Constantine being now emperor sent Maximius his kinsman hither (in processe of time) to destroie the same Octauius, who in singular battell discomfited him.
Vpon this he tooke them to his grace, homage and fealtie: and when they were sworne his subiects and liegemen, he ordeined his kinsman Anguisan to be their king and gouernour, Vrian king of Iland, and Murefrence king of Orkeneie.
But Major, in his Henry the Navigator, says that the translation was made, not by Giuliano Giocondo, but by his kinsman Giovanni Giocondo, of Verona.
A certain little Alice Lee, twelve years old, wrote this remarkable letter from Stratford in 1772 to a kinsman in London.
It was announced to him by hiskinsman Colonel Burgess Ball.
Claudius Marcellus, the last a kinsman of the preceding consul of the same name, both enemies to Caesar.
He is a kinsmanto the Montague, Affection makes him false, he speaks not true: Some twenty of them fought in this black strife, And all those twenty could but kill one life.
The principal odium of the transaction has attached to Ferdinand, as the kinsman of the unfortunate king of Naples.
In the same palace where he sojourned lived a very valiant soldier and wit, a kinsman to Prince Escalus, one Mercutio by name, with whom Hamlet exchanged civilities on the staircase at first, and then fell into companionship.
Scott says that "a kinsman is part of a man's body, but a fosterbrother is a piece of his heart.
No relative of my mother was alive; and the only kinsman of my father was a half-brother, a dozen years older than himself; a man in every way unamiable.
Had the doctor possessed a spark of generosity, he would have given my wicked kinsman a service of plate, devil as he was!
Little did you imagine that, in the stern monitor who blamed your follies, a kinsman was cautioning an unschooled novice against those seductions of vicious society which so often wreck the happiness of youth.
A kinsman is part of a man's body, of his heart, but a foster-brother is a piece of his heart.
By his last will he left to me the option of purchasing his house and garden, or of possessing them during my life, on the payment either of a stipulated price, or of an easy retribution to his kinsman and heir.
Amidst a profusion of genealogical knowledge, my kinsman could not be forgetful of his own name; and to him I am indebted for almost the whole of my information concerning the Gibbon family.
Your kinsman and my friend had already terminated a blameless and happy life by a very easy death about three o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Look, stranger, that thou disgrace it not, for mykinsman will never forgive me if thou dost.
There is my kinsman Ernest's," he said, throwing on the ground the weapon which he carried, with the hilt towards the young Englishman.
The post of Secretary for Foreign Languages was offered to a kinsman of Bradshaw, and one of whom the city of London is justly proud, to wit, John Milton.
The master of Lackley grasped in silence the proffered hand of his kinsman and eyed him from head to foot, suppressing, I noted, a start of surprise at his resemblance to Sir Joshua's portrait.
And here he paused to select a word which should vividly enough express what, for good or for ill, his kinsman represented.
As she talked she rested her dull eyes on her kinsman with wondering kindness.
What hiskinsman had expected him to be I know not; but I made Mr. Searle out as annoyed, in spite of his exaggerated urbanity, at finding him so harmless.
But his kinsman was too launched to pull himself up.
This kinsman of mine is a young man of the highest merit imaginable, and has a mind so tender and so generous, that I can observe he returns my envy with pity.
About the same period, Pedro de Faria y Sousa sent his kinsman Antonio de Faria y Sousa to treat of important affairs with the king of Patane, and in particular to preserve peace with that prince.
She could not mention the name of her kinsman as the person whom she suspected of an evil design.
He is the kinsmanof Quadaquina, and it does not become a child to judge harshly of any member of his tribe.
Fears, vague and unformed had before floated through her mind, but they now assumed consistency, and she determined to take such precautions until the departure of her kinsman as should prevent harm either to himself or others.
Quadaquina must have love enough for his kinsman to prevent the folly.
He said you could not be much in love to be choked off so easily; he hinted that his kinsman had never been much in love.
His kinsman was a big, grizzled, florid man, with an imperial, and with a comic wicked cut about him which made one laugh.
Baldassare Aloisi, called Galanino, a kinsman and scholar of the Caracci, yielded to few of his fellow-pupils in his compositions.
In that country my noblekinsman and Lord Napier are what we term in the language of this country 'Repealers'.
Well, the zeal, the honest zeal, no doubt, of Lord Napier, moved my noble kinsman from Rome to Naples.
When Hrut heard this, he asked Hauskuld to go with him to the ship, so Hauskuld went with his brother, and when they reached the ship, Hrut gave his kinsman Auzur a kind and hearty welcome.
Then Asgrim spoke to Snorri, and said-- "For that am I and my kinsman Gizur come hither, to ask thee for thy help.
Now," says Skarphedinn, "will I bear in mind how Gunnar behaved after the slaying of your kinsman Sigmund; now I will yield you such help as I may.
Once on a time Thorgeir Starkad's son had been to see his kinsman Mord.
Njal then spoke and said, and took Gunnar by the hand, "Over long hath thy kinsman Sigmund been unatoned".
Flosi asked him for his name, but he said his name was Geirmund, and that he was a kinsman of the sons of Sigfus.
One day Hallgerda said to Gunnar--"It is not good to be content with that hundred in silver which thou tookest for my kinsman Brynjolf.
Now the time for the Thing was coming on, Unna spoke to Sigmund Auzur's son, and asked if he would ride to the Thing with her; he said he could not ride if his kinsman Hrut set his face against it.
Skarphedinn said, "Wilt thou that I drive thy horse, kinsman Gunnar?
I wish to go south-east to Hisingen, to see my kinsman Oliver," says Hallvard.
Asgrim said as they went away-- "Our kinsman Thorhall was not easy in his mind as we left him behind in the booth, and I know not what he will be at.
Left an orphan at the age of twelve, she lived, at the last of the eighteenth and the first of the nineteenth century, with her kinsman and tutor M.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kinsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
