Now, I stood instantly with my hat in my hand; and answered her gentle bantering so well as I might, the while that I peered intent and wondering at her through the gloom; for truly Rumour had told no tale to equal the beauty of this strange maid; who now stood jesting with so sweet a spirit, and claiming kinship of Cousinhood with me, as was truth, now that I did wake to think.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
Meantime her brother and cousins were so completely turned against her, that her brother even took those two farm-houses to himself; and though Sidonia wrote to him, begging that an annuity might be settled on her, yet she never received a line in answer-and this was the manner in which the whole Cousinhood treated her in her despair and poverty.
"Sidonia The Sorceress V1"
William Mienhold
Far-off Cousinhood is a dangerous relationship.
"Beyond"
John Galsworthy