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kith and kin (old-fashioned)

friends and relatives. They wanted to keep alive the memory of their kith and kin who had died in the war.

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The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel" afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and harpooneers --all kith and kin to noble Benjamin --this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context The universal aspiration with all its profound and melancholy meaning assailed heavily Razumov, who, amongst eighty millions of his kith and kin, had no heart to which he could open himself. Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph View in context The kith and kin were there, and the whole respectability of the town besides. House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context More results

References in classic literature

The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel" afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and harpooneers --all kith and kin to noble Benjamin --this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

The universal aspiration with all its profound and melancholy meaning assailed heavily Razumov, who, amongst eighty millions of his kith and kin, had no heart to which he could open himself.

Under Western Eyes by Conrad, Joseph View in context

The kith and kin were there, and the whole respectability of the town besides.

House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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