Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...paysan, F. W. Morrison '00. De La Tremblaye, gentilhomme amoureux de la fille du Pedant, B. F. Bell '00. Charlot Granger, fils du Pedant, R. Goelet '02. Corbineli, valet de jeune Granger, fourbe, A. S. Hills '00. Pierre Paquier cuistre Pedant, faisant le plaisant, J. A. Dix '02. Fleury, cousin du Pedant, R. W. Goelet '02. Manon, fille du Pedant, R. B. Bowler '02. Genevote, soeur de M. de la Tremblaye, F. Watson '02. Cuistres...
...Reverend Edward Chipman Gould '53, Dv. '57, died in Boston last Monday night. He was born in Brookline, Feb. 29, 1832. After studying for some time the Theological School at Andover, he entered Harvard College, a and graduated in 1853 in the same class with President Eliot, whose cousin he was. He then entered the Harvard Divinity school, graduating in 1857. Since then he has been pastor of a number of Unitarian churches, at Marietta, O., Baltimore, Md., Canton and Waltham, Mass., and later at Brunswick, Me., where he exercised a great influence over the students of Bowdoin College...
...prisoner of war in the castle of Edinburgh, who, falling in love with a fair visitor, fights a duel on her account with another prisoner and kills him. Effecting his escape, he makes his way to London to take possession of a fortune left by an uncle. A disinherited cousin becomes the enemy of St. Ives, and using the knowledge of the duel as a weapon, helps to make the story interesting. St. Ives goes back to see his Flora and is pursued by the cousin and the police. As the meshes are closing around him, he makes his escape...
...year 1137, Elinor, grand-daughter of William IX of Aquitaine, married Louis VII of France. The marriage was not a happy one. It was ended by a divorce allowed on the grounds of propinquity, she being his cousin seven times removed. Being freed thus, Elinor was again married, this time to Henry, Count of Anjou. The alliance is significant to us from its social rather than its political effects. By far the most important part of Elinor's dowry was the new conception of society which she brought with her from the south of France to the northern provinces...
...became very attached to his cousin Theodora Cowper, but her father would not consent to their marriage no matter how much the lovers urged. They parted never to meet again. She remained unmarried and the event had a lasting influence on Cowper perhaps tending to make him more somber. His father now died in 1756 and soon after his best friend Sir Russell drowned in the Thames, and Cowper felt that he was left alone in the world...