How To Use Brother-in-law In A Sentence
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My beater is a Win. 67, given to me by a brother-in-law in 1952, no frills or foofaraw, or scope, just a very dependable single shot .22 that I have killed hundreds of squirrels and rabbits with, and wouldn't trade it for a boat load of tricked-out 10/22s.
Trigger Happy
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My beater is a Win. 67, given to me by a brother-in-law in 1952, no frills or foofaraw, or scope, just a very dependable single shot .22 that I have killed hundreds of squirrels and rabbits with, and wouldn't trade it for a boat load of tricked-out 10/22s.
Trigger Happy
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My brother-in-law went into another room, and madame de Bearn began to unswathe her foot in my presence with the utmost caution and tenderness.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself
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She has been accused of trying to get her former brother-in-law dismissed from the police force to settle a personal score.
Times, Sunday Times
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Troopergate was about a dangerous renegade brother-in-law; Walt Monegan was "insubordinate;" Charlie Gibson's interview was full of "gotcha" questions; Katie Couric was just mean and condescending; the shouts of "kill him" and "terrorist" at her rallies were the fault of Bill Ayers; Wardrobegate was the fault of the McCain Campaign; losing the election wasn't her fault, it was George W. Bush and the economy.
Shannyn Moore: Gobble Gobblegate
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Martin contented himself by picturing his brother-in-law's surprise on Sunday morning when he opened his EXAMINER and saw the article on the treasure-hunters.
Chapter 9
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Elham said: `You fixed for someone to fake evidence which would inculpate my brother-in-law on a charge of burglary.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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She was Karving her initials on the moose with the sharpened end of an interspace toothbrush given her by Svenge – her brother-in-law – an
Ma baloney haz a furst name… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Military resistance was organized by Sidonius's brother-in-law, Ecdicius, son of the emperor Avitus.
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Today, the Al-Arabiya TV (owned by King Fahd's brother-in-law) anchorperson, Rima Maktabi (whose father died fighting with the Phalanges Party) started the news cast by devoting a special segment to: Where are Hamas leaders?
Saturday, January 03, 2009
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He lost two brothers and a brother-in-law in the fighting.
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Brother-in-law Nero and ex-colleague Brig Gen (retd) Saber Ahmed identified the body of the BDR deputy director general, Brig Gen Bari.
Trial of killers will be fast-tracked
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To all outward appearances, her sister and brother-in-law treated her well; they were affectionate with her.
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Florence was a frequent visitor ... and had many of her ideas adopted in Parliament through the devotion of her brother-in-law.
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So this could include two brothers fighting or a brother-in-law snatching his sister-in-law's purse.
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And that's even though I was once given the chance by my brother-in-law's brother.
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The sledding had been good; Moses had hauled so many thousand feet of lumber to Brampton; Sam Price's woman (she of Harwich) had had a spell of sciatica; Chester Perkins's bull had tossed his brother-in-law, come from Iowy on a visit, and broke his leg; yes, Amandy guessed her dyspepsy was somewhat improved since she had tried Graham's Golden
Coniston — Complete
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He's married to her, and she's in love with his brother-in-law, and...oh, it's too complicated to explain!
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In dealings with my brother-in-law, there is no moral dimension.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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My other sister and brother-in-law have worked hard to provide my kids with distraction and diversion.
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[532] The term brother's brother-in-law is abusive in the same sense as brother-in-law (_sala_) said by a man.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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There followed a series of political manoeuvres from which one man, the King's brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, emerged as a somewhat improbable champion of English and baronial interests.
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Listen to my brother-in-law, Jacques, pronounce the French words "abrégé" + "en abrégé": Download abrege. mp3.
French Word-A-Day:
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Elham said: `You fixed for someone to fake evidence which would inculpate my brother-in-law on a charge of burglary.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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He has a job at a lumberyard, a sympathetic boss, and a well-intentioned brother-in-law.
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Between him and Millikin, his brother-in-law, there was not much sympathy: for he pronounced Mr. Milliken to be what is called a muff; and had never been familiar with his elder sister Lavinia, of whose poems he had a mean opinion, and who used to tease and worry him by teaching him French, and telling tales of him to his mamma, when he was a schoolboy home for the holidays.
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
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However, he had infected his brother-in-law, two nurses in the hospital, and seven guests who had stayed on the same floor of the hotel.
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In dealings with my brother-in-law, there is no moral dimension.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Another form of Hebrew marriage was the so-called levirate type (from the Lat. levir, i.e. brother-in-law), i.e. the marriage between a widow, whose husband had died childless, and her brother-in-law.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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I was always thinking that you were already my brother-in-law, and the idea just tickled me.
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It was a rough-and-tumble business, and a Bronfman brother-in-law managing several of the warehouses was shotgunned to death by bootleggers in 1922.
Fortune’s Fool
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She wishes to remain anonymous because the said salesman is her brother-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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My father sat me down for a heart-to-heart, but seemed more concerned that Chris was a struggling musician than that he was his brother-in-law.
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The king was told to demand that his brother-in-law renounce all treaties hostile to France and make public declaration of his peaceful intentions.
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NEPOS, QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS brother of Celer and brother-in-law of Pompey, who sends him back from his legateship in the East to stand for the tribuneship and guard his interests in Rome
CONSPIRATA
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Molly regarded her temperamental brother-in-law with a fond smile.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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The fact that he is your brother-in-law should not affect your decision.
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I went up to my brother-in-law's house and asked him to accompany my husband to the hospital.
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Sinatra sang, Martin boozed, Davis danced, Bishop did the standup thing and Lawford was Lawford, a handsome English actor of aristocratic background and indeterminate talent who happened to have become the brother-in-law of the next president of the United States.
When the Rat Pack ruled supreme
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I stood in that drive and looked at the palm trees planted on the left, by my brother-in-law and my husband.
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Neither her husband nor her brother-in-law survives.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Elham said: `You fixed for someone to fake evidence which would inculpate my brother-in-law on a charge of burglary.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
Where am I?
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At length the matter was taken up seriously, and the editors explained that Mr. Hamilton, on succeeding his brother-in-law, had kept up the old title; so that Robert-Houdin was a term equally applicable to the performer and to the style of performance.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
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He had believed the promise of the photographs and felt unaccustomedly grateful to his English brother-in-law James Burton who had told him weeks earlier that he was no longer welcome at the Burton home in
Excerpt: Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
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Three years ago,my brother-in-law was started on a brand name lipid lowering medications.
Archive 2007-11-01
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He called the generalissimo's brother-in-law el cuñadísimo.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2
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His house is resorted to by his brother-in-law Wellbred with a crowd of riotous but harmless gallants, and these he suspects of designs both on his wife and on his sister Bridget.
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He's married to her, and she's in love with his brother-in-law, and...oh, it's too complicated to explain!
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He arranged for his halfwitted brother-in-law to do the deed.
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He was recommended to me by my ratfink Mexican brother-in-law, whom I don´t get along with anymore, so that wouldn't help either.
Patzcuaro house building
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A father-in-law may not sleep with his daughter-in-law (Lev 18: 15), just as a brother-in-law may not sleep with his sister-in-law (Lev 18: 16), but in-law incest rules are suspended for the purpose of the levirate.
Tamar: Bible.
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Odd little gusts of inconsecutive conversations reached her ... down in Norfolk where my brother-in-law has a boat ...
The Years
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He's married to her, and she's in love with his brother-in-law, and...oh, it's too complicated to explain!
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‘The last he saw Harry, a fireman was screaming at him to get out,’ said his brother-in-law.
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The elevation of his patron to the highest dignity of the empire, of course opened to Kara-Mustapha the road to fortune and preferment -- from his first post of deputy to the _meer-akhor_, or master of the horse, he was promoted to the rank of pasha of two tails -- and after holding the governments successively of Silistria and Diarbekr was nominated capitan-pasha in 1662 by his brother-in-law Ahmed; but exchanged that appointment in the following year for the office of kaimakam, in which capacity he was left in charge of the capital on the departure of the vizir to the army in Hungary.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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That's due to my genius brother-in-law Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic, the leader of the FF, and his universal translator doohickey.
Robert Brenner: "Flame Off!": Hosni Mubarak and the Human Torch
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She was defending a man accused of stealing his brother-in-law's car.
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In dealings with my brother-in-law, there is no moral dimension.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Baradar may have had better credentials as Mullah Omar’s brother-in-law and longtime confidant, but he was a consensus seeker, in the mold of a traditional tribal chieftain.
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He is survived by his nephews, nieces, brother-in-law, sister-in-law and by other relations.
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Sarah persuaded Anne to support brother-in-law William of Orange, Protestant stadholder of the Netherlands, when he overthrew James II in 1688.
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McGinnis is survived in life by grandmother Vivian Collins; mother Linda White; stepfather Andrew Ward; sister Tracy Jaramillo; brother-in-law Luis Jaramillo and two beautiful young nieces and two nonfamilial brothers, Quinn Whitten and Seth Gates.
Summit Daily News - Top Stories
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I'm very rarely alone so most of the time either my wife or my brother-in-law pay for things.
Times, Sunday Times
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Kettricken seemed more at ease with the old man-at-arms than she had with his brother-in-law.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Its finest moment came when my brother-in-law spoke directly and movingly to his tearing daughter.
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For a time he was also the brother-in-law of the Athenian tyrant, Peisistratus, who seized power three times before finally establishing a stable and apparently benevolent dictatorship.
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The fact that he is your brother-in-law should not affect your decision.
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Her husband was away to Ambala, while her brother-in-law and sister-in-law had gone to market.
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This was his brother-in-law, and one of his elders, Mr. Robert Johnston, married to his sister Violet, a merchant and portioner in Biggar, a remarkable man, of whom it is difficult to say to strangers what is true, without being accused of exaggeration.
Spare Hours
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Starting her own record label with the money she's gotten in a divorce settlement from her ex-husband Abe, Anna is disparagingly called a ‘housewife’ by her wormy former brother-in-law Ben.
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The origin of the allusion is the myth of Philomel who, after her brother-in-law
Blake & Virtuality: An Exchange
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Doug's lips curl in contempt towards his brother-in-law.
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One of the horsemen is his brother-in-law, Marcos.
The bullfight and Cantinflas
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He purchased and planted about 1,000 herbaceous peonies and planted them in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he leased land from his brother-in-law.
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Baradar may have had better credentials as Mullah Omar’s brother-in-law and longtime confidant, but he was a consensus seeker, in the mold of a traditional tribal chieftain.
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It will be seen that John Snoggs can say to Joseph Bloggs, "You are my _father's brother-in-law_, because my father married your sister Kate; you are my _brother's father-in-law_, because my brother Alfred married your daughter Mary; and you are my _father-in-law's brother_, because my wife Jane was your brother Henry's daughter.
Amusements in Mathematics
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The lawyer of a New Jersey woman accused of killing her brother-in-law and spiking his drink with antifreeze says that she's confessed.
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His wife, brother-in-law and nephew all allegedly received money and are defendants.
Times, Sunday Times
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I therefore contacted a literary agent, Al Zuckerman, who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague.
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The Reverend David Allen, President Allen's brother-in-law, gave the invocation after asking the audience to join in a moment of silence for caregivers and military personnel around the world.
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Proceeding there in company with my eldest brother-in-law, a plate-layer and surfaceman on the Northern (he being uncertain about the Derby winner for that year), I was told by the person for a trifle of two shillings that I was soon to cross water and to meet many strange adventures.
Ruggles of Red Gap
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The progress they had made in their work the first day, while the attention of the Scotch had been confined to the attack on the barbacan, was all-sufficient evidence of their intent; and with bitter sorrow Sir Nigel and his brother-in-law felt that their only means of any efficient defence lay in resigning the long-contested barbacan to the besiegers.
The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History
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In dealings with my brother-in-law, there is no moral dimension.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Uncategorized Blog Posts
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With his wife and brother-in-law as the shop's operators, Alex is mainly supposed to act as its chief design officer.
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The instigator is his brother-in-law, ostensibly an anarchist but in reality the paid agent of a foreign agency.
Archive 2005-07-01
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Mike picked up the snapshot of the late Mr Piggot, his brother-in-law and the two wives.
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The glances Stella and Alexis exchanged seemed more intimate than was usual between a brother-in-law and a sister-in-law.
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The fact that he is your brother-in-law should not affect your decision.
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I therefore contacted a literary agent, Al Zuckerman, who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague.
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Here he received the backing of the duke of Burgundy, his brother-in-law, who was also threatened by a Franco-Lancastrian declaration of war.
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One of his fellow commanders had been a school contemporary; the other was destined to become his brother-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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She took up the pastime after impressing friends and family when she made an engagement cake for her brother-in-law.
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My brother-in-law, my sister's husband, is an American Airlines pilot who flies out of Boston.
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In dealings with my brother-in-law, there is no moral dimension.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Florence was a frequent visitor ... and had many of her ideas adopted in Parliament through the devotion of her brother-in-law.
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CELER, QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS brother-in-law of Pompey who married his sister, husband of Clodia, brother of Nepos; member of the College of Augurs; praetor; head of the most extensive and powerful family in Rome; a war hero with a powerful military reputation
CONSPIRATA
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I therefore contacted a literary agent, Al Zuckerman, who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague.
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His brother-in-law proposed a toast to the happy couple.
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It was concluded that hee should imbark with my Brother-in-Law in the small vessell.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson
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I therefore contacted a literary agent, Al Zuckerman, who had been introduced to me as the brother-in-law of a colleague.
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His two cousins, two uncles, a brother and a brother-in-law were all killed fighting in Indian Kashmir.
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My journey began shortly after our wedding when my brother-in-law, Howard, took me on an eye opening trip to Europe introducing me to all the great antiquaries of London and Paris.
Felicia C. Sullivan: Interview: Entrepreneur Laura Slatkin, Founder of Candela Group & NEST Fragrances
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I asked, remembering the story, and bethinking me of the silver-mounted cup possessed by Mr. Ridley, the captain's brother-in-law, which was said to have once covered the head of a sallee rover.
Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
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After initially living with his brother-in-law, mother and nephew, he moved to a small, comfortless, unheated room in a cheap hotel.
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So last Christmas I suggested to my brother-in-law that we do something different.
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Justin Kirk, best known as the devilishly lovable brother-in-law Andy on Weeds, is Harry, and he brings a similar sarcastic charm to this role that he does to his TV character.
Understudy Does Just Fine!
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She has her brother-in-law to thank for finding a real-life astronaut to serve as her consultant on new movie Gravity after striking up a conversation with the spacewoman's sibling.
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She dedicated her lavish folio volume, in large print, to her brother-in-law, Sir Charles Cavendish, in gratitude.
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And what better way is there to insult the scombroid landlord (resembling a mackerel) or that tumbrel of a brother-in-law (a person who is drunk to the point of vomiting) than by calling him by his rightful name?
Depraved and Insulting English « Books « Literacy News
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Josh -- My mother's even more bonkers about cats than Gary and I are, if that's possible the household she shares with my sister and brother-in-law has six cats, so our three get quite enough grandparental attention!
Feline Real Estate
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Moustapha Badreddine, brother-in-law of the late Hezbollah military supremo Imad Moughnieh, topped the four-man list, but otherwise the details of the indictment remain sealed.
Lebanon's Justice Delayed
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By the application of this principle, she had extinguished her brother-in-law's passion for Janet Merryweather, and she hoped that it would prove equally effective in blighting her son's incipient fancy for Molly.
The Miller of Old Church
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During this time her brother-in-law mortgaged the property, without her knowledge, as security for his own debts, and when he defaulted on the repayments, the bank sought possession of the property.
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She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law -an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
Troopergate...
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It was surely pure coincidence that he is also the brother-in-law of a future king of England.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems the porky guard's brother-in-law can pull strings on the parole board, and good boxers can write their ticket to an early parole.
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So let us assume somebody's brother-in-law showed up one day in the palmy pre-sound days of Hollywood, and his brother-in-law, a power on the lot or on the set, said: ‘People, this is Bob, and he is a producer.’
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Brother-in-law, by now, had already slipped out, so I had a little shut-eye myself, waking to find my beloved still kipping.
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The Californian gubernatorial election had just got under way and everyone and their brother-in-law seemed to be running.
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The late emperor's brother-in-law and murderer, Lord Urdhven, appoints himself Protector to his nephew, young King Lathmar VII and sets out to kill anyone who stands between himself and mastery of the empire, including (if he can manage it) the king himself and his ancient but still formidable ancestress, Ambrosia Viviana.
Archive 2009-03-01
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What might have been a by-the-numbers tale of overgrown frat-boys let loose in Vegas was also elevated by Zach Galifianakis 'turn as blank-gazed brother-in-law-in-waiting Alan, and some genuine moments of bushwhacking barminess reportedly based on the real-life experiences of a friend of one of the film's producers.
Will Hangover 2 cameo give Mel Gibson more headaches?
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My ex-brother-in-law worked in a western wear store and had his hats cleaned and creased by a fellow who steamed the headgear and shaped the brim along the curves of his own beer belly.
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Thats why I hate people with children, like my brother-in-law, who told me: you dont know what responsibility means, you have no children.
FallNews
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Then overcome with jealousy, the six sisters ran to meet their handsome brotherin-law and vied with each other for the privilege of carrying his betel sack, saying “I want to hold the sirih-sack of my brother-in-law.”
Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends
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It involved, as we said, the brother-in-law and the brother of the President.
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She was the author of “a French reader for young children” entitled Micheline et Didi, which, together with these charming lithographed illustrations by her brother-in-law, the artist A.E. (“Peter”) Newbury, and slightly less interesting ones drawn by a cousin, Arthur C. Trumble (more like diagrams, really), was published in Melbourne in 1935 by Macmillans, in association with McCarron, Bird & Co.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The first gig I played was with my brother-in-law's brother's band, and I was the drummer.
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“But Alan Dell is my brother-in-law,” protested the homecomer helplessly.
Coroner's Pidgin
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Her brother-in-law, the dashing, doltish Edward, almost brought the house down.
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Stranger still, he was the godfather to Nelson's son, who was now also his brother-in-law.
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She wishes to remain anonymous because the said salesman is her brother-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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My brother-in-law's mum is Anglo-Indian and I've been privileged to watched her cook for the past 30 years.
Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 best reader's recipe: Maria Kuehn
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The Anacreontic Song" became popular in the U.S., and after Francis Scott Key composed his 1814 poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry," his brother-in-law saw that the poem would go nicely with the "Anacreontic" melody.
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely
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One of his fellow commanders had been a school contemporary; the other was destined to become his brother-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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The view that Anne was a sentimental Jacobite who secretly wished her brother-in-law to succeed her has now been debunked as myth.
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And I asked her about the Trooper-gate, which she calls Taser-gate, and whether or not her -- she made a mistake allowing her husband to basically use the office of the governorship to try to fire that trooper, her ex-brother-in-law, who was causing the family so much trouble.
CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2008
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Tyler looked over at his best friend and brother-in-law seated on the bar stool to his right.
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But he's also a standard issue Chicago Machine pol practicing the Precinct Politics that dictate you hire your brother-in-law's contracting firm (brudder-in-law in Chicaga) in your first 100 days in office.
But Did You Do It, Blagojevich?
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He also declared his brother-in-law Mahdi [the messiah], a term most Saudis do not identify with their brand of conservative Islam.
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He was, in other words, a war profiteer - though a very unskilled one, unable to survive his exile without borrowing even more money from the brother-in-law who had once sent him smuggling.
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And now Edward, in his turn, was compelled to fly from the country, and to take refuge with his brother-in-law, the Duke of Burgundy.
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Progne how her brother-in-law Tereus had by force handselled her copyhold, and then cut out her tongue that she might not (as women will) tell tales.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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With the backing of her then brother-in-law, she decided to design and sell shorts for windsurfers - capitalising on the island's windsurfing craze in the 1980s.
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Military resistance was organized by Sidonius's brother-in-law, Ecdicius, son of the emperor Avitus.
