homefolk

1 “Easier to write about the homefolks, the old folks, cowboys, or the small town,” he chided, “than to deal with the more immediate and frequently less simplistic experience of city life.”

2 Having sworn for six years to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, Senate Republicans, unable to pass a plan before their summer recess, recently got their first taste of how the homefolks feel about it.

3 “He’s homefolks to us,” the mayor of Independence, Mo., told a cheering crowd as Harry S. Truman and his wife, Bess Truman, stepped off a train from Washington in 1953.

4 The homefolks were there, and others to extend help and sympathy at the time of misfortune, but on the desert, what?

5 Each took his firelock, bullet pouch, and powder horn from their hooks above the fireplace, and, bidding brief farewell to homefolk, set forth to the appointed meeting place.

6 "But among homefolks, I would rather be called Davy, as I have always been sceptical of anyone calling me Mister, afraid he would want to sell me something I didn't want."

7 Now he caught a faint echo of a song; now a note of laughter; and now the serious tones of some man speaking with his homefolks.

8 "However, I was thinking not of home, exactly, but the homefolks who are just at present aboard my father's yacht and steaming down the bay."

9 Our homefolk always call it the Danes, or the Denes, which is no more, they tell me, than a hollow place, even as the word "den" is.

10 Some of the girls left to talk it over with the homefolks, while others, wishing to learn more of the organisation, plied Mary with numerous questions.

11 They would go back to the homefolks to tell of themselves.

12 Our homefolk always call it the Danes, or the Denes, which is no more, they tell me, than a hollow place, even as the word 'den' is.

1 家属

kinfolk family house friend folk kindred sib meiny kith and kin

2 亲属

kinfolk people family connection relative folk kin kindred belonging sib

3 乡亲

homey

4 朋友

bubaleh make company man friend guy partner sport associate society brother companion gossip yak wack kith matey paisano ami bucko boobie mucker amigo cobber fere semblable pally cully matie tillicum