“To Jane, he could be only a man whose proposals she had refused, and whose merit she had undervalued; but to her own ⟳ more extensive information, he was the person, to whom the whole family were indebted for the first of benefits, and whom she regarded herself with an interest ⟳, if not quite so tender, at least as reasonable and just, as what Jane felt for Bingley.”

“Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:[…]it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash ⟳ off.”

“America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live ⟳ lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

“Both brides and grooms in native Hawaiian tradition wear ⟳ flower garlands as a physical manifestation of their love ⟳ for one another, and to some, the twining of the stems is reflective of two families now becoming one. A more tourist-friendly version established in the past couple of decades involves winding the leis around the couple’s hands to bind ⟳ them together.”

“They’re both New Yorkers coasting on their reputations, they’ve both had three marriages, neither of them can shut ⟳ up when in front of a camera, and perhaps most importantly, they both want ⟳ to fuck Ivanka, which-which is weird for Trump because Ivanka is in his family, and it’s weird for Giuliani because she isn’t.”

“The cultural struggle ⟳ is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.”

“We must preserve ⟳ the family unit if we want ⟳ to save ⟳ civilisation!”

“I have ⟳ a lot of family in Australia.”

“He has a sister, but no other family.”

“crime family, Mafia family”

“This is my fraternity family at the university.”

“Our company is one big happy family.”

“[…]This is not your hallmark im Ames, Iowa. And there is “family” working there . . . no radar like ⟳ gaydar, I always say ⟳.”

“Indeed, he married her for love ⟳. A whisper ⟳ still goes about that she had not even 'family'; howbeit, Sir Leicester had so much family that perhaps he had enough and could dispense with any more.”

“Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.”

“Because SCSI is actually a family of standards, each with its own ⟳ cable and connector, matching cables and connectors to the appropriate SCSI “family member” is important.”

“When creating a font family, first decide ⟳ whether to use ⟳ all serif or all sans-serif fonts, then choose ⟳ two or three fonts of that type ⟳ […]”

“Of the great Indo-European family of languages the general principal was also that of one name ⟳ for each individual[…]”

“Magnolias belong ⟳ to the family Magnoliaceae.”

“The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share ⟳ in common: a elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally[…].”

“Let ⟳ #92;mathcalF be a family of subsets over S.”

“the brass family; the violin family”

“the Indo-European family”

“the Afroasiatic family”

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