What is "kinfolk"

Usage examples of "kinfolk".

Zor, who is at least halfway to humanhood and is less likely to embroil us with vengeful kinfolk than would a man.

Had it only been seven or eight days since she had left Verna, torn away by her kinfolk?

Jezebel, his stern and unrepenting mother, swore to her kinfolk and nearby neighbors that she could look into his grey eyes and see the telltale signs on his thin worrisome face to know of his wicked deeds.

After a nightlong session with the jar of illicited spirits, his father, Lemmuel Micaiah to his kinfolk and neighbors, practically raped his spouse in a spell of senseless passion.

Hohokam what your Papago kinfolk call the old time pueblo farmers who dug all those canals across a desert that must have been a tad less sand in their day?

The Silvers and some of their neighbors and kinfolk even went down to examine the river, but it was frozen solid and covered with unbroken snow.

They threaded their way past the modern gravestones of latter-day Silvers and their kinfolk, and walked the few hundred yards along Route 80 to the dirt trail that led off into deep woods.

She, like many of her her kinfolk and neighbors, feared the presence of demons and spirits, and she constantly ran to the three hags of the forest for remedial incantations and mystic amulets.

Children cowered at the entrance to the tent, towheaded lads and lasses wearing the garb of noble kinfolk in stark contrast to the two score or more crudely garbed slaves huddled up against the walls of the tent.

Was it not said by the ancient philosophers that in the aether, far beyond the bounds of earth, the angels and their kinfolk can see both backward and forward in time?

I love you faithfully, and if you are still my good Rosalie I am ready to marry you here in the presence of my kinfolk.

But I ain't in Little Rock, and I can't go back there because your kinfolk, Morton Colton, has got the whole damned sheriff's department looking for me.

Perhaps Perhaps hardest on those men, some no longer young, who'd left families behind, dependent on kinfolk, while they rode freight trains to California's orange groves, Idaho's potato farms, Arizuna's irrigated cotton fields, where rumor said jobs could be found.

Then kinfolk sat around the fire to tell over the names of ancestors, to honor those who had achieved g’ status or Haghood among them, to relax standards of neatness and laundering (in the absence of whomever or whatever might have been, at other times, responsible for neatening and laundering), and to give amusing gifts and consume traditional foods prepared by their own hands while telling old stories around the tile stoves.

Then kinfolk sat around the fire to tell over the names of ancestors, to honor those who had achieved g' status or Haghood among them, to relax standards of neatness and laundering (in the absence of whomever or whatever might have been, at other times, responsible for neatening and laundering), and to give amusing gifts and consume traditional foods prepared by their own hands while telling old stories around the tile stoves.