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He was fascinated by this man because he recognized the kinship which existed between them.
All these are peoples to whom we have been bound by ties of kinship or trusteeship.
The fair vision was clothed in white, a soft white, that fell in folds and had no kinship with starch.
He could find no kinship with these stolid-faced, ox-minded bestial creatures.
He actually smiled in the pleasure of newfound kinship.
No doubt its popularity has been due in some degree to its kinship to that work; but the vigor of its style overcomes the minute elaboration of an almost impossible theme, and the book lives, alike as literature and theology, by its own vitality.
Two thousand men gathered round him to participate in the important ceremony which was for them the visible sign of their kinship with the sacred city, and its ultimate religious absorption in their own all-conquering creed.
At the same time this remarkably strong imitative instinct in man is a proof of his kinship with apes.
There is strong kinship, moral and artistic, between Coleridge and Hawthorne; both believed that the heart is more than the head, and neither could force his imagination to work under unfavorable conditions.
He has no kinship with the wild Indian, who hates and fears him.
The same is true of the African tribes among whom kinship in the female line prevails.
Human associations range from kinship groups like the family, tribe and clan to larger more complex groups like villages, towns, cities, nations, empires, to still more inclusive leagues, federations and civilizations.
Actually it must have been a prompt recognition of the kinship between two lawless souls.
Poems are separated one from another which possess a kinship of subject or of treatment far more vital and deep than the supposed unity of mental origin, which was Wordsworth's reason for joining them with others.
His fiery energy, his swelling rhetoric, his love of the extraordinary and the sublime, bring him into closer kinship with Marlowe than with any other writer of his own nation until the time of Victor Hugo.
Through their kinship, the cowardice and the shirking became a part of his heritage.
An Indian tribe is composed of a number of kinship groups or clans.
Each kinship group or clan has a set of personal names, all of which refer to the rite peculiar to the clan, or to the sacred objects or to the symbols connected with the rite, and one of these names is given to each person born within the clan.
I have been startled to find a kinship between Wordsworth and Millet.
The rain falling in long, slanting lines through the dingy lamplight seemed to merge them into a mournful kinship.
Beneath the surface the recognition of kinship persists unchanged and invariably reasserts itself.
Over the lifeless body of the departed, enemies and friend can weep together, and, burying strife and differences with their common loss, feel a kinship which unites them, and which all humanity shares.
This necessity and this taste for wandering and exploring has helped in some degree to form the independence of character of our men, and also to strengthen rather than to weaken the ties of affection and kinship with the Motherland.
And so that day, as the man from the ranges and the man from the cities rode together, the feeling of kinship that each had instinctively recognized at their first meeting on the Divide was strengthened.
Alone in the night with this man for whom, even at that first moment of their meeting on the Divide, he had felt a strange sense of kinship, Phil found himself drifting far from the questions that had risen to mar the closeness of their intimacy.
He felt that he was one of them, and blessed them as they jostled him, taking their rough manners as a sign of kinship.
From somebody, he felt sure, she would hear about this other girl who had appeared to claim kinship with the Balls and demand that Sheila give over to her the place she had with Cap'n Ira and Prudence.
He unjustly provoked the Goths, being the first to break the bonds of kinship by unseemly strife.
And as for this kinship that ye say is between a man and his mother, hearken to this.
It commemorates the spiritual kinship existing between these two gifted persons.
And so the child, the parent, the teacher and the home-staying relative are brought to feel their kinship with all the world through the agency of the public school, but the teacher learns the lesson most fully, most consciously.
The kinship between us was strengthened by these endearments.
He had not much "head," but he had that queer inward kinship with animals which is sometimes found in intensely simple natures, and Joanna felt equal to managing the "head" part of the business for both.
Meanwhile, she met with energy the multiplied claims of a life full of sympathy for every form of trouble, and, neglecting none of the duties of society or kinship, yet found time for study and accomplishments.
When a chief was taken captive, or committed adultery or murder, all his relatives contributed toward his ransom, each according to the degree of his kinship; and if the relatives had not means to do this the chief remained a slave.
In defeat the brave soul learns kinship with other men, takes the rub to heart; seeks out the reason for the fall in his own weakness, and ever afterwards finds it impossible to judge, much less condemn his fellow.
The fabric of Indian society is a complex tissue of kinship.
The warp is made of streams of kinship blood, and the woof of marriage ties.
The intensity with which any specified quality occurs in each or any degree of kinship is measured by the proportion between the numbers of those who possess the quality in question and the total number of persons in that same degree.
By its nature it is refreshed or corrupted by indefinable forces of custom or kinship.
As you know, kinship and environment are powerful agencies in forming character, and it appears that none of the Father's children have so far been able to withstand the tendency to wrong which is exerted on all who come to this family.
As is well known, the basis of the Indian social organization was the kinship system.
Such a genealogy, however, appears to be fictitious, invented solely for the purpose of connecting Darius with the ancient royal line, with which in reality he could claim no kinship, or only a very distant connection.
He felt a new kinship with a great gull who came floating by.
If we take a crucial case of kinship terminology, we find that a child applies the same term to its actual mother as to all the women whom its father might have married, to its potential mothers in fact.
Nor is there much information as to what terms of kinship are used within the totem kin.
Of late the question has been raised whether in the beginning hereditary kinship groups existed at all, or whether membership was not rather determined by considerations of an entirely different order.
There must be qualities of kinship in the primeval elements of character.
A meadow lark throbbed its three notes at her joyfully to emphasize their kinship.
Now a force was roused in her that claimed kinship with the big, thunderous man opposite.
Since man has essential kinship with his environment, he can apprehend both the outer surface of things and their inner law; and it is in this recognition of their inner law that his true nature is to be found.
We are led to hope much when he speaks of "the kinship of the emotions set up by certain phenomena of nature with moods arising from within"?but he empties his statement of mystic meaning by adding, "at the mind's own instance."
It is not necessary to enter into further detail, but to grasp the fact that such modern scientists as Clifford inclined to see in the world, at every point, a manifestation of some grade of consciousness, and therefore of kinship.
In some apparent kinship with the meteorites may be classed the comets.
Nothing assures me so certainly of her remoteness from myself, and of my kinship with her too, as this absence of shock.
"It will give him confidence," thought the old man, and the feeling of kinship which had so long slept within him began to awake and to fill his heart with a warm glow which he had missed so long, though perhaps unconsciously.
Can you not love your friend for himself alone, for his kinship with you, without taking an inventory of his moral and intellectual qualities; for something in him that makes you happy in his presence?
His kinship to Browning is strong in style and in method of thought, in his way of leaping from one conclusion to another, in his elimination of all the usual small connecting words and in his liberties with the language.
You and your husband have been good friends to me and my boy, and have gone in that matter far beyond the ordinary bounds of kinship; and I should not like to start upon this voyage knowing that there was a cloud between us.
The thought and meditation of which I have told you served only to enrich the mind; but if ever the wounded heart turns to the brain for counsel, be sure the young girl would show some kinship with the demon of knowledge and of daring.
It did not take him long to find out that the fancied tie of kinship was not recognized, that it was even despised; and that if he made friends, it must be in spite of his country, and not because of it.
From a sense of being outcast and alone, he felt a sudden warming kinship with all the world.
These tribes are subdivided according to kinship.
Theirs is an intensity that goes deeper than daydreaming, although it admits distant kinship.
The sense of kinship tingled in the air, opening men's hearts and supplying aid to weaker brethren.
Physically and culturally, there is very little similarity between the two communities, but their flood situations and the potential effects of the proposed protective structures have a certain kinship.
He might be baffled as to why the Kentuckian had not made a move to claim kinship with Hunt.
Man did not begin to build up his social system with the scientific fact of blood kinship through father and mother, but he evolved a theory of social relationship which served his purpose until the fact of blood kinship supplied a better basis.
One of our greatest difficulties, indeed, is the indiscriminate use of kinship terms by our descriptive authorities.
Such incarnation of a great national character evokes his English pride of kinship.
He was paid only by the fees of his scholars, who were either the sons of farmers about him, or of men living at a distance, who sent their children to be part of the family in some farm where they had kinship or acquaintance.
Hazlitt felt a sudden lusty kinship toward the swarm of bodies unwinding itself through the snowfall.
The conception of spiritual relationship was endowed with the results which belonged to natural kinship.
The act was brotherly and slightly contemptuous, but it was sufficient to at once establish their kinship.
The illegitimacy of his birth has thrown a veil of mystery over his descent and kinship.
"This common meal is perhaps a survival from the age when cattle were sacred animals, and were never slain or eaten except on the solemn annual occasions when the clan or race renewed its kinship and its mutual obligations by a solemn sacrament."
Its kinship with the surviving villagers was clear.
The sonata formula is warped to the purpose of the poet, but the themes have the classic ideal of kinship.
I did nothing but explore with my hands and learn the name of every object that I touched; and the more I handled things and learned their names and uses, the more joyous and confident grew my sense of kinship with the rest of the world.
"I don't know that I claim spiritual kinship with a ghoul," said I; "especially such a very sharp-tempered ghoul."
Between these kinsmen was much friendship as well as kinship.
Dirty, ragged imp as she was, that strange inexplicable sense of kinship stirred within him.
It is not wonderful that the descendants of the latter, settled in a country of small extent and little political importance, placed a high value on their kinship with an ancient line in the powerful kingdom of France.
Perhaps that sense of kinship was felt by the stag, too.
The atmosphere of home is the sum total of the kinship and sympathy radiated by its members.
The details of anatomy which show the kinship between man and the apes are numerous and astonishing.
These interesting animals because of their collateral kinship with man afford precious evidence as to the stages of intellectual development which is likely to be of exceeding value to students in that field of inquiry.
He felt that he was within a lair and his kinship with bird and beast was renewed.
It was on the moors that earth had most kinship and communion with the sky.
You are an impostor, and you must be severely punished for daring to claim kinship with me.
Our friendship had been more than ordinary in its strength and real sympathy; one of those attractions that laugh at disparity of years and absence of any tie of kinship, and, indeed, up to his death I had been far closer to him than Roger ever was.
Pity stabbed him as sharply as ridicule had done a moment before, and with the first sense of human kinship he had ever felt to Cyrus, he understood suddenly the tragedy that underlies all comic things.
There seems to be a kinship between the voices of the marsh dwellers.
The associations of the plains, closer cemented by the sharing of many hardships and some pleasures, had created feelings almost equal to kinship, more binding than those of many a life-long neighborhood relation.
And his need of affection, of female affection especially, and of kinship, was so immense that he clung to this most kind and loving woman as if she'd been his mother come back from the grave, or his dear Lady Archibald.
Her Father's Letter Thrilled with a new, mysterious sense of kinship, she dwelt lovingly upon every line of the pictured faces, holding the photograph safely beyond the reach of the swift-falling tears.
Ancestor-worship is the feeling of kinship with the dead, invested by religion with peculiar intensity and solemnity.
The starting-point being reverence for animals and other objects of nature, and belief in their kinship with men, one human group may have been led by some accidental experience to regard some nonhuman group or object as its ally.
When I was a boy I learned of that kinship, learned how her marriage with a Puritan had earned for a woman of your race the scorn, indeed the hatred of her family, or those who should most and best have loved her.
And still the heavenly sense of unrestrained mental kinship lingered.