Female child of a sister or half-sister.
1Q My son is five years old and my sister's daughter is four.
2And to think that she is my sister's daughter!
3She had come to Uncle Hugh; she knew he would give his sister's daughter a home.
4She is my mother's sister's daughter, noble Duca.
5I've come 'way from Michigan to see my own sister's daughter and take her home with me.
6That you were her sister's daughter?
7Mr. Middleton shook hands with his sister's daughter, took her satchel, and asked how he could serve her.
8A sister's son may marry a brother's daughter; but a brother's son may not marry a sister's daughter.
9I will not have my sister's daughter wasting her youth in a convent, while waiting for a tardy suitor.
10Mrs. Clover desired to be friendly with her sister's daughter, but would stand no "cheek," and had said so.
11Their son Eindride was grown up, and married to Sigrid, a daughter of Ketil Kalf and Gunhild, King Harald's sister's daughter.
12For Anaxandrides had to wife his own sister's daughter and she was by him much beloved, but no children were born to him by her.
13You ask me what you ought to do, child, and I do not know how to advise you, though you are my own sister's daughter!
14:] My sister's daughter, and your brother's sister, merits more than this.
15"Ghita Caraccioli, Eccellenza; the sister's daughter of this honest tower-keeper of the prince."
16"Ruth Atheson is my sister's daughter, Mr. Saunders," was the only answer vouchsafed by the priest.
Translations for sister's daughter