins hovering around her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then on that day when the cousin had commended the country wife and laughed at the city wife, that had passed which could not be forgiven. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed natural that she and her cousins would be fast friends. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And while Ophie knew that the cousins couldn’t truly hate her—she’d barely exchanged two words with them before they’d declared war—it didn’t make the constant backbiting or tiny pinches any more bearable. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I remember her going to India for spring break and returning with a bindi on her head and photos of her smiling Indian cousins. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And I’m as still as a rock, even as my cousins sit on the couch. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t even glance at my cousins to see if they would stop me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But he had no close friends, until some of his younger cousins began to grow up. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, my parents went to church in a nearby village and left Tabitha and me behind with my father’s cousin, a woman named Nyanriak. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A procession of uncles, aunts, and cousins followed as we made our way through the hall, parting a sea of applauding guests, blinking at flashing cameras. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin is at Harry Potter World right now,” he says, flicking his thumb over his phone screen. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We had a cousin who would sit on the couch, drink a beer, and take her teeth out, making them go chomp! chomp! and causing us to run from the room. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins sold the drugs that killed the white girl. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I know your house is small, but Salim is dead keen to meet his cousins again. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my cousin’s making my gown,” I blurt out. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I realized, with a shock, that his face was a lot like that of one of my cousins back home. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our cousins must be rich to give up these things!” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Annabeth,” Chiron said, “perhaps you and Grover would go supervise Tyson and my cousins before they, ah, teach each other too many bad habits?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Her daughter, Miss de Bourgh, will have a very large fortune, and it is believed that she and her cousin will unite the two estates.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

It’s Rabbi Gold who planted the phantom cousins in my mind—the ones who never had a chance to be born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She could learn to be a little more expressive from her cousin whose turn it now was to put a comforting hand on Briony’s shoulder. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want her cousin to start crying. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Kit’s innocent question her two cousins burst into peals of merriment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been spending so much time with my cousins, and thinking about my mother, that I could use some good laughs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She’d ask Day and her parents’ cousins, “What in the world happened to my sister? And who was my mother? What happened to her?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I finally fall asleep and dream that Santa has arrived in a black Volkswagen filled with cousins carrying baskets full of apples and raisins and nuts. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

After a brief time staying with my cousin, I arranged to move in with Reverend J. Mabutho of the Anglican Church at his home on Eighth Avenue in Alexandra Township. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of Ralph’s little brothers, sisters, and cousins, hoping Matt would not notice them in the dim light, popped out from their hiding places to watch. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

After several exchanges of e-mails, Salva learned that the cousin had not actually seen or spoken to his father. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe a few cousins. But the ones with all the money, Russell Allen and his kids, have died or have moved away.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We sit on the curb, flicking open our cans and watching some cousins play hockey. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Seems I knocked my cousin Bridget clear back out the doorway and onto her butt into a foot of snow. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

"Pleasure to meet you...Anu? Isn't that what your cousin calls you?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yule May my cousin,” Pascagoula says over the whir of the machine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His uncle and cousins are shouting, begging, pleading on the porch. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She was staring at her cousin, thinking, “Will you just look at him smiling away? Still got pimples but thinks he’s the cat’s meow. Where does he get it?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted her own kids to know their aunts and uncles and cousins, and so the relief was profound when the Odyssey arrived at her brother’s house in Baton Rouge at eleven-thirty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mother, Father, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, my friends in Kraków, I missed them all so much. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And if such an enchantment exists, then the ownership of the house is most likely to pass to the eldest of Sirius’s living relatives, which would mean his cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’m taller and have lighter hair and skin than my cousins, with a pointier nose and eyes that only sometimes look Asian. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“He thinks I’m picking up my cousin and his new wife.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She promised she’d make Carlos take us to his cousin Leo’s house because he’s a Chicago cop and might be able to help with Olga. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Showing respect is not calling your cousin a sheep.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

DELPHI: I’m trying to bring my cousin back! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

On the days I don’t spend watching other people watch us, I help my older cousins bring their cows to the field to graze. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more dependable than my parents, grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, and big sister. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how my aunt and cousins used to call us in Haiti to wish us a happy Thanksgiving. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow it is going to be two months since my cousin was murdered and my parents left the country. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We stacked our suitcases and Jonas sat on top, holding the bundle from our cousin Regina. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“We can take the bus. And we don’t have to be in the same room as my cousins,” I try to convince her. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then he said, "I am in love with my cousin." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Chinese cooking. I have a cousin in Chinatown, and he told me how. My cousin is in the firecracker and fan-tan business.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And my cousin Molly. She spammed me with quotes for a week straight.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I stayed behind as Dad, Mama, and several cousins went to the morgue. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As once a kelimi had separated a brother and sister, now a wool blanket separated second cousins. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There he played the drum, while the senior cousin jumped up and down on the sand. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Instead, I went to see my cousins in Mississippi. I should’ve gone to Nebraska.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

My brother once said it was like the same cousins with different names. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Mother’s cousin Regina hiding in the shadows. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

DELPHI: But I have to—he’s my cousin. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He taught me to cook, and otherwise let me run wild with my cousins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"All in good time, cousin. Sit. Rest. You look gaunt and haggard." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The next person to get home was Sir Lionel, one of Lancelot’s cousins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pronounced her cousin’s name like dream without the m. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I had a cousin I used to visit. They had a piano, and his mother played it. I liked to listen to that.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She put ribbons in the hair of his cousins’ daughters. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he pulled his eyes away from Mr. Flux to Sheed, he didn’t feel better, all too aware that the fate TimeStar described for his cousin wasn’t so different. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"He isn't a direct uncle—they said he's your father's cousin, not your father's brother—but I'm so glad they found him. I really didn't want you ending up in an orphanage." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The two other girls disappeared in a jabber of cousins earlier. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But when we got to her house, she said over Willy’s head, “There’s a barbecue at my cousin’s tomorrow. You must be going.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And when the young man nods, Mario goes on to brag for his cousin. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are none in our grade. The only ones I know are my cousins and they’re...a lot.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In Brooklyn, everybody goes south or to Puerto Rico or to their cousin's house in Queens. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

No, it’s not a fancy brand-name dress from some expensive boutique, but the fact that my cousin’s making it means it’s special to me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

By the time she turned twenty-three, she gave in to societal norms and decided to get married to a first cousin she had never met. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I have the honor to be Lord Wyman’s cousin and commander of his garrison. Follow me.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This summer all the men in Palestine had beards, and his cousins, who didn’t, were jealous of his because it made the older girls look twice at Rashid. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When we got home, my Ohio cousins went straight for the bar because graduations seem to be the one occasion where anyone can drink. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, cousin, it is too kind of you——” began Mary Poppins, but the Hamadryad held up his hood for silence. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“No, Fab. How are you? I don’t want you to worry about me. How are your cousins, and my dear sister? How is school? Fab, tell me that you are studying lots.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As I walk outside, some say hi and some ignore me, but they still know that I’m the Three Bees’ cousin, as they say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In Europe, untold numbers of native species were crushed against the impassable barrier of the Alps and its smaller cousins and fell into extinction. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But the summer I went to England to stay with my cousins everything changed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the paintball champion of Wake County and had a cousin in the Marines he wanted to fix up with Carol Lee. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I could be walking past cousins or aunties right now, and I wouldn’t even know it. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I don’t say anything because my cousins’ arms are around me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They’re like the names of distant cousins, people who live far away, people I hardly know. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was swimming in our pool with Samira and our cousin Leyla when they came up with the brilliant idea to smoke me out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Carl reasoned tolerantly that Ernest could ride the train to Sioux City to see his cousin and return the same way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“My cousin lives in town. All right to take him up for a visit?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The guys got out of the car and exchanged phone numbers with my mom and her cousin. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The cousins with their bugs — those bugs — and that funny wooden bridge over the neck of the pond, collapsing once under their collective weight. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked at the seat belt Mei-li had made him put on and didn’t even turn to look at his cousin. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure you’re excited to be going to school with your cousins.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Aunt Zo and our cousins came over to give my parents moral support. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He heard some troublesome news from his cousin over to Lewiston. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t his own exalted pedigree—Erasmus as grandfather, Darwin as cousin—proof that genius ran in families? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They said, “What’s wrong with her?” and my cousin said, “Her stomach hurts.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor darling Briony, the softest little thing, doing her all to entertain her hard-bitten wiry cousins with the play she had written from her heart. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

People whose names I don’t know are treating me as if I’m their long-lost son or brother or cousin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed as though Wang Lung’s eldest son could never give over his hatred of his cousin or his deep suspicion of his cousin’s evil. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Aunt Helen and the cousins had acted cold and rude from the moment Ophie and her mama arrived in town, because it meant less space for them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Aunts with collards and yams, cousins with hoots and hollers, and runny noses. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Some of the messages were smart-aleck remarks and skull-and-bones by cousins who resented me for getting out of lessons inflicted on them because of me. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I stand by, as stunned as I was that November day when my cousins left. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It is as prominent as if he were a grandfather and not a third cousin twice removed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My cousin Kylie was working for my mother that day, filling vials of essential oil. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a grin that carried Dedd all the way back to the day her naughty cousin had put a lizard down her blouse. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this visit Charles told Uncle Jos, Aunt Bessy, and his cousins about the possibility of the voyage and about his fathers objections. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she pushes my cousin, taking me in. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My male cousins were advised, “Make sure you put a hat on that Jimmy!” or “Get as many girls as possible!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’d been pushed by the cousins and dismissed by Mama, but what else could happen if people knew? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He told me that Ali and his cousin— who had owned the house—had been killed by a land mine two years before, just outside of Bamiyan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have a mansion, but at least they can get to know their cousins.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The street is crowded with people, and a few come over to say hi and hug my cousins. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Rashid’s cousins in Palestine were right, and it was Rashid’s fault he didn’t completely fit in, because he did not know who he was or what he wanted. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Born in 1063 a.d., 8-Deer was a shirttail cousin to the ruling family of Tilantongo, which had been engaged for decades in a dynastic struggle with the kingdom of Red and White Bundle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had a cousin named Raphael, and he didn’t think much of the name. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As she squeezed out of the high chair and walked over to where her cousin stood her heart thudded inconveniently and her breath was short. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If an older uncle or male cousin tried to hug me, I got fidgety and nervous. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But if he noticed he stared at his cousin with a warning in his tight, pale face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Judith — what will our cousin think of us? Besides, there is all the work to be done.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Charles Parker was to travel with his cousin, but he stood apart from them at the station. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She wanted to leave the bedroom and claw out Helen’s too-light eyes, wanted to box the cousins’ ears like she never had before. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. You the Three Bees’ cousin,” she says, examining me from head to toe. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There are at least two dozen riders, including his cousin George. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now she's a star in India, I guess, and my cousin is being raised in Mumbai like a Bengali princess by her other set of grandparents. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My cousin Mlungisi and I were taking turns riding around the block. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had lived on a farm with some cousins for six months and I helped Uncle Holt with his vegetable garden every year, but that was the extent of my agricultural expertise. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I keep looking at Mong, wondering if he even has a cousin. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He told friends and cousins he was looking for a down-to-earth Muslim woman who wanted a family. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever noticed about my relatives...how all my cousins are on Grandpa’s side and not Grandma’s?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“He let Harper and Gully get at him. You know. In actuality, I am worried over my cousin, manin. Both of you, I’m worried over. This Harp and Gully thing—the East Side Squad.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

If the warder asked who Ngutyana was, we would say she was a cousin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me how Carol Lee’s cousin came to visit and gave her a cashmere sweater she didn’t want anymore. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In a few years, when her older cousin retires, Justice will most likely take over the practice, a solid prospect, though far less lucrative, and less glamorous, than a partnership at her Lexington law firm. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Later that night, once he’s alone at his desk, he replies: was it a meeting about which of your cousins have to marry each other to take back casterly rock? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Unlike them, I was not the daughter of an earl or a duke or the cousin of a European prince. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Looking at his friends’ and cousins’ children he thought not only of pigs but also of “savages,” as the English called native people. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maryam’s cousin—a merchant of rare furs—knocks on the doctor’s back gate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was a failed cutting from a more sophisticated culture in the Andes, a cousin of Wari or Tiwanaku. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How his cousin would show up in her red Acura and drive us all the way down to the Mexican border. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I need to call my...cousin,” Toby said, wishing it was Mr. Townsend and not the suspicious office aide sitting at the desk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I cover my nose and keep my eyes on my cousin, even as Kasim keeps looking over at me, smiling, and inching his hand closer and closer to my leg. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And the cousin grinned widely and said, “I have brought a few guests.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She took four for herself, her cousin, and the bats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rhetoric was, for Aristotle, dialectic’s wayward cousin: having as its method not “this therefore that” but “probably this so likely that,” and as its object not knowledge but persuasion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Otto was not the only one who didn’t like to admit when his cousin was right. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The cousin was working for a relief agency in Zimbabwe. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet, he remembered times he’d made such a confession to Otto, and his cousin would sneer, and scoff, and say things like, “How do you not know that?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When my kindergarten teachers informed me that my cousin had just joined our class, I blankly stared at the little boy they introduced me to. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My cousin was older than me, married with kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At about this time his cousin began to tire easily and to run a temperature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had listened to his brother Tom and their cousin Eb, the two younger of the grown boys in the household, and their excitement had found its way into his blood. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was from a distant cousin and arrived mid-November. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Rising to her feet, she asked the senior cousin what she had to do and quietly took the calabash that was given to her. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I remember that my cousin Pilar said there were new cybercafes in town. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The longest she had been away was a week when she went to visit her cousin Ruth, who had cancer, but Ruth lived in Manchester. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They are cousins, and she loves her well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We had lost males before, cousins and uncles who were conscripted into armies or bonded as apprentices, who are almost as lowly as slave girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She no longer had the heart to invent for her cousins the thrill of the first night. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I will, Highness,” Yellin said, adding, “but I don’t know where my cousin is—I went looking for him less than an hour ago and he was nowhere to be found.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The same cousins she played with as a girl. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Marty said he knew of this one place, which was called Sombrero Dot, and he went there before with his cousin. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which reminds me, I promised his cousin I’d be at her house right about now.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Back at three,” Laxmi said, disappearing with her cousin down the hallway. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My grandma remembers growing up with lots of cousins around, and they’re as close as siblings to this day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I listen as my cousins open the door. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Once in a while, one is taken down when a connection is made by a distant relative who remembers: My cousin had a child by that name. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hensleigh had married a cousin from the other side of his family in 1832, the year Charles left on the voyage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m getting a baby cousin! That’s what my uncle came over to tell my mom yesterday.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“This,” said Dr. B. J. Cigrand, Emeline’s second cousin, the North Side dentist, “in spite of the fact that she was in the habit of writing to her parents two or three times a week.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

What she meant was that surely his cousin Aniekwena buried her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We had three girl second cousins, no boys; their great-grandfather and our grandfather were brothers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's another thing—my cousin doesn't even know that Bengali nicknames are only for family. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It stinks when family betrays you. It happened to us, too. I think it was my mom’s cousin who turned in my dad.’ The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Whenever my aunt and cousins would call Haiti, I’d imagine my life as an American—living in a house full of family, going to school, having a car and a boyfriend. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He called the senior cousin to follow him and made his way quickly to the side of the river. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Congratulations, Aspirant Veturius,” a mustached man who might be a cousin says as he shakes my hand in both of his, using the title the Augurs bestowed on me during graduation. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“And I wouldn’t be here if I were the only person who had doubts. How’s the handsome cousin?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every mouthful she ate was displayed to her admiring younger cousins, half-chewed, mulched, lying on her tongue like fresh vomit. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls like Zohra and my other cousins, who are safe and comfortable and living perfectly ordinary lives. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

All the aunts and uncles brought their spouses and children, which meant the house was full of cousins of all ages running in and out. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My cousins are black, my mom is black, my gran is black. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Chou, the younger cousins, and I sell what they make in the market. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk up, my cousin comes into focus. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘I think,’ said Mr. Lyte quietly, ‘all of you ladies and gentlemen will agree that this cup our—ah, cousin, is it?—has brought back tonight is one of this set?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an extended family, Mami’s aunts, uncles, and cousins, who dropped in and out of our lives with warm clothes, advice, and warnings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her cousin’s distress produced in her a state of restlessness, an agitation that was close to joy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All the cousins had been taking turns watching her. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the cousin laughed coarsely and he said to Lotus, who sat there smoking her water pipe, “These town women are too finicking, are they not, Old Mistress?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When Ivy saw Joe and June talking to the girls, he yelled, saying one of them was his cousin, and they’d better stop messing with her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ranyinudo brought her cousins to meet him, girls who were close to his age, skinny jeans clinging to their slender hips, their budding breasts outlined in tight T-shirts. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ah, then, then Your almost-brother love will cool; The cousin smile must grind out lean Where younger cousins rule. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a change of plans. Leo had to work. And he said he couldn’t help. We asked him, I swear to God. Julia, this is Ramiro, Carlos’s cousin from Mexico. He’s cute, right?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Late at night, Lolo used to tell me and my cousins ghost stories in the dark. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, like my third cousin, really. And he was runnin’ his mouth about how him and his dumb friends jacked somebody’s money at the library. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“And I miss my mom and my sisters and my aunts and my cousins, too.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Sheed decreased his eating speed by half, just to annoy his cousin. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My cousins are people I don’t really think of until I get an occasional photo or formal letters like this. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m fighting the wind, this place called Detroit, my cousins and their walls, the prison that keeps my mother, my broken home country floating in the middle of a sinking sea. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His father was a minister, as were his uncles and many cousins. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There are lights on in every room of my cousin’s house, and several of my uncles’ junky cars are in the driveway. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She makes me sit at a separate table with my cousins. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Before my mom was married, she was strolling around Tehran with her female cousin. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Didu does things with passion," I tell my cousin and aunt. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All those modern peoples are recent offshoots of their South Chinese cousins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a crowd of people behind her—aunts, uncles, cousins, and people I either don’t know or don’t remember. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I think our cousin, Fabiola, being here is the best thing that ever happened to us. For real.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I have been studying architecture. My cousin has been studying art.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The cousins pressed their fingers into her stomach again and again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mudd solved his problem by sending his cousin George, a loyal Unionist and therefore above suspicion by the federal authorities, to town to report Booth’s visit to Mudd’s farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my cousin,” Mario explains, “just come from the capital to rescue ladies in distress.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Five major cities," the little know-it-all cousin calls out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I laugh because my cousin said something in Creole. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He decides to give it to Jet Mauve, his cousin. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, about a week ago. They at my cousin’s house. She live in like the middle of nowhere. Mom’s been a mess ’cause she didn’t know if I was okay. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

One of Sally’s cousins was a good-looking, slender, dark-haired boy named Appy, who later turned out to look like a movie idol and aroused more admiration than the short, comical, chubby Sally. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, the basket was larger than anything she had ever attempted, but Nhamo was afraid to ask her cousin to take some of the load. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d look goofy, like I was holding hands with my little cousin instead of my girlfriend or whatever. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I had told her about Sammy, making him sound like an old boyfriend in order to keep up with my cousin’s sophisticated life of seventh-grade romance. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

My cousins have come up the stairs, too, and they’re pulling my body in the other direction. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I deeply venerated my cousin’s talent and principle. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now, with the García cousins leaving, only my family will be left living at the compound. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Somkit reached down and pushed his cousin's head, sending him back underwater. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The second dead body I ever saw was my cousin Oslo’s. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Aunts and uncles and cousins began to fill the house, and there was a great deal of excitement. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my eyes, I traced the lines of his lips, the flare of his nose, as he spoke to Aunty Ifeoma and my cousins, all the while nursing my anger. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a difference with his animal cousins: Animals do not blush. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So he could figure out that your cousin set him up?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Calm down,” I told them, although I was thrilled at the possibility of talking my cousin into treating me to a magazine. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Afterward they would hop into Abuelo’s taxi and drive all the way to Abuela’s house, where her mother, grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins all lived. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Briony was savage, and did not give her cousin time to speak. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ophie tried to follow the cousins out of the parlor, but Aunt Rose stopped her with a heavy hand on her shoulder. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I quickly snap out of it as Donna comes into the room and all my cousins start to laugh at my expression. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Your cousin’s not afraid of me,” she says confidentially. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Hasina told them that the cousin, her husband-to-be, had already started the process to move them to Germany, where his brothers lived. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I don't have aunts and uncles and cousins. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Henrietta couldn’t walk from the house to the car, but either Day or one of the cousins managed to get her to Hopkins every day for radiation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ma and Aunt Polly worked in the house and all the cousins played together in the yard till dinner time. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My cousin got the stomach flu last week. That can come on real sudden.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was talking to my cousin, Maggie, who was a few months younger than I, when Uncle Tom entered the room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others struggled as they were flung to their deaths, but Nhamo’s beautiful cousin approached the water like a queen. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know this is where your cousin fell? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart sinks when I see how Dray has hurt my dear cousin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She served him small, steaming cups of precious prewar sake a cousin had brought along and opened for this celebration. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always there were my uncles and aunts and cousins to greet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set my bag down and whirled around to see my cousin Kevin, waving on the train platform in North Kingston, Rhode Island. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The man's shouts had come from inside, but what drew me now was another sound, a tap-tap-tapping like us girl cousins dancing for company. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence, and in silence, behind them, came the brothers and sisters and cousins and all the troop of old people. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the cousins drove all the cars because the adults were still a little too drunk to drive to the graduation. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my cousin once again standing over me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Briony had heard her mother and sister analyze the latest twists and outrages, charges and countercharges, and she knew her cousins' visit was an open-ended one, and might even extend into term time. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He said Salim's cousins had bumped into him at this motorbike show where he's working. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sadie said the same thing, and so did all the other cousins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We found my cousin’s body, which had not been burned. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My cousin Matthew was shot five times in the head by a Mexican gang on February 8, 1996. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At a proprietary yank from one of the little cousins, Yolanda lets herself be led to the cake table, festive with a lacy white tablecloth and starched party napkins. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They would be gentle, formal, everyone gathered in the musty living room: her elderly uncles and granduncles, their wives, some cousins, and perhaps a baby tied on someone’s back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My cousins, the neighborhood kids, they’d open the gate and head out and roam free and come back at dusk. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One day at noon he walked calmly out of the fruit store of his cousin and urinated in public against the wall of the First National Bank Building across the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their contact until tonight has been artificial, imposed, something like his relationship to his cousins in India but lacking even the justification of blood ties. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall we ask your cousin the reason of this?” said Elizabeth, still addressing Colonel Fitzwilliam. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Laura and Mary and the cousins stood around for some time, looking at him. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know him in the same way you know your best friend’s cousin: by name and face. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The elite of Durham sneered openly at them whereas middle-class whites tried to put as much distance as possible between themselves and their poorer cousins. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Karolina offered to hook her up with the cousin who worked in the meat plant. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The visit with my cousins took on a routine as dull and uninspired as the previous days had been exhilarating. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As she stood in the nursery waiting for her cousins’ return she sensed she could write a scene like the one by the fountain and she could include a hidden observer like herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And the young man sneered at Wang Lung and he said, “Ah, that son of my cousin’s needs no leading. He can go alone.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Emmett didn’t seem worried at all, even though his cousins had backed away without making a sound. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

We all sat down and watched television instead, and my cousins and my brother talked about football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you better head on back into the celebration, cousin,” Bernabe suggested unhappily. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, they say he's a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's. That's where all his money comes from." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then my cousins from Rhode Island came down with Auntie Janet for a few days. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the way home for the party, my Ohio cousins lit up another joint. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins are all asleep, but I’m still awake, staring at the low white ceiling and counting my problems with every breath. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Where we come from, everybody is a cousin,” Lefty tries to joke. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Liyana was being kissed by so many people whose exact identity was unknown to her, though Poppy tried to clarify names of aunts, cousins, and wives of cousins, to help his family out. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kit could never get over her amazement at her cousin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And my sister yelled at my cousin Mike for rolling down the window while he was driving and messing up her hair. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The first is basic human greed and its close cousin, envy. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went with all my Ohio cousins, who promptly pulled out a “joint” and passed it around. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seems eighteen-year-old Cory stole from the cousin who took him in, thus ruining Christmas for the cousin’s girlfriend and her child. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eventually given the seal’s skull, and he and his cousins displayed it in his bedroom closet, which he called the “Roosevelt Museum of Natural History.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

And so when he turned four, Milton renounced his cousin’s companionship, preferring to play with neighborhood boys. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She narrows her eyes and I think she’s about to tell me to leave her cousin alone. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Chicago and Petersburg, Virginia. I got me a cousin in Petersburg. He work in a library down there.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day the cousin said she and her son were going to her parents’ house in California, to try to recuperate. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There would be a lot of exciting things on the trip—meeting my cousins and seeing the Hudson River which they said was a mile wide, and watching the boats sail up and down it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins are laughing and talking among themselves in the living room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Benny and Brad, my younger cousins, zipped around tables, pretending to be superheroes until they were scolded by my uncle for knocking over a chair. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’ve been here for an hour, and her baby cousin has been crying the whole time. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Hell yeah! Or else she wouldn’t be my cousin,” Pri answers for me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Boynton told a reporter that his cousin was weak from the trip. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Smallest kid of all my cousins, shortest kid in my kindergarten class and on my block too. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The talk was she would soon he wed to one of the queen's cousins, so the Lannisters might claim her lands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In addition to assembling the greatest empire ever seen in the region, the conquests managed to kill off most of the siblings and cousins above him in the line of royal succession. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As it was, he stared at Dudley for several seconds before accepting that it must have been his cousin who had spoken; for one thing, Dudley had turned red. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My kid cousins were full grown; my aunts had grown old. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Carlton and Ruby were distant cousins before they became husband and wife. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Back upstairs, we tuck in on opposite ends of the couch with our phones, Abby texting her cousins while I text Simon. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s my aunt’s. Way too big for her, but she won’t sell it. She and my cousins come in the summer, and only a caretaker the rest of the year.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone but Salvador and the youngest Ruiz cousin laughed at her question. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I smile at this thought, and then see that my tod- dler cousin Ivan has noticed my smile and is smiling back at me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes to see the sky is still dark but that Uncle Leang, his wife, Aunt Keang, and all the cousins are up. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Charlotte’s cousin won. She wrapped the fish up, then she ate him when she got good and ready. Spiders have to eat, the same as the rest of us.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, aunts and uncles, cousins, coworkers of my parents, neighbors, teammates, coaches, and friends wanted my autograph or to pose for selfies with me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I'm sad, too, but I'm not sure my cousin's right. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Riding in sports cars is for older mice,” one cousin said. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I shake the thought from my mind, because thinking of my mother forces me to think of my cousins and their drugs, which makes me think of Detective Stevens, and Dray, and Kasim. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She spent summers in Clover, and as she developed, her boy cousins would grab her and try to have their way. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I explained to the man at the desk that I was looking for my cousin, Mike Bickle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I thought that if I told my cousin what her husband had done, she wouldn’t believe me either. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Luckily, however, M. Yoshoto said the picture belonged to his cousin, who was away visiting relatives in Japan. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She was polite and well mannered, and at family dinners was the first girl cousin up from her seat to clear the table and wash the dishes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The projects, a drunken stepfather, an older brother concussed by police, a cousin pinned in the city jail. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The only people who stayed were Aunt Zo, Father Mike, and our cousins, because they were related to us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You need to hear some hard truths, cousin.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I think she wonders if my dad steals things, or if I have a cousin who hits people. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As her cousin Joe had years earlier, she found it intolerable to think of her flesh and blood in foster care. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was content being with my cousins, but, oh, how I missed my home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"This is my mom, and my aunt, and my cousin, King." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It's the one Bengali thing I'm better at than my cousin. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As much as I loved every one of my cousins and had significant relationships with each of them, I have Mitra to thank for one of the best days of my life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

An adopted extended family from the West Computing office stepped into the void left by the aunts and uncles and cousins in Farmville. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When they get back, my cousin and grandmother both look exhausted. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“See how your cousin sits quiet and watches?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He smirks at his cousin, looks him up and down, and shakes his outstretched hand. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The aunts had gone to Bethlehem to help a distant cousin prepare for her wedding. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The air was damp, and in spite of the pins Ashima’s hair, thickest of all the cousins’, would not lie flat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A place far away from the cousins and their pretty but spiteful mother. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Like Darwin, he collected beetles, but he lacked his cousin’s plodding, taxonomic mind and soon gave up his collection for more ambitious pursuits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

During the summer of 1848, at the age of sixteen, James went to work on his older cousin's boat on the canal that connected Cleveland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of my stays had been with a second cousin dairy farmer. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“My cousin,” replied I, “it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. But she has confessed.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says how long it’s been since the aunts have seen me, how the littles are my cousins, too, after all. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Every kid in the family was paired up with a best-friend cousin. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As she got older, people in the family thought she’d be a good match for her cousin Charles, also an organizer, a collector, and a list maker. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard about this ceremony all my life, and then I watched my cousins and brothers, so I knew exactly what to expect. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held out a carrot and whistled again, a song about mermaids, Apple’s distant cousins. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My third uncle, my cousin, my father, my grandfather.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

If “cousin Darwin” had solved half the puzzle, then “cousin Galton” was destined to crack the other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s been at home for days. My cousin said she can’t even take him to school.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

One afternoon my cousin Scootchie took me to meet his friend Suggs Miller, who is president of the Local School Council at Doolittle West. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Germany. That has to be where my cousin is.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Nothing idealistic about seeing your only cousin ghost white and stone dead. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His cousins had left more toys scattered on the stairs: a wooden mouse, a toy theatre, some paper dolls. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘This cousin of yours - he went up the Eye and never came down, you say?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Comfort—you saved your cousin’s life. You did the absolute best thing you could have done, honey. The right thing. What if Peach had drowned? What if you had drowned?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I heard the same thing from my cousin, and she's not the sort to lie," an old woman said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m waiting to say hi to my cousin,” the boy said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Aside from my uncle, there were four other people who bonded my cousins and me together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Later, well past midnight, after a few hours of poker between Baba and his cousins, the men lay down to sleep on parallel mat­tresses in the same room where we’d dined. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No. No money. Just information...on Drayton. Dray. Your cousin’s boyfriend.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She is safe with Steve Mason’s gay cousin, and I am safe knowing that nobody else will interfere with this moment. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Being five years older than he was and his cousin as well did nothing to dim her passion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to one story, at Howe’s headquarters she spotted a British officer who was a second cousin from Ireland. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"One of my very own cousins. Prince Alfred." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Remember the feeling that the great public gardens, the long lunches, might all be undone by a physics, cousin to our rules and the reckoning of our own country, that we do not fully comprehend. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The first cereal was probably millet—not the millet eaten today, which originated in Africa, but a cousin species, knotweed bristle- grass, which is no longer farmed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He saw a little child stumble and fall and the mother bend and yank him up, and he thought about home, about his little cousins and his parents and Anulika. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My cousins have surrounded Dray and are yelling in his face, telling him to leave me alone and deal with them, all of them, instead. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The blare of video games tells me that my cousin, Curtis, is here too. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They stop to wave back at the row of relatives waving madly from the observation deck, little cousins propped up on uncles’ shoulders. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cliff Garret, Henrietta’s cousin, lived in his farmhouse in Clover until 2009, when his failing health required him to move in with his son in Richmond, Virginia, where he currently lives. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know about it until we were already home, on the platform at the train station, and my mother said, “Your cousins can hardly wait to see you!” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Nne, Jaja, come and join me in the kitchen until your cousins come back.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

No matter, I have many cousins to play with. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he left it behind, some of his older cousins would grab it and stay in the lobby—at least until they wore it out or wrecked it—and the younger relatives would stay too. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

And I was way naughtier than either of my cousins. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My cousin Frito was the kid that got capped in front of that bodega yesterday,” Vega whispered over my ear. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And it looked better than that time I washed it in detergent to kink it up so I could have an Afro like my cousins. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no way I’ll be able to use my cousin’s supplies. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rose was out at Bible study, and the cousins were nowhere to be found. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The elderly woman’s expression was hard in a way Ophie had never seen, not even the time she’d yelled at the cousins for tracking mud through the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A match between the cousins was not entirely impossible. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ellie had four children, a husband, parents, cousins, and friends, but felt very alone at this time—and grown out of season. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I lose track of my cousins and realize the room is almost empty. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Me? And get shot? What good is that? Mami would be so sad. But probably not my cousin Frito. I don’t even like guns. Would you join?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

As he knelt, Tyrion observed that his cousin was losing his hair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ali had a cousin there as I recalled. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Unbeknownst to most of the family,” Grandpa said, “a few of your cousins have visited me here. None of them came close to figuring out what is really going on.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, her aunts have given her a list of names of uncles and aunts and cousins she might call on along her way. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mostly, I didn't understand how my sister and cousin could function in their current state. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She had received a letter from our housekeeper s cousin, telling her through coded words that Papa was alive. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

After a joyous reunion with my aunts and many cousins, Pa disappears with Uncle Leang to meet with the village chief and request permission to live here. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, I had a cousin who worked his way west on the Union Pacific,” Miss Whitlaw said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Months of pampering and the ridicule of my cousins had turned me inward. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I went to a club once with my cousin and his friend. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everything—Haiti, my mother, my cousins, my aunt, the house, school, Kasim, the detective, Dray, America—comes to a boil: sizzling and popping and oozing hot, red lava. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So many people came, many of our neighbors, my uncles, my aunties, my cousins, Dr. Ahmed and his family. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

About two weeks after my cousins leave, Mr. Washburn comes for a visit. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Eddie’s father would have named him Franklin if he hadn’t promised his cousin when the boy’s mother was first pregnant that he would name the child after him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t been to a wedding in a while. But when I was in Pakistan, we were dancing around one day to be silly, and my cousin showed us something like this.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“You really are my favorite cousin,” I told her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They are mostly oblivious of the extended Croteau family, and have barely met the Croteau cousins, who are close to their age and live nearby but lead quite different lives. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But after a time my cousin said it wouldn’t hurt none, so I said okay.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He remembered that when his cousin’s father died, the family had sent word to her in Lagos, telling her to come home because her father was very sick. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He hopes his cousins in Vietnam are caring for his parents’ graves. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

As I think back to that way of life now so distant, I feel a sense of longing, particularly for my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Jill was Guzzo’s cousin, and he kept promising he was going to put in a good word for me with her. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He liked his brother, his sisters, his cousins the Wedgwoods. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the summer when I was eight, my family went by train to Saint Louis to see some of our cousins. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My youngest cousin, Charlotte, who was watching all this, suggested that we clear out until the excitement had died down. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I end up at Jamie’s cousin’s front door because I don't know where else to go. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She explained that a cousin of her fathers lived now in England and shipped them here. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad and my brother and my cousins carry him out to the car of the person who is least angry at him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I was glad that with high school just around the corner, I was deemed mature enough to know my cousin's biggest secrets. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“A flawless event,” said the king’s cousin, smiling at me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was captain of one team, while my cousin Geoffrey was captain of the other. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I feel terribly sorry for my girl cousins and my other great aunts because they don’t really have the bushes option, especially when it’s cold. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Joe Justice had never even met his cousin until he saw her in the trailer, but afterward he told his wife that it was “abhorrent” for a close relative to be in foster care. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

No one could have guessed she’d spend the rest of her life with Day—first as a cousin growing up in their grandfather’s home, then as his wife. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the fourth day Kit felt chilly and lightheaded, and by twilight she was thankful to sink down on the mat they dragged to the fireside near her cousin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We nickname him M.G., a make of car we consider slightly sleazy, a car one of our older cousins might get his Papi to buy him to impress the Island girls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My cousins were over that night and I remember them all laughing at her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He’s a cousin from Australia, staying for a couple of weeks; he’s Jason’s oldest friend, best man at their wedding. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can give her cousin a respectful hearing, whatever he desires. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had even enlisted the help of our cousin Missy, who had come up from Salt Lake City to tutor her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There used to be a lot of laughter in that kitchen, a lot of good food and loud music and parades of cousins and homework done at the table. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“To my cousins, or your tales sister in Vienna. We will get a letter when the mail begins to come again.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They stayed in El Paso with Apá’s distant cousin and worked at a restaurant until they were able to save enough money to take the bus to Chicago. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mini turned even redder, now looking like a tomato’s mutant cousin. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I used to think that was a baby cousin of mine with the Tweedy name spelled wrong, but Mama said it was somebody’s pet canary. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Uncles would come visiting, cousins, relatives to feast and listen to stories and tease endlessly. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They was more like brothers and sisters than cousins. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of the evening confessing to our giggly, over-chaperoned girl cousins the naughtinesses we had committed up in the home of the brave and the land of the free. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was hard to dislike Masvita—she was so good-natured—but Nhamo felt a little serpent tongue of envy wriggle inside because her cousin had crossed the river into womanhood first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Blue is at church right now with his mom and uncle and cousins, and they all went last night, too. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It doesn't help that my cousin's a good foot taller than me and has the body of a supermodel. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ector conceded me the first fall with my cousin, my ain kin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what was troubling her organized spirit now was the thought that soon the call would come to go downstairs and her cousin would need to be in possession of herself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But, on the other hand, how did one feel at night if he awoke and remembered, “I’m the one that sent my cousin to his death.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a cousin in America who’d been doing well for himself in New York City. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they mentioned “the current situation,” Dad told us to go downstairs to play with my little cousin Hua-hua. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cousins realized their voices had risen to the point where everyone could hear them, so they stopped talking. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If there's one person in our family who deserves the credit for the close-knit relationships between us cousins, it's Dayee Mehrdad, otherwise known as the true patriarch of our massive brood. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At least there would be three cousins her own age, all boys, but that couldn’t be helped. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little cousins, come forward to join the laughter, eager to be a part of the adult merriment. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“They say they have no jobs, but they mean they have no jobs for a boy like me. Everyone there is someone’s cousin or brother or best friend’s son.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He and his cousin Gerald were on their way over to Cherie’s house to kick it with her brother and they stopped in at a liquor store to get something to drink. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He went to the home he had not seen since he was a little boy, and with him went his cousin and friend Pylades. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day I sat on the verandah with my uncle and cousins looking toward the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the store we sold fresh produce my cousins brought in from their truck farm, and also dry goods and a little ammunition. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a shot caller, Trini. You would want to be down with my boys. You and my cousin. Think on it.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

One night we would spend with those cousins of mine I’d never met Father always stopped at the same places. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized then that Jaja had been tapping his feet to the beat of an Igbo song that Aunty Ifeoma and my cousins sang at evening rosary. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The chaperone, who was Dad’s cousin, had introduced him to all the girls, but he had selected Miss Lillie as the one on whom to shower his attention. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to understand why I cried ten minutes after Lucas told me Ada was at Russell’s but never shed a tear when my cousin dropped dead. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Nights on the Island we go out, the gang of cousins, to the Avenida. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Every so often he thought he saw a familiar face - his bully cousin, Raphael; his mean third-grade teacher, Mr Borquin; his abusive foster mom, Teresa - all kinds of people who had treated Leo like dirt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He talked about the roof he had built for someone’s house, the beautiful table he had to complete the next day by polishing it, how well my cousins were doing in school. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her weekends home were always divided between visits with her high school friends and our cousins and other relatives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“They been stressing my cousin to join they set.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“They will if Donna ever put a hand on me. I got cousins, too, you know.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Philomena said, There is a suspicion you might have Presbyterians in your family, which would explain what you did to our cousin. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few rows over, my cousins Zoyla and Gregoria were pulling weeds and wiping the sweat from their foreheads, crisscrossing their faces with streaks of dirt. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I knuckled him in the rib to show him I was from Brooklyn and didn’t take any mess from a country boy, older cousin or not. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“How about cousins? Or maybe a close friend from school?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Mamie Johnson’s cousin cooks for that school. They called to tell her where she has to check in tomorrow morning to get past the soldiers.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen,” I said, “I am afraid we must go. My cousin is very tired. We will go tentatively to Montreux.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The two of them and my cousin Anna live mostly in Mumbai, in their other luxury home. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Before his cousin Ashleigh’s wedding, for example, he dropped her off at a small spa near his childhood home, to get her eyebrows shaped. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I gave that dress to Sylvia, so your cousin Lily can get some use out of it.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ugwu stood around while his little cousins and siblings, the younger ones naked and the older ones in oversize shirts, said their goodbyes and listed what they wanted him to bring on his next visit. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had cousins in California and Oregon whose parents were basically a subspecies of helicopter, they hovered so much. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His cousins said it was because people were scared of what they would learn if they asked. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My three younger brothers, my baby sister, and quite a number of my cousins had followed my lead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cousins and village girls are going to typing school.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down a lonely dirt road deep in the woods, we ate venison in a falling-down country shack belonging to some more distant cousins. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t be the first body snatcher to open a grave to find the face of a long-lost cousin or a dear friend. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

By the way he lingers on the word “cousins,” I can tell he knows that Gale and I don’t share a family tree. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My second cousin went to her with an outbreak of tsifil and swears he’s never been healthier. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Their cousins and aunts and uncles ask them about life in America, about what they eat for breakfast, about their friends at school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s still our cousin, despite what Uncle did,” Father said sternly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many a younger son of the King in die North had made his seat there, many a brother, many an uncle, many a cousin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The outfit would only encourage my playing with Mundín and the boy cousins. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As for Jasmine, she normally spent the whole summer at her grandparents’ house in Maryland with her twin brother and cousins. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She could easily have welcomed Leon with another of her stories, but it was the news that her cousins from the north were coming to stay that had prompted this leap into a new form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But this man did not even smile as he said, “You must be the cousins from the north.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My cousin’s wife answers the door in Lezajsk, surprised and a little suspicious, but within thirty minutes I’ve made double what I could have gotten at the secondhand shops in Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A little legal advice from my cousin: as a young person without immigration status, you must avoid a criminal record at all costs. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then we dropped him off in front of his house as Courtney yelled back to me, “He’s my deaf cousin! Can’t drive!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Ah, a cousin of mine,” he says with a mischievous smile. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I cannot believe you would stoop this low! I told you I would not go anywhere near your loony cousin!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would become the family’s quiet and not-too-bright cousin from Alsace, whose parents have been bombed out and who has come here to be looked after and help with the farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

All the people crowding the library cupped hands to their ears as the whistling stretched on far longer than the cousins expected. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My cousins are taking turns on a Game Boy, the sound turned to mute. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cousins were lucky to be able to get so much education. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She told me that when she and her cousin were young, they walked by the harness shop one day and chanced to hear an old man say what nice girls they were. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“My cousin got lucky and won some Indian land in the lottery, in the north part of Tennessee. Grows corn.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But then he remembered meeting his wife's cousin and her cousin's husband, Reinhold Barth. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he got a piece of them, but most of the time they just sidestepped him like toreadors or pushed him away as though he was a bothersome younger cousin. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A nice cousin," she is quick to add. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My parents thought it might cheer me up if I could escape from our hovel and visit a cousin who lived a few hours away in East Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Tony was supposed to walk arm in arm with his cousin and give her away—her father had never been involved in her life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I'm not too political, but my parents are Democrats, and my cousin Anu is becoming so far left she can't see center. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the door, she raises her chin proudly, and then we hear her steps echoing down the hall to our cousin Carmencita's room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She says, I am the great great grand cousin of the queen of France. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

First off: My cousin Nazgol got her name from the Farsi word for flower. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

All my cousins would gather in the courtyard between my house and Geoffrey’s house to kick the soccer ball—made from plastic shopping bags we called jumbos, which we then bound in twine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

A good handful of cousins still think Ethel moved into that house and started up with Day just to get out all the hate she had for Henrietta by torturing her children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now that I can see the rest of her face more clearly, I notice my cousin’s unusually bright lips, along with eyeliner, and blush on her cheeks. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

My cousins and I, we fold ourselves and try to become small, small. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He got a few issues of the Chicago Defender every month or so from his cousin Lewis, who sometimes worked as a porter on trains from Chicago to Dallas and was something of a radical. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Only one. He would have been your cousin. None of the rest of us were in the city then." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the sofa, watching my cousins play with the cards. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But when my friends would tell me they had cousins they'd never met—cousins who lived within an hour's drive—I couldn't help thinking: What is wrong with these cold and detached people? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Because my brother said that my cousin is the only one in his family who has a chance. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lolo used to sneak goodies to me from all the food booths, and my cousin Sheryl and I would sink down into the theater seats to watch her big sister, Maribel, swirl onstage. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“My cousin gave them to me. She has the same ones.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I could get a second one. My cousin Lailah in Pakistan has three piercings in each ear, and one in her nose.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They could go to one of their cousins’ homes, in Mississippi or Baton Rouge, and it would be a vacation, a two-day sleepover. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That summer and fall, Bobby also spent time playing against his grandfather’s septuagenarian cousin Jacob Schonberg, who also lived in Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the party when we left, weaving necklaces with my cousins. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Thus, while Austronesian languages in China may not have survived the onslaught of Chinese dynasties, some of their sister and cousin languages did. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou’s cousin Ben was lying on her bed, staring at me with his black, black eyes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

By then she had another cousin to play with. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A family yarn told of the time that he demanded to visit a cousin in Sioux City, Iowa, seventy miles from home, on his own. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was surprised to see a message from a cousin of his— someone he barely knew. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorty had dropped out of first-year high school in Lansing, lived awhile with an uncle and aunt in Detroit, and had spent the last six years living with his cousin in Roxbury. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo immediately scrambled to her cousin’s side and began stroking her as she would a terrified infant. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, their cousin, Bilbo, had been specializing in food for many years and his table had a high reputation. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I know my cousin goes to church when she heads to Harlem for the weekend. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I rather think he was Rebecca’s cousin,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards at Three Kings dinner with all the uncles and cute cousins, there was a funny little moment. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My best friend from always is my cousin Lally. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light rain starts to fall and I think of my cousins. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sheed caught glimpses of his cousin through the melee and did what he could to assist other combatants as he attempted to reunite with Otto. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All summer he had heard from his aunts and cousins and grandmother how he was too skinny. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And considering that Ophie never wanted to be around her cousins, that was saying something about how much she already missed school. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was less talk and laughter at dinner because the TV was on and my cousins took their plates to the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin Yvette played nothing but reggaeton at her party and then did a choreographed dance in an outrageous sequined outfit. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sitting among the aunts in the less comfortable dining chairs, the cousins are flashes of color in turquoise jumpsuits and tight jersey dresses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“He isn’t my cousin. And it wasn’t your fault.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The family left this one room for Aunt Rose alone; even the cousins, in all their audacity, would not cross the threshold uninvited. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I find my cousins at their normal spot, around the lobster tank, where Sheryl taps on the glass. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

All three of my cousins back up into the living room as the three men step into the house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mamita and Papito stayed at home, and I went with my good-natured aunt and uncle and cousin, who laughed at everything. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, all share. But not alike. The Second Sons are not unlike a family...” “... and every family has its drooling cousins.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a drugstore she buys a Timex watch for her father-in-law, Bic pens for her cousins, embroidery thread and thimbles for her mother and her aunts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing Sammy had been able to say to Ben since their capture was that “Red and Junior are third cousins.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe my cousin had to milk a cow twice a day, every day. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He loved Mom’s Texas cousins, but all of them, five wild little girls and their grumpy mama, lived in a tiny little house. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to sit at home all day and talk to a million cousins. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I worked alongside my uncles and cousins and their companionship was good. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of Redemption’s uncles were sitting at the long table, picking out stones from trays of dried beans, while his baby cousins played under the table. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I avoided any possibility of seeing my cousin Peach as we traveled home. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

‘He’s not just some kid. He’s our cousin, Salim.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asks after their cousin’s husband, Mauve, the painter, and others in The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, the youngest cousins went sleepily to bed. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Along with some other cousins and neighbors, we split into teams of five, then hunted one another in the maize rows and across the dirt courtyard that separated our house from Geoffrey’s. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were at least three cousins staying with us at any given time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ross Wilcox turned up with his cousin Gary Drake and Dawn Madden. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“My cousin in Boston actually had to put his hand on the Holy Book to swear in court. I’ll shoot any man tries to make me do that!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps she had opened an atlas and pointed a finger at any old spot, but later I learned that she had a cousin in Lewiston, Idaho. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I gave the drum away to a little cousin, throwing the ghost cat into the bargain. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind a little attitude. Long as you remember who’s the boss. You know who I am, little cousin?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo took the baby from her cousin and dribbled porridge into his mouth with her hand. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sharon was a cousin from her mother’s side of the family. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I,” she began slowly, taking a breath, “killed my cousin.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My cousins and I all look at one another. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She waits for his call at the home of one of Lourdes’s cousins. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In October two of her second cousins, Dr. and Mrs. B. J. Cigrand, paid her a visit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dressing rather shakily, Kit was compelled to ask Mercy’s assistance with the buttons down her back, and was shocked when her older cousin suddenly bent double in a violent fit of coughing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The one I wore when my Pops got bit, and when my cousin came home from Iraq messed up so bad they couldn't even open the casket. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

To think, only yesterday I was in chancletas, sipping lemonade and watching my twin cousins run through the sprinkler in the yard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A family that boasts about Fizz’s only male cousin: a Qur’an memorizer, a beacon of light for all youth. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

One was the master of the earth, or at least believed himself to be, and the other was a nimble dweller in trees, a cousin of the master of the earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mami was one to always notice the stain on one's placemat at the table or the bruise accidentally punched on a little cousin's arm or the empty space on the bedroom toy shelf. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So when Ms. O’Malley asked for the next volunteer, even though my stomach was turning over and over like on that spinning ride that my cousin Javier threw up on, I raised my hand. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

My cousins are frozen in place, but their eyes look past me, behind me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“My mother’s cousin works in La Victoria. He doesn’t want his name mentioned.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only women in my life were my mom and my grandmother and my aunt and my cousin. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Daniel LeBlanc. But my cousin, sir. Do you remember? You offered to help? You said that if I found information, you could help him?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Briony felt suddenly ashamed at what she had selfishly begun, for it had never occurred to her that her cousins would not want to play their parts in The Trials of Arabella. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting next to Jessie, my fluffy cousin, and her little brother, Frankie, who isn’t paying attention to what’s going on at the table because he’s watching the muted football game on TV. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

So had the rest of my aunts and uncles and cousins. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That is not an unnatural surmise,” said Fitzwilliam, “but it is a lessening of the honour of my cousin’s triumph very sadly.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was an easy trail to follow, though A.M. and P.M. must have been moving fast because the cousins saw no sign of them. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Lacks cousins don’t remember much about the service—they figure there were some words, probably a song or two. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maesters and septons alike agreed that children marked by greyscale could never be touched by the rarer mortal form of the affliction, nor by its terrible swift cousin, the grey plague. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I like to study. I play all games. I read books. I hate the piano. My father’s an engineer. My mother’s a landlady. I have eight cousins, and we all are Chinese.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Did Appa ever tell you about his cousin? Did you ever meet him? Is he nice?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile that boy who is my cousin by first communion or something asks me to dance and I can’t. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she wasn’t in Clover, Henrietta spent her time cooking for Day, the children, and whichever cousins happened to be at her house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I missed my family, questioned the fate of my country, and feared for my cousin Lina. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Is he your cousin or something?” he asked us. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My cousin Mlungisi, to this day, cannot comprehend how I survived being as naughty as I was for as long as I did, how I withstood the number of hidings that I got. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The letter explained that Charles Parker had made arrangements for his cousin to be taken to the state insane asylum two hundred miles away. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At least, that’s how it’s supposed to happen, but only if everyone stays synchronized, which seems impossible with so many poles and feet moving, and clumsy cousins like Arwin, who still gets his ankles caught. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He cared for the Garfield family when they were in Ohio, and he stayed by his cousin's side after the shooting. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A brownish-green earth dragon roared from within a dark cave, and a white air dragon cut graceful spirals above its earthbound cousin. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Saw the battle on YouTube. My cousin texted it to me. He said you got next.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nick and his cousins all heartily despised one another. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only three days ago she was finishing off The Trials of Arabella and waiting for her cousins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There followed more formless time for the cousins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In one blow, all of our extended family in Narewka, some one hundred relatives—my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins—had been murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She fled to a cousin’s house in the country, disgraced, while the minister kept his post and was deemed a generous man for acknowledging his son. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Why do you think the Church doesn’t let brothers and sisters get married? Even first cousins have to get permission from a bishop.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My uncle pointed to a corner in the living room where I could sleep, and then gave me detailed instructions on how to get to the bank, to meet Alois, my cousin’s husband. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, my cousin plays a lot of video games. My aunt is always trying to get him outside.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She said she was going to visit some distant cousins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he checked all of my cousins for signs of Lassa fever. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin left it at my house, and I kept it,” he says, smiling. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And one of my crazy baby cousins tried to eat this. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Charles’s Wedgwood cousins had been brought up with few, if any, rules and the encouragement to think freely. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nivea realized that people never invited her daughter to their home and that even her own cousins did everything they could to avoid her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she would tell Loomis and her cousin Sissyretta and all her friends who did yard work or cooked in white kitchens or took in washing or nursed white children. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know what my cousins were like when they were kids. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Gitano answered with some pride, “My brother-in-law is in Monterey. I have cousins there, too.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she left the cousin’s house to go south and see an aunt. . . and she seems to have vanished without trace en route. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“His manners are very different from his cousin’s.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But their knowledge peaked at seventeen, when they ventured out of their parents’ homes and discovered that America had guns and cousins, too. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know any kids besides my cousins. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I add it to the mental list of things I need to ask Mrs. Janssen and Judith’s cousin. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that’s real cute. Your cousins threw Jo a party here when she turned forty, I think. Matter of fact, it was my uncle Q who organized the whole thing.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even with Lord Marshall’s bone-shrunk mug on the obituary pages at last, my cousin from the north would not tolerate an accusation of criminal conspiracy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was smarter and more curious than his brother or his cousins. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

George Atzerodt had walked to Georgetown, on the way to his cousin's house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got water. And soda. And pink lemonade. All three of which are better options than this twisted form of torture you brought to my cousin’s house.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I never met anyone in his family. I never even knew he had a cousin who lived around here." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Ashima and Ashoke can both cite examples of cousins who were not officially named until they were registered, at six or seven, in school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As it happened, I had a cousin who worked for Kenya Wildlife at a place called Voi, in southern Kenya near Mombasa. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sohrab sat across from me and helped my cousins explain the game. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The cousins are stupid. But it’s not only that. It’s...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A week or so after the ceremony, Didu interrupts my cousin's study session. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Babou had ever carried any of my cousins piggyback. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lefty had rented a limousine for the day, and opened the door for his wife and cousin. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Your cousin got hurt, and you’re lucky it wasn’t anything much worse.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Didn’t my mother quiz me on uncles and aunts and cousins, too? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Their fifty cousins, sons of Danaüs’ brother Aegyptus, wanted to marry them, which for some unexplained reason they were absolutely opposed to doing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night I told my cousin what the agent had said about Miss Ewing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We won’t get there for many days—weeks even—but we have cousins expecting us there.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to explain how right everything felt in a place where she was surrounded by mischievous children, overbearing cousins, and doddering elders who were all a part of her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night after dinner, she sat on her bed with her cousins Margaret and Sadie and told them, “I got a knot inside me.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“From over there—New London—born there. My uncle’s in the service and two cousins. I guess we’re a kind of submarine family.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins helped me hang a white sheet in the doorway of the sitting room, and when everyone was seated I plugged in the projector and clicked on the radio. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

His pallbearers—cousins, his dad, an uncle, friends I’d never seen—came and got him, and they all started walking toward the hearse. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I said it in memory of Uncle Moshe, and my mother and father, and my aunts and other uncles and cousins. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

While my cousin and her friends shower in the open, I wait on a bench, pretending to study my class schedule. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After all, it served him right, messing with his own cousin. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to start with his father’s cousin Lewis. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the Shoshone finally obtained guns—they traded with their linguistic cousins, the Nermernuh, who took the weapons as booty from defeated Spaniards—open warfare broke out. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Does their dying mean nothing to you, cousin? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Actually— unlike Minerva—I liked our blustery cousin. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She often stayed at her cousin’s estate for weeks at a time, enjoying “an atmosphere of love and peace, of freedom and good cheer.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Maer was only a day’s carriage ride from the Mount, and when he was a child, Charles and his Wedgwood cousins visited back and forth often. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ate greedily and felt good enough to try to get to know his cousins. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desdemona asked as soon as she was alone with her cousin in the kitchen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I let him, praying he has no K-9 dog cousins who have taught him to sniff out people running from the law. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My brother looked at my dad like a deer caught by my cousins. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And I learned that “Shorty, can I see your bike?” was never a sincere question, and “Yo, you was messing with my cousin” was neither an earnest accusation nor a misunderstanding of the facts. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, yes. And you know about your cousin Youzek, of course.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wished I could trade places with my cousin Jenny. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The tables were crowded with tall people reaching for bowls of food and talking too loud; cousins and great-uncles and friends from far away. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“But that’s just it, see. Because after school’s out, I’m going up to Rhode Island—to visit my cousins.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Misha’s little cousins tackled Misha’s legs, and he waded to the door with them after their parents, who collected them and waved goodbye. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We have tickets. Didn’t my cousin hand them to you?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He kept one eye on Sam Houston, who was known for his wild pitches, and the other on Lula’s older cousin, Fern Spitty, who swanned about nearby, twirling her white lace-trimmed parasol. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Don’t you want some cousins to boss around? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But look at her cousins, women with households and authority in their voices. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Sweets says that her cousin did her hair for free last week, and all she had to do was sweep up the floor. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

A short while later she started fighting for breath again, and Aunt Anjelina sent the cousins out of the room. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, a few weeks ago, Chucha dreamed that my cousins would be leaving for a city of tall buildings before my cousins even knew they would be leaving for New York. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Well,” began Fern, “she told us about a cousin of hers who caught a fish in her web. Don’t you think that’s fascinating?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Wes quickly figured out where Ray was heading and realized that this must be the “cousin” his jump-off was always visiting. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She visited frequently to cuddle her little cousin, rocking her back and forth while the tears silently ran down her own face. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cousin had a kind spirit, but she was no match for her mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aging children of distant cousins greeted me like long-lost friends. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

What if Maddy had stuck up for me in that moment and told her cousin off? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Both of them adore me, don't get me wrong, but on a long, sticky day like today, adoration and suffocation can feel like first cousins. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After the regular chores were done, my brother Johnny and my cousins and I, we would head off fishing or go swimming. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car doors slam behind me as my cousins join me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He’d wanted to rip out the page as a souvenir, but when he’d told this to one of his cousins, the cousin had laughed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked in all directions, but her cousin had already vanished. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily, Nhamo would have enjoyed the chore, but her pleasure was spoiled by her cousin’s triumph. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, without supervision, my little cousins had begun balancing on logs, patting mudcakes, enjoying the holiday of smearing their dresses and darkening their white socks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She introduced him to her cousin, a gorgeous young woman named Manuela Hudson. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The announcer on the television show gives the cousins some kind of test, asking them questions they should be able to answer with their “abilities.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It didn’t register that people were dying, that my cousin had been shot dead as she ran from the tent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Aunt Tuti shook her head while my cousins tried to get her to calm down. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His only way of talking to her is at the home of his mother’s cousin Maria Edelmira Sanchez Mejia, one of the few family members who has a telephone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I can get you a part-time job, man,” my cousin Joseph had promised once when we met at my aunt’s house. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And in all those forefathers and fore- mothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins, there was nobody like me. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

My mom said it was brilliant so my sister and cousins tried to prove I was faking. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now they were bundles ready to take off to the party, where they would be eaten by Leopard and her cousins. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Wait. I don’t even know your last name and I’m in love with you. You got the same last name as your cousins, right? Fabulous François?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A black car pulls up next to me one day, while I’m waiting near a supermarket for my cousins to pick me up. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was around this time that strong pressure was put on me to stop playing with Mundín and to join the other young-lady cousins in their grownup beautician games and boy gossip inside the house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If they haven’t been in jail, they have a cousin, brother, or friend who has. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My cousin made a definite appointment in that note, didn’t she?” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His cousin had a way of making bad situations worse. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I told her about Mother’s cousin who lives in Peshawar and that she was going to meet us at the border.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before my cousin arrived, I thought my grandmother would die soon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was nine, he once told one of his cousins, “Ask me a question in Latin and I will answer you in Greek.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"Ser Jacelynwill see that you have food and fire. You look in dire need of sleep, cousin. I will send for you when we know more." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So in the afternoon the cousins made a playhouse in the yard. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, my cousin would never lie to me. He said a man named Willie Bodega would help me. I have to find him.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I wish I had a ton of cousins around. We have to fly all the way to the East Coast to see mine, and that’s only every other summer.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Of course my cousins would not want to tell on Dray because they’ve known him for so long. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Someone cut the hole in the tent, and a stream of people ran out, including one of my cousins, Jeanette. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My uncles and cousins started arguing about it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin, Carla, sits in the seat in front of me, waving her arm. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

These townsmen enjoyed a degree of freedom that was unknown to their country cousins. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

"Okay, all three of us will talk to Coach," my cousin says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My father's family, meanwhile, sprawled across Chicago’s broader South Side and included an array of great-aunts and third cousins, plus a few stray outliers whose blood connection remained cloudy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Jared says, “Is the cousin the same guy as before who wanted the poison?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We got pretty punchy, imitating aunts and uncles and cousins we would be seeing the next day. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But how could she refuse a cousin so far from home whose family life was in ruins? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My cousin Carl had this old ambulance that the county still uses for a backup, and when he had the early shift, he would swing by and give us a ride to school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Other aunts, mothers- in-law, and cousins disappeared; some suddenly began writing to us again from communes or from Hong Kong. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Rather for liking the king better than his cousin, perhaps.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she admired the ritual, envying the Levys the pleasure they took in one another’s company, wishing her cousins lived nearby so she could have an orchestra of her own. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

My siblings and cousins think I am a mestiza. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Chocolate mousse, which of course means ‘foam’ and not an antlered cousin of elk, has been a staple of French cuisine since the eighteenth century.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins and I were thick as thieves, and we would stay that way even when we grew up and started our own families. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He passes the patio, where the four girls are playing Statues with their cousins. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The other is of my aunt, my uncle Phillip, and my cousins when they were babies, standing in front of 8800 American Street. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“My sister and I are staying there, but Sarah will be with her cousin in the city.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Something heavy sits between me and my cousins. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As the singing draws to a close, the cousins urge her to make a wish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I would be happier if you had Unsullied guards about you today, Your Grace,” the old knight said, as Hizdahr went to greet his cousin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he’d point to a small plain rock poking through the earth and say it was a cousin or an aunt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mam tells them a cousin gave her that coat in Brooklyn, that her husband has no work, that she has other children at home, twin boys. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Misbehavior that my cousins would have been punished for, I was given a warning and let off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He thought that by making an all-round- the-hat cast at the place where he had last seen his cousin, he might be able to pick up the scent once more, although it was cold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a week after telling her cousins she thought something was wrong, at the age of twenty-nine, Henrietta turned up pregnant with Joe, her fifth child. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In Lacks Town, Joe drank all day, picked fights with his cousins, and threatened to kill several of them, including Cootie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Woodland elephants are different from their grand cousins who stomp across the grasslands: they’re smaller and more delicate, nuzzling through the leafy soil with rosy-pink tusks. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Never. I'm going to live with my cousin Latif’s wife in my old village near Simranwala. She needs all the help she can get.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Really, Jean Louise, Edgar is your father’s and my first cousin.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My Aunt Generosa lived there with my cousins, most of whom were older than I was. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You know, your grandfather, Ghazi Sahib, the judge? Now, his uncle and my grandfather were cousins,” she said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sahar, one of the younger cousins, leaned forward and puffed out her chubby cheeks. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“My cousin cuts to the bone, as ever. Do you have any more to say to me, Onion Knight, or can we put an end to this mummer’s farce? I grow weary of your face.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nervous, his cousins glanced at me and then smirked. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I know things are unstable but this is—” “And my cousin Shinelle in Cauter County? They burn up her car cause she went down to the voting station.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was supposed to be here just to get this Dray out of my cousins’ lives. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m a Brooklyn girl,” I told my cousin. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I knew it, I knew it. So, mira, Chino, my cousin wants ta see you tomorrow. Nazario will meet with you. He said he had to meet you. Some girl is cornin’.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then she tells me how her cousin Ronnie just opened up a shop on the avenue. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But I had no idea he and Manny were cousins until...” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I used my call to phone my cousin and told him not to tell anyone what had happened while I figured out what to do—now I just had to figure out what to do. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The boy’s gloves were caked with his cousin’s blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So Charlotte told him about another cousin of hers who was an aeronaut. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mama put out the goblets and good china and good silver, and invited Aunt Loma and Uncle Camp and also Aunt Carrie, who was back from visiting her cousin in Athens. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I d noticed before, marrying your cousin was a touchy subject around here. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gracie meets us at Alexa's and we wait out front for my cousins. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

His cousin owned a fuel truck and had smuggled people with it a couple of times. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I have a lot of family in India, more than a hundred cousins. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Another cousin and her husband left behind a four-year-old daughter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She wanted to walk to her cousin Margaret’s house a few blocks from Hopkins and wait there for Day after her treatments. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m just here for the weekend. Visiting my cousin.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My cousin Matthew bought a motorcycle and my aunt Patricia is not pleased about that. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a missionary, her cousins will say, like one of those Peace Corps girls who have let themselves go so as to do dubious good in the world. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“We can always work him in as your cousin,” says Fulvia. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At the party, at the corrugated tin shack of Maria Isabel’s cousin, Jasmin eats chicken, tries to blow up a red balloon, and borrows a pink bike with training wheels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Hours and hours went by and there was still no sign of Mong’s cousin. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At one time there were eleven altogether, cousins from Noxubee County, uncles who came and went with the picking season, and my old Aunt Tess. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when we learned that some of our close cousins—squirrels, for instance, and rabbits—were well liked. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Emma’s turn came next, and rather than leave the prettiest pin for her cousin, as her older sister had done, she took it for herself. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t ask where my cousins have been or why they left me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“First Prim. Then your mother. Your cousin, Gale. Madge,” he continues. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin TJ comes running into the living room, feather boa in one hand, pen and sketch pad in the other. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Greek cousin for whom Antonapoulos worked did not enter into these troubles at all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I did not understand the complaints of Mr. 03-01 and his merchant brothers, uncles, nephews, and cousins, the others in the 03 series. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His opponents were gray wolves, rangy and wild, but cousins to the white wolves of the Fjerdan north. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He kept crying because his cousin was dead. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I prayed for his cousins, too, and his grandparents, whether alive or not. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My uncles Abraham and Moshe, my cousin Dawid, two more men I recognized as friends of my father, and three more I didn’t know. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody would play with me, except my cousins on occasion, so I would often sit alone on the stoop of our hut, thinking. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie in Shorty’s cousin’s bedroom—my bedroom—taking it all in. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mercy laid down her carding and stared at her cousin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Laxmi had been on the phone for at least an hour, trying to calm her cousin down. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Otto had feared his cousin was being tortured or was time frozen. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I think about my cousin Carla winning her eraser in the shape of the Dominican Republic at the children’s recitation contest last year. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The women all looked at the senior cousin, who answered with the lie that she had prepared. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He had cousins over there where she used to live. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, when my mother went to the market to buy a gift for my cousin’s wedding, a big, burly Talib accosted her and blocked her way. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Yolanda and her cousins and aunts sit down to await the matches. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I slid into the seat behind Mong’s cousin and closed the door. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her cousin wasn’t exactly idle, but she was never given the really difficult tasks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made a vague report to Lieutenant Dana: Two suspicious strangers visited his cousin’s farm seeking medical attention. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t explain my love for classic soul and Motown to my cousin. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She thought they would go on being friendly cousins, maybe close friends, for years. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins rushed at Father Amadi’s words in the same way. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I asked about my other uncles and cousins, but Moshe shook his head. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he headed into the stairwell, he could almost hear his cousins’ voices telling him how he could never really be an American as a Muslim. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Henrietta told her cousins about the cancer at a carnival that came to Turner Station each year. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ophie cast her eyes around the room for something to distract the cousins before they could get started on her when she noticed an eerie light out in the garden, just beyond the lace curtains. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I had several cousins who drove taxis, and they’d come and take me to town when I wanted. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew how close the cousins had been, and yet Luxa had been the target of Henry’s treachery. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta and her cousins would hire themselves out to those white folks, pulling their tobacco for ten cents so they’d have money to see their favorite Buck Jones cowboy movies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The closest I ever came was that time at the lake with Ramiro, Carlos’s cousin, who treated me like I was some sort of cheap prize. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I went to school every day, my father and uncles and cousins still went to work, and my mother still went to the store. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

After that, he spent months being passed from cousin to cousin. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Thus, Yali’s people and their Australian cousins pose a puzzle inside a puzzle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought it was strange that our Jewish family celebrated Christmas with Nan, Aunt Louise, and our English cousins. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Jethro could only stare at his cousin; he could find no words. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She lives over on Pacific with my auntie, but Saturdays she usually comes here because my cousins have weekend tournaments and stuff. You know how that is.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He wrote later to his cousin and good friend William Darwin Fox, “What an awful affair a confinement is: it knocked me up almost as much as it did Emma herself.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your cousin was just telling me how she’s in from Seattle.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He and his wife only had one child—my cousin Andrés—who I’m guessing is about twenty now. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It would not have been difficult to mistake any of them for minor clan members, cousins perhaps. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My dad, who’d recently traded in his car for a specialized van to accommodate his disability, still made a point of showing up in his cousins’ doorways as often as possible for in-person visits. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe not these words, but second, third cousins to them. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

An adder bit my cousin in the forest deep, its venom rotting her from the inside out. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After Henrietta’s funeral, cousins came from Clover and all over Turner Station to help cook for her family and care for the babies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We all slept on the floor in one room, my mom and me, my aunt and my cousins, my uncle and my grandmother and my great-grandmother. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But then I remembered she had to go to her little cousin's birthday party. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As for Lola—my high-living, chain-smoking cousin—here she was, still as lean and fit as a racing dog, and still faithful. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My cousins and Jaja laughed, and Papa-Nnukwu laughed, too, a gentle chuckle, as if he had understood the English, then leaned back and closed his eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She saw kind faces, people who loved her, a thickly frosted cake, a little sister and cousin by her side, a new year ahead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After we washed our hands, my cousin Allie, twenty-one years old, was called to the verandah and asked to show me where I was to sleep. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They, of course, barely seemed to notice I wasn’t around, having been surrounded by cousins and friends and babysitters all day long, playing games in the hotel room and going on excursions around town. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Think he’d have made the list. Him being your cousin and all,” she says wryly. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The less she went to work, the more bottles started showing up around our apartment, like long-lost cousins who never leave, all of ’em with the labels torn off. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I’ve asked my brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins, but I have not been able to definitively establish a timeline, and have therefore relied on my own memories. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I shake that from my mind, too, because it makes me think of the tickets, which makes me think of Uncle Q, which makes me scared for my cousins. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Iloba was merely from his mother’s hometown, but he had been so enthusiastic about their kinship that everyone on campus assumed they were cousins. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had an older second cousin in the Navy, stationed in Europe, whom I met only once in my childhood. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The cousins in Houston spoiled them rotten for one week. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Light the candles, light the candles!" the little cousins say, taking up a chant. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When my family visited my aunt’s house in San Francisco, my grandmother searched for me among my many cousins. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prospect of parting—probably forever—from his aunt, uncle, and cousin was one that he was able to contemplate quite cheerfully, but there was nevertheless a certain awkwardness in the air. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My cousins chattered as much as before, but they waited until Father Amadi said something first and then pounced on it in response. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But my cousins don’t move until they’re sure that Q’s car has turned the corner and driven several blocks out of the neighborhood. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Herbie answered without hesitation, “I know the person you are referring to. She is his first cousin, and there is no romantic interest there, I assure you.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Miss, would you please get off of Bill? I’m afraid he’s the sheriff’s cousin, and the sheriff would be quite upset if anything happened to him.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“So. Donna is my cousin. What happens between you and her is your business. But you have to leave my friend alone. Imani doesn’t want you.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It had really been driven home when her cousin Preeti, who was the same age, had introduced Dimple to her neighborhood friends as her cousin from America. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Friends suggest she go to India, see her brother and her cousins for a while. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Desperate, I ran back to my room and grabbed some clothes out of a box full of stuff I was going to give to my little cousins. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He sobbed and swam away toward the armory, where his cousins were fixing spears and swords. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wished she were fluent in Hausa and Yoruba, like her uncle and aunt and cousin were, something she would gladly exchange her French and Latin for. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the cousins were more interested in drawing blood, especially after they were forced to give up their bedroom to Ophie and her mother. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Uncles, cousins, nephews, brothers would have looked, too, had they been home between journeys. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer went to see his friend’s cousin who owned the fruit store, and also he arranged for leave from his own work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were brother and sister, and cousins of the Green Grace, who greeted them with kisses when she swept in, and asked them if they had been good. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Little Wayne: No. I was over at my cousin’s house when it happened. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a moody, lonely young man, after all, afraid of strangers, awkward even with the adults he knew well, and the cousins were plump blond children of three and four. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was way hungry but my cousins had eaten most of our food. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pounced on her cousin when she found her packing a basket in the girls’ hut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to be thirty feet tall, as big as any of his older cousins, and for the first time he was wearing full batde armor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Today is Thanksgiving—a day for families to come together and give thanks, my cousins tell me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Have you read the essay your cousin wrote?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All year long, we dress alike, walking up and down Madison Street waiting for someone to say, Are you guys cousins? so we can smile, say, Can't you tell from looking at us?! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her cousin Lucinda leads a song of greeting with an off-key chorus of little cousins. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My dad is not a big drinker at all, but when he has to spend time with my mom’s family, he gets “loaded,” as my cousin Tommy says. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A girl cousin younger even than I was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my cousins are indeed royalty here, then I am just a peasant who only wants a good education, opportunity for a good future, and my mother. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In fifth grade, he claimed that Rihanna was his cousin and that his mom was on the road with her, working as her hairstylist. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The silence in the dark house was broken only by the distant, grunting snores of his enormous cousin, Dudley. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

My cousins cried, asking, Who is going to take care of us now? A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say that. It’s just that Mother doesn’t feel she knows a person until she knows their aunts, uncles, and second cousins twice removed. She just likes to have her ducks in a row.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“She’s come this far, and we can’t waste all this driving. Besides, we have to take your cousin back to her own house in Los Angeles. We have to drive to Los Angeles anyway.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first got to America, I had gotten a call from some of John’s cousins who lived in Texas and who had heard through the Dinka grapevine that I was in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s dead. No cousin is going to bother over getting you back, not like he did.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was not my idea of the sort of cousin Rebecca would have. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin Mehdi, who still lives in Tehran with his wife and kids, made his first trip to America in 2015. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The nose of that yellow Cadillac was all pleated like an alligator’s, and except for a bloody lip and a bruised forehead, Louie’s cousin was okay. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night she slept on a folding camp cot in the cousin’s place downstairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then, after a pause I asked, “How are my cousins?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I keep telling her that I will never get pregnant like my cousin Vanessa, but it doesn’t matter to her. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Despite the tumult of the times, I was a happy, chubby baby who slept through the night and was loved by an extended family full of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandmas. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

There, cross-legged on a square of jute, she recorded inventory for the cosmetics shop that her cousin Haldar owned and managed at the mouth of our courtyard. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It all began at nine in the morning on a day in late July, when my grandmother showed up with Joey Pow and his brand-new long-lost cousin Zed. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that Joan was my cousin's name and that I had no idea how stacked she was. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s alive! And your cousin has probably sent him word that you’re alive, too!” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ethel, the wife of their cousin Galen, had recently come to Turner Station from Clover, and she hated Henrietta—her cousins always said it was jealousy. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I knew Vega’s mami wouldn’t like his cousins smoking in here. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“And your cousin, what part did he have in this joke?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I smile, because not even my own cousins have asked me to do that. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I think about what my three cousins, who are Aunt Rebecca’s children, will tum out like. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of his cousins, Samuel Phillips Lee, was a rear admiral in the Union navy. k Lee’s father, General Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee, was a hero of the American Revolution. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In one photograph, we all had our fishing poles—me and Dad, Uncle Larry, Kevin, and my older cousin Joey, who was away at college now. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I jammed the ramrod down the barrel and released a shower of white saliva and mush, spraying my cousin square in the face. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I called my favorite cousin in Pasadena—my father’s sister’s daughter—and had her buy groceries for me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My father says in Spanish, “These are your cousins and brother and sister, Virginia.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tour cousin paints well. In the old days, she would have been chosen to decorate the shrines of our gods.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

After all, in order to join her husband, she had left her parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and in-laws in Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

"If he's your father's cousin, I'm sure he's a good man." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The young knight gave his cousin a baleful glance and pulled the door shut forcefully behind him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Leaving Desdemona behind a pillar, Lefty searched through the mob in the station for the cousin who was meeting their train. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: What are some of the things that you miss about your cousin? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cousin laid hold of her one night when she passed alone through the court from the kitchen. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

My cousin came over, and when Kevin answered the door, she didn’t recognize him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

After my cousins leave for school, I go downstairs to make some tea. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This morning Miep told us about her cousin’s engagement party, which she went to on Saturday. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was going to stay at her cousin’s house. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He uses the familiar term cousin, something Lake sector civilians often use. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My cousins are the ones who are responsible. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The next morning, we’re all sitting together around the fire pit, waiting for the potato soup to reheat—my parents, Manuelito and Hermelinda, and some little cousins who have wandered over for breakfast. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, my cousins are all embracing me and my tears are now a thunderstorm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“She is our cousin, but she lives across the street with a foster family. Her name is Aminata. You will get to meet her.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"The day Tía Mimi marries, cows will fly," we cousins teased. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

People know each other’s parents or siblings, their aunties and cousins. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

All the kinds we had came in giant boxes with names that sounded like real cereals’ weird second cousins—Oaties. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, one afternoon when they were all alone, Tessie, his proper cousin, lay down on her back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“My cousin always said he didn’t know how to dance, and then he suddenly learned before a family wedding,” Nico says. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I follow her into the kitchen as my cousins settle on the couches and someone turns on the big TV. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Donell: Yeah, he goes to our school and I beat him up about five times for killing my cousin. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin makes a valid point, TimeStar. There’s a ton of weirdness in Logan County, but few coincidences.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I run down the path and find my cousins and friends in the creek wading ankle-deep. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Even though my cousin was bent on flaunting his age and height over me, I relished the time I spent with him apart from my sisters. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

We stopped at Gina’s cousin’s house and picked up an ice chest full of beer and Cokes. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I guess you don’t know your cousins very well,” Kasim says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Once the candles are all ablaze, the cousins and aunts and children gather around and sing a rousing “Bienvenida a ti,” to the tune of "Happy Birthday." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That evening she stepped from 52nd Street into the lobby of the Four Seasons, in the only nice dress she owned: one she’d worn to her cousin Debbie’s wedding the year before. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Carlos spoke up as he tried to keep my twin cousins Benny and Brad from crawling all over him while he pushed the double stroller carrying his other set of twins, Brittany and Brianna. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I know. I was sleeping overnight at somebody’s. My cousin’s. I wasn’t here.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I told you they got their own thing going on. And besides, me and Dray are not just friends. He’s like fam. I know you can understand that with those crazy cousins of yours.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had once arranged for my cousin Sterling to marry a black woman from Brazil. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Igbo people marry all kinds of people. My cousin’s husband is Yoruba. My uncle’s wife is from Scotland.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I bloody have. At my cousin's. In Richmond.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A Lee cousin primped up slightly wilted heads of lettuce the way a girl primps a loose finger wave. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the Art Lesson came running from the house, Doña Charito leading, cousins on stockinged feet, the old woman in tow, towards the muddy heap in the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t my nephew Jem,” he said slowly, “engaged to marry his great-uncle’s son’s wife’s second cousin?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The cake is on its own table, the little cousins clustered around it, arguing over who will get what slice. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as Omakayas saw Tatah, an itchy, joking mood always came upon her and she looked around to see what tricks she could play on her quiet cousin. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She carried Deborah on her back and gripped the hands of my two young cousins on either side. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mom and Auntie did, and it freaked out the cousins and me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He thought that he would steal a march on his famous cousin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through Uncle Cent he meets a family of cousins, the Haanebeeks. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Homo sapiens long preferred to view itself as set apart from animals, an orphan bereft of family, lacking siblings or cousins, and most importantly, without parents. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a right to speak, not only as Rebecca’s cousin, but as her prospective husband, had she lived.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She kept track of all my cousins, all my college friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I hang out with my uncles, tagging along when they’re out with my cousins, but it’s not really the same. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We were going to stay with Gay’s cousins, Bob and Shirley Zimmerman, who lived on the top two floors of a Back Bay town house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden it seemed like everybody and their cousin had started to irritate me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Pile a layer of Kotex above whatever you were trying to hide, the Island cousins once advised her, and the officers would shy from probing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I hate her. Do you know what my cousins call her? The Black Hole.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And if they are my cousins, my family, I have to help protect them, too. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Stanton’s cousin, Elizabeth Smith Miller, had designed the outfit in 1851, but after Amelia Bloomer published an article about “Turkish trousers” in the Lily, the “costume” was popularly referred to as “bloomers.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The first and last time she went to see the cousins play the foreign game of basketball, the Matriarch had been horrified. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Shirley spent the weekend after Thanksgiving writing a ten-page letter to her cousins in Chinese describing her debut onstage as a turkey. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bullish in both appearance and temperament, they're the juvenile delinquents of the cow family, the hardscrabble cousins who sleep in trailers and fight like men. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One of the uncles brought his guitar and everyone sang and ate, and the cousins played in side and outside, blending the indoors and outdoors so it all seemed like one. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Sweets calls her cousin for me, and her cousin says yeah. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There’s still no Aunt Penn but Edmond introduces me to the rest of my cousins, who are called Isaac and Osbert and Piper, which I won’t even begin to comment on. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lola looked suddenly thoughtful and seemed about to tell her cousin something new. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His father and sisters wanted to fix him up with their cousin Emma Wedgwood, mostly to stop the gossip, but so far nothing had happened there. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cousins would be ransomed too, as would Tris Botley and a few more of her company, those whose kin had coin enough to buy them back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And my cousin the goddess enfolds me completely in a hug, making me feel like a doll again. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But when he saw his cousin he did not know whether to curse him or to be courteous to him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The visiting child was a shy, skinny boy about my height who was clinging to his cousin nervously. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They said they had driven all the way to a hamlet near Arras in their flatbed farm truck to look for a young cousin and her children. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“What’d you think about what my cousin said in the car when we were going to San Francisco?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My siblings and little cousins continue to act shy around me, huddling together and whispering with each other in Quichua. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a child I scarcely knew my aunts, uncles or cousins on my mother’s side. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At a loss for words, she gently rubbed her cousin’s shoulder and reflected that Jackson and Pierrot alone could not be responsible for such grief; she remembered there was other sorrow in Lola’s life. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“How are you, Peach?” said Declaration, looking across me to my cousin. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked about my age, which meant he couldn’t be one of my cousins, because they were all older than me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He brushed past the outstretched hand of a wino and caught up to his aunt and cousins. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, my cousins arrived and started to take the trays of food to the dining room and patio. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Except for Mr. Schmitt’s cousin, a stocky redheaded young man with blotchy freckles, there was no one working in the store that day but Mr. Schmitt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran looked at the crimson and canary and russet cloth, at clothes which looked more like the costumes of traveling players or the contents of his cousin Joan's charades chest, and said, "My clothes?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall be composing a letter to our cousins in London, our cousins who are so well regarded by His Majesty.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know because that time she went to visit her cousin in Oklahoma—remember that, Ruthanne, when her cousin had the shingles? Velma T. had me pick up her mail for her.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a stack of coats and sweaters on the chairs and I recognize my cousin Heather’s bright orange down jacket. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin Mlungisi was there, too, in the gallery, ready to post my bail if things went my way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I have some very remarkable cousins. And now, Wilbur, it’s time you went to sleep.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“We were cousins. And we married. Has this boy asked for your hand?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Walking down the street one day not long after he had gotten back, he had seen his cousin Hensleigh carrying a child in one hand and a round box in the other. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why are you going along with him pretending to be your cousin?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a second cousin to them at best. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Ah, this is your cousin, is it, Harry?” said Mr. Weasley, taking another brave stab at making conversation. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ambrosio said, “Come again? When are you gonna learn how to talk, cousin? Why don’t you go down to the capital and buy some wooden teeth? Say that once more.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or was she like a shot of whiskey given to you by your older cousin? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were all the people James mentioned in one sentence—a great-grandmother, auntie, cousins—all right here, nearby? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I walk into my cousin’s house, Auntie Gemma’s in the kitchen doing a million things at once. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Keep my cousins’ mouth out of your name!” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There Pirithoüs sits forever, but Theseus was freed by his cousin. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, I’m honoring my relatives who died in the Holocaust and the cousins who were never born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My cousins and I would help take out the entrails. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you quit hitting on my cousin and come help me serve these burgers?” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He felt a sense of relief as he imagined meeting his aunt and cousins in the morning. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When Briony was obliged by her cousin’s fierce stare to raise an eyebrow, she continued, “The twins have been torturing me.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dad says it’s because Josh’s cousin was one of the school shooters at Devon’s school. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to stare at his pictures and wonder what his voice sounded like until I met my cousin Linwood Bob Hinson from North Carolina, who looks just like him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when this guy Zed approached Grandma and Joey at the gym and said, “Hey, Joey! It’s Zed, your second cousin once removed,” Grandma was thrilled. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about her cousins in Oklahoma, which was odd, since she’d never spent much time with them. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was the last of his kind—a Hundred- Handed One, cousin of the Cyclopes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My bad. Didn’t know I liked snakes. Reptiles. Lizards are like snakes’ cousins.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar’s nephew was kind, for all that, to the cousins he half intended to displace. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even my cousin doesn't look as much like a Superwoman in these clothes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cousins stand outside the hut to see us off. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my cousin Pierre. We visit your country for the first time, and we wish to see the Archduke, who started our—how you say—first Earth war.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

After months of living with the old woman, the cousins had seemed to decide that Aunt Rose was suddenly worth their time. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He feels obligated to attend; one of the presenters on the panel, Amit, is a distant cousin who lives in Bombay, whom Gogol has never met. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the exception of the one holiday when my grandfather passed out just after dinner, my cousins always have to go to the bathroom outside in the bushes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often Mami received a letter from her with a money order, or a package with the clothes my cousins in the United States had outgrown. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This is my cousin, Fabiola. She just got here from Haiti.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And don’t unnecessarily disturb its beastly cousins nest of vipers and hornet’s nest. can’t see the forest for the trees. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were drinks in the drawing room or on the terrace, and that was where Briony was supposed to be—with her mother, and the brother she adored, and the little cousins. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When we found our campsite, my cousins David and Daniel and I helped Uncle pitch the tents. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I used to scare my cousins by flipping my eyelids inside out. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sad to see him go, but I would miss some of my cousins and Auntie Yeabu. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day classmates swarmed around her when she pulled up to Booker T. Washington High School in her cousin’s car. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

That was both of my cousin’s friends that died in one week! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you tell your cousins where you are,” Kasim reminds me when we reach the street lined with wide lawns and brick houses. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My aunts, uncles, cousins, and I are all a product of the life she lived and the life she bravely chose not to live. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I always said our cousin had a good heart. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hinton was a respected farmer with an enviable spread, a cousin of the governor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m visiting my family in a few months. I’ll get to see my brothers and sisters. My cousins, too.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My cousin recognized the man’s name—it was his uncle! Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of this boy more like a troublesome cousin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could I live in this world full of strangers and gray light instead of a country of cousins and family and family friends and year-round sunshine? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I passed them to Mother and she dialed some second cousins who promised to come collect us almost immediately, even though Mother had not spoken with them in nearly a decade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have appealed to the regent’s cousin, Chief Zilindlovu, one of the most enlightened and influential chiefs at the court of Mqhekezweni. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have given my cousin a dirty look and gone on with my reading if it hadn't been for the magnificent creature he had created. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Laura and Mary and the cousins were playing quietly in the yard, when they heard a loud, blubbering cry. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My cousin in Northampton, she knows a woman whose little boy was took by the Gobblers....” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

By February, Laxmi’s cousin’s husband still hadn’t come to his senses. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Papá sent a telegram to Fito, my cousin in Guadalajara, asking him to secure our birth certificates and to send them to us by mail. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

After all morning playing with Tommie’s cousins and then the long sit for the big dinner, the twins had been ready for a different sort of fun. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe my cousin’s in a position to drive.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Omakayas forgot the bears, forgot the whispering of the plants, became a cousin within a pack of cousins, roaming the camps, stealing bits of sugar, laughing at each other. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the cousins were not young—in fact they were all very, very old. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Even as my cousins get ready and tell me over and over again to get up, I stay there. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Horrible — well, not all of them. My aunt and uncle and cousin are, though. Wish I’d had three wizard brothers.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It subdued the brightness of my cousins’ suits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His cousin the Kingslayer would have been a much different matter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If I can give her that, then maybe I can get this terrible man out of my cousin’s life for good and get my mother back. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Papa had gone back downstairs, and I was still sitting on the sofa, watching Aunty Ifeoma talk to Mama, when my cousins arrived. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s living in my cousins’ house next door! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

While tearing apart a bird with fat fingers, Lord Wyman made polite inquiry after Lady Homwood, who was a cousin of his. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Rather than listen to me, my cousin listens to her. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I’m worried that Sammy will not want to hang out with me if “cousin” Oscar is around. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The cousins tried to slink in; Aunt Rose shooed them away, but not before they realized that Ophie was getting a treat of warm milk with honey and cinnamon and they were not. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help that he continued to feel like everyone’s poor cousin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They knew the same people in different parts of the country and had gone to school with each other’s cousins. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Cabot’s cousin, Josh, who was still in high school, walked into his bedroom one afternoon and sat down on the bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But my cousins and aunt devour it as if it’s their last meal. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mama’s dressed up for the lunch party at a cousin’s house she’ll go to after we visit the mosque. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mother starts to write “Paris,” home of a cousin she has never met. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sheet of paper he thrust into my hand was similar to the schedule pasted above my study desk upstairs, except he had penciled in two hours of “time with your cousins” each day. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

My one cousin works in a gas station. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This is your cousin Judith,” her aunt said, and Kit gasped with pleasure. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They can hardly see Hamza because my swaggering cousin has shrunk to almost nothing behind me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The senior cousin decided that they should go and find the new wife, and so the women all left their work and followed the footprints of the new wife down to the riverbank. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He had visited the homes of dozens of her relatives, eaten the plates full of syrupy mishti, patiently posed for countless photographs on rooftops, surrounded by her cousins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were no grandparents, no aunts or uncles or cousins like other foster kids sometimes had. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Not only do we possess an abundance of uncivilised cousins, once upon a time we had quite a few brothers and sisters as well. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin Sterling says one day the whole world will hear what I have to say. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They move to Florida, where a cousin of Lourdes’s boyfriend gets everyone painting jobs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Even when she was playing boisterously with her cousins, all Charles had to do was give her a quick look and she would quiet everyone down. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She makes a point of mentioning the engagements and weddings of the Bengali children he’s grown up with in Massachusetts, and his cousins in India. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the mornings Gogol watches his cousins put on their white and blue school uniforms and strap water bottles across their chests. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And one of my cousins in Burundi, Deborah Rose, helped as well. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

From Junito harassing my cousin and trying to cover up the fact that the two of them had a thing going, to Beatriz being the ringleader during the fight and hyping up the situation. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Looking back at early man, perhaps, or at his ape cousins, he saw that running away was what you did instinctively when you were afraid; retreating was the usual effect of fear. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one time it was discovered that she was writing letters to the Bishop, whom she claimed as a first cousin, but it was never said whether she received any reply. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh! my cousin! Heal my bleeding heart with one trumpet note of manly indignation.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At first she made things just for her family—dresses for Lou’s sister, Rosemary, wedding gowns for cousins and nieces. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I want him to wait a little bit in front of the school so Tonesha can see me with him and she can run and tell her cousin. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But to my cousin I said, “Well, we made it,” like the journey was nothing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to know anything about Henrietta, he told me, I’d need to go up the road and talk to her cousin Cliff, who’d grown up with her like a brother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And they have grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins, or even brothers or sisters who are already grown up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It might have been the day she was holding cousin Totchy and baby Frank. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan then said, “My cousin, he speak very little English. I am his man of translate.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If she had known her cousin’s secret, would she have teased her at dinner? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s really good of you to do this....They’re through here, my aunt and uncle and cousin....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was really proud of my cousin and slightly intimidated she wanted me to join her political activist team at school next year. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Not in a million years, not even with our cousins. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Emeline took her cousins on a tour of Holmes’s building and told them of his effort to transform it into a hotel for exposition guests. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He spent the whole day on this strange farewell tour, until finally one of his cousins called him out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Didn’t seem to matter that all he did was brag about his part-time job with his cousin, who had been in the country for five years. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Master’s cousins came for a few weeks and slept in the living room until they left to join the army. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Briony put out her hand to touch her cousin’s face and found her cheek. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to all be together—my aunt, my cousins, my mother, and I. And in just a few hours everything changed. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

While they waited for their cousin to wire money, Lefty tried to console the doctor and finally convinced him to come with them to Detroit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were aunts, uncles, cousins — the home behind the red gate doors was really a village of relatives. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Excellent, I think I see a few veela cousins,” said George, craning his neck for a better look. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure my cousin at the LA Times is going to love this story!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I walk outside and see my cousins’ cousin Freddy and his wife, Alicia, arrive as the piñata is being set up. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She might have married and settled on a more conventional path if she had not spent several weeks each summer visiting her cousin Gerrit Smith in Peterboro, New York. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I gave my cousin a defiant look as I lifted up my cowboy skirt, tucked it under my chin, and yanked my panties down. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you don’t sell them, somebody else will,” my cousin told me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he came out, and with another glance at his cousins he stalked outside, shutting the door behind him. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

When Hiroshi and one of his cousins take their turn, Hiroshi pretends to have a cane and his cousin holds an imaginary spear. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You look nice,” her cousin Regis said as the family gathered in the hallway, waiting for Du Bois to be done talking to reporters. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Whenever I went to my cousins’ house for the holidays, my mom would drop me off with a bag of tomatoes, onions, and potatoes and a large sack of cornmeal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I noticed that he stiffened at the mention of my cousin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She made her famous rice pudding and slow-cooked greens, chitlins, and the vats of spaghetti with meatballs she kept going on the stove for whenever cousins dropped by hungry. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, they are but distant cousins: logos in rhetoric being another of those bendy shadows cast on the wall of Plato’s well-known cave. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But this one with my cousins is locked with a key. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

About the only thing Vandalia and Junior had going for them as a couple was that they weren’t cousins. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A five-year-old could do better. As if things weren’t bad enough here in this house. If we had to have a cousin at all why couldn’t it have been a boy?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He found the man, and together they figured out that their grandfathers were brothers, making the two of them second cousins. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I did not realize it was my cousins’ laughter, the sound reflecting their mother’s, until I went out to the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had no idea, this cousin who had grown up in the village, who looked at the world with stark and insensitive eyes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Second cousins is okay, but you have to ask first the archbishop.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

According to my cousin, Mr. Lucas had made offers to “gird up the house’s foundation” over the years, but Miss Trotter had always told JimmyTrotter the house was fine as it was. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

This was quite natural since the two were cousins. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cousins’ coloring was too vivid—virtually fluorescent!—to be concealed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Still, Sheed remained on its back with the stunned Mr. Flux and shouted, “Dude, that’s my cousin down there. I’m always picking him over whoever. No matter how big a jerk he is.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Deborah knew other cousins had children who were dwarves, or whose minds never developed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“My cousin kept the fish for a while, and then, when she got good and ready, she ate it.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

For weeks I had been dreaming of home—our big yellow-brick house with a grass-green roof, filled with cousins and friends. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He rushed back to the street, cursing, dismayed, humiliated, heading for the safety of his cousin’s. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her cousin’s removal left Briony center stage—there was no sign yet of Robbie—and the way she was listened to, deferred to and gently prompted seemed at one with her new maturity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lacey had been fielding dozens of e-mails—none with real information—from the flyers her cousin had put in record stores in New York. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I have to cut him out of my cousin’s life for good. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As Tommy Lacks stood by his crop praying for a good price, Henrietta and the cousins ran around the tobacco piles, talking in a fast gibberish to sound like the auctioneer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that West Baltimore, where I lived; that the north side of Philadelphia, where my cousins lived; that the South Side of Chicago, where friends of my father lived, comprised a world apart. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was so much noise and laughter that late at night I'd start talking to my cousins without even thinking. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The one who told me was a distant cousin. He knew someone who escaped.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our cousin Daniel waves at him from down the sidewalk with some other boys, and they’re all on their bikes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

On every trip I would make mental notes on things I needed to tell my uncle, cousins, and Mohamed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“And someday,” Mami continues, “we will be free, and all your cousins and aunts and uncles will come back and thank us.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But forego, which means “go before,” has an e, as do its cousins foregone and foregoing. forward. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have never met Branwell’s cousins, but I’ll bet he stands out in that crowd as much as he does in any other—even though I’ve heard they are all tall and have red hair. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is your friend doing that to my cousin?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It turned out that he was my cousin's cousin, and my parents hadn't bothered to tell me he'd enrolled in my kindergarten class. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A few cousins were still at the restaurant. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The screen went blank and I realized, if Henrietta’s children and husband wouldn’t talk to me, I needed to visit Clover and find her cousins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And, when her mother’s cousin, Uncle Osita, came from Umunnachi to tell her that she was being summoned to a meeting at her grandfather’s compound, she did not tell Odenigbo about it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of my cousins sent me a small lacquered jewelry box. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Alex is Angel’s cousin. He told her him and his friends took the money from my backpack.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Two sucres,” my cousin Zoyla said, holding forth two leaves, grudgingly playing along. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After cake and cafecitos, the cousins will disperse down these paths to their several compound houses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Charles wrote to his cousin Fox telling him about the birth of their last child. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins—Aristotle, Socrates, Cleopatra, and Plato—had the thwarted, overbrushed look of ministers’ children. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And then he jumped slightly as he heard his cousin Dudley give a tremendous grunting snore from the next room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If we hear anyone at all—our friends, neighbors, cousins, even our own parents—speak things against the Angkar, we must report them to the Met Bongs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the straightest way over to Verplancks Point, but Father went that way because it took us past our cousins’ place. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither the cousins nor their mother shared the same attitude. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Louie’s cousin stopped the car right where we were and said, Everybody out of the car. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re not supposed to be in the program but if they got an aunt or cousin or someone in the city they use their address. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her Igbo had slipped into the dialect that Ugwu heard in Master’s speech when his cousins visited. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like Fleeming Jenkin, Galton quickly realized that his cousin had got the principle right, but not the mechanism: the nature of inheritance was crucial to the understanding of Darwin's theory. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She returned home in the Emperor’s open carriage with her cousin and the young keeper, and none of them spoke a word on the way, each occupied by their own thoughts. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

On his first day there, Zannikos, scared and feeling lost, found the building he was looking for, but his mother’s cousin had moved. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When we got on the bus, Audrey kept busy on her phone, texting with her cousin Sylvia, who lived in San Francisco and was in high school. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

My great-great-grandparents emigrated to America at the turn of the twentieth century; any relatives of mine who died in the Holocaust were cousins of ancestors I never knew. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

On the way to gym class, I told her what Thomas had said about them being cousins. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Compare that to the one of me and all my cousins huddled around Abuela when we were really small. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, I’m so lonely and bored without Carla or any of my other cousins around. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Why would he be my uncle, too? I had an uncle. My cousins’ father.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At first I thought they were sis-ter and brother, but Phoebe told me they were cousins, and that Ben was living with Mary Lou’s family temporarily. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Some were lawyers and well-known citizens, such as Samuel Adams of Boston, a graduate of Harvard and cousin of John Adams, a future President of the United States. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joan was the name of one of my cousins, but it seemed unwise to share this information. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I go to Kobe three time on train. I had cousin there, but he die when he seventy. So I understand train. We wait, and train will come when it come.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The constables returned him in an iron cage made by one of their cousins. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Shiites were the ones who wanted Ali—the cousin—to take over, because they said we should be like the Jews. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t ’bide having nothing so common in her home and sold the curtains to George’s cousin for next to nothing. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

His cousin had visited from London and given him some pounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Please. Please, can I go play With my cousins?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A third cousin of Papa’s, Hopewell Stump, from out in Banks County, clerked and took care of the chickens that folks brought to trade out for nails, flour, sugar, coal oil, coffee, and chewing tobacco. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We reviewed our recent sins with our girl cousins until late that night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Where my pop used to go to visit his aunties and uncles and cousins every month before he got married, moved to Stockton and had kids. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve heard my cousins say this, but it’s the first time that I’ve tried to wrap this curse around my tongue and I say it all wrong. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mostly, my cousins did the talking and Aunty Ifeoma sat back and watched them, eating slowly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“How you been, I have the notes for you. Yeah, yeah, tell your cousin I have the notes for him.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The Croteau daughters are the only ones among twelve first cousins who made it to college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maize, she suggested, might have been created by repeatedly crossing Zea diploperennis, a rare maize relative, and another cousin species, Eastern gamagrass. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He told his cousin Fox, for instance, knowing that he was religious, that he didn’t think the book would convert him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth admired her cousin’s cleverness and courage as he welcomed the men and gave them permission to search the house and grounds. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Ralph’s little brothers, sisters, and cousins, hiding in the woodpile and behind the curtains, were also waiting. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Keep moving, cousin," I mutter under my breath as Tess stops to laugh at some young gambler's joke. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The tears I’ve been holding back start to roll down my face as my cousin says that, but not because I’m sad. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

My cousin Jason Taylor is such a space cadet. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“My cousin in Ohio wrote that he saw the newspaper article you were interviewed for,” Ira said to me. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hung out of attic windows, rode on car fenders, delivered the coal, moved into Medallion and moved out, visited cousins, plowed, hoisted, lounged on the church steps, careened on the school playground. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I answered, I heard the voice of a cousin I had reconnected with—a Lost Boy now living in Sydney, Australia. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Spring break. Any day. I can borrow my mom’s car and drive us up there, and we can stay with my cousin’s friend. It could be like a whole road trip.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Qybum was in attendance, and dour Walton in his mail shirt and greaves, plus a dozen Freys, all brothers, half brothers, and cousins. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was much better acquainted with the fate of a tribe of first cousins who had wandered away north in a diversionary movement and pushed inadvertently into Canada. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Yep, all of my cousins were squirming like beetles and butterflies with pins stuck in their hearts. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“About my cousin Arize. She hasn’t even been married a year and she is desperate to get pregnant.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My cousin Stacey, who goes to New Castle, says she and a friend were in Chicago and he was playing this club and he totally hooked up with both of them? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My friend’s cousin works at the Center Theater on Main Street, and he says they have a new popcorn machine and velvet seats.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie had thought it might be a Virginia cousin because that was the night Clara disappeared, but now she wondered if the murderer hadn’t been closer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A new president was in the White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a distant cousin of that most upbeat and energetic of presidents, Teddy Roosevelt. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had a cousin who lived in Englewood, plenty of money there but gaudy rich, lots of lawn statuary, half the saints in the Gregorian calendar sticking out of the Ficus benjamina. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“First cousin once removed—on the mother’s side,” returned the Brown Bear, whispering the information behind his paw. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You need to man up,” the cousin said. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I knew I was lucky to have older cousins to take me on adventures that included meeting my literary heroes and drinking tasty vodka concoctions. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t care that I was a Muslim and didn’t need me to catch her up on Muslim Basics 101 because she had a cousin who was Muslim. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering pack of tree-apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing and said it loud, loud, loud. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

All ruled by their larger, human-like cousins, the immortal Fae—the original inhabitants and settlers of the continent, and the oldest beings in Erilea. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The dinner dishes had been cleared, and the cousins had all gone out to see a picture show. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“So many Osage lost a mother or a father or a sister or a brother or a cousin. That pain never goes away.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backward through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The cousin’s parents are rich, and the groom’s are even richer. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When one cousin caught the measles or mumps, we were all quarantined together so as to get that childhood illness over and done with. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She says he didn’t get a job yet, but she’s saving the money she gets from selling Avon and taking care of her cousins. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sooner I’ll find someone and get busy making you some cousins. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When school let out each day, and any time it wasn’t in session, Henrietta was in the fields with Day and the cousins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the back porch yapping with my fifteen-year-old cousin made me feel like the teenager I’d soon be in October. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

No doors have opened since I’ve learned about my cousins’ drug dealing. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was his cousin Cletus who had started calling him the big man, but the name was well deserved. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

America would bring to Barack Obama the same questions my cousin was unconsciously putting to me that day on the stoop: Are you what you appear to be? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He paced the concourse, looking for the cousin he’d grown up with, a sharp-nosed girl with the grinning mouth of a comedy mask. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Auntie Rose is out traveling today, so why don’t you go stoke a fire in the hearth. Looks like those good-for-nothing cousins let it go out once more.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You feel guilty about letting Evan down. Evan, who was trying to force you to dance in a bikini with his cousin as the highlight of your part in the talent show?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The cousins had so much and yet they still went out of their way to cause Ophie grief. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s come upon the son of my father’s cousin.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first time my cousin Lee Cheun puts me on a cow, I am afraid I will fall off. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: “John Mark’s family—I’ve met a few of his cousins, but there are piles of them coming in from Michigan and Tennessee and California. He’s never been married before.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Ahmed is taking us to the airport with a cousin of Mama’s in a second car because of the luggage. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as Atzerodt takes refuge at a cousin’s house in the small community of Germantown, Maryland, twenty miles northwest of Washington, a cavalry detachment knocks at the door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nico imitates his cousin’s moves and looks so ridiculous when he does a little spin that I burst out laughing. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"Our team might perform better out there if we're more relaxed in here, Coach," my cousin says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Your cousin’s conduct does not suit my feelings. Why was he to be the judge?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

From the corner of my eye, I saw my frightened cousins obediently practicing their first brush strokes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Just some cousin of Mario’s here for the weekend,” Minerva says too offhandedly. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my other cousin has been wanting to go back to college for around seven years. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And Mong just keeps peeking his shaved head around the Dumpster every ten minutes or so, to make sure we don’t miss his cousin’s car. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ayesha’s cousins and friends follow in an array of colorful saris. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was Earth and there the coming war, and there hundreds of thousands of mothers or grandmothers or fathers or brothers or aunts or uncles or cousins. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This year the station was packed, not just with students and newsmen, but also with parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, next-door neighbors, and utter strangers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I did not realize that my cousins had left; now the verandah was so silent I could hear the sound of the raindrops sliding off the leaves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She told him that she didn’t live in Dundee but her cousin did, on the other side of the complex. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Ralph shuddered at the thought of bloodthirsty cats stalking his innocent little brothers, sisters, and cousins. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to see how they can be related to their wild, clever, suspicious cousins. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I crashed into my cousin with my football helmet and knocked her all the way out into the snow.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Remote cousins and family friends whom mere acquaintanceship invested with a sort of blood obligation noblesse oblige. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can see to my horse too, Reek. And to my little cousin’s.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I handed him a paper saying Emilika was my cousin with all the feigned confidence in the world. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Papa would have his brothers over with my aunties and cousins. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily my uncles and cousins would have embraced us and talked, but everyone was too scared of being out after curfew to say anything more. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think our little country cousin is acquainted with any radicals, known or unknown.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of her life she imagined her cousins worked for kind and generous masters up north, engaged in more forgiving trades than her own, weaving or spinning, nothing in the fields. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

You know every memory I have of all my grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nightjars, cousins to the owl, called from their sandy perches on the earth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once, a younger cousin who had tried to imitate him had fallen down the red clay staircase in Ashoke’s house and broken an arm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But even if that was the case, Dicey knew her cousin would rather have been a nun. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There she would give birth to four children, my cousins, and remain for the next eight years. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That her cousin would be able to live his life freely, with people no longer judging him for who he chooses to love but instead appreciating him for who he is on the inside. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

No wonder cousin JimmyTrotter had given him a bunch of “Yes, sir”s. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And Marcus also knew that his cousin would be there when it happened, with the eyes of Rome upon her to see how she bore herself. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I think about the time we took Natalie to my cousin Cricket’s wedding. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you think you are, cousin,” Sparky teased gently, “a robin?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The crow is the raven's poor cousin. They are both beggars in black, hated and misunderstood." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Watching my friends try to twist their mouths to say these words, I laugh as much as my cousins do when I try to say American curse words. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But she had cousins and other family members who weren’t as fortunate. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As the bus started up again, the two cousins gripped the silver pole in front of Jamal. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And he bade Cuckoo go and ask the cousin what slave he would have since he had seen them all. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We had first cousins and second cousins and even third cousins with us! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And when I say whine, I don’t mean like your little cousin when she’s complaining you won’t let her give you a makeover. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When I met Sarah, now my wife, for the fourth or fifth time, I told her about the splintered minds of my cousin and two uncles. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bobbette had been part of the family long enough to know that cousins sometimes had their way with other cousins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I can feel my cousin’s heart through his back. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe each of them is thinking their own dream—of daddies and uncles, brothers and cousins one day being free to come on board. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Here’s another one of my cousin Jayden’s grafs,” he said, showing us the graffiti scribbles. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She drove a four-in-hand on her fourteenth birthday, and her cousin, Mr. Jack, got up on the box beside her and tried to take the reins from her hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When we had finally gone through the whole house, the older cousins, who were more experienced in lying, said how much they'd enjoyed the paintings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Singer stood before the window and watched the cousin of his friend wait on a group of customers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Our children clung to the banisters and witnessed her paroxysm; our servants were sent to summon her cousin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s like he’s begging me, Please, cousin, get cool, try a little bit. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked round to his brothers and cousins for support, and several of them muttered agreement. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cousins played jumping from stump to stump without ever touching the ground. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lived in a crowded house with aunts and uncles and brothers and cousins and a tiny abuelita who ruled the whole establishment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Ophie tried to get a moment alone with her great-aunt there the cousins were, telling a funny story about school, or asking to help with dinner, or just being a general nuisance. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The adults were all taking their time over coffee, and the cousins were in the family room watching SpongeBob, so I took Jeffrey up to bed. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said we were playing a joke on Salim's cousins, the Sparks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room, we cousins made a circle around the coffee table and clasped our hands. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My cousins car is in the shop, so I let her use mine for the day.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I give the letter to my grandfather to mail because I don’t really want Mami to know I’m writing to a boy, even if he is my cousin. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Some of her little grey cousins were afraid of men, even dead men, but not her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had never had a friend before, just cousins. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, as I did, my heart melted around the sweetness and sadness of the world and I responded to my cousin...to life. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could have been my little brother or cousin and I wanted to say something to him, but I knew it wouldn’t do any good. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, three or four cousins asked Deborah to marry them and she just laughed, saying, “Man, is you crazy? That ain’t no game, you know? It affects the child!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hand Clap’s young cousin twice removed came all the way from Colorado. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a stroke of good luck for Booth, for unknown reasons Samuel Mudd’s cousin George failed to ride into town to report the strangers to the cavalry. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom grabbed my sister, my aunt, and me, along with two of my little cousins, Musore and Rusengo, who were six and nine years old. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She knew the man only by reputation; Bronze Yohn's cousin, from a lesser branch of House Royce, yet still a formidable lord in his own right. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even her cousins could not take away that sadness. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sheed’s natural inclination to fight his cousin buzzed stronger than ever. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Before they had gone half a mile, her cousin Quenton’s mare stumbled into a pit and shattered her foreleg. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gwen and her cousins ran through Charles’s study to get outside, but it felt “faintly holy and sinister, like a church.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I grabbed my cousin and I put my arms around him and told him, “Come on, don’t make a scene like this.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was also his first cousin and therefore a natural choice for a spouse. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z