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  • Where previously there was hierarchy, there would now be an open, decentralized network of interconnected nodes; where formerly dominance was the order of the day, compassion and empathy would rule; where once hoarding and selfishness guaranteed survival, generosity and kindredship would ultimately protect and sustain the individual in the context of an interconnected mesh.

    Contemplating Big Sister | FactoryCity 2007

  • I suddenly feel a close kindredship with the French that I had not felt heretofore.

    Living without the internet 2005

  • It is hoped that in this Association such men may find the kindredship and comradeship they so richly earn.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948

  • They are free, living personalities, united by a sense of human obligation and kindredship.

    Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander

  • Ken and Felicia, sunk unobtrusively in the big chairs at the hearth, were each aware of a subtle kindredship between these two at the piano -- a something which they could not altogether understand.

    The Happy Venture Edith Ballinger Price 1947

  • I stretch my hand in homage and kindredship to thee,

    Verses and Rhymes By the Way Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862

  • From time to time she claims kindredship with us, and some globule from her veins steals up into our own.

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

  • City, country, and people, were all dear to me; it seemed to me, as I said before, that the boundaries of my native land had stretched themselves out, and I now first felt the kindredship of the three peoples, and in this feeling I wrote a Scandinavian song, a hymn of praise for all the three nations, for that which was peculiar and best in each one of them.

    The True Story of My Life Andersen, Hans Christian, 1805-1875 1847

  • City, country, and people, were all dear to me; it seemed to me, as I said before, that the boundaries of my native land had stretched themselves out, and I now first felt the kindredship of the three peoples, and in this feeling I wrote a Scandinavian song, a hymn of praise for all the three nations, for that which was peculiar and best in each one of them.

    True Story of My Life 1840

  • The nighthawk circled overhead in the sunny afternoons — for I sometimes made a day of it — like a mote in the eye, or in heaven's eye, falling from time to time with a swoop and a sound as if the heavens were rent, torn at last to very rags and tatters, and yet a seamless cope remained; small imps that fill the air and lay their eggs on the ground on bare sand or rocks on the tops of hills, where few have found them; graceful and slender like ripples caught up from the pond, as leaves are raised by the wind to float in the heavens; such kindredship is in nature.

    Walden~ Chapter 07 (historical) 1854

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