How To Use Kinsman In A Sentence
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Therefore the _goel_, or kinsman-avenger of blood, was not only permitted but enjoined by Moses.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
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Yea, and I am sorry for Orestes, hapless youth, who is called my kinsman, to think that he should ever return to Argos and behold his sister's wretched marriage.
Electra
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He fled from Rome, hid out with a kinsman of the nobleman from whom he took his famous byname, then went to Naples and Malta, and on, ever on, from there as news of his crime caught up with him.
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Palamon's appeal to his kinsman for a last word, "if his heart, _his worthy, manly heart_" (an exact and typical example of Fletcher's tragically prosaic and prosaically tragic dash of incurable commonplace),
A Study of Shakespeare
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He escaped, but his kinsman later strangled him to death.
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'Then,' said she, 'I am at a marvellous afterdeal [disadvantage], for I have known that the wife hath been received to sue for her husband, the kinsman, friend or servant for them that hath been in the case I now am, and never denied.'
Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
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Now let Pylades take his maiden wife and bear her to his home in Achaea; also he must conduct thy so-called kinsman to the land of Phocis, and there reward him well.
Electra
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His distant kinsman, Mr Enfield, tells him a story of a mysterious Mr Hyde.
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Father then insisted that you and I spend the night with his kinsman Joscelyn.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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This kinsman of Count Fisiolo's, this other Lord Prestimion, who ' s allowed to go free to terrorize the river!
LORD PRESTIMION
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Charles will come together, if they can but shake off wicked Everard, as we call a kinsman, whom Sir Charles has no mind to intro-duce to you, without your leave.
Sir Charles Grandison
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Volumnia, in the course of her bird – like hopping about and pecking at papers, has alighted on a memorandum concerning herself in the event of “anything happening” to her kinsman, which is handsome compensation for an extensive course of reading and holds even the dragon Boredom at bay.
Bleak House
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But to the Irish on the Emerald Isle it is a home-coming; a gesture of solidarity and kinsmanship in troubled times.
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Always I have thought it shame that my kinsman's odal should lie in English hands, and now I have made up my mind to put an end to it.
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
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A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.
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Lindesay, Ruthven, and your kinsman Morton, poniarded Rizzio, and yet you now see no blood on their embroidery — the Lord Semple stabbed the Lord of
The Abbot
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“They call my kinsman Ludovic with the Scar,” said Quentin.
Quentin Durward
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Now let Pylades take his maiden wife and bear her to his home in Achaea; also he must conduct thy so-called kinsman to the land of Phocis, and there reward him well.
Electra
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The Reverend Mr. Rubrick, kinsman to the proprietor of the hospitable mansion where it was solemnised, and chaplain to the Baron of Bradwardine, had the satisfaction to unite their hands; and Frank Stanley acted as bridesman, having joined
Waverley
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` ` I am pretty weel, kinsman, 'said the Bailie --- ` ` indifferent weel, I thank ye; and for accommodations, ane canna expect to carry about the Saut Market at his tail, as a snail does his caup; --- and I am blythe that ye hae gotten out o the hands o' your unfreends. ''
Rob Roy
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Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing.
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He was apprenticed in London to a kinsman who was a draper and a member of the Ironmongers' Company, and later carried on trade there on his own account.
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A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.
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Moses was delighted when he saw this kinsman, and happily stood opposite him to watch how he behaved.
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To achieve this transformation from the status of unwelcome stranger to that of fictive kinsman calls for great tact and patience.
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This kinsman of Count Fisiolo's, this other Lord Prestimion, who ' s allowed to go free to terrorize the river!
LORD PRESTIMION
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Rowland Lacy, a kinsman of the earl of Lincoln, loves Rose, the daughter of the lord mayor of London.
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Kinsman helps kinsman, but woe to him that hath nothing.
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In the Baron's own words, 'The matter did not coincide with the feelings of the commons of Bradwardine, Mr. Waverley; and the tenants were slack and repugnant in payment of their mails and duties; and when my kinsman came to the village wi' the new factor, Mr. James Howie, to lift the rents, some wanchancy person
Waverley — Volume 2
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I ween indeed if ever it hap that Hrethel's heir by spear be seized, by sword-grim battle, by illness or iron, thine elder and lord, people's leader, -- and life be thine, -- no seemlier man will the Sea-Geats find at all to choose for their chief and king, for hoard-guard of heroes, if hold thou wilt thy kinsman's kingdom!
Beowulf
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‘Whom do you call kinsman?’ asked old Martin sternly.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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Like his kinsman, he practiced his art with the aid of the portable camera obscura, but his preternatural acuity and immaculate form carried his work to the edge of hallucination.
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Will a merchant kinsman take offence if you buy goods from the co-op?
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But an the King be the contrary of this, he never ceaseth from misfortunes and calamities, he and the people of his realm, for that his oppression embraceth both stranger far and kinsman near and there cometh to pass with him that which befel the unjust King with the pilgrim Prince.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Alan, in one display of this iconic sign system, explains the sign of crossed sticks with a silver button at their center that he leaves for a kinsman.
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'Whom do you call kinsman?' asked old Martin sternly.
Martin Chuzzlewit
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On Sundays, Mr Utterson takes walks through the streets of London with Mr. Richard Enfield, a young businessman and distant kinsman.
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They which tarried, when they were gone, considering partly on the reasons alleadged by Titus, and partly terrified by his latest speeches; became induced, to like well of his alliance and amitie, as (with common consent) they concluded: that it was much better to accept Titus as their kinsman (seeing Gisippus had made manifest refusall thereof) than to lose the kinred of the one, and procure the hatred of the other.
The Decameron
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And that fat bearded one yonder, the Dogra whom you call my kinsman?
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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The balsam is less common, generally found in marshy spots, in company with its kinsman, the tamarack, which in summer, at least, has all the appearance of an evergreen.
Rural Hours
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It was the aid of Russia which enabled her to overthrow the great Napoleon, and now she permits the little Napoleon to bully her into a war with Russia that he may bedizen his name with the glory of a conflict with the conqueror of his illustrious kinsman.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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The bride kinsman gathered to make preparations for the wedding.
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It was written by the apostle St. James, called the Less, who was also called the brother of our Lord, being his kinsman (for cousins german with the Hebrews were called brothers).
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But the spirit of my kinsman soon immerged into more active life: he visited foreign countries as a soldier and a traveller, acquired the knowledge of the French and Spanish languages, passed some time in the Isle of Jersey, crossed the Atlantic, and resided upwards of a twelvemonth (1659) in the rising colony of Virginia.
Memoirs of My Life and Writings
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And you, child, are marrying a kinsman of that abominable Duc de Raguse in order to regild our family escutcheon.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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The vendetta is still the custom in Sardinia, and a person is respected if he takes blood revenge on the killer of a kinsman.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1926 - Presentation Speech
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Xenophon the Artist: the “kinsman” of Cyrus again, and the light by-play to enliven the severe history.
Cyropaedia
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He had a good friend, the wolf, and he crept out in the evening into the forest to him, and complained of the fate that awaited him. "Listen, kinsman , " said the wolf, "be of good cheer.
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There was nothing random, from the point of view of God's purposes, in the time of Naomi and Ruth's arrival in Bethlehem, for through following the harvesters as a gleaner, humbly gathering what was left behind; Ruth would find the kind man who would take her under his protection; a kinsman.
God Made Me Contemplative
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The balsam is less common, generally found in marshy spots, in company with its kinsman, the tamarack, which in summer, at least, has all the appearance of an evergreen.
Rural Hours
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A near friend is better than a far-dwelling kinsman.
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The barghest has a kinsman in the Rongeur d'Os of Norman folklore.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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This Su-Suheris here, whoever he might be, was a different one entirely, who could hardly be held accountable for the sins of his kinsman.
LORD PRESTIMION
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There was the druid who explained religion, the brehon who dispensed justice, the brughaid or public hospitaller, the bard who sang the praises of his chief or urged his kinsman to battle; and each was an official and had his appointed allotment of land.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Rashleigh and I stared in silence at this unexpected intruder, who proceeded to exhort us alternately: --- ` ` Do you, Maister Francis, opine that ye will re-establish your father's credit by cutting your kinsman's thrapple, or getting your ain sneckit instead thereof in the College-yards of Glasgow?
Rob Roy
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Kinsman went slowly, step by step, trying to make certain he didn't puncture the aluminized fabric of his suit.
Ten Minutes, That's It
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He read aloud the jingling epistle to his own great-great-grandfather, which, like the rest, concludes with a broad hint, that as the author had neither lands nor flocks -- "no estate left except his designation" -- the more fortunate kinsman who enjoyed, like Jason of old, a fair share of _fleeces_, might do worse than bestow on him some of King James's _broad pieces_.
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
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Edwin overturned this plan by telling him that in the moment the abthanes repledged their secret faith to England, they sent orders into Ayrshire to watch the movements of Wallace's relations, and to prevent their either hearing of or marching to the assistance of their wronged kinsman.
The Scottish Chiefs
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But the cosmonaut was a woman, a fact that Kinsman did not know until he had pulled the airhose out of her helmet, suffocating her.
Ten Minutes, That's It
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She had taken Kathryn to physician Swinbrooke's kinsman Joscelyn to stay the night.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Sir Piercie Shafton’s colour began to rise — “I marvel,” he said, “to hear your reverence talk thus — What! will you, for the imagined death of a rude, low-born frampler and wrangler, venture to impinge upon the liberty of the kinsman of the house of Piercie?”
The Monastery
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Commonly the groom or his family gave the infare, but often enough some generous and well-to-do friend, or kinsman, pre-empted the privilege.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South
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But the cosmonaut was a woman, a fact that Kinsman did not know until he had pulled the airhose out of her helmet, suffocating her.
Ten Minutes, That's It
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Sir Piercie Shafton's colour began to rise -- "I marvel," he said, "to hear your reverence talk thus -- What! will you, for the imagined death of a rude, low-born frampler and wrangler, venture to impinge upon the liberty of the kinsman of the house of Piercie?
The Monastery
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If any man wishes to sell any burgage property, the sale must be announced at the next court when, if any of his kinsman wishes to buy the property, he may do so at a lower price than anyone else.
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With that he took a deep draught of wine, and shook his head with much solemnity, when his kinsman replied that his family had been destroyed upon the festival of Saint Jude [October 28] last bypast.
Quentin Durward
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The death of any kinsman or woman from any cause might give rise to the hope of their spirit being reincarnated.
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The conspiracy was detected and Murena executed (23), though Maecenas had earlier revealed the plot's discovery to Terentia, thus giving his kinsman a chance to escape.
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He was a kinsman of the author, and a "braw" young Scotchman who came over to this country with the expectation of picking up a fortune in short order.
The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights