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Like Joe Christmas, Charles Bon, and Charles Etienne, Ike's unnamed kinswoman can pass as white.

FATHERLESS CHILDREN AND POST-PATRILINEAL FUTURES IN WILLIAM FAULKNER'S LIGHT IN AUGUST, ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND GO DOWN, MOSES

Specifically, Cockacoeske possessed two distinct advantages that eluded her ancestral kinswoman, though both at least partially represented a direct result of Pocahontas's sacrifice.

Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkeys, and Indian resistance in seventeenth-century Virginia

99) Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou''s close friend and a Lancaster supporter - until the day her daughter fell in love and married the rival King Edward IV.

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Stephen or a kinswoman of the German Emperor Henry II or III (the latter is more likely).

Margaret Queen of Scots 1045-1093

It is described by Perrin in the following passage: "A close kinswoman of the dead person, usually belonging to that person's lineage .

One Hundred Years of Solitude, indigenous myth, and meaning

This is an iconic moment, nothing less than a rape and that too of a kinswoman.

Sexuality, vulnerability, and the oddness of the human: lessons from the Mahabharata

If she could bring their union to effect, she would be assured of a harborage in their home; as Sophie's kinswoman and the couple's marriage-broker she would be like a mother to them both.

Pan Tadeusz: book five the quarrel

In fact, the duke's aversion to his wife's assertive kinswoman grew to be so great that he once offered to pay for her to stay anywhere other than at Hamilton Palace.

The Lady and the Earl: Martin Greig reveals the intimate relationship between the powerful Earl of Lauderdale, Charles II's secretary for Scotland in the 1660s, and a Scottish spinster who became the earl's 'Presbyterian conscience' during a tumultuous period for Kirk and crown

I was proud to be his colleague, kinswoman, and friend.

William Stanley Robertson (1940-2009)

Levick (note 4) 12-13 argues that Vespasian married a kinswoman and that the marriage was designed to keep property within the family.

Suetonius Vespasianus 3: the status of Flavia Domitilla

6) Thus, even in her 'carefree days' Lucy was "not without a sense that there were more interesting and dignified employments in life than ribbon work and gossip, and for this I was indebted to my kinswoman Catherine Helen Spence [whose] motto was 'Everything human can be improved'.

Lucy Spence Morice: working towards a just society via the education of citizens and socialist feminist collective action

As Mary's greeting to Elizabeth brought her kinswoman peace, so too her salute to the New World with the gift of her image and her protection had for 225 years wrought numerous conversions to Christ, temporal blessings, healings, and continuous peace.