The effect of these engagements at the very outset of the war, occurring as they did within Cape Colony, was to offer every inducement to a number of the frontier colonial Boers to join their kinsmen of the republics.
Twas wrong to ask, for you have kinsmen maybe, Brother, or uncle, some one dear in blood Whom Heaven bids you cherish.
Among our friends Are many whose nearest kinsmennobly served The lost Republic.
Who does not remember the magic line in "The Two Noble Kinsmen "?
She ought to be in England,' said Madame de Quinet; 'she will never be safe from these kinsmen in this country.
There was a letter to the same effect, praising her highly too, from the Duchess, saying that she would do her best to guard her, but the kinsmen had the law on their side, and she would be safer in England.
At Nid-de-Merle, Sire; my kinsmen accused me of treason in order to hinder my search for my wife.
Sons and fathers, friends and brothers, shall in mutual conflict die, Kinsmen slain by dearest kinsmen shall upon the red field lie!
Kindly heart hath good Yudhishthir, still he seeks for rightful peace, Render back his ancient kingdom, bid this war of kinsmen cease!
And his brothers and his kinsmen duteously his hest obey, With each parting guest and monarch journey on the home ward way.
May the threefold rich performance purify the darkening stain, Blood of warriors and of kinsmen slaughtered on the gory plain!
Sons and grandsons, friends and kinsmen slaughtered in this fatal war, Homeless, cheerless, on this wide earth they shall wander long and far!
And then--then the proud Muscovite seeks grace, And gold, fromkinsmen of the harried race!
The Greeks of Asia had not only been abandoned by their kinsmen beyond the sea, but also by their gods, or at any rate by their oracles.
The chiefs of the tribes, the Achaemenids, the great officers of the court, the "kinsmen and table companions" of the king followed.
Like the king, the kinsmen wore a pale blue band round the tiara, and had the right to kiss the king, a custom which was usual in Persia among persons of equal rank.
The Arian tribes of the table-land of Iran have preserved the original character of their family more truly than their kinsmen who settled on the Indus and the Ganges, and filled the Deccan with their civilization.
But the thought of the vengeance and plunder to be won by leading his kinsmen to a fresh raid against the accursed Campbells was too much for Sir Alaster's loyalty.
They lasted for one month and nineteen days, during which time all the kinsmen and friends of the family were entertained in the castle of Kincardine.
I have read that Sir Perkin was knighted at Crecy and Sir Peers at Agincourt, and that they were kinsmen of Sir Uryan Legh of Adlington, the Spanish Lady's Love.
Up from the castle of Drumineer, Down from the top of Camailte, Clansmen and kinsmen are coming here To give him the cead mile failte.
Down from the top of Camailte, Clansmen andkinsmen are coming here To give him the cead mile failte.
The great chieftain, Robert of the Red Hand, having now assembled his kinsmen and allies in the ancient halls of Eilean-na-Rona, proceeded to speak as follows.
There was no answer; for at this moment the quick eye of the chieftain detected one of hiskinsmen in the commission of a heinous crime.
Right gladly would each have espoused her, she being now fifteen years old, but that his kinsmen forbade it; wherefore seeing that neither might have her in an honourable way, each determined to compass his end as best he might.
The earl of Angus alone seems to have taken rapid steps in the same course of ambition which had been pursued by his kinsmen and rivals, the earls of Douglas.
The spirit of forgiveness and love for his humblekinsmen fill one with admiration.
Colenso does in our ideas on religion,--tells us of the notions and proceedings of our kinsmen in America.
The maidens, accompanied by their father Danaes, have fled from Egypt and arrived at Argos, to take sanctuary there and to avoid capture by their pursuing kinsmen and suitors.
There is a possibility, of course, that the kinsmen of the woman might oppose her capture.
If this proposal for exchange is accepted and he has thereby won the kinsmen of the woman to his side, his fellow-contestants may as well give up the struggle.
They resolved to send messengers to their kinsmen who had settled in Sweden, hoping that some descendant of their old royal family might be found there who was willing to assume the dignity of king among them.
For centuries the Northmen had through their southern kinsmen been in contact with continental culture.
