What is "kinsman"

Usage examples of "kinsman".

It was there, in Boston, that smallpox inoculation had been introduced in America more than half a century earlier, and by a kinsman of Adams, Dr.

Little did I know, when rescuing you and your good kinsman from the boat of the Algerine, who I was saving.

He had now come from the splendid victory at Saumur to urge his kinsman, the Duc de Bercy, to join the Royalists.

Even the high priest, to whom in her extremity she might have turned for succour, would be deaf to her appeal, for he was bound by ties of blood to the house of Bharata Rahon and would be the willing and eager tool of his kinsman.

They all came, yes, and from the Saecsen Shore came Aelle, now Bretwalda of the Saecsen kind, with his carles and kinsmen: Cynric and Cissa and Cymen.

And now, ye mates, I do appoint ye three cupbearers to my three pagan kinsmen there-- yon three most honorable gentlemen and noblemen, my valiant harpooneers.

Hassan, has sent us tidings of your rescue from the power of the accursed lord of the Mountain, Sinan, and that you are now safe in our city of Emesa, guarded by many thousands of our soldiers, and with you a woman named Masouda, and your kinsmen, the two Frankish knights, by whose skill in arms and courage you were saved.

According to the Externus Miraculum view, the Temple of Time is crucial to the implementation of either plan, in fact it is the crux of them both, the one issue that it is of as great importance, or greater, than the presence of you, the kinsman redeemer.

Even did we slay all this tribe here, the Fenmen in the north would seek to avenge their kinsmen, and would invite the Romans to their aid.

And when the surviving Gepids were rounded up, disarmed and taken prisoner, we learned why those kinsmen of ours had ambushed us.

Eva had supposed that perhaps the boy would wish to meet his Kildare kinsmen also on these occasions.

During the coming weeks Margaret heard of several families who were being forced off their Church estates, some of them even kinsmen of Kildare himself.

Legend said it was built long ago by a cult of devil worshipers who, driven from their distant homeland, had found sanctuary in this unmapped country, where an isolated branch of the Black Kirghiz, wilder than their kinsmen, roamed as masters.

The kinsmen and friends of the Morisco chief rode in his train, and after them came a regiment of infantry and a troop of horse.

There was but one more source of possible aid, his distant kinsman, Pardos, Lord of the Sea Isles, and an infamous pirate.