Her Cousin Emma Carraway had written it, in her loose high old lady's script -- t's carefully crossed, but l's inclined to wobble like an old car on the downward slope.

Cousin Emma had simply put Miss Theresa Stubblefield, Rome, Italy, on the envelope, had walked up to the post office in Tuxapoka, Alabama, and mailed it with as much confidence as if it had been a birthday card to her next-door neighbor.

They all surrounded him, the family circle, Theresa and George as solemn as if they were watching the cat have kittens, and Cousin Emma running back and forth with a kettle of hot water which she poured steaming into a white enamelled pan.

Now, here they both were, still the same, George full of round-eyed woe, and Cousin Emma in despair.

Cousin Emma is alone in that big old house and won't hear to parting from it.

Theresa Stubblefield, still holding the family letters in one hand, realized that her whole trip to Europe was viewed in family circles as an interlude between Cousin Elec's death and `` doing something '' about Cousin Emma.

Poor Cousin Elec, she thought, tears rising to sting in the sun, but why couldn't he have arranged to live through the summer??

Two days before he was taken sick, Cousin Elec was out worrying about what too much rain might do to his sweetpeas, and Cousin Elec had always preserved in the top drawer of his secretary a mother-of-pearl paper knife which Theresa had coveted as a child and which he had promised she could have when he died.

A life of gentility and principle such as Cousin Elec had lived had to be known at first hand.

There they all did their uttermost to help Cousin Elec get a cramp out of his foot.

`` I just hope this happens to you someday '', said Cousin Elec, who was not at his best.

`` Poor Cousin Elec '', George said.

`` Poor Cousin Elec ''.

He is introduced in Act 1, Scene 2, but with some notable changes to the text ; when York is giving his men instructions, his order to Montague, " Brother, thou shalt to London presently " ( l. 36 ) is changed to " Cousin, thou shalt to London presently ", York's reiteration of the order " My brother Montague shall post to London " ( l. 54 ) is changed to " Hast you to London my cousin Montague ", and Montague's " Brother, I go, I'll win them, fear it not " ( l. 60 ) is changed to " Cousin, I go, I'll win them, fear it not.

Cousin to Freddy and brother to Homer's girlfriend Daphne, Harmon was expelled from the Mad Scientists ' Club " for conduct unbecoming a scientist and for giving away secret information ".

At Warwick High School, he was coached by high school football coach Tommy Reamon, a former collegiate and professional football player himself who had been instrumental in the development of future NFL quarterbacks Aaron Brooks ( his older Cousin ) and Marcus ' brother, Michael.

* Brother and sister -- as well as siblings this term is used to refer to children of ones mother's sister and of father's brother ( Cousin ), just as in many indigenous languages.

* Cousin refers to children of ones father's sister and mother's brother, but may be extended to any relative of one's own generation, such as one who might share the same great grandparent as their own great grandparent, which is a second-cousin in Aboriginal terms.

Cousin marriage was not uncommon in Britain during the 19th century though why is debated: poorer communications, keeping wealth within the family, more opportunity of evaluating a relative of the opposite sex as a suitable marriage partner ( unmarried young women of the upper and upper middle classes were closely chaperoned when meeting men outside the family in the 19th century ), more security for the woman as she would not be leaving her family ( though legal rights for married women increased during the century, as a rule her property became his and she had little legal recourse if he chose to abuse her ).

A lecture of his in the École Normale impressed Cousin so strongly that he at once devoted himself to the study of philosophy.

Victor Cousin has devoted four volumes to her, which, though immensely diffuse, give a vivid picture of her time.

Most of them had seen Our American Cousin before, and unless Miss Keene was on stage, there was not much to it.

My Cousin Simmons carried a musket, but he had loaded it with bird shot, and as the officer came opposite him, he rose up behind the wall and fired.

but Cousin Simmons said he had watched them marching west early in the morning, and moving at a much brisker pace it had still taken half an hour for their column to pass, what with the narrowness of the road and their baggage and ammunition carts.

But alas George, when he had written, had only just returned from going to Tuxapoka to Cousin Elec's funeral.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

Daphne du Maurier * lived in Fowey, Cornwall and many of her novels had Cornish settings, including Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel, and The House on the Strand.

for a pail of flour ; and goes on to describe " the more delicate that we call Cousin ", which uses 3 pounds of butter, 2 cheeses, and a royal pint of eggs for the same amount of flour, as well " some good milk " if " the dough is too firm " However, sourdough and brewer's yeast preparations would both remain common well into the next century, with " blessed bread.

Though Freed's spot was briefly occupied by Bruce Morrow, who later became known as Cousin Brucie on WABC, Murray soon was moved into the 7-11PM time period and remained there for the next seven years, always opening his show with Sinatra and making radio history with his innovative segues, jingles, sound effects, antics, and frenetic, creative programming.

The next is near village of Imbaimadai and the last set is below the village of Kamarang where the Mazaruni River tumbles through last few major falls, the first of which is a few kilometres long gutter known as Chitigokein Falls, which finishes in Coffy pool, a deep pool named after Mehir “ Cousin Body ” Coffy, one of the last " Porknockers " ( these are small diamond and gold miners ) of Guyana. The term " Porknockers " comes from the old prospectors having to carry in all their food one of which was salt pork which attracted flies and had to be knocked regularly to keep flies away.

The next day a bid of £ 3 million from Fulham activated a release clause, however FIFA regulations meant Cousin required special dispensation to complete the move.

They were even, Anne and George, probably thinking themselves very considerate in not hinting that she really should cut out `` one or two countries '' and come home in August to get Cousin Emma's house ready before the teachers came to Tuxapoka in September.

Cousin Itt, as so named by the television series producer, ( spelled as " Cousin It " in the movies and the pinball game ), who frequently visited the family, was short-statured and had long hair that covered his entire body from scalp to floor.

The friend and neighbor Gustav Goose from Quack Pack is probably not the same as Cousin Gus since there are very few similarities ( aside from the name and general size of the character ).

Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), The Grasshopper and the Ants ( 1934 ), The Tortoise and the Hare ( 1934 ), The Country Cousin ( 1936 ), The Old Mill ( 1937 ), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ( 1938 ), and The Ugly Duckling ( 1939, with an earlier black-and-white version from 1931 ), are among the most notable films produced by Walt Disney.

* The Cousin from Nowhere London production opened at Prince's Theatre on February 24 and ran for 105 performances

The Normal School was swept away, and Cousin shared the fate of Guizot, who was ejected from the chair of history.

And Cousin saw and proclaimed from an early period in his philosophical teaching the necessity of a system on which to base his eclecticism.

By his method of observation and induction as thus explained, his philosophy will be found to be marked off very clearly, on the one hand from the deductive construction of notions of an absolute system, as represented either by Schelling or Hegel, which Cousin regards as based simply on hypothesis and abstraction, illegitimately obtained ; and on the other, from that of Kant, and in a sense, of Sir W. Hamilton, both of which in the view of Cousin are limited to psychology, and merely relative or phenomenal knowledge, and issue in scepticism so far as the great realities of ontology are concerned.

Cousin was opposed to Kant in asserting that the unconditioned in the form of infinite or absolute cause is but Schelling a mere unrealizable tentative or effort on the part of and something different from a mere negation, yet not equivalent to a positive thought.

He helped Cousin, without receiving any recognition, in his translations from Plato, and in 1839 became his deputy in the chair of philosophy at the University of Paris, with the meagre salary of 83 francs per month.

The 2008 American opera Our American Cousin presents a fictionalized version of the night of Lincoln's assassination from the point of view of the actors in the cast of the play of the same name.

Thorson's design was highly derivative of a character he had designed for Disney in 1936, the country mouse from the Oscar-winning short The Country Cousin.

Cousin to King Louis XVI and thus a member of the Bourbon family line, Philippe opened the Palais-Royal to the Jacobins as a refuge from royalist censors.

As urban / hip-hop culture has been portrayed as a glamorous subculture to the youths today, the term has been commonly used as playful greeting for those who seek an urban identity to develop their own culture from and will use the term " Son " as well other terms found in rap lyrics like " Nigga ", Cuhz ( Cousin ).

Director Jonathan Lynn has a law degree from Cambridge University, and lawyers have praised the accuracy of My Cousin Vinnys depiction of courtroom procedure and trial strategy.

Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie ( Marie-Christine Barrault from Cousin, cousine ), mother of seven children.

These were Halfway to Nowhere ( adapted by Cliff Green ), " Redheap " ( adapted by Eleanor Witcombe ), A Curate in Bohemia ( adapted by Michael Boddy ), The Cousin from Fiji ( adapted by Barbara Vernon ) and Dust or Polish ( adapted by Peter Kenna ).