How To Use Descendant In A Sentence

It is an Extended Family Tree - showing all the collateral branches of a family, i.e. all the descendants.
The ‘hammer’ and ‘anvil’ bones of the mammalian ear are descendants of these nubbins.
The sound is a direct descendant of old skool UK garage, the bumpy beats of yore with rubbery basslines and cutting edge sampling techniques, taking in everything from soul to electro to jazz to blue grass.
Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times
Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation. Times, Sunday Times

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Sclavonic blood, or from the descendants of Rurik's companions, differ little in regularity of feature and expression of countenance from the handsomest races of Europe. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
Shiites of this branch believed that the Prophet Muhammad's successors or vicars were his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, and the eleven lineal descendants of Ali and the Prophet's daughter, Fatima.
Besides the majority Sinhala Buddhists, the nation also includes Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamils of recent Indian origin, Muslims, and Burghers, descendants of intermarriages between Sri Lankans and Europeans.
A Native American people formerly inhabiting north-central Missouri, with present-day descendants living with the Oto in north-central Oklahoma.
Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons.
The Romance languages are the modern descendants of Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
Yet evolution predicts not just successions of forms, but also genetic lineages from ancestors to descendants.
Jacob's dying blessing focusses on the distant future, when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land.
Some of the fossils are proving pivotal in testing the hypothesis that birds are the living descendants of dinosaurs.
A clade is a group, consisting of a single organism and all of its descendants. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Other descendants of the marine invertebrates have also left the water.
On the other hand, liking her a lot after spending an evening alternating between trying to save her life, kill her, and turn her mind over to an evil demigoddess, is Prince Tarvek, descendant of the fabled Storm King. Archive 2009-01-01
Owned by descendants of the original lessees who took up the station - sight unseen - in 1877, the famous black soil downs carry more than 60,000 cattle.
Since independence the term indigenous, widely used in an affirmative action campaign, has applied almost exclusively to blacks and left out whites and other minorities born in the southern African nation - some the descendants of several generations of settlers. ANC Daily News Briefing
The personal paragraphist of 1749 was perhaps no less inaccurate than his descendant of to-day. Henry Fielding: a Memoir
The people of Namoris were, supposedly, descendants of the Lunarians, immortal beings, the subjects of the moon goddess Celhyst, banished to the Earth and subjected to mortality for some misdeed against their queen.
The Pagoda, like hundreds of other buildings in Hawaii, sits on land leased from a trust established more than a century ago by a descendant of the ruler who united the major Hawaiian islands. Hawaii Local's Inside Play
With her klutziness and jumping into situations without thinking them through, she could easily be an Archie descendant. Tales From Riverdale Digest #36 » Comics Worth Reading
He made a covenant with Abraham to be God to him and to his descendants after him.
Land is divided among the descendants after the death of the owner.
The author's revered mother was a descendant from the latter venerable name, united with that of the brave and erudite race of Adamson, of farther north. The Scottish Chiefs
Sierra LeoneEnglish (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) Languages
A clade is an ancestor species and all of its descendants A Disclaimer for Behe?
The Slavic verb пить/пити is related to Latin bibere and its descendants (French boire, Italian bere) and more obviously to Greek ποτο. Apple juice
For those of you that are Black but not descendant from the Middle Passage, the everything for you lies in the simple fact that you are Black. 2008 October : Law is Cool
It was a scorching day and there was a light south-west wind when the select group, including two direct descendants of the islanders, disembarked on the rocks at Clashymore natural harbour.
The race today also looked likely to feature a direct descendant of each horse.
The Jongleurs must have continued long after their masters were stamped out, for their direct successors are with us to-day, and our hand-organ is the descendant of their fearful and wonderful organistrum. Woman's Work in Music
Those deeply entrenched in parishes are seeking to upgrade their abilities by attending workshops and colloquia on chant and its stylistic descendants. How to Hire a Parish Musician
By the end of the Eocene, modern orders and families replaced the archaic fauna of mostly extinct groups with no living descendants.
The most wonderful thing is that some direct descendants of the original crew of the Mystery came to meet us. Times, Sunday Times
They come from southern Asia, and are the descendants of birds that were released or escaped from captivity. Times, Sunday Times
It is commonly associated in descendant languages of proto-Kaskazi, including Ruvu languages, with the idea of protecting with amulet medicine that created a defensive barrier against ill-intended sorcery or physical incursion. 146 In the colonial period, * - kinga medicine was instrumental in protecting Zaramo people from witchcraft. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
If a species interbreeds with other species, the crossbreeds are their descendants. Demons Don't Dream
This second column on Tycoons, New England, and Kings, covers the royal descents, and much New England ancestry, for 10 families long associated with American industry, finance, merchandising, railroads, and media, for whom such lines were first brought into the family not by the fortune-finder himself, but by his wife, daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, or the wife of a later agnate descendant.
Lights, noises, and singing at night, clearly discerned from the castle, caused much terror to Lady Edgeworth, though her descendants affirm that they were fairies of the same genus as those who beset Sir John Falstaff at Hearne's oak, and intended to frighten her into leaving the place. A Book of Golden Deeds
He was a direct descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte.
But it is unseemly to see such a Grand Potentate in such a state of decay: the son of Bajazet Ilderim insolvent; the descendants of the Prophet bullied by Calmucs and English and whipper-snapper Frenchmen; the Fountain of Magnificence done up, and obliged to coin pewter! Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
In the seaside suburb of St Kilda, you'll find fantastic patisseries still owned by descendants of the original Jewish families who settled there.
Birds - the feathered descendants of the dinosaurs - fascinate her.
It did not forbid the disinherison of direct descendants, inasmuch as it did not legislate against a contingency which no Roman lawgiver of that era could have contemplated. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
That would make him a direct descendant of Robert II - though I suspect this is unprovable.
Why do the vast tribes of India, deceived and enslaved by the bonzes, trampled upon by the descendant of a Tartar, bowed down by labor, groaning in misery, assailed by diseases, and a mark for all the scourges and plagues of life, still fondly cling to that life? A Philosophical Dictionary
Nearly everyone would like something to pass on to his descendants, yet there is no inheritable property accumulation in our Social Security system.
The micromere determinant Pmar1 activates the PMC-GRN and transmits endomesoderm-inducing signals to macromere descendants. PLoS Biology: New Articles
Our proud ancestors repelled the invaders, but their contemptible descendants are sided with the invaders.
In reality both of these men are victims of ethnocide and forced assimilation and both to date are pawns of the Caucasian power structure which has always violated the human rights of Afro-Descendants.
Their wanderings ceased when they reached the beautiful mountain home where their descendants live today.
The Shona are the direct descendants of the great Munhumutapa Empire that stretched from Namibia to Mozambique at its peak. Zealotry or Zeal, when will we see a New Zimbabwe?
Spreading through the plantation system, Protestant Christianity was adopted and adapted by African-American slaves and freedmen and most of their descendants.
Further contact with his descendants yielded daybooks from about 1881, when he started up business as an independent craftsman.
Randy G. Lander is a Russian descendant and she carries on the medieval Khazars tradition of jewelry trading with an emphasis on alexandrite. She can tell you alexandrite is the rarest gemstone on earth.
Their descendants were distinguished by various praenomina and cognomina [285], but rejected by common consent the praenomen of (193) Lucius, when, of the two races who bore it, one individual had been convicted of robbery, and another of murder. De vita Caesarum
Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
It was a scorching day and there was a light south-west wind when the select group, including two direct descendants of the islanders, disembarked on the rocks at Clashymore natural harbour.
The ancestors watch over their descendants, punishing or rewarding them for their behavior.
I asked them if they supposed a nation of people ever existed, who, with a free vote in every man's hand, would elect that a single family and its descendants should reign over it forever, whether gifted or boobies, to the exclusion of all other families -- including the voter's; and would also elect that a certain hundred families should be raised to dizzy summits of rank, and clothed on with offensive transmissible glories and privileges to the exclusion of the rest of the nation's families -- _including his own_. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.
In the invading metaphase , the hyphae of the pathogen can invade the cortical area of cells of susceptible varieties, but only can invade the outer cortex cells of resistant descendants.
It was indeed very fitting that the President of the USA should have two direct descendants from that diabolical slave trade on hands for his African visit.
You play the role of Aronos Schuler, once a young Bishop in Moscow and the descendant of a 12th century German monk, now a burned-out loner who doesn't even believe in a god any more.
He was Oda Yorimoto, descendant of a powerful daimio of the Ashikaga Dynasty of shoguns who had fled Japan with his faithful samurai nearly three hundred and fifty years before upon the overthrow of the Ashikaga Dynasty. The Mucker
A YouTube commenter they're all so civilized in this thread! correctly points out that the dish is a direct descendant of West African 'fufu', which in Cuba is sometimes called fufu de plátano. Boing Boing
All domestic asses, or donkeys, are descendants of wild asses from Africa and Asia.
We, descendants of human suffering, are living in a fine mansion at the edge of a precipice.
He had changed back into Chinese dress today, and his lean frame was draped in a long, navy-blue flannel gown, giving him the air of a worthy descendant of some famous scholar.
Some of his figures, especially the grotesquely curvaceous fat ladies, are descendants of the 18th-century caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson.
The "mislaid" rationale presumes the existence of a living owner, or the vigilance of the depositor's descendants; only occasionally can it be helpful for older artifacts, such as those in Idaho, as the likelihood of the original depositor's return diminishes with each passing year. The Slow Death of Treasure Trove
An unsatisfactory version of it appeared in 1928, without notes and edited by a descendant who "softened Cresswell's opinions and actions," according to historians Harold B. Gill Jr. and George M. Curtis III, who give us Cresswell in decidedly unsoftened form, complete with the improvisational spelling and punctuation of the time. Revolution Road Trip
They were the direct descendants of the Dutch settlers.
In formal structure, Mortal Thoughts blends two rich but infrequently employed musical traditions: the chamber operas of Benjamin Britten and his musical descendants (characterized by the use of small orchestral forces) and the experimental, edgy opera monodramas of composers like Schoenberg, (Erwartung, Die glückliche Hand) and Poulenc (La voix humaine). Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do
He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
_Africaine_, reformed, refined, beautified in her descendants, transformed into the creole negress, commenced to exert a fascination irresistible, capable of winning anything (_capable de tout obtenir_). Two Years in the French West Indies
Fijian, or Fijician, results, by a slight change of letters, from the word Phoenician; and there can be no doubt that the Fijians are descendants of those Phoenicians who, according to The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859
But the new thing unfolded is that the covenant is to continue in force graciously also for his descendants "for generations" -- literally "for their generations" -- as a berith ` olam. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
I think i’ve got this now: basal anapsid reptiles (which presumably gave rise to synapsid and sauropsid lineages) died out leaving no descendants. turtles, full diapsid reptiles closely allied to crocodiles, secondarily developed a seemingly (but not osteogenically identical) anapsid skull structure subsequently. Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb
Their descendants have been left in a quandary.
The coastal areas were occupied by the descendants of Greek colonists.
The word 'dalai' itself means 'ocean' in Mongolian, and the title of Dalai Lama, or "Ocean of Wisdom" was bestowed in the 1500s by Genghis Khan descendant Altan Khan, who ordered Mongols to practice Buddhism. Revival of Monasticism in Mongolia
Solomon Linda's descendants are still waiting for rewards and recognition for his talents.
She was the last direct descendant to own the house before Stenton was given to the city of Philadelphia in 1909.
Their descendants, the hunter-gatherer Jomon people, had long been the inhabitants of the islands when a large-scale immigration from Northeast Asia began around 400 BC.
The inhabitants of Nanagada and Aztlan are descendant from the Caribbean, now occupying lands each side of the Wicked Highs that are cut off from each other except for the Mafolie Pass. Crystal Rain by Tobias Buckell
The others are French Canadian descendants of immigrants from Saintonge, such as the genealogist Jacques Saintonge. Champlain's Dream
The Slavic verb пить/пити is related to Latin bibere and its descendants (French boire, Italian bere) and more obviously to Greek ποτο. Apple juice
If we don't make a profit on it, then one of our descendants will. Times, Sunday Times
Its descendants then spread throughout the continent and acquired a schistosome that became S. mansoni as we know it today.
Ethnic groups: 20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians Sierra Leone
After Adam had sinned, and brought death upon himself and his descendants, God gave the promise that a man born of woman should conquer the power of Satan and Sin.
Again, those two remarkable black spots on the remiges of each wing of the stock-dove, which are so characteristic of the species, would not, one should think, be totally lost by its being reclaimed, but would often break out among its descendants. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Being part of that community is knowing what a "ceilidh" is, knowing not only the history of Ireland but of our own people in this country, most of them descendants of starving millions who fled to this country to avoid death from hunger. LJWorld.com stories: News
I have been successful in tracing the Cooper family line back to the 1780s, but so far cannot find any of Mark Cooper's direct descendants.
The original Japanese print of today - in which the artist alone conceives and produces the print - is the descendant of the creative print.
distinction of a banshie is only allowed to families of the pure Milesian stock, and is never ascribed to any descendant of the proudest Norman or boldest Saxon who followed the banner of Earl Strongbow, much less to adventurers of later date who have obtained settlements in the Green Isle. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Maybe the descendants of whoever was buried here wanted to reinter the remains in a churchyard or family gravesite and figured the park service wouldn't let them," Anna suggested. Hunting Season
We eat it with breadsticks, descendants of the biscotto, the twice-baked everlasting ship's biscuits that kept a trading empire alive.
However, gifts received from blood relations lineal a ascendants and lineal descendants. and those received on certain occasions like marriage etc. would continue to be totally exempt.
The most wonderful thing is that some direct descendants of the original crew of the Mystery came to meet us. Times, Sunday Times
Since his descendants were in hiding, tracing a line of authority became problematical.
The latter had a knack for persuading descendants of Chinese nobles to part with their inherited treasures, including rare paintings and porcelains with imperial provenances.
That, though the occupations named are entirely normal to all well-ordered states, descendants of persons in those occupations tend to become "subnormal" -- so runs the cant of it -- something handicapped by that haphazard bullet of a lifetime since, fired to advance the glorious cause of -- foreign commerce, or the like. Copper Streak Trail
Those Puritan forefathers generate their fair share of criticism from we their modern-day descendants.
Strictly, a scion in terms of human heredity is the descendant of a noble or storied lineage, whereas what is significant about the subject of the article is the specific circumstance of her conception.
In order to encourage social acceptance of such unions, Anglos claimed that elite Mexican women were the racially pure descendants of the Spanish conquistadores.
As far as I can see, many Black wimmin, the descendants of these violated and disrespected slave wimmin are writhing in the grip of some serious erotophobia (scared of tha nasty). 1TBM
The emigrant Schlaberg was a ninth generation descendant of Sigismund Brandenburg, who became Archbishop of Magdeburg at the age of 16 in 1554, and though an unmarried Catholic prelate, fathered a son in 1560 with a woman named Schlaberg, who took his mother's name. Al Eisele: An American's Unique Link to German History
I am the direct descendant, onomastically, of my oldest known Irish ancestors, my great-great-grandfather Michael and my great-grandfather David (who started the Steves). OpEdNews - Diary: Something in a Name
The direct descendants of the apprentice societies were the young men's associations that grew up during the early 1800s. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
Your article made it to a Woodson descendants list on the Internet of which I am a recipient.
My ancestors were priests, but none of the present generation descendants are priests.
The boatswain's pipe is the 'modern day' descendant of the flutes used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans to convey orders to the oarsmen and galley slaves.
b. - by consecuence 85 % are not and a huge porcentage are "autochthonous" and the others are a mix of indigenous and spanish descendants. so even if hollywood represent Mexicans like domestic servants, gardeners and delinquents is very important precise what part of this "society" belongs to. Page 2
Still, despite all uncertainties, it is suggestive that one ancestress apparently dwelled in an early center of agriculture and that her descendants seem to have arrived in the various regions of Europe pari passu with neolithic farming. Britain
For some time, charming Pessel Cohen (c. 1776 – after 1804, who adopted the name Philippine around 1800), a descendant of the wealthy Bernhard family, was very influential. Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century.
Around 50 descendants of King Euichin, a brother of the last king Sunjong, declared Princess Lee Hae-Won the new "Empress" of the monarchy in what they called a crowning ceremony. A Throne Fit For a Quasi Queen
Similarly, lungs were a selective advantage to fish living in stagnant waters, enabling them to breathe air, long before the descendants of these fish walked on land; in modern teleost fishes the lung has lost its function as a breathing organ, and has been transformed into a hydrostatic organ, the swim bladder. A Mystery for the Ages
Those villagers who have made the hajj to Mecca, or even descendants of those who have made the journey, are highly respected.
One of the genetic "parents" of Zweigelt is St. Laurent, a grape that's thought to be a descendant of Pinot Noir. Saying Goodbye to Pinot Noir—for a While
Descendants and current members of this multi-ethnic working class continue to experience discrimination.
an indirect descendant of the Stuarts
Pit involves the discovery we're descended from apemen genetically altered by another civilisation on the verge of destruction so that we, the apemen's descendants, carry parts of their gene-code within us. Tube Bits For 05/08/2009
Will our descendants live most of their lives in a virtual reality?
It would be merely a flourish of trumpets to say that I was his descendant, and nobody would know that, either, if my name chanced to be Boggs. The Potiphar Papers
GN is not a remnant, rather an antipode of Ptolemaic astrology, an independent multifaceted system, nor digestible by Ptolemaic descendants even under most favorable conditions today.
He played the cover drive as if he was the direct descendant of Zeus. The Sun
It bears the coat of the Vyells (gules, a fesse raguly argent) with no less than twenty-four quarterings: for an Odo of the name had fought on the winning side at Hastings, and his descendants, settling in the West, had held estates there and been people of importance ever since. Lady Good-for-Nothing
There are many puritans in Lower Potawatomi Valley, who are possibly descendants of those who long ago opposed ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England.
If after long and gradual changes in the structure of the co-descendants from any parent stock, evidence (either from monstrosities or from a graduated series) could be still detected of the function, which certain parts or organs played in the parent stock, these parts or organs might be strictly determined by their former function with the term "metamorphosed" appended. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844
All of the modern vernaculars spoken in Northern India today are direct descendants of Sanskrit and Prakrit.
He thrust the latest missal back into the hands of the descendant of the prophet.
There's an argument to be made that the real descendant of the piano is the keyboard synthesizer, with its limitless timbral possibilities, and that the mechanical piano is just an atavism anyways. Key indicators
The lineal descendants of a farmer have the first right to purchase a farm.
Then there's the question of who would be responsible for paying up - the U.S. government, corporations, or individual descendants of slaveholders.
For to what else was owing our ruinous war of the Two Roses than to an original demur in our courts of law whether the descendant of an elder son through the female line had a title preferable or inferior to that of a descendant in the male line from a son confessedly _junior_? The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
This could be interpreted as a linear representation of history (a directed, non-reticulate network), or, as Hennig intended, as a non-nested hierarchy with ancestor-descendant relationship as the organizational criterion. A New Book
She has, of course, in the maritime provinces the descendants of one of the finest races of seamen the world has ever known; and I saw last fall in the race between the two famous schooners "Blue Nose" and "Haligonian" that their traditions have not been lost. Naval Defence
John Fraser, is an accomplished descendant from the early days of journalists. Personal Responsibility and the Media
Phormium tenax and its descendants have upright, spear-like straps (height 2-2.5m, spread 1.2m). Times, Sunday Times
Argentina also had a policy of encouraging settlers and descendants of Welsh emigrants to Patagonia continue to keep alive Welsh culture there to this day.
... "unwittingly reignites an ancient war between Angelologists, a group who studies angels, and a race of monster-like descendants of angels and humans called the Nephilim"; she then teams up with an angelologist "in a search for ancient artifacts that are the only things that can stop the Nephilim. ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs
Kong Guangsen, a descendant of Confucian of the 70th generation, was a noted scholar in the study of Confucian classics, a phonologist and a mathematician in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.
Meanwhile the owners or their descendants champ impatiently to recover and lovingly restore what is left of the family heritage.
I think i’ve got this now: basal anapsid reptiles (which presumably gave rise to synapsid and sauropsid lineages) died out leaving no descendants. turtles, full diapsid reptiles closely allied to crocodiles, secondarily developed a seemingly (but not osteogenically identical) anapsid skull structure subsequently. Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb
Spaniards were referred to as Peninsulars, while their South-American-born descendants were called criollos (Creoles).
It follows other recently released tragicomedies such as "50/50," about a young man (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) struggling with dating and a spinal tumor, and "The Descendants." which focuses on a father (George Clooney) who discovers he's been cuckolded while his wife lays in a vegetative state. Academy Awards
Are they variants of old genes that played quite different roles in the ancestors, and that have been co-opted and modified to play entirely new roles in the descendants?
The prefect is another descendant of Fenardre the Great who would emulate his ancestor. The White Order
A visit to the parlor from the Marmion Plantation in Virginia located in the Met's Gallery 720, however, might provide a bit of encouraging perspective; some of the descendants of the slaves who likely tended the parlor's guests may have been lured into subprime mortgages while their White counterparts were given better deals, but you'd have to be dottier than a guy who wants to arrest judges not to realize that we are all better off than we were during the "good old days" for which certain social luddites yearn. Tanya M. Acker: Ditch the Xanax: Why the Metropolitan Museum Is a Better Cure for American Grumpiness
Our descendants will gasp in horror at our disregard. Times, Sunday Times
Another "fabula" descendant that continues to tell tales in English is "fable. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
However, the preserve we now recognize as jam is a relatively modern descendant of all the rather solid fruit and sugar conserves, preserves, and marmalades of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Ashmans Park, Suff., which was independent of the Naunton property, and of certain heir-looms, the sole remains of the great estates of the "Nauntons of Letheringham," which continue in the possession of the descendants of that family. Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
The demandant is either the same coheir named above, viz. Ingelram, altered by a clerical error into Waleram, -- such errors being of common occurrence, sometimes from oscitancy, and sometimes because the clerk had to guess at the extended form of a contracted name, -- or he is a descendant and heir of Ingelram, Notes and Queries, Number 68, February 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Both the mysticetes and odontocetes are thought to be descendants of the archaeocetes.
Sometimes, it is true, he did slip down to the corner for maybe zwei glasses of beer and a game of pinocle; but then, likely as not, there would come inopportunely a towheaded descendant to tell him Mommer needed him back at the flat right away to mind the baby while she went marketing or to the movies. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
As she grew into maidenhood her father was troubled because she remained unwedded: all his hopes for descendants were in this girl, his only child.
The descendant was also an alumna of the school, and she agreed to donate samples of her blood for the project.
It has been proposed that Japanese and Korean are descendants of a common language.
Six hundred years to the day since he was executed for high treason, descendants of Archbishop Richard Scrope arrived from across the globe for a service at the city's cathedral to commemorate his life.
Their descendants were distinguished by various praenomina and cognomina [285], but rejected by common consent the praenomen of (193) Lucius, when, of the two races who bore it, one individual had been convicted of robbery, and another of murder. De vita Caesarum
Later, descendants of these selfsame clerics would carry their precious cargo to European monasteries where the Italian, the German and the Frenchman waited to be enlightened.
David Alroy is represented as the last male descendant from the house of David, and the Prince of the Captivity among the eastern Jews in the twelfth century, resident at A Review of 'Alroy'
Although those great animals have gone, they followed the same rules of instinct and habit as did their descendants.
It provides buoyancy and this, for the bulk of the descendants of these air-breathing pioneers, became a more important faculty.
Fly-leaf of a 1599 Bible perhaps inscribed by her husband to Shakespeare's last direct descendant, his grand-daughter Elizabeth Bernard.
So he pals up with her descendant, herself a post-feminist critic.
An interesting distinction, however, was made early on for one racial category, if only in Virginia: Native Americans and their genealogically inclined descendants. Shaking the Family Tree
The Unruochings and the Widonians also acquired the duchies and marquisates of Friuli and Spoleto respectively, while the counts or marquises of Tuscany were descendants of a Boniface who lived in the 820s.
One such claimant is a descendant of the 18th-century artist whose masterpiece she alleges was taken from her. Times, Sunday Times
There are seven supposed to be so. 1st, the Gachupinos, or Spaniards born in Europe; 2nd, the Creoles, that is, whites of European family born in America; 3rd, the Mestizos; 4th, the Mulattoes, descendants of whites and negroes, of whom there are few; Life in Mexico
Even so, I choose to spend my food money so that my long-term health, and that of my descendants, is not compromised. Making Links
The second lineage contained A. nitida, which became more involute and axially compressed on the umbilical side, and its first descendant, A. mckannai, which developed evolute coiling and a moderately wide umbilicus.
The bunyip lives in Australia and is believed by many to be a descendant of the diprotodon, a marsupial (an animal with a pouch, like the kangaroo) about the size of a rhinoceros, which became extinct thousands of years ago.
Therefore, a gene is by definition the descendant of a gene that was good at getting into future generations.
In the proto-Ruvu era and in descendant Ruvu languages, particular words identified women who played a part in instructional and birthing needs. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
One clarification – the Truscott quoted in your excerpt is actually one of the few members of the club who is PRO-Hemings descendants. The Jefferson ''Family'' Feud at cvillenews.com
The lineal descendants of a farmer have the first right to purchase a farm.
Louis XII became king of France in 1498 and, being a descendant of the first duke of Milan, he claimed the duchy.
Consequently, I deduced that the descendants of Eze Chima were refugees fleeing from the Oba of Benin and his slave raiders.
The first member of their family to settle in South Africa in 1679 was a gunsmith and many of his descendants have been involved in the gun trade.
The soloists played on natural horns, instruments that have no valves and are not as powerful as their modern descendants.
It was in the heart of what was now considered Spanish Harlem and served the bilingual descendants of New York's Spanish speaking immigrants.
He died before he could realize his aim of conquering the Chinese Empire to the South, but his descendants made inroads on China's spheres of influence, conquering Korea in 1637.
Their descendants took the name of Charteris, as connecting themselves with their maternal ancestors, the ancient proprietors of the property, though the name of Thomas de Longueville was equally honoured amongst them; and the large two handed sword with which he mowed the ranks of war was, and is still, preserved among the family muniments. The Fair Maid of Perth
She claimed to be a direct descendant of Wordsworth.
He was an O'Conor and a distant descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
He played the cover drive as if he was the direct descendant of Zeus. The Sun
For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include bamboo-eating pandas and termite-slurping aardwolves.
The arms of Duncan Campbell, as preserved in the hands of his descendants, are identical in their quarterings with the Marquis of Breadalbane, as follows: Quarterly, first and fourth, gyronny of eight or. and sa. for Campbell; second or. a fesse chequey ar. and az. for Stewart; third, ar. a lymphad, her sails and oars in action, all sa. for Lorne. Virginia and Virginians
Shaft sinkers and developers were the direct descendants of the contractor who in early days on the goldfields had developed, stoped or trammed* for a fixed price per unit of work done. Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 13
‘The name ‘Caesar’ is a cognomen, a nickname given to one member of a Roman clan and borne by his descendants as a kind of surname.
Languages: English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) Sierra Leone
She is one of the proud descendants of a galaxy of disciples who emulated the 'mudra' or signature of Sadguru Thiyagaraja Swamigal. The Hindu - Front Page
The language of the Weddas is regarded as a base descendant of the most complete and first known form of Aryan speech, the Sanskrit; and the Weddas are set down as descendants of the Sanskritic Aryans, who conquered India. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
Then perhaps a hundred thousand people can change the trend, if they and their descendants labor for five hundred years.
Meanwhile the owners or their descendants champ impatiently to recover and lovingly restore what is left of the family heritage.

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