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They're only second-cousins anyway, an' they 'ain't got any horse, an' I dun'no' as they'd think they could afford to hire one.

From Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Chiefly a collection of cousins, and second-cousins, and cousins by marriage, shoved in by a few interfering old aunts.

From Winding Paths by Page, Gertrude

He even divined the one or two half-hearted attempts on his mother's part to obtain for him at least the occasional companionship of her own nephews and second-cousins.

From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton

Thus did Larry Coppinger, informally but effectively, introduce himself to his second-cousins, the Talbot-Lowrys.

From Mount Music by Ross, Martin

The King of Rome and the Duke of Bordeaux were thus in two ways second-cousins.

From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron