kith and kin

Example Sentences

• "And ſyne ſhe kiſſd his bluidy cheik And fyne his bluidy chin: O better I loe my Gill Morice Than a' my kith and kin! "Away, away, ze ill woman, And an il deith mait ze dee: Gin I had kend he'd bin zour ſon, He'd neir bin flain for mee.""
• ""What's that to me, boy?" she interrupted with a stern, hard manner, which Joe hitherto had had no idea she could assume. "Didn't her kith and kin rob thee, beat thee, starve thee, and force thee to run away ? Is she not the child of her mother, and what could I do with one trained in the wickedness of vagrant ways?""
• "It well may be because I have been so lonelv, but to mv thinking there can be no love, no tie, like love and tie of kith and kin."
• "Yet, with all this, in two or three days he grew dull, and would fain mix with his kith and kin once more."
• "No—impossible! It was easier to appeal to kith and kin, after all, than to a stranger like this."
• "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be."