Family of a person's spouse.
1 Even the lieutenant governor was linked to one notorious family by marriage .
2 You see, the London Chaphills are related to the Wittelsbach family by marriage .
3 I have come into this family by marriage ; you want to come into it in the same way.
4 One Dr. Midgley, an ingenious physician, related to the family by marriage , had the charge of looking over his papers.
5 He did not understand-bythe nature of things, he could not understand-howhard the folk of his family by marriage worked.
6 'Do you mean in the family by marriage ? ' he replied inattentively, and continuing to peel his egg.
7 "You are the oldest member of the family by marriage , Corky," said Jeff, and was rewarded by a venomous stare from his joint mother-and-sister-in-law.
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