He possibly resigned to his kinsfolk some of his other livings, after having, it was said, made scandalous leases of the property that left little to his successors.
His kinsfolk are artisans, rough around the edges; yet in their fierce parochialism, their defiant eccentricities, the purity of their tongue, they do constitute a kind of aristocracy.
The governor then presented himself with his family, kinsfolk and distinguished students of the military academy, who had been shut up in the place during the siege.
Rules and norms for marriage and social behavior among kinsfolk is often reflected in the systems of kinship terminology in the various languages of the world.