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Example sentences for "kinsfolk"

Lexicographically close words:
kinn; kinne; kino; kinred; kins; kinsfolks; kinship; kinships; kinsman; kinsmen
  1. The friends and kinsfolk of the drowned men could not endure to think that no one would be punished for what they believed to be a shameful neglect.

  2. And because they are free and kinsfolk of yours must they do nothing but eat and sleep?

  3. But all these buy barbarians for slaves, and make them work; but my people are free by birth and kinsfolk of my own.

  4. But the other would not say anything about it, because he had kinsfolk living near it, and was afraid that you would do them an injury.

  5. The reason must in some cases have been mere oversight or pure inertia, but to a large extent it was due to ignorance, for I was astonished to find many to whom the number of even their near kinsfolk was avowedly unknown.

  6. Kinsfolk may be divided into direct ancestry, collaterals of all kinds, and direct descendants.

  7. Number of kinsfolk in One Hundred Families who survived Childhood, xxx VI.

  8. They enable us to make calculations concerning the average number of kinsfolk in each and every specified degree in a stationary population, or, if desired, in one that increases or decreases at a specified rate.

  9. O Salih,' quoth Mensour, 'I beg thee of thy favour to bring me to my house, that I may take leave of my children and family and give my kinsfolk my last injunctions.

  10. Their colour is usually a darker brown than that of their kinsfolk of the eastern Pacific, but light-complexioned Maoris, almost European in features, are met with.

  11. Have you no kinsfolk who will hasten to help you in your need, that you are compelled to turn to a mortal man?

  12. And my parents' will, too, is opposed to mine, so that I dare not call upon my kinsfolk for help.

  13. It is true that my kinsfolk are far-famed and numerous.

  14. But her kinsfolk said, "You shall not take her to be your wife except you worship our gods, even the great gods Remphan and Moloch.

  15. And when they learnt all that had happened, they rejoiced yet more; and Potipherah said, "To-morrow I will call together all my kinsfolk and prepare your marriage feast.

  16. From this it follows that the animal kinsfolk may never be shot at or molested for fear of injuring or killing the persons whose lives are knit up with the lives of the brutes.

  17. So she sent him on an errand to the house of her kinsfolk the ogres.

  18. Between the animals and their human friends or kinsfolk such a sympathetic relation is supposed to exist that the moment the animal dies the man dies also, and similarly the instant the man perishes so does the beast.

  19. It is no doubt true that we are in the main an offshoot of the English stem; and cousins to our kinsfolk of Britain we perhaps may be; but brothers we certainly are not.

  20. The American statesmen were the kinsfolk and fellows of Hampden and Pym, of William the Silent and John of Barneveldt.

  21. The Galilæans were His kinsfolk and neighbours, bound to Him by human, and therefore by divine, ties.

  22. Apart from his numerous kinsfolk and neighbours at Stratford-on-Avon, there was in London a large society of fellow-authors and fellow-actors with whom he lived in close communion.

  23. Very little correspondence or other intimate memorials, whether of Shakespeare's professional friends or of his kinsfolk or country neighbours, survive.

  24. When he was grown to man's estate, he worked ill to his kinsfolk but worst of all to Gunnar.

  25. The pride of all you kinsfolk is great," she said, "and so it is not wonderful if I have some of it.

  26. Ye may know, too, that he is a man, for he has had sons by his wife, and few of our kinsfolk have fallen unatoned by our house, so that we have not had vengeance for them.

  27. The family is therefore distinguished from the family group and the clan as a group of kinsfolk established by contract, and only in a subsidiary sense by the tie of blood between parents and children.

  28. Quoth she, "Thou slewest my father and my mother and my kinsfolk and tookest their goods.

  29. Borrow was not free to visit his kinsfolk until the following Christmas.

  30. How Borrow struck his Cornish kinsfolk is shown in a letter written by his hostess to a friend.

  31. Go get thee back thither where thou hast tarried all this while, and rest assured that thou shalt never recross this threshold, until I have done thee such honour as is meet for thee in the presence of thy kinsfolk and neighbours.

  32. At the instance of his kinsfolk he hies him to Chiassi, where he sees a knight hunt a damsel and slay her and cause her to be devoured by two dogs.

  33. He, however, averred that he had done a thing seemly, and that Sophronia's kinsfolk owed him thanks for giving her in marriage to one better than himself.

  34. He bids his kinsfolk and the lady that he loves to breakfast.

  35. This fact made the king desire to seize the charter, then he could make a grand-jury to suit himself, out of the kinsfolk of the judge.

  36. You know who did all this: a single family--the Honorable Judge Curtis, with his kinsfolk and friends, himself most subtly active with all his force throughout this work.

  37. Beatrix's three kinsfolk looked at one another at this intelligence: 'twas clear the same thought was passing through the minds of all.

  38. As Esmond grew, and observed for himself, he found of necessity much to read and think of outside that fond circle of kinsfolk who had admitted him to join hand with them.

  39. There they will lie until the Judgment Day, unless their kinsfolk be of sufficient wealth and influence to find their burial places and dig them up and bring them home privily for interment.

  40. War is terrible enough without lugging in all the remote kinsfolk a fellow has.

  41. The old man asks himself to die; he himself insists upon this last duty towards the community, and obtains the consent of the tribe; he digs out his grave; he invites his kinsfolk to the last parting meal.

  42. And if an ant has not refused to feed another ant belonging to an enemy species, it will be treated by the kinsfolk of the latter as a friend.

  43. His father has done so, it is now his turn; and he parts with his kinsfolk with marks of affection.

  44. If the refusal has been made while its kinsfolk were fighting with some other species, they will fall back upon the greedy individual with greater vehemence than even upon the enemies themselves.

  45. Certes, I will send for my kinsfolk afore I go.

  46. Kriemhild answered, "They that are faithful among my kinsfolk counsel me to abide here with them.

  47. It is but for a space, for a few weeks; and thy kinsfolk will be with thee again, and I also.

  48. The Great King has sent an order that I shall bring to Shushan the kinsfolk of Jehoiakim, saving only Daniel, our master, for he is so old that he cannot perform the journey.

  49. I sent for thee and thy kinsfolk that I might do thee honour; and I will also fulfil my words.

  50. According to thy word I have brought the kinsfolk of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,--chief of whom is Nehushta, the princess.

  51. The Samnite settlement, parted away from their kinsfolk of the mountains, had become Campanians, and, to seek shelter against their kinsfolk of the mountains, they had been fain in some sort to become Romans.

  52. Cicely, as Mary's acknowledged favourite, was almost always in her apartments, except at the meals of the whole company of Shrewsbury kinsfolk and retainers, when her place was always far removed from that of Humfrey.

  53. Can a man never be left in peace in his own house, between queens and ladies, plots and follies, but his own kinsfolk and retainers must come to him on every petty broil among the lads!


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kinsfolk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ancestry; blood; clansman; cognate; collateral; connections; family; flesh; folks; kin; kindred; kinfolk; kinsmen; people; posterity; relations; relative; tribesman