Unkindred

You see in what a brotherly way I commence my letter: not with the frigid 'Sir' as if I were addressing one of a totally unkindred clay, one of the drossy children of earth, with whom I have no relationship and feel I could never have any familiarity. ❋ J. L. Cherry (N/A)

Before I speak, however, of the beneficent humorist who next had my boyish heart after Goldsmith, let me acquit myself in full of my debt to that not unequal or unkindred spirit. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Consider the remarkable phenomenon of excellence in three unkindred, one might have thought incompatible, forms of public speech, -- that of the forum, with its double audience of bench and jury, of the halls of legislation, and of the most thronged and tumultuous assemblies of the people. ❋ Daniel Webster (1817)

He warned that unkindred legislature therefore, composed of interests opposite and dissimilar in their nature, will in its exercise, emphatically be, like a house divided against itself. [ ❋ Sunstein, Cass R. (2009)

Consider the remarkable phenomenon of excellence in three unkindred, one might have thought incompatible, forms of public speech, ” that of the forum, with its double audience of bench and jury, of the halls of legislation, and of the most thronged and tumultuous assemblies of the people. ❋ Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 (1903)