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The Canova family has intermarried with the Venetian nobility, and probably would not believe those stories of Canova's beginnings which his townsmen so fondly cherish.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

"She is of the house of Douglas, a house that has intermarried with mine even when its glory and power were at the highest; what could your mother object to my alliance?"

From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir

"A man I know," says Pursang, one of the Cabinet, to Greville Tempest, who is heir to a Dukedom, and has intermarried with a royal house.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida