Lors, it's a fine thing to hev good kin.
To live respected, and have the proper bearers at your funeral, was an achievement of the ends of existence that would be entirely nullified if, on the reading of your will, you sank in the opinion of your fellow-men, either by turning out to be poorer than they expected, or by leaving your money in a capricious manner, without strict regard to degrees of kin.
No one must be able to say of her when she was dead that she had not divided her money with perfect fairness among her own kin.
Not but what I've allays conducted myself civil to your kin, and there isn't one of 'em can say the contrary, though my equils they aren't, and nobody shall make me say it.
And you mustn't look to having any o' Mr Glegg's money, for it's well if I don't go first,—he comes of a long-lived family; and if he was to die and leave me well for my life, he'd tie all the money up to go back to his own kin.
There were some Dodsons less like the family than others, that was admitted; but in so far as they were "kin," they were of necessity better than those who were "no kin.
Abel thought, like the servants at The Shrubs, that the strange man belonged to the unpleasant "kin" who are among the troubles of the rich; she had at first referred the kinship to Mr.
" These nearest of kin were naturally impressed with the unreasonableness of expectations in cousins and second cousins, and used their arithmetic in reckoning the large sums that small legacies might mount to, if there were too many of them.
Vincy, whose expense in handsome crape seemed to imply the most presumptuous hopes, aggravated by a bloom of complexion which told pretty plainly that she was not a blood-relation, but of that generally objectionable class called wife's kin.
" "Not got up by me, brother, nor yet by Solomon, who, whatever else he may be—and I don't deny he has oddities—has made his will and parted his property equal between such kin as he's friends with; though, for my part, I think there are times when some should be considered more than others.
While they snugly repair to their own end of the house, she is formally conducted by Dorothy, the ancient housekeeper, up a different staircase, and along many gloomy passages, into an apartment never used since some cousin or kin died in it about twenty years before.
I kin git it for that at the Port.
What kin they be up to?
aches and pains affable and kindancient and modern arts and sciencebag and baggage black and whitebucket and spade brothers and sistersbow and arrow, bread and buttercrack and roar cup and saucerdrunk and sober fair and squarefar and away far and near fire and sword first and foremostfirst and last fish and chipsfree and easy friend and foeforward and backward fun and pleasurewife and children good or ill()great and small
Photographer Valtteri Mulkahainen, 59, was shooting wildlife in Martinselkonen, Finland, when he spied a mama bear apparently playing a game of peek-a-boo with her cub, and stealing kisses from her affectionate kin.
Siblings, spouses, aging parents and colleagues were also lumped into the 'difficult' category, though next of kin were considered more annoying.
Rather, they are close kin to dolphins.
It may, however, help northern snakes soak up heat from the sun more quickly than their southern kin, a teen finds.
Pretty soon it was spring, and sunny and pleasant and lovely, and the sweet mother and the children patted me and the puppy good-by, and went away on a journey and a visit to their kin, and the master wasn't any company for us, but we played together and had good times, and the servants were kind and friendly, so we got along quite happily and counted the days and waited for the family.
Loading the relationship even more is women's traditional role as what researchers call 'kin keepers' who maintain the family social calendar, relationships and traditions.
