Which preposition to use with kin
Friendship's too near a-kin to Love, Pisaro, To leave me any Peace, whilst in your Eyes I read Reserves, which 'tis not kind to hide; Come, prithee tell me what the quarrel was, And who 'twas with; thou shalt, my dear Pisaro.
Mrs. Lincoln is of the Kentucky Tods, and they were in some way kin of my wife's family, the Howells.
It is clear that these words are each other's kith and kin in blood, and that the strain or stock common to all is scribe or (as sometimes modified) script.
she asked, a dull, vague wonder rising in her mind that this grim, middle-class man should be of kith and kin with her dead father.
And now, Signori, though you may be angry to hear it, I will say, that when an aged man has no other kin on earth, or none so near as to feel the glow of the thin blood of the poor, than one poor boy, St. Mark would do well to remember that even a fisherman of the Lagunes can feel as well as the Doge on his throne.
The white people killed my kin at Conestoga, a great while ago, and I thought nothing of that.
Odyssey of an American family; an account of the Roosevelts & their kin as travelers from 1613 to 1938.
"Name and rank have I laid by for the nonce, until I shall have achieved a certain vow, but of noble blood am I and kin unto the greatestthis do I swear by Holy Rood.
"I'll do the best I kin for the rich man, an' let the poor man alone.
But as for you, turning your own kin out of doors one-two-three.... Nay, I'll say no more.
More than two thousand Chinese in Tahiti, nearly all kin within a few degrees, found in this humble church a substitute for their family temples in China, where usually each clan has its own place of worship.
There is a kith and kin among all these extraordinary creatures of the brain.
Men list not now to do Great deeds and worthy of the minstrel's verse: Vassals of gain, their hand is on their purse, Their eyes on lucre: ne'er a rusty nail They'll give in kindness; this being aye their tale: "Kin before kith; to prosper is my prayer; Poets, we know, are heaven's peculiar care.
If they had given me straight hair and brains I might have been a Suffragist and shamed my kin by biting a policeman; and that would have been a pity.
The Saxons, of whom we speak as the fathers of freedom, were the worst slave masters in the worldthey sold their very kin into slavery at times.
He is more than kin through his unwelcome marriageless than kind by the difference in their natures.
They kept up communication with their kin across the seas until the Black Death swept through the Old World in the Fourteenth Century; Norway, when it was gone, was like a vast tomb.