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The same scarcity of toes is a characteristic of the agoutis, capivaras, and so called “Guinea pigs,” all of which are cousins-german of the biscacha.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

Two cousins-german, six more distant kinsmen, his factor and his chamberlain, were all hollow votes; and the Girnington interest had always carried, betwixt love and fear, about as many more.

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir

In the success of Kossuth would be the ruin of cousins-german and German cousins.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

The suns are all akin; they are cousins-german.

From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by Ridpath, John Clark

Here Clunie and Lochiel, who were cousins-german, were chiefly supplied with provisions by Macpherson of Breackachie, who was married to a sister of Clunie.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. by Thomson, Mrs.