Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would hardly pay you to come over and whip the vanquished. It is with regret, however, that we cannot take this opportunity of testing the prowess of your great "eight," for the majority of Englishmen are more than pleased to see these international contests. I have heard my cousin, who is now a Fellow, and was a Junior at Baliol ten years ago, say that your crew of '69 lacked only good form to equal the best of ours, and as your present boat seems to have acquired this, - to judge from what you say, - I think the chances must...
...continued, "are you from Harvard? I have a cousin there, Tom Hammersmith; do you know him? People say he looks like...
...Cousin Amy I'd saluted...
...Cousin Maud, just over...
...seems very unjust that some men should have so much less time to prepare them than others have. I know of one case (my own) where the poor fellow has five exams in three days, and the first three days of the first week. Now my cousin has five examinations in three weeks, with plenty of time to prepare them, and time to go to the theatre, too. I don't say this out of jealousy, for of course I am fond of him; but it does seem unfair that two fellows, in other respects equal, should be treated...