One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with. From LearnThat.org. [Ogden Nash (1902-1971), American humorous poet, from Hard Lines,1931, Family Court.]
All his kith and kin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She called her kith and kin. From Wordnik.com. [On the Tree Top] Reference
My son, go call our kith and kin. From Wordnik.com. [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference
And straightway acknowledging its true kith and kin. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Far frae their kith an 'kin, an' their ain countrie. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
Twelve bold men of their kith were there, mighty giants these. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Sought for their kith and their kin among the few-acred farmers. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
I trod once more that hallowed ground, of kith, of kin, of race. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
(They, their father too before them), these our very kith and kin. From Wordnik.com. [The Frogs] Reference
"There's nobody like your own kith and kin," the little old lady sighed. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
One of my kith and kin, who had been married in the year of the battle of. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
In fact no story of the war is now possible without some kith and kin in it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914] Reference
'I have lost my brothers and sisters, and father and mother, and kith and kin. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
At home and at Westminster our kith and kin are occupying prominent positions. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
A woman without kith or kin, without a history, and apparently without a memory. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
They begged her to tarry there, for but little kith she had among Siegfried's men. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Spaniards still counted on native auxiliaries to fight against their own kith and kin. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Berbers -- their own kith and kin -- and the country became known to Europe as Morocco. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
Then with a stately band there rode to meet them many of Uta's kith and Gunther's liegemen. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
"The boy's no kith nor kin of mine," said Jean Clerk, "except a very far-out cousin's son.". From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Were they not prosecuted after our departure for welcoming and receiving their kith and kin?. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
Libya, too, they had great store of the fairest silks which the kith of any king did ever win. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Thus, Kosovar nationalism was qualitatively the kin and kith of the Serb or Croat sub-species. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Frazer Clan of Scotland, and may have been worked by ladies who were kith and kin of this clan. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
Everyone is aware that the last place to go to for evidence as to a man is to his kith and kin. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-01] Reference
Boer nation as their kith and kin, but prefer to ignore the existence of the French Huguenot factor. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference
There ain't nobody like one's kith and kin, wen things isn't quite as they should be, as one may say. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Gradually you forget all about salmon and sport, and are thinking, maybe, of kith and kin across the North. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
As to the question of slavery, they had neither kith nor kin in interest or sentiment with that institution. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
It would be nice to have another of her own kind -- one of her mental kith and kin -- near at hand after she was married. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Not indeed that the idea of vengeance being sought for D'Ambois's fate by one of his nearest kith and kin was without basis in fact. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
No kith or kin had he in the country, and he had mentioned to a neighbour that he was going to sell his ranch and go back to England. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
Popular sayings -- wind and weather, time and tide, kith and kin, ever and aye, to have and to hold -- are fond of it for its own sake. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Old religious conceptions, the orthodoxy of his kith and kin, were fast tested in the crucible of his mind and flung aside as worthless. From Wordnik.com. [The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner] Reference
Hogan, as the fulfilment of a sacred duty, brought the body of his friend home to Ireland, to be buried among his own kith and kin, in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference
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