Cousinly

He now no longer thought his cousin without them, but he thought she knew how to control them; in fact, they had grown to love each other with that certain kind of cousinly affection which one often sees, and which is very true and lifelong, but has not the rapture, the intensity, nor the anguish, which belong to really falling in love. ❋ Anna W. Ford Piper (N/A)

I only pray that my fragile and beloved son—the cousinly playmate of your youth—may now know the peace he could never find here on earth. ❋ Paul Steven Stone (2011)

A cousinly interrogation peppered with snide innuendo. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

It was the turn of the moderate voices for a while, and not urging brotherly or cousinly forgiveness and love, but laying down bluntly the brutal facts; for if this stalemate, wrangling and waste continued, said Robert Bossu with cold, clear emphasis, there would eventually be nothing worth annexing or retaining, only a desolation where the victor, if the survivor so considered himself, might sit down in the ashes and moulder. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is one of my worst golfing habits, and it drives my golf partner, Joe, into fits of cousinly fury that he does a good job of disguising as mild annoyance. ❋ Roland Merullo (2009)

West African guitar phenom Lionel Loueke sits in on a few tracks and adds a funky, polyrhythmic feel to "A New World," proving that Blanchard can stretch into cousinly genres without sounding like he's speaking down to his audience. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Three girls aged 7, 8 and 9 giggled and played their way through almost 48 hours of cousinly fun. ❋ Angcat (2008)

Starr was a stranger in the strange land of Arkansas, operating in a cousinly place where everyone knew everyone else's business and where politicians were used to dealing with -- and attacking -- elected prosecutors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the state capitol he was greeted with cousinly backslaps and gifts of Cajun sauces. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He hails from one of the last states, in the South or anywhere else, where politics is practiced person to person in what writer Dudley Clendinen once called the "cousinly style." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The cousinly Arkansas touch pops up in Clinton's world in unexpected places. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But in a cousinly state, where everyone seems related, they only icily acknowledged each other's presence. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Daily Volumnia has a little cousinly talk with Sir ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mr. George undoubtedly thinks it best to escort her on his arm to the door of her cousinly chamber, and the maid as undoubtedly thinks it best to hustle her into bed with mighty little ceremony. ❋ Unknown (2007)