How To Use 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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There's nothing you can do to change the little ones' minds about the gewgaws and gimcracks they expect to find beneath the tree - or to stop your in-laws' annual onslaught, for that matter.
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She is also survived by her sons, daughters and sister-in-law.
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They understood, as his son-in-law and daughter fled with their son from the city.
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And your sister-in-law, I think all she knows of you is the squeak, that is what I was saying before.
Heartfire
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I asked my daughter-in-law if there was anything special we needed to stock up on and she revealed she's been craving mandarin oranges for the last three weeks.
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Within four minutes he has worked out that he bought a painting from my father-in-law in the early 1970s.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have a wife, a son, a sister, a sister-in-law, three brothers-in-law, a mother, a father-in-law, a nephew, and a niece.
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If you used the shortened form, you'd just say "in-laws' house", but since you're using the full form, it's correct to pluralise the noun and not the modifier ('parents' rather than 'in law'), and then make the entire term possessive, because it's acting as a noun cluster. ("parents-in-law's")
The Skinny Kitten Story (In Which I Am Both A Liar And A Kitten Thief)
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Shiites of this branch believed that the Prophet Muhammad's successors or vicars were his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, and the eleven lineal descendants of Ali and the Prophet's daughter, Fatima.
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His brother now had to assume responsibility for them as well as for his own growing family, particularly when it soon became evident that his sister-in-law, Ethel, could not cope.
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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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They'll be lucky with relationship kryptonite — the in-laws — there ...
The Sun
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Your father-in-law should instruct a solicitor to obtain these.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is survived by his father Jimmy, brothers Paddy, Liam and John, sisters Eileen and Mary, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends.
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I was bobbing along in my father-in-law's small yacht with my wife and small baby when we were attacked by a jet-skier who raced at us at high speed before turning sharply, sending a wall of water over us in the boat.
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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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Sunday lunch with the in-laws has become something of a ritual.
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This was the site of the Foucher Plantation, owned by Paul Foucher, son of a New Orleans mayor and son-in-law of Etienne de Bore, famed as the granulator of sugar from cane syrup.
Undefined
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V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance.
Analytical Studies
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My sister-in-law has recovered from the shock, and we feel safe again now that Pepe is no longer in the house.
An unexpected visit
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These reigns marked the beginning of in-law government, a period in which control over the throne passed between certain in-law factions.
2. Korea, 1800-1910
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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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My son-in-law tells me that Hillis was the custodian at Georgia Brown School when he got his first teaching job in Paso.
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Always a good idea to keep the future mother-in-law sweet.
The Sun
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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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The two are brothers-in-law and fought with metal pipes.
Real Lives Put in Focus
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MY elderly father-in-law changed energy supplier in December and went from using electric storage radiators to gas central heating.
The Sun
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With consummate courtesy Alex got rid of his future mother-in-law, in record time.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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[*] Though the judge's portrait, reprinted in White Heat, suggests the very antithesis of Byronic romance, it was very likely Lord in whose arms Emily Dickinson was reputedly once seen "reclining" in the Homestead parlor by her scandalized neighbor/sister-in-law Susan Dickinson.
The Woman in White
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His home in these early years was a private island in Narragansett Bay, bought with help from his then father-in-law.
Extracurricular Activities
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Before that, the chills come via a middle-age woman and her young daughter-in-law who kill wandering samurais amid the tall grasses surrounding their isolated hut.
Haunting Films From Japan
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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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Some are touchingly intimate: my sister-in-law received a set of pastel-colored cotton panties from her middle-school homeroom students, and to my utter amazement was utterly unamazed.
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He also visits a ship steering school in Port Revel, France, and he and his son-in-law recreate a canalboat trip taken by Henry David Thoreau and his brother John in 1839.
Archive 2006-09-01
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In rooms across the hall my parents and my in-laws are no doubt fast asleep, tuckered out from days of good food and fresh air.
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Aside from my life being turned upside down with my mother having been ill and now with my sister-in-law being in palliative care in Halifax, things have been somewhat topsy-turvy.
PhotHunter: Downside Up « Mudpuddle
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Military resistance was organized by Sidonius's brother-in-law, Ecdicius, son of the emperor Avitus.
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So when the earth-and-timber ramparts of Sulla's camp began to trace lines across the rolling Campanian horizon, Quintus Sertorius bade his cousin-in-law a grave goodbye, geed up his horse and departed.
Fortune's Favorites
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The witch doctor poisons a chicken, and, from the way the chicken staggers before dropping dead, the witch doctor determines that the rash has been caused by the client's sister-in-law bewitching him.
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I worry about the plea bargain arrangements which made it possible for Mark Thatcher to get away with a R3 million fine, which will probably be paid by the baroness or his Texas in-laws.
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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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With her silent calm, his sister-in-law sighed, leaning against the doorpost.
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That group includes affines, based upon the theological idea that as husband and wife were one, marriage to a sister-in-law was as incestuous as marriage to a sister.
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Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky.
Success A Novel
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He will also be missed by numerous brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
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The devastated land included farms leased to tenants by Vermeer's mother-in-law.
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She was once very fat and is now very thin, but he recognises her as his former mother-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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All those grandmothers and mothers-in-law knew what they were talking about. vegas710
There’s big money in crazitude! « Dating Jesus
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He didn't represent me, but he represented my father-in-law, Peter Burroughs.
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Jahdo decided that as prospective brothers-in-law went, Demet had a lot to recommend him.
A TIME OF WAR
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I admire all my three sons-in-law highly, " said he. "Wickham, perhaps, is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's.
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We were astonished that my wife's mother and my sister-in-law were very vague in their memories of what to do in the first six months," Gabrieli says.
Babies can cause 'momnesia'
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He lost two brothers and a brother-in-law in the fighting.
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She added: ‘I wanted my daughters-in-law to be bridesmaids, my granddaughters to be flower girls and my grandsons to be page boys.’
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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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It came up for sale in the mid-1960s at a knock-down price of £4,000 and her father-in-law bought it, thinking Julie would be the perfect person to put in charge.
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Mr. Sackett was at Arlington National Cemetery interring his father-in-law when he got the call.
A Sewage Blunder Earns Engineer a Criminal Record
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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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TODAY'S gags are mother-in-law jokes from the internet.
The Sun
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Jayne McKenna shines as her cynical unmarried sister, Sarah MacRae as her tarty daughter and Morven Christie as her magnificently selfish daughter-in-law.
'Men Should Weep' marvels
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Our son-in-law threw his back out on staycation.
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This second column on Tycoons, New England, and Kings, covers the royal descents, and much New England ancestry, for 10 families long associated with American industry, finance, merchandising, railroads, and media, for whom such lines were first brought into the family not by the fortune-finder himself, but by his wife, daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, or the wife of a later agnate descendant.
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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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In early Islamic history the Shia were a political faction that supported Ali, son-in-law of the prophet Mohammed, who was the fourth caliph, the temporal and spiritual ruler of the Muslim world.
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Subsequently, Wu could not adapt to life in Singapore and often felt that she was being mistreated by her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, whom she called "calculative".
Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
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Home builders across the country say they are getting an increasing number of requests for such additions, known as mother-in-law suites, granny flats or accessory dwellings.
Mother-in-law suites growing home trend
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However, she started to look unwell and as people challenged her over this she admitted the truth to her parents and in-laws.
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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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Hell, to mean that he was his son-in-law, as the husband of his daughter Mary (as in Ru 1: 11, 12), and believe that Joseph's name is only introduced instead of Mary's, in conformity with the Jewish custom in such tables.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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If the bathroom is cold for most of the day, choose sansevierias (mother-in-law's tongue) - which will also survive in a poorly lit bathroom - or Nepenthes alata, a carnivorous plant with unusual hanging red traps.
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If attending a wedding is the same as approving of it, then I have a few thousand disappointed mothers– and fathers-in-law you should speak to.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “No Gay Couples Allowed”:
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He needed to talk to his future mother-in-law and convince her that his intentions were honorable.
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Brother Heffernan is survived by his brother, George and sisters Eileen, Marie and Phil, brothers-in-law, sister-in-law, nephews and nieces.
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They are downier than you are; they would shrug their aristocratic shoulders, and decline to listen to the _past_ lives of their sons-in-law -- unless it was all in the newspapers, mind you.
A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day
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For instance, in the Odyssey, while Odysseus is away, Penelope keeps weaving and undoing and reweaving a funeral shroud for her father-in-law, Laertes; she is doing this to postpone a task she does not want, that of giving up on Odysseus and choosing from among her pesky suitors.
Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
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Deceased is survived by his wife Ruth, teenage sons Daniel and Philip, brother Ian, sisters Anne, Esther and Ruth, by brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, neighbours and a wide circle of friends.
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Your father-in-law should instruct a solicitor to obtain these.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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he went overboard to please his in-laws
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A domestic reckoning of sorts, the latest book by Apter, a psychologist, is an in-depth look at “the inescapable power of in-laws.”
Cover to Cover
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Her elder sister had married and moved to her in-laws.
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My step-daughter and son-in-law seem very pleased with the public school attended by my six-year-old first grade twin grandchildren.
Alan Singer: No Longer Waiting for "Superman"
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My wife and mother-in-law are so helpful.
The Sun
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He believed that no ladies were to be of the party, and that the gentlemen were chiefly of the King's new friends among the Huguenots, such as Coligny, his son-in-law Teligny, Rochefoucauld, and the like, among whom the young gentleman could not fall into any very serious harm, and might very possibly be influenced against a Roman Catholic wife.
The Chaplet of Pearls
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The interfering in-laws featured well in the comedy elements as the situation descended into chaos.
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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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The young woman was not in the least bit cowed down by her mother-in-law's peremptory ways, nor by our presence.
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A man doesn't get delirium tremens even if he smokes more than is good for him; he doesn't become a debased mortal; there is nothing about tobacco which makes a man beat his wife or assault his mother-in-law -- rather the reverse, in fact, for tobacco is a soother and a quietener of the passions, and many a man, I daresay, has been prevented from doing rash things in the way of retaliation, when he has lit his pipe and had a good think over his affairs.
The Social History of Smoking
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There was no telephone in his in-laws' house and he had had to call from the home of a neighbor.
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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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My daughter-in-law told me he called one day and he sounded very upbeat.
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I thought I could score some brownie points with my mother-in-law by offering to cook dinner.
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French Vocabulary la belle-tante = aunt-in-law la voiturette = little car le panier = basket le/la nouveau-né (e) = newborn le cochonnet = piglet c'est un bébé lièvre = it's a baby hare la maman = mother le/la rescapé (e) = survivor une pierraille = place, yard with loose stones nom de guerre = literally "war name" on verra = we shall see
French Word-A-Day:
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He was hired for these qualities and also because his father-in-law is a real estate expert and a close friend.
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Meeting future in-laws should go well.
The Sun
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His wife Sylvia recalls the final day she saw her father-in-law alive.
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When Albany refused to go along with the New York junto, Leisler sent some militia under the command of his son-in-law, Jacob Milbourne.
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Which amanuensis is a drunken, bankrupt village grocer, of whom my son-in-law is one of the defrauded creditors – Mr. L — having intrusted him with about forty pounds 'worth of the plantation rice, to sell on commission for him, which rice, indeed, was sold, but was never accounted for, and as the man is a bankrupt, never will be.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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Khan, (the Khasmahul's son-in-law,) and others of equal rank, all in loud terms admonished the assailants, and demanded the surrender of the children, but all were alike unheeded.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II
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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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It's a good day to meet future in-laws.
The Sun
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They bequeathed their home to their children, after creating a shareholders' association aimed at preserving everything unchanged, and it was occupied until 2002 when Stoclet's daughter-in-law Anny died and her daughters opted not to move back into what they once considered a " maison enchantée .
An Enchanted House Becomes a Family's Curse
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Martin's mother-in-law had one of those professional telephone voices, all nasally tones and clipped sentences.
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My peers and I grew up on tales of his courage and caring, her beauty and strength of character, their appreciative and untroublesome in-laws, their mutual devotion in a time of polygamy.
Uncertain Objects of Desire
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Barker complied with the request by sending his son-in-law John Legatt.
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I agree john q public has no idea whats going on at the meetings. prime examples are all of these blogs. only one side or part of the story is presented. also most people don't know about them and why it is even important for them to attend. and by the time they get home from their mind nubbing jobs, they don't want to go to a meeting and listne to some blowhard who reminds them to much of their idiot boss or know-it-all father-in-law.
Fair Use
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They both inspired me to try to be the best in-law I can be, in their honor.
Troisième age - French Word-A-Day
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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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Still, to cart a case of boxed milk or a 100lb bag of hog feed is a bit much to ask of an 80 something year old in-law though that is EXACTLY what my father-in-law does if we aren't there to help.
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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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He is deeply regretted by his wife Julia, son, daughters, sister, sons-in-law, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, relatives, neighbours and friends.
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However that Guo's surname is four elder brothers' persons, three sisters-in-law still a forbid are some is good.
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The one thing handed down by my father and father-in-law is a voracious love of reading.
Times, Sunday Times
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David would not only remember who they were from years before, but the names of their children and in-laws as well.
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Not to be outdone, Mitt Romney echoed Bachmann and Santorum explaining that he has five sons, five daughters-in-law, and 16 "grandkids.
Mark Cassello: 4000 Babies: GOP Fecundity and the 2012 Election
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During the holidays a horde of in-laws forgathered at Dark Acres to play cards and gossip about horses.
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My mother-in-law knitted me pullovers, which went right up to the neck.
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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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LAWRENCE COUNTY - James DeVaney says he will never forget the pain he felt one year ago today when he learned his daughter, son-in-law and grandson had been killed in a tornado that left more than 16 miles of destruction across Lawrence and Morgan counties.
News | FT | http://www.timesdaily.com
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Volumes have been written about Nazarbayev and about the so called Kazakh-Gate, mostly by the people who were privy to all this information from the very beginning but played mum's the word while they themselves were close to the president in the capacities of ministers, deputy premiers, governors, or in-laws.
Ferghana.Ru news agency
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Sure, you've picked out something special for the spouse, the kids are taken care of, and you think you've even found something that your grump of a father-in-law won't grump about.
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The last thing the couple's relationship needs is a long weekend with their respective in-laws and siblings.
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In-laws Relationships with in-laws form a special category of kin relationships.
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But Margaret, thought Laura, could never emulate her light-hearted sister-in-law.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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On his return from Korea Absalom moved in below with Grace, perhaps because his long-term grudge against his older son-in-law had broken out that summer in a public spat.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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No wonder I always reacted badly when my father-in-law asked pointed questions about the investigation.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wouldn't hesitate to use them in speaking to my maiden aunt (- in-law).
Ensename, por favor!
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She has a rather uneasy relationship with her mother-in-law.
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The thought that she might acquire two daughters-in-law rolled into one obvi ously didn't disturb her a bit.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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My mother-in-law's sandwiches are the dainty cut-off-crusts variety - so thin and delicate that my family barely recognises them as sandwiches.
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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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His wife comes from our town, and his beaming mother-in-law still lives here.
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The mother realises her folly and wants the in-laws to stay with them forever!
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I did eventually find a space after leaving my father-in-law at an entrance with instructions to not go anywhere until I got back.
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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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New Zealand needs to bring back mothers-in-law to help with the raising of families, Social Development Minister Steve Maharey said yesterday.
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Lovely alongside hard-boiled quail's eggs (as my mother-in-law serves it!)
Rigolo - French Word-A-Day
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She bought baby food for her daughter, a lantern to light her hut and clothes for her husband and in-laws.
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So there have been films with killer babysitters, killer roommates, killer mothers-in-law, killer husbands, etc.
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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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Zakraya Khan died on July 1, 1745 A.D. His son Yahya Khan, who was also son-in-law of the chief wazir at Delhi, had no difficulty in securing an appointment as the governor of Lahore.
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Sincere sympathy is extended to her sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters - in-law, nephews, nieces, grand-nephews, grand-nieces, relatives and friends on their sad loss.
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My father-in-law can recall the excitement as the first viner, bought by a co-operative of local farmers, rolled into the field.
FWi - All News
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A daughter-in-law should tactfully make clear where on the scale between these extremes her own happy medium lies.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, her son and daughter-in-law also moved their domicile into the house without the elderly woman's permission.
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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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She said her mother-in-law's requests to have the dressing on her foot changed went unheeded for four days, when it should have been done daily.
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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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Events leading to marriage began with an initial meeting of the aspiring son-in-law with his perspective parents-in-law.
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- a house which had been in the in-laws " family for generations - Good Lord, how naturally a title would then come.
SPLITTING
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My mother-in-law had recently had a long stay in hospital and we were unable to access her accounts to pay bills.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also have a daughter and a son-in-law who are medical doctors.
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Why, there was a man out there who killed his father-in-law -- actually _killed_ him -- and they didn't do anything to him at all.
The Wild Olive
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The deceased is mourned by his wife Margaret, sons, daughters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, great grandchildren and a large circle of relatives and friends.
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But anyway, the Celebrity Big Brother house played host last week to the mother-in-law of all cat-fights when what started as a harmless "girls' night in", complete with pyjamas, chardonnay and Cyndi Lauper keening "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", ended up as Mean Girls as imagined by Bruegel.
Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name | Julie Burchill
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Her in-laws irked her, and she tried to queen it over them, with results resembling the outcome likely to have occurred if Isabella of Castile had issued edicts in a church hall on bingo night.
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The party included me and my wife, my mother-in-law and her friend.
Times, Sunday Times
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She could hear her mother-in-law continue speaking but the words were unintelligible and seemed to come from a far-off distance.
ANGELS EVERYWHERE
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If buttercups are child-like, and bugbanes are adults, the baneberries are the crazy in-laws.
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Recently my father-in-law died, and I was anxious for our children to go and see him and say goodbye.
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We have to spend Christmas with the in-laws.
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His oldest son and daughter-in-law are 2004 Air Force Academy graduates, and Weinstein's youngest son is currently a first classman (senior) at the Academy and the sixth member of the Weinstein family to attend the institution.
OpEdNews - Diary: Joke: And God Created Washington
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She learned it from her sister-in-law who grew up in Surat.
Chunda
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Currently, spouses, children, and even nearby in-laws of partners are not allowed to hold stock in companies audited by those partners.
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`My father-in-law was a timekeeper for the mine in Sudbury.
A BODY SURROUNDED BY WATER
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I made my panch phoron over the holidays, when I was making my traditional Indian holiday feast for the in-laws, and so I compromised, since on the one hand we love Indian food but on the other I cannot really say we have had much Bengali food.
Tales of a Compulsive Food Thief: Pumpkin Dal with Yellow Split Peas and Red Lentils Served With Naan
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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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It's a pride that comes across most potently in a beautifully staged scene where Stanley listens unseen while his sister-in-law denigrates what she calls his animalistic, subhuman behaviour.
Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories
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Bethenny calls her father-in-law an idiot on Thanksgiving because she didn't notice the turkey wasn't cooking then she goes to therapy and blames the tantrum on her childhood, I point out.
Vanessa Carmichael: Reality Women
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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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So we sit like global sport's great harrumphing, cobwebbed mother-in-law, glowering with assumed entitlement, craving only a sense of triumphant, spoiling vindication.
Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay
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And so we have a blue veined marble in the living room, a sepia tinged marble in the bedroom and a pink-streaked one in my mother-in-law's room.
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a dairywoman was the last daughter-in-law they could have expected, their son had arrived at an age which he might be supposed to be the best judge.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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He'd never understood the traditional dislike men had for their mothers-in-law.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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Still putting out the O'Reilly fires of me being a traitor and using Casey's name dishonorably, my in-laws sent out a press statement disagreeing with me in strong terms; which is totally okay with me, because they barely knew Casey.
Cindy Sheehan: Camp Casey: Day 6
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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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He is survived by his wife, daughters, sons-in-law, brother, grandchildren and by other relations.
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I didn't know about the candied oranges — which just goes to show how my mother-in-law is always holding back an ingredient (chippie that she is) just to throw us off.
French Word-A-Day:
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Karen's family are all close and so the various in-laws are regular visitors to our house at weekends!
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Vasanti also had some good luck: she had no abusive in-laws to put up with, and she had brothers who were more than usually solicitous of her well-being.
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She also troubleshoots for her grown kids, cares for her live-in mother-in-law (and elderly poodle, Snuffy), keeps tabs on her girlfriends Paulette and Bunny and her own aging mother and foster sister - and holds down a part-time job.
The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan: Book summary
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Bentley's Miscellany at beginning of 1837, and commences “Oliver Twist”; Quarterly Review predicts his speedy downfall; pecuniary position at this time; moves from Furnival's Inn to Doughty Street; death of his sister-in-law Mary Hogarth; his friendships; absence of all jealousy in his character; habits of work; riding and pedestrianizing; walking in London streets necessary to the exercise of his art 49
Life of Charles Dickens
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One of my sisters-in-law, a former pro photographer, took my author photos and made me giggle helplessly as she did it, instead of freezing up with my most camera-shy grimace.
The scary bits at SF Novelists
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This self-help book offers plenty of useful advice and tips which are common sense to all those who enjoy a healthy and positive in-law relationship.
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Sympathy is extended to her sons, daughters, sister, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, great grandchildren, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends.
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His wife was outside with a candy bar and his father-in-law Lionel was next to him.
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Mr. Moulton took the paper, deliberately adjusted his spectacles, and, having read it very leisurely (I wondered how those fiery creatures had the forbearance to stay quiet, but they did; I think they were hypnotized by my father-in-law's coolness), he said, in his weird French, "Vous voolly nos animaux!" which sounded like _nos animose_.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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The mother, still recovering from the trauma of the delivery, fearfully anticipated the possibility of rejection by her in-laws.
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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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Harriet Tremayne, waiting to greet her daughter and new son-in-law on Penzance station was, understandably, nervous.
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Most cases illustrated here concern fine-tuning of the affinal category in such a way that it is possible to establish the necessary distinctions among classificatory in-laws, potential in-laws and actual in-laws.
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The girl had been harassed for dowry by her in-laws since her marriage two years ago, but this year they had become particularly cruel towards her.
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She is deeply regretted by her brother Michael, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, relatives, friends and neighbours.
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These events led to Owain being proclaimed Prince of Wales on September 16, 1400, by a small band of followers which included his eldest son, his brothers-in-law, and the Dean of St. Asaph.
Kings and Princes
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I mean, she's really committed to this role, stupid though it may be, of this nasty, nasty mother-in-law, and she kind of outclasses and outacts her.
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In one of its newest series, "I Married a Mobster," the daughter-in-law of the Columbo family's legendary star, Sonny Franzese, reveals a story of misprized love and betrayal at the hands of Sonny's son, John, a junkie who swept her off her feet when she met him while working at a rehab facility in California.
War, Sex and Counterterrorism
