Because he was a friend and cousin-german of the 5th Earl of Bothwell, then a hunted man, and perhaps because of some intimacy with the queen, Moray aroused suspicion in the king, who at last gave George Gorden, 6th Earl of Huntly, Moray's blood enemy, a warrant to apprehend him.
— Julia Moskin New York: This holiday season, fruitcake's classier cousin, German stollen, gets a second look from Christina Tosi and other bakers.
The summer's chief spectacle was the coronation of George V, whose cousin, the German kaiser, still seemed friendly enough.
As guardian of Ladislas Posthumus, son of his cousin the German king Albert II, Frederick attempted to exploit his ward's claims to the Bohemian and Hungarian thrones to his own advantage; but rebellious nobles forced him to release Ladislas prematurely (1452).
He looked at some of the books and saw that his cousin read German; and his impression of the importance of this (as a symptom of superiority) was not diminished by the fact that he himself had mastered the tongue".
Unlike its American cousin, the German comedy, "Stromberg," did not begin as an officially licensed remake of the British "Office" created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant; its production company, Brainpool, later added an "inspired by" credit after certain similarities were noticed and legal action was invoked.
English's Germanic cousins are more vivid: German calls it Karfreitag, from an old German root chara, meaning lamentation.
The British Royal Family, under King George V, dissolved ties with its German cousins and changed its name from the Germanic House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the more English-sounding House of Windsor.
The Russian czar begs his German cousin to help keep the peace.
His German cousin was killed in the same battle, fighting on the other side.
But, as Carter takes care to remind us, King George was as alien in England as was his German cousin.
