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Sentence Examples
Allow me to introduce you to my squire, and good kinsman, the noble Valerius de Aurelius.
Rowland Lacy, a kinsman of the Earl of Lincoln, loves Rose, the daughter of the Lord Mayor of London.
It was written by the apostle St. James, called the Less, who was also called the brother of our Lord, being his kinsman.
But when the pair finally met up with their enamored young kinsman, he was in no mood for fighting.
Moses was delighted when he saw this kinsman, and happily stood opposite him to watch how he behaved.
His distant kinsman, Mr Enfield, tells him a story of a mysterious Mr Hyde.
On Sundays, Mr Utterson takes walks through the streets of London with Mr. Richard Enfield, a young businessman and distant kinsman.
The death of any kinsman or woman from any cause might give rise to the hope of their spirit being reincarnated.
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.
She recognized his claims to the chieftainship, thus throwing over a kinsman, Brian O'Neill.
For two decades the southern rebels' leader was a Dinka, John Garang, a kinsman of the bishop.
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.
A kinsman of Sir Francis Drake, Hawkins began his career as a merchant in the African trade and soon became the first English slave trader.
I have an interest here, as my kinsman T. E. Lawrence sought and expected Arab autonomy.
The perfect contemplative holds no one in special regard, be he kinsman, stranger, friend or foe.
The head of a kin group was entitled to extra property since he was liable for debts a kinsman could not pay.
There they learned that Bilbo's kinsman Frodo now owned the Ring, a Ring of Power forged and then lost by the Dark Lord Sauron.
Rurik led the Rus' until his death in about 879, bequeathing his kingdom to his kinsman, Prince Oleg, as regent for his young son, Igor.
He hands the crown to his kinsman Constantine and is taken to the isle of Avalon to be healed of his wounds, never to be seen again.
Percy had found employment with his kinsman the Earl of Northumberland, and by 1596 was his agent for the family's northern estates.
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The Prince, now having lost a kinsman in the warring families' feud, exiles Romeo from Verona, under penalty of death if he ever returns.
This was obviously an arrangement that suited Comyn, because Umphraville was a close political associate and a kinsman of King John.
The Persian king no longer controlled his own destiny, and was taken prisoner by Bessus, his Bactrian satrap and kinsman.
Ali Mohsen Ahmar, a kinsman and general who was a long-time ally of Mr Saleh, abandoned the president after more than 50 protesters were shot in a single day in March.
To enhance the idea of mutual aid, one can have a series of questions about what one may not do to a joking kinsman, and if there is a breach of this, the risks one can run.
The old clans are scattered now, but blood is thicker than water still, and you're welcome to the fireside of your kinsman!
In 173 Severus' kinsman Gaius Septimius Severus was appointed proconsul of the Africa Province.
The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.
And I, the nearest kinsman of the Earl of Windsor, was to propose his election.
Women in the Middle Ages were officially required to be subordinate to some male, whether their father, husband, or other kinsman.
Macbeth, the King's kinsman, is praised for his bravery and fighting prowess.
The rightful heirs' flight makes them suspects and Macbeth assumes the throne as the new King of Scotland as a kinsman of the dead king.
The Shakespearean character, Banquo, was Thane of Lochaber and a kinsman of his nemesis, MacBeth.
He was arrested but released on the advice of William Cecil, his kinsman.
Romeo, now considering Tybalt his kinsman, refuses to fight.
The Norman Conquest of 1066 created the position of Lord of the Isle of Wight, the island being given by William the Conqueror to his kinsman William FitzOsbern.
Examples from Classical Literature
My kinsman and myself were returning to Calcutta from our puja trip when we met the man in a train.
It is known to your Majesty that my son is your liegeman, and, if it please you, your kinsman also.
There is absolutely no trace of a levirate system by which the nearest male kinsman must marry his deceased brother's widow.
Usually he was a distant kinsman, but whether a blood relation or not, we regarded all Welshmen as belonging to our clan.
Heedless of harm, though his hand was burned, hardy-hearted, he helped his kinsman.
We have a fighting strain in us ever since my kinsman followed ireton's army as a sutler.
By some remarkable intuition my kinsman Teunis was prompted to advance at this.
A little later, however, he promised the same duchy to the count palatine of Sulzbach, a kinsman of the count palatine of Neuburg.
When hts kinsman was given leave to go he took for Ht a sword and head-to-foot with a royal letter of encouragement.
All the other statues and drawings of your illustrious kinsman are at your disposal.
Now, get my horse,' she said, addressing her unknown kinsman as she would one of the stable-boys at the Grange.
This I say in all sincerity, and with a single purpose, as any kinsman might do.
Some kinsman doubtless, Newly returned from foreign lands and fallen Upon a house without a host to greet him?
The American has not deviated in this respect from his English kinsman.
You are, or rather your kinsman Peter, is still in the wood.
Do you speak to me thus of my kinsman, the Cardinal-Duke de Lerma?
Aboukar, for such was the Moor's name, then ushered in his kinsman.
There was a kinsman of his, also named Thorbjorn, called slowcoach.
He sent for his kinsman, the atheling, natural heir to the throne.
The barghest has a kinsman in the Rongeur d'Os of Norman folklore.
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Loud and hearty was his cousinly greeting to his young kinsman.
They are such, in all respects, as it behooves your nearest kinsman to make.
Fitzgerald meets him, treachery, at least towards his kinsman.
By his sovran he sat, come safe from battle, kinsman by kinsman.
Old lodgers like myself soon grow as attached to our chattels as to a kinsman.
And, friar, didst see my poor kinsman Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe?
He was a lord, and had killed another lord, a sort of kinsman of the queen.
As an eagle descendeth on its prey, so rusheth my kinsman to the onset.
To a kinsman of Sunderland's this was disquieting news, indeed.
If there is damage, it will cost you nothing if there is usage money, Kirjath Jairam will forgive it for the sake of his kinsman Isaac.
At the head of this deputation was Hanani, a kinsman of Nehemiah.
Then I thought of a kinsman of sorts, a second cousin of my father's whom none of us knew anything about, except that he was supposed to be in one or other of the Colonies.
As the new three-cornered contest developed it became apparent to others besides his devoted kinsman that there was more in Horne Fisher than had ever met the eye.
Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town.
The awful Snigsworth might taboo and prohibit Fledgely, but the peaceable Twemlow reasons, If he IS my kinsman I didn't make him so, and to meet a man is not to know him.
In the course of these researches she stumbles over something, and turning her glass in that direction, sees her kinsman lying on the ground like a felled tree.
