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  • In him Sullivan saw a kindred capacity for obsession.   (source)
  • Hank was a dear friend of his, in many ways a kindred spirit.   (source)
  • The female Cyclopes barked an order to her kindred, and three of them followed her up the hill.   (source)
    kindred = family
  • Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.   (source)
    kindred = similar in character
  • Hunting and kindred outdoor delights had kept down the fat and hardened his muscles; and to him, as to the cold-tubbing races, the love of water had been a tonic and a health preserver.   (source)
    kindred = similar
  • During spare moments, I played street football with others from across the country who were also there, some from kindred conditions.†   (source)
  • I meet your eyes
    you don't even see me
    You hardly respond
    when I whisper hello
    Could be my soul mate
    two kindred spirits
    Maybe we're not
    I guess we'll never
    know
    My own mother
    you carried me in you
    Now you see nothing
    but what I wear
    People ask you
    how I am doing
    You smile and nod
    don't let it end
    there
    Put me
    underneath God's sky and
    know me
    don't just see me with your eyes
    Take away
    this mask of flesh and bone and
    see me
    for my soul
    alone†   (source)
  • Mama had known him since he was a kindred swelling of her first cousin's belly.†   (source)
  • I feel like I'm talking to a kindred spirit in March, and our shared experience—though hers has lasted much longer and involves her own flesh and blood—is a source of comfort.†   (source)
  • I find an extraordinary kindred spirit in Anatole.†   (source)
  • The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.†   (source)
  • In her, he recognized a kindred spirit.†   (source)
  • Matthew, Cara, and Caleb walk together, talking about something that has them all excited, kindred spirits that they are.†   (source)
  • We are somehow kindred spirits beyond just our family ties.†   (source)
  • You seemed kind of like a kindred spirit.†   (source)
  • Russ wants to believe they are still assembled in some recognizable manner, the kindred unit at the radio, old lines and ties and propinquities.†   (source)
  • In many ways, the all-male goblins and all-female hags shared a common culture, and Max wondered if the two species were not distant kindred.†   (source)
  • Jackie Kennedy is self-admittedly "obsessed" with Garbo, in whom she sees a kindred spirit.†   (source)
  • As different as we are, we are in many ways kindred spirits.†   (source)
  • We are Exiles, and most of our kindred have long ago departed and we too are now only tarrying here a while, ere we return over the Great Sea.†   (source)
  • Adams's remarks had been graceful, dignified, appropriate, and, with the possible exception of his reference to "kindred blood," altogether sincere.†   (source)
  • But in you, my boy, he found a kindred spirit.†   (source)
  • My kindred and I have walked this land for a thousand years, Elias.†   (source)
  • They stared at one another as if each wondered what to make of the other, as if they sensed a kindred spirit.†   (source)
  • He sees his species not with the inhuman idea of a natural enemy, but as kindred ...It is the pursuit of this truth that appears to be the common tenor of all the voices you hear in this new volume.†   (source)
  • Yet I speak to you now not as your king but as a kindred warrior, horrified at the dishonor Heafstaag tried to place upon us all!†   (source)
  • A string of fireflies flashed on the lawn, as though with kindred enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • I am one of those, only a halfDwarf, and if any of my kindred, the true Dwarfs, are still alive anywhere in the world, doubtless they would despise me and call me a traitor.†   (source)
  • Kindred blood flows in the veins of Americans.†   (source)
  • A New York lieutenant wrote to his sister in January, 1863, that in his officers' mess "we have had several pretty spirited, I may call them hot, controversies about slavery, the Emancipation Edict and kindred subjects."†   (source)
  • To varying degrees they tolerated each other's spouses, but they made no particular effort with the spouses' families, whom they generally felt to be not quite as close and kindred-spirited as their own family was.†   (source)
  • It allowed them to think themselves superior to their kindred service in Egypt.†   (source)
  • The English seemed to find them to be kindred spirits.†   (source)
  • My sense of making fictional comedy undoubtedly caught its first spark from the antic pantomime of the silent screen, and from having a kindred soul to laugh with.†   (source)
  • It is in my mind to ask what share of their inheritance you would have paid to our kindred, had you found the hoard unguarded and us slain.   (source)
    kindred = family
  • Not exactly a kindred spirit, you know, but still very nice.   (source)
    kindred = similar in character
  • But I think it must be splendid and I believe I shall find that Miss Stacy is a kindred spirit.   (source)
  • "Miss Barry was a kindred spirit, after all," Anne confided to Marilla.   (source)
  • She had discovered another kindred spirit.   (source)
  • Have you discovered another kindred spirit?   (source)
  • Anne permitted herself to be led down and comforted, reflecting that it was really providential that Mrs. Allan was a kindred spirit.   (source)
  • I know it as well as if he'd said so. Matthew and I are such kindred spirits I can read his thoughts without words at all.   (source)
  • "Well, did you find Diana a kindred spirit?" asked Marilla as they went up through the garden of Green Gables.   (source)
  • Not a kindred spirit, of course; but still I like him and I'm awfully sorry I ever criticized his prayers.   (source)
  • A bosom friend—an intimate friend, you know—a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.   (source)
  • There were lots I wanted to ask her, but I didn't like to because I didn't think she was a kindred spirit.   (source)
  • I would like to, because you seem like an interesting lady, and you might even be a kindred spirit although you don't look very much like it.   (source)
  • Anne, although sincerely sorry for Minnie May, was far from being insensible to the romance of the situation and to the sweetness of once more sharing that romance with a kindred spirit.   (source)
  • And even Elisabet isn't truly a kindred spirit.†   (source)
  • And so it is of human life the goal to seek, forever seek, the kindred soul.†   (source)
  • Everybody at the kindred meeting took sides with Osugo when Okonkwo called him a woman.†   (source)
  • We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds : Elves.†   (source)
  • Even our own kindred in the North are sundered from us.†   (source)
  • And they were my kindred and my friends.†   (source)
  • Night oft brings news to near kindred, 'tis said.†   (source)
  • That has been the task of my kindred, while the years have lengthened and the grass has grown.†   (source)
  • Narvi and his craft and all his kindred have vanished from the earth.†   (source)
  • Too seldom do my kindred journey hither from the North.'†   (source)
  • Word came to Rivendell, they say: Aragorn has need of his kindred.†   (source)
  • Then, by our leave, lord, I must take new counsel for myself and my kindred.†   (source)
  • Surely this is a blade wrought by our own kindred in the North in the deep past?†   (source)
  • But deep in the hearts of all my kindred lies the sea-longing, which it is perilous to stir.†   (source)
  • The burden must lie now upon you and your kindred.†   (source)
  • For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart.†   (source)
  • Then he smiled his familiar smile, the smile of a kindred spirit, and I was sure our friendship was intact.†   (source)
  • He sees his species as kindred.†   (source)
  • Once ....He was older than I, but we were kindred spirits, both curious about the world outside our forest, eager to explore and eager to strike against Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • And I, in turn, extend greetings on behalf of my sisters to honor our kindred who crossed the sea long ago.†   (source)
  • A kindred spirit.†   (source)
  • The following letter is the best evidence that John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln were indeed kindred spirits.†   (source)
  • His black eyes meet mine, and his description of himself and his kindred fades from my mind like a dream upon waking.†   (source)
  • God give her ahappy delivery' Royalty, nobility, and vile pageantry, by which a few of the human race lord it over and tread on the necks of their fellow mortals, seem like to be demolished with their kindred Bastille, which is said to be laid in ashes.†   (source)
  • A fellow celibate and more or less kindred spirit but her biological opposite, her male half, dead these many years.†   (source)
  • Kindred spirit, huh?†   (source)
  • I think myself more fortunate than all my fellow-citizens, in having the distinguished honor to be the first to stand in your Majesty's royal presence in a diplomatic character; and I shall esteem my self the happiest of men if I can be instrumental in recommending my country more and more to your Majesty's royal benevolence, and of restoring an entire esteem, confidence, and affection, or, in better words, the old good nature and the old good humor between people who, though separated by an ocean and under different governments, have the same language, a similar religion, and kindred blood.†   (source)
  • We alone here represent our kindred.†   (source)
  • 'You have the keen eyes of your fair kindred, Legolas,' he said; 'and they can tell a sparrow from a finch a league off.†   (source)
  • But do not tell all your kindred!†   (source)
  • I have looked on Moria, and it is very great, but it has become dark and dreadful; and we have found no sign of my kindred.†   (source)
  • So it is that Luthien Tinuviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.†   (source)
  • But when the Ents all gathered round Treebeard, bowing their heads slightly, murmuring in their slow musical voices, and looking long and intently at the strangers, then the hobbits saw that they were all of the same kindred, and all had the same eyes: not all so old or so deep as Treebeard's, but all with the same slow, steady, thoughtful expression, and the same green flicker.†   (source)
  • Some of my kindred, journeying in your land beyond the Baranduin, learned that things were amiss, and sent messages as swiftly as they could.†   (source)
  • And since you come with an Elf of our kindred, we are willing to befriend you, as Elrond asked; though it is not our custom to lead strangers through our land.†   (source)
  • For the Elves of the High Kindred had not yet forsaken Middle-earth, and they dwelt still at that time at the Grey Havens away to the west, and in other places within reach of the Shire.†   (source)
  • They heard my voice across the Nimrodel, and knew that I was one of their Northern kindred, and therefore they did not hinder our crossing; and afterwards they heard my song.†   (source)
  • In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a lady fair to look upon, and so like was she in form of womanhood to Elrond that Frodo guessed that she was one of his close kindred.†   (source)
  • 'Then many of the Elves of Nimrodel's kindred left their dwellings and departed and she was lost far in the South, in the passes of the White Mountains; and she came not to the ship where Amroth her lover waited for her.†   (source)
  • Never again shall there be any such league of Elves and Men; for Men multiply and the Firstborn decrease, and the two kindreds are estranged.†   (source)
  • Not he, yet one of his kindred.†   (source)
  • That is all of our kindred that could be gathered in haste; but the brethren Elladan and Elrohir have ridden with us, desiring to go to the war.†   (source)
  • With them went many Elves of the High Kindred who would no longer stay in Middle-earth; and among them, filled with a sadness that was yet blessed and without bitterness, rode Sam, and Frodo, and Bilbo, and the Elves delighted to honour them.†   (source)
  • In every street they passed some great house or court over whose doors and arched gates were carved many fair letters of strange and ancient shapes: names Pippin guessed of great men and kindreds that had once dwelt there; and yet now they were silent, and no footsteps rang on their wide pavements, nor voice was heard in their halls, nor any face looked out from door or empty window.†   (source)
  • In fact we have both been educated at the same, or similar, or, at any rate, kindred establishments.†   (source)
  • Now that Charles was dead, her place and her son's place were with his kindred.†   (source)
  • In fact we have both been educated at the same, or similar, or, at any rate, kindred establishments.†   (source)
  • And then the General had made another fitting reply to that, disclaiming any merit for that past service; and with more mention of France, of Belgium, of glory, of honour and of such kindred things they had embraced each other heartily and the conversation had ended.†   (source)
  • It was not the economics of Communism, nor the great powerof trade unions, nor the excitement of underground politics that claimed me; my attention was caught by the similarity of the experiences of workers in other lands, by the possibility of uniting scattered but kindred peoples into a whole.†   (source)
  • But that night the future troubled nobody; the house was full of light and music, the air warm with that simple hospitality of the frontier, where people dwell in exile, far from their kindred, where they lead rough lives and seldom meet together for pleasure.†   (source)
  • Amid his heavy burdens, duties, and responsibilities — unsought but not recoiled from — the President has traveled a thousand miles to dignify and magnify our meeting here today and to give me an opportunity of addressing this kindred nation, as well as my own countrymen across the ocean, and perhaps some other countries too.†   (source)
  • Despite privation and hardships, despite food speculators and kindred scourges, despite death and sickness and suffering which had now left their mark on nearly every family, the South was again saying "One more victory and the war is over," saying it with even more happy assurance than in the summer before.†   (source)
  • Amid his heavy burdens, duties, and responsibilities — unsought but not recoiled from — the President has traveled a thousand miles to dignify and magnify our meeting here to-day and to give me an opportunity of addressing this kindred nation, as well as my own countrymen across the ocean, and perhaps some other countries too.†   (source)
  • Fraternal association requires not only the growing friendship and mutual understanding between our two vast but kindred systems of society, but the continuance of the intimate relationship between our military advisers, leading to common study of potential dangers, the similarity of weapons and manuals of instructions, and to the interchange of officers and cadets at technical colleges.†   (source)
  • Fraternal association requires not only the growing friendship and mutual understanding between our two vast but kindred systems of society, but the continuance of the intimate relationship between our military advisers, leading to common study of potential dangers, the similarity of weapons and manuals of instructions, and to the interchange of officers and cadets at technical colleges.†   (source)
  • He could not sway the crowd but he might appeal to a little circle of kindred minds.†   (source)
  • By praise-deeds it shall be
    That in each and all kindreds a man shall have thriving.†   (source)
  • They recognized with kindred senses the nature of the man and his arrival.†   (source)
  • The youth studied the faces of his companions, ever on the watch to detect kindred emotions.†   (source)
  • THE STORY OF BEOWULF
    I. AND FIRST OF THE KINDRED OF HROTHGAR.†   (source)
  • But the Maker all wielded
    Of the kindred of mankind, as yet now he doeth.†   (source)
  • On the kindred of Cain the Lord living ever
    Awreaked the murder of the slaying of Abel.†   (source)
  • So is manifest truth 700
    That God the Almighty the kindred of men
    Hath wielded wide ever.†   (source)
  • I felt that he was a kindred spirit as soon as ever I saw him.†   (source)
  • The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly ascribed to a kindred cause.†   (source)
  • Help for the Bastille prisoner's kindred in La Force!†   (source)
  • His own relation to Farfrae and Lucetta overshadowed all kindred ones.†   (source)
  • The right thing must always be done toward kindred.†   (source)
  • I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee.†   (source)
  • Wherever my son goes, he can claim kindred with Ap-Kerrig.†   (source)
  • It certainly was; for they had been two kindred spirits.†   (source)
  • There was no touch of pity, sorrow, or kindred humanity, in this answer.†   (source)
  • He makes himself as agreeable as possible; talks on theology, and other kindred topics.†   (source)
  • Now let him try society,—the society, that is to say, of kindred and old friends.†   (source)
  • Where was the parent which hatched it, its kindred, and its father in the heavens?†   (source)
  • I feel called to leave my kindred for a while; but it is a trial—the flesh is weak.†   (source)
  • —and sad, because he missed his heavenly kindred!†   (source)
  • Chapter VIII: Influence Of Democracy On Kindred.†   (source)
  • I know thou dost, for of such was the faith of all thy kindred.†   (source)
  • But these thoughts and kindred dubious ones flitting across his mind were suddenly replaced by an intuitional surmise which, though as yet obscure in form, served practically to affect his reception of the ill tidings.†   (source)
  • And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkeyland.†   (source)
  • They had voiced a kindred intellect and spirit, and as such I had received them into a camaraderie of the mind; but now their place was in my heart.†   (source)
  • He was experiencing a last humiliation, the bitterest of all, at this moment—the humiliation of blushing for his own kindred in his own house.†   (source)
  • It was not and is not money these seething millions want, but love and sympathy, the pulse of hearts beating with red blood;—a gift which to-day only their own kindred and race can bring to the masses, but which once saintly souls brought to their favored children in the crusade of the sixties, that finest thing in American history, and one of the few things untainted by sordid greed and cheap vainglory.†   (source)
  • He delighted in the robust common sense of Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza filled him with awe, he had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere; it reminded him of that statue by Rodin, L'Age d'Airain, which he passionately admired; and then there was Hume: the scepticism of that charming philosopher touched a kindred note in Philip; and, revelling in the lucid style which seemed able to put complicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he read as he might have read a novel, a smile of pleasure on his lips.†   (source)
  • Which is to assert an always self-proven fact: that even the best governed and most free and most enlightened monarchy is still behind the best condition attainable by its people; and that the same is true of kindred governments of lower grades, all the way down to the lowest.†   (source)
  • Having censured the circumcision, she bethought her of kindred topics, and asked Aziz when he was going to be married.†   (source)
  • Her kindred dwelling there would probably continue their daily lives as heretofore, with no great diminution of pleasure in their consciousness, although she would be far off, and they deprived of her smile.†   (source)
  • We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends—those whom we obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties,—even those for whom home holds no dear face, no familiar voice,—even they have to meet the spirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in its valleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its trees—a mute friend, judge, and inspirer.†   (source)
  • As the stenographer Rita Simons was pretty as a picture, and Miss Ella Stowbody's long and intensive study of the drama and kindred arts in Eastern schools was seen in the fine finish of her part.†   (source)
  • He was the prettiest man of his kindred; and the best swordsman in the Hielands, David, and that is the same as to say, in all the world, I should ken, for it was him that taught me.†   (source)
  • They understood one another, were kindred souls in fact, without, however, the least suspicion of any evil existing.†   (source)
  • I felt that for Montgomery there was no help; that he was, in truth, half akin to these Beast Folk, unfitted for human kindred.†   (source)
  • I often thought how much wiser it would have been to give these girls the same amount of maternal training—and I favour any kind of training, whether in the languages or mathematics, that gives strength and culture to the mind—but at the same time to give them the most thorough training in the latest and best methods of laundrying and other kindred occupations.†   (source)
  • For half a minute, perhaps, they stood gaping, then Mrs. Bunting went across the room and looked behind the screen, while Mr. Bunting, by a kindred impulse, peered under the desk.†   (source)
  • There were others present who had not met for years, and who had no feeling whatever for each other, unless it were dislike; and yet they met tonight as though they had seen each other but yesterday in some friendly and intimate assembly of kindred spirits.†   (source)
  • Some such things have been hit upon in the last resort of surgery; most of the kindred evidence that will recur to your mind has been demonstrated as it were by accident,—by tyrants, by criminals, by the breeders of horses and dogs, by all kinds of untrained clumsy-handed men working for their own immediate ends.†   (source)
  • He came to deliver an address at the formal opening of the Slater-Armstrong Agricultural Building, our first large building to be used for the purpose of giving training to our students in agriculture and kindred branches.†   (source)
  • If they were merely resisters of the gabelle or some kindred absurdity I would try to protect them from capture; but when men murder a person of high degree and likewise burn his house, that is another matter.†   (source)
  • He spoke such things as these and more of a kindred sort to her, being still swayed by the antipathetic wave which warps direct souls with such persistence when once their vision finds itself mocked by appearances.†   (source)
  • To imprison these men without proof, and starve their kindred, was no harm, for they were merely peasants and subject to the will and pleasure of their lord, no matter what fearful form it might take; but for these men to break out of unjust captivity was insult and outrage, and a thing not to be countenanced by any conscientious person who knew his duty to his sacred caste.†   (source)
  • With the impulse of a soul who could feel for kindred sufferers as much as for herself, Tess's first thought was to put the still living birds out of their torture, and to this end with her own hands she broke the necks of as many as she could find, leaving them to lie where she had found them till the game-keepers should come—as they probably would come—to look for them a second time.†   (source)
  • To all men was Beowulf,
    The Hygelac's kinsman to the kindred of menfolk,
    More fair unto friends; but on Heremod crime fell.†   (source)
  • 'Tis wonder to say it,
    How the high God almighty to the kindred of mankind
    Through his mind the wide-fashion'd deals wisdom about,
    Home and earlship; he owneth the wielding of all.†   (source)
  • Haste now and be speedy, and bid them in straightway,
    The kindred-band gather'd together, to see us,
    And in words say thou eke that they be well comen
    To the folk of the Danes.†   (source)
  • Now I must be wotting
    The spring of your kindred ere further ye cast ye,
    And let loose your false spies in the Dane-land a-faring
    Yet further afield.†   (source)
  • Then came forth Wealhtheow
    Under gold ring a-going to where sat the two good ones,
    The uncle and nephew, yet of kindred unsunder'd,
    Each true to the other.†   (source)
  • But a little after, one Grendel, of the kindred of the evil wights that are come of Cain, hears the merry noise of Hart and cannot abide it; so he enters thereinto by night, and slays and carries off and devours thirty of Hrothgar's thanes.†   (source)
  • Now lightly the tracks were
    All through the woodland ways wide to be seen there,
    Her goings o'er ground; she had gotten her forthright
    Over the mirk-moor: bore she of kindred thanes
    The best that there was, all bare of his soul,
    Of them that with Hrothgar heeded the home.†   (source)
  • E'en so I the Ring-Danes for an hundred of seasons
    Did wield under the welkin and lock'd them by war 1770
    From many a kindred the Middle-Garth over
    With ash-spears and edges, in such wise that not ever
    Under the sky's run of my foemen I reckoned.†   (source)
  • Said he who could it 90
    To tell the first fashion of men from aforetime;
    Quoth how the Almighty One made the Earth's fashion,
    The fair field and bright midst the bow of the Waters,
    And with victory beglory'd set Sun and Moon,
    Bright beams to enlighten the biders on land:
    And how he adorned all parts of the earth
    With limbs and with leaves; and life withal shaped
    For the kindred of each thing that quick on earth wendeth.†   (source)
  • he fear'd not that war for himself,
    Nor for himself the Worm's war accounted one whit,
    His might and his valour, for that he erst a many
    Strait-daring of battles had bided, and liv'd,
    Clashings huge of the battle, sithence he of Hrothgar, 2350
    He, the man victory-happy, had cleansed the hall,
    And in war-tide had gripped the kindred of Grendel,
    The loathly of kindreds; nor was that the least
    Of hand-meetings, wherein erst was Hygelac slain,
    Sithence the Geats' king in the onrush of battle,
    The lord-friend of the folks, down away in the Frieslands,
    The offspring of Hrethel, died, drunken of sword-drinks,
    All beaten of bill.†   (source)
  • Then soon it betided
    That therein to the guest there stood grisly terror;
    However the wretched, of every hope waning
    * * * * *
    The ill-shapen wight, whenas the fear gat him,
    The treasure-vat saw; of such there was a many 2230
    Up in that earth-house of treasures of old,
    As them in the yore-days, though what man I know not,
    The huge leavings and loom of a kindred of high ones,
    Well thinking of thoughts there had hidden away.†   (source)
  • Then heard I that swiftly the son of that Weohstan
    After this word-say his lord the sore wounded,
    Battle-sick, there obeyed, and bare forth his ring-net,
    His battle-sark woven, in under the burg-roof;
    Saw then victory-glad as by the seat went he,
    The kindred-thane moody, sun-jewels a many,
    Much glistering gold lying down on the ground,
    Many wonders on wall, and the den of the Worm,
    The old twilight-flier; there were flagons a-standing,
    The vats of men bygone, of brighteners bereft, 2760
    And maim'd of adornment; was many an helm
    Rusty and old, and of arm-rings a many
    Full cunningly twined.†   (source)
  • Well was she sithence
    There on the man-throne mighty with good;
    Her shaping of life well brooked she living;
    High love she held toward the lord of the heroes;
    Of all kindred of men by the hearsay of me
    The best of all was he the twain seas beside,
    Of the measureless kindred; thereof Offa was
    For gifts and for war, the spear-keen of men,
    Full widely beworthy'd, with wisdom he held
    The land of his heritage.†   (source)
  • Do thou then bear in hand these thanes of my kindred, 1480
    My hand-fellows, if so be battle shall have me;
    Those same treasures withal, which thou gavest me erst,
    O Hrothgar the lief, unto Hygelac send thou;
    By that gold then shall wot the lord of the Geat-folk,
    Shall Hrethel's son see, when he stares on the treasure,
    That I in fair man-deeds a good one have found me,
    A ring-giver; while I might, joy made I thereof.†   (source)
  • Out then spake Beowulf, Ecgtheow's bairn:
    All undark it is, O Hygelac lord, 2000
    That meeting the mighty, to a many of men;
    Of what like was the meeting of Grendel and me
    On that field of the deed, where he many a deal
    For the Victory-Scyldings of sorrow had framed,
    And misery for ever; but all that I awreaked,
    So that needeth not boast any kinsman of Grendel
    Any one upon earth of that uproar of dawn-dusk,
    Nay not who lives longest of that kindred the loathly
    Encompass'd of fenland.†   (source)
  • At whiles unto love he letteth to turn
    The mood-thought of a man that Is mighty of kindred,
    And in his land giveth him joyance of earth, 1730
    And to have and to hold the high ward-burg of men,
    And sets so 'neath his wielding the deals of the world,
    Dominion wide reaching, that he himself may not
    In all his unwisdom of the ending bethink him.†   (source)
  • Did off from his halse then a ring was all golden,
    The king the great-hearted, and gave to his thane,
    To the spear-warrior young his war-helm gold-brindled, 2810
    The ring and the byrny, and bade him well brook them:
    Thou art the end-leaving of all of our kindred,
    The Waegmundings; Weird now hath swept all away
    Of my kinsmen, and unto the doom of the Maker
    The earls in their might; now after them shall I.
    That was to the aged lord youngest of words
    Of his breast-thoughts, ere ever he chose him the bale,
    The hot battle-wellings; from his heart now departed
    His soul, to seek out the doom of the soothfast.†   (source)
  • Now shall taking of treasures and giving of swords
    And all joy of your country-home fail from your kindred,
    All hope wane away; of the land-right moreover
    May each of the men of that kinsman's burg ever
    Roam lacking; sithence that the athelings eft-soons
    From afar shall have heard of your faring in flight,
    Your gloryless deed.†   (source)
  • Then heard I that widely the work was a-banning
    To kindreds a many the Middle-garth over
    To fret o'er that folk-stead.†   (source)
  • Oft then Scyld the Sheaf-son from the hosts of the scathers,
    From kindreds a many the mead-settles tore;
    It was then the earl fear'd them, sithence was he first
    Found bare and all-lacking; so solace he bided,
    Wax'd under the welkin in worship to thrive,
    Until it was so that the round-about sitters
    All over the whale-road must hearken his will 10
    And yield him the tribute.†   (source)
  • Nor for himself the Worm's war accounted one whit,
    His might and his valour, for that he erst a many
    Strait-daring of battles had bided, and liv'd,
    Clashings huge of the battle, sithence he of Hrothgar, 2350
    He, the man victory-happy, had cleansed the hall,
    And in war-tide had gripped the kindred of Grendel,
    The loathly of kindreds; nor was that the least
    Of hand-meetings, wherein erst was Hygelac slain,
    Sithence the Geats' king in the onrush of battle,
    The lord-friend of the folks, down away in the Frieslands,
    The offspring of Hrethel, died, drunken of sword-drinks,
    All beaten of bill.†   (source)
  • There then for Handshoe was battle abiding,
    Life-bale to the fey; he first lay alow,
    The war-champion girded; unto him became Grendel,
    To the great thane of kindreds, a banesman of mouth,
    Of the man well-beloved the body he swallow'd; 2080
    Nor the sooner therefor out empty-handed
    The bloody-tooth'd banesman, of bales all bemindful,
    Out from that gold-hall yet would he get him;
    But he, mighty of main, made trial of me,
    And gripp'd ready-handed.†   (source)
  • Our object being to search the neighbourhood for traces of the boa constrictor, or any of his kindred, Fritz, Jack, and Franz went with me to the sugar-cane brake, and we satisfied ourselves that our enemy had not been there.†   (source)
  • No, Seth; but I counsel you to wait patiently, and not lightly to leave your own country and kindred.†   (source)
  • The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of reconciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.†   (source)
  • When Rebecca saw the two magnificent Cashmere shawls which Joseph Sedley had brought home to his sister, she said, with perfect truth, "that it must be delightful to have a brother," and easily got the pity of the tender-hearted Amelia for being alone in the world, an orphan without friends or kindred.†   (source)
  • His meeting with her struck him as a particularly happy omen; he was delighted to see her, as though she were of his own kindred.†   (source)
  • 'And when I came to you, that night, to lay down all my load of shame and grief, and knew that I had to tell that, underneath your roof, one of my own kindred, to whom you had been a benefactor, for the love of me, had spoken to me words that should have found no utterance, even if I had been the weak and mercenary wretch he thought me — my mind revolted from the taint the very tale conveyed.†   (source)
  • I know that most men think differently from myself; but those whose lives are by profession devoted to the study of these or kindred subjects content me as little as any.†   (source)
  • As one of her nearest kindred, she had naturally betaken herself to Hepzibah, with no idea of forcing herself on her cousin's protection, but only for a visit of a week or two, which might be indefinitely extended, should it prove for the happiness of both.†   (source)
  • Ralph Nickleby, who was proof against all appeals of blood and kindred—who was steeled against every tale of sorrow and distress—staggered while he looked, and went back into his house, as a man who had seen a spirit from some world beyond the grave.†   (source)
  • At the head of the enlightened nations of the Old World the inhabitants of the United States more particularly distinguished one, to which they were closely united by a common origin and by kindred habits.†   (source)
  • They parted with moistened eyes; and as Benjamin turned away, he said, "Phil, I part with all my kindred."†   (source)
  • Why should not my servant be like my own kindred, so that I may take him into my family and rejoice in doing so?†   (source)
  • The truth seems to be, however, that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognised a kindred wilderness in the human child.†   (source)
  • The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust.†   (source)
  • Nay, nay; I speak not of a time so very distant, but of favor shown to thy kindred by one of mine, within the memory of thy youngest warrior.†   (source)
  • As to Mr Edward, he, too, had a large acquaintance, and was generally engaged (for the most part, in diceing circles, or others of a kindred nature), during the greater part of every night.†   (source)
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