164 Verbs to Use for the Word relatives

he exclaimed with a chuckle, 'you're the chap I was consulted about down near the mouth of the Rackett the other day, by a country trout, who was on a journey to visit his relatives in the streams of Canada.

I hope you left our Marlborough relatives in a pleasant attitude of mind?

Among some of the captives taken by the Indians, Robert Stevens found his relatives and restored them to their homes and friends.

Plainly, then, this same Obed Grimes was bound to be a credit to his family; and all those people bearing the strange names given by Obed would some day find cause to feel proud of having such an enterprising relative.

"But don't you count Frank and Marian?" "Not as guests," replied Patty; "they're relatives, and you know your relatives" "Are like the poor," interrupted Frank, "because they're always with you.

I said: 'Well, one might have the terrible sorrow to lose all one's relatives.

" "And send your relative to the guillotine if I should be accidentally arrested!"

At Colebrook Dale, where they saw several relatives, members of the Society of Friends, Elizabeth Gurney received the deepest impressions.

The day was uncommonly pleasant, and the young people were in high spirits with the expectation of meeting their respected relative, whose absence had been prolonged a few days by a severe fit of the gout.

We were obliged to confess that there were no Families in Little Arcady, in the true sense of the term, though we did not divine its true sense until she favored us with the detail that her second cousin had married a relative of the Adams family.

She said that she had wanted to go there for some time, and was quite ready; it was all a question of informing an old relative who always went with her, and of taking a dumb piano, as she practised even on her journeys.

The son of Vitellius, too, perished soon after his father, notwithstanding that Vitellius had killed no relative either of Otho or of Vespasian.

Trenck and Schell were now compelled to part, the latter journeying to Italy to rejoin relatives there, the baron to go to Russia, where he was to attain the highest eminence of grandeur.

To this plan Henrich gave a glad assent; for he surely hoped that, when he reached a district that bordered so nearly on the British territories, he should be able to obtain some information respecting his relatives, and, perhaps, even to see them.

Thus almost all the old nobility of England perished; and both lines of kings became extinct, Richard III, their last representative, being accused of murdering all his relatives or possible rivals.

He owned it during slavery and after he died his relatives from Mississippi come here and hired a carriage driver named Jackson Jones.

When I got here I found people standing three deep around the hospital doors, some wanting help for themselves, and some anxious to bring relatives or friends.

R. C. Smith dismisses the compound relatives with three lines; and these he closes with the following notion: "They are not often used!"New Gram., p. 61.

"It is generally improper (except in poetry,) to omit the antecedent to a relative; and always to omit a relative when of the nominative case."Id., ib., p. 130.

Many questions did those young strangers ask each other relative to their respective homes, and native customs; and Henrich learnt, with much dismay, that the Nausetts under Tisquantum's rule were so soon to change their place of residence.

We won't consider Patricia's relatives, who, perhaps, will find it rather unpleasant.

With the return of prosperity Mrs. Stevens deserted and forgot her husband's relatives notwithstanding their kindness to her in adversity.

His intimate friends were told of the new joy that had come to him: he instructed the women who worked at the colleges, and when he went home induced his relatives to commence family prayers.

On his side the latter had consulted relatives as to the proper dowry.

26.Of the compound personal pronouns, this author gives the following account: "Self, in the plural selves, a noun, is often combined with the personal pronouns, in order to express emphasis, or opposition, or the identity of the subject and [the] object of a verb; and thus forms a pronoun relative: as, 'I did it myself;' 'he was not himself, when he said so;' 'the envious torment themselves more than others.'

164 Verbs to Use for the Word  relatives