How To Use Son-in-law In A Sentence
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They understood, as his son-in-law and daughter fled with their son from the city.
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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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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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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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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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Our son-in-law threw his back out on staycation.
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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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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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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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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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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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Barker complied with the request by sending his son-in-law John Legatt.
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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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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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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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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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I also have a daughter and a son-in-law who are medical doctors.
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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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Thessalus asked Pixodarus why he would want a half-wit for a son-in-law when he could instead have Alexander?
Alexander the Great
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His son-in-law Ali asserted that when the prophet was about to be inhumed, he was found in a situation not very common to the dead.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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After his death his son Zachary (the "hireling") and his son-in-law,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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His mother and son-in-law were careless and used up what money there was.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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His son-in-law is the chief cook who does the shopping in the souk early in the morning.
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When he was 65 Mr Simpson cycled 750 miles alone from Milan to the heel of Italy to visit his son-in-law and daughter.
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And his grief-stricken son-in-law, Robert Carroll said he was a man of conviction who was loved and respected by those closest to him.
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It is her ability to deal with the hard times that her son-in-law so admires.
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She and her husband then joined their daughter and son-in-law in transforming Blunsdon House Hotel from a farm into a guesthouse and then into the large establishment it is today.
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But his pride found some consolation in reflecting that, he and his son-in-law having been so lately in arms against government, it might give matter of reasonable fear and offence to the ruling powers if they were to collect together the kith, kin, and allies of their houses, arrayed in effeir of war, as was the ancient custom of Scotland on these occasions — ‘And, without dubitation,’ he concluded with a sigh,
Waverley
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Agrippa was the son-in-law of Augustus and an eminent town planner.
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By hand signals at the windows we tell daughter and son-in-law we are going to the diner.
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Mum, daughter and son-in-law turned it into a shrine to the Royal family.
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The name Sheldon appears alongside those of Shakespeare's friends in Warwickshire indentures and conveyances, and in the medical casebook of Shakespeare's son-in-law, Dr John Hall of Stratford.
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His mother and son-in-law were careless and used up what money there was.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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‘We shall be leaving on the morrow - you are welcome to join us,’ she said to her daughter and son-in-law.
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If you are a government official and your nephew is also your son-in-law, how can you resist giving him a job?
What's Wrong With Fraternalism?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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In an essay last month, Director of Research and Reconstructionist American Vision and son-in-law of Gary North Joel McDurmon drew lines between "traditional dominion theology" and that which the NAR embraces, basically arguing that Reconstructionists' view of dominion is a "bottom-up" transformation preceded by a postmillennial transformation of the world through evangelism.
Julie Ingersoll: C. Peter Wagner: Dominion Theology And Postmillennialism On NPR
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It was a mixed crowd, enlivened by a mother, daughter and son-in-law from Devon - blimey, the mother-in-law could put those beers away…
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But Demetrius, whose courage did not sink, resolutely sent him answer, that, though he were to lose ten thousand battles like that of Ipsus, he would pay no price for the good-will of such a son-in-law as Seleucus.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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She is forced to move in with her daughter and son-in-law, losing her independence.
The Times Literary Supplement
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His son-in-law, whom he adopted and who succeeded him, is commonly called Marcus Aurelius, as a choice among his many names.
Young Folks' History of Rome
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With son-in-law Alistair and daughter Judith having problems, things don't look too promising.
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My son-in-law and daughter would not sit with me on the plane home.
The Sun
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My wife thinks I am the perfect son-in-law and so does her dad.
The Sun
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She was entrusted with while her daughter and son-in-law were on official business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her daughter and son-in-law will be seriously occupied and those two little girls will need the structural safeguard of familiar consistent parental presence - in this case, grandparental.
Mother-in-Law in the White House.
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Released on bail, Lilburne, who from prison had issued an "Agreement of the Free People," calling for annual parliaments elected by manhood suffrage and the free election of unendowed church ministers in every parish, now published an "Impeachment for High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his son-in-law, James Ireton," and declared that monarchy was preferable to a military despotism.
The Rise of the Democracy
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I'm going as a carer for my blind daughter and son-in-law.
The Sun
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He forged a strong relationship with the Jessop family in the years after the tragedy, and urged his son-in-law to remarry.
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Akiva replied by making himself known as his quondam servant and rejected son-in-law.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
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Imam Ali, the prophet's son-in-law, is regarded by Shia Muslims as the heir to Mohammed's spiritual authority.
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BUCHAREST (AFP) - Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena's remains will be exhumed on Wednesday from a Bucharest graveyard in order to check their identity, their son-in-law Mircea Opran said.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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One of my siblings is married to a Mexican-American; another has two stepchildren whose father was an illegal alien from Mexico; I have a prospective son-in-law whose parents crossed the border.
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Now the son-in-law was a great hunter and that day he had killed and brought home a peacock; as he was leaving, the father said "My daughter, if your husband ever brings home a peacock I advise you to cook it with mowah oil cake; that makes it taste very nice.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas
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Is my future son-in-law likely to follow suit?
Times, Sunday Times
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He shares the house with his wife, his only daughter, his son-in-law and his two grandchildren.
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David had taken Peter into his family and had considered him a second son, later welcoming him as a son-in-law.
OUT OF THE ASHES
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He enfeoffed his son-in-law with a large estate in Scotland
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Then, there was a promissory note that his son-in-law, who handles all of his business, took over to Anna Nicole, and she ripped it up in what he called a drunken rage.
CNN Transcript Mar 8, 2007
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The fat, rubicund little man would tiptoe into the room, finger on lip, half in order to amuse Elsa, half from a very genuine fear of disturbing or calling forth his learned son-in-law, with whom he found it impossible to fraternise.
Two Tales of Old Strasbourg
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Among those on trial are his first wife, two children, a son-in-law and a cousin.
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At present his wife was visiting their only daughter and son-in-law in Freiburg.
Bomber
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In 1818 he attacked Coleridge savagely in a magazine edited by his son-in-law.
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I believe that Jerrold had long desiderated a "Punch"; but it is certain that the present famous periodical of that name was started by his son-in-law, Mr. Henry Mayhew.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
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But his pride found some consolation in reflecting that, he and his son-in-law having been so lately in arms against government, it might give matter of reasonable fear and offence to the ruling powers if they were to collect together the kith, kin, and allies of their houses, arrayed in effeir of war, as was the ancient custom of Scotland on these occasions -- 'And, without dubitation,' he concluded with a sigh, 'many of those who would have rejoiced most freely upon these joyful espousals are either gone to a better place or are now exiles from their native land.'
Waverley
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The son of the Grand Turk your son-in-law When I went to see him, as I understand his language perfectly, we had a long chat together; and after having talked of different things, he told me, _Acciam croc soler onch alla moustaph gidelum amanahem varahini oussere carbulath_? that is to say, "Have you not seen a beautiful young girl who is the daughter of Mr. Jourdain, a nobleman of Paris?
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
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Worse still for the proud black stars of Ghana, it appears as if their former son-in-law has also added Zimbabwe as one of the bloody flashpoints of Africa today!
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The original builder is long gone and the new builder is the patron's son-in-law.
Archive 2008-12-01
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In _Othello_, "if virtue lack no delighted beauty," i.e. "_want not the light of beauty_, your son-in-law shows far more fair than black.
Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850
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He left no stone unturned in trying to thwart the man he might once have regarded as the perfect son-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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Binet," said he, "forget for once that you are Pantaloon, and behave as a nice, amiable father-in-law should behave when he has secured a son-in-law of exceptionable merits.
Scaramouche
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After all, it was only last October when her almost son-in-law Levi Johnston appeared on network television and revealed that Sarah Palin joked about her son Trig’s Down Syndrome, calling him her “retarded baby.”
Think Progress » Will Sarah Palin call on Rush Limbaugh to apologize for saying liberal activists are ‘retards’?
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On Monday, his son-in-law said he would be buried in the rose garden next to the former historic Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Beaufort West, where his father had been a dominee.
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If his grandfather went prematurely bald too, then your future son-in-law is likely to follow suit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Berthier, Intendant (say, Tax-levier) of Paris; sycophant and tyrant; forestaller of Corn; contriver of Camps against the people; -- accused of many things: is he not Foulon's son-in-law; and, in that one point, guilty of all?
The French Revolution
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Her daughter and son-in-law have low-paid jobs and struggle to pay a mortgage on a house that has probably declined in value.
Times, Sunday Times
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Air yer rheumatics mendin 'enny? "he demanded, with the condolent suavity of the would-be son-in-law, or grand-son-in-law, as the case may be.
The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895
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His body was found yesterday morning by his son-in-law in an area of sandbanks and mud flats about a mile from the high water mark at Bardsea, near Ulverston.
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Concession, in which Mr. Kruger's son-in-law 'hawked' about for the highest bid the vote of the Executive Council on a matter which had not yet come before it, and, moreover, sold and duly delivered the aforesaid vote.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
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Among those who joined Denny and Marian on the night were sons Paul, Tony and Mark daughters Brenda and Ann, daughters-in-law, Caroline, Ann-Marie and Ruth and son-in-law Sean.
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Seeking her hand for his son-in-law Maximilian, the emperor Diocletian sent two of his officers successively to negotiate the marriage.
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Her son-in-law, Henry Bridgewater, was reputed to be the richest black man in St Louis.
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The farm belongs to rancher Ramon Sierra, who, with son-in-law Hector Soto Vargas, is providing sturdy Patagonian criollo horses, still shaggy in their winter coats, to get us up the Soler.
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His son-in-law's financial shenanigans undermined respect for the royal family.
Times, Sunday Times
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Abusive son-in-law 'binned' MADINAH: Fed up with his son-in-law's drinking and abusing his daughter, a man beat his son-in-law up, tied his hands behind his back and then dumped
WN.com - Articles related to India and Indonesia - An analysis of our foreign policy
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We never suspected that Neil was anything other than a loving father, a trusted son-in-law and husband.
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The deli man will cheerfully explain exactly where you can shove your freaking debit card, the laundry lady pries into your love life and the grocery clerk reliably complains about her no-good son-in-law.
Retail's Grand Ambitions
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Son-in-law Josias Engelbrecht took home the two other complete beds, though they had only two cushions and no woolen coverlet, and sold for less than half the price.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
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She is adamant she will not be airmailing it to her son-in-law, who emigrated to Australia with his wife and their two children in 1979.
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The name Sheldon appears alongside those of Shakespeare's friends in Warwickshire indentures and conveyances, and in the medical casebook of Shakespeare's son-in-law.
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President's nearest relatives have been proved to be concerned in the most flagrant jobs, only to be screened by his influence; such cases, for instance, as that of the Vaal River Water Supply Concession, in which Mr. Kruger's son-in-law 'hawked' about for the highest bid the vote of the Executive Council on a matter which had not yet come before it, and, moreover, sold and duly delivered the aforesaid vote.
The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs
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Nora is survived by her husband Michael, son Mark, daughter Sharon, son-in-law, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, relations and friends.
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Back in Castile, Beatriz's father, Lorenzo Martínez de Carvalar, wants to join his daughter and her family in New Spain, but, in a separate letter, his son-in-law warns him that he must be realistic about the toll the journey will take on him and his family if they come:
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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Both my son and son-in-law have had wonderful experiences.
Times, Sunday Times
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The atonalist members of the second Viennese school had appropriately ludicrous deaths: Arnold Schoenberg, who suffered from a morbid fear of the number 13, died on 13 July 1951; and Anton Webern was accidentally shot in post-war Austria, when GIs arriving to arrest his son-in-law saw him light a cigar and assumed it was a weapon.
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He left no stone unturned in trying to thwart the man he might once have regarded as the perfect son-in-law.
Times, Sunday Times
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But his pride found some consolation in reflecting that, he and his son-in-law having been so lately in arms against government, it might give matter of reasonable fear and offence to the ruling powers if they were to collect together the kith, kin, and allies of their houses, arrayed in effeir of war, as was the ancient custom of Scotland on these occasions — ‘And, without dubitation,’ he concluded with a sigh,
Waverley
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You can almost see why she wants Lt. Joseph Cable the rangy, lyrical tenor Daniel Koek as her son-in-law.
Falling in Love With the Barbican's Wonderful 'South Pacific'
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I remember dat old Master's son-in-law dat my sister whipped, he called hisself a doctor and he killed Aunt Clo.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives
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My son-in-law says the manhole cover is down in the hole, smashed up.
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Plaintiffs also say that Hakim appointed his son-in-law as "ameer" last August, without an election by the congregants.
Archive 2007-05-01
