Descendant

Examples

• Age and heat have not diminished the activity or the eloquence of the descendant of the Malonys and the Molloys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Here, at least, the descendant of Alfred still reigns a princess. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A direct descendant of the school of his countryman, Bergman, he was especially renowned as an analyst. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He did not mention that he was a lineal descendant of Balaam's ass, but everybody knew that without his telling it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The two grandmothers, with not less partiality, but more sincerity, were equally earnest in support of their own descendant. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Mathew Grant, the founder of the branch in America, of which I am a descendant, reached Dorchester, Massachusetts, in May, 1630. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This one who told me how to make a talisman, comes from Africa, and, I believe, is a descendant of the old Carthaginians. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• John Elliott, a Baptist minister and descendant of an old Revolutionary soldier, Capt. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Of the English poets of the last and two preceding centuries scarcely a descendant remains,--none have ever been distinguished. Plato. The Republic.
• A baronet, the possessor of a fine estate, the descendant of a great family. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The dominant species belonging to large and dominant groups tend to leave many modified descendants, which form new sub-groups and groups. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The Israelites held them sacred in the old patriarchal times, and these other Arabs, their lineal descendants, do so likewise. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But the descendants of Ali were not destined to share in this triumph for long. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This Pepin it was who finally extinguished the descendants of Clovis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• China remained united, though not under his descendants, but after a civil war under a fresh dynasty, the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I shall, however, if it is not diminished by some accident before my death, leave a considerable estate among my descendants and relations. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The six descendants from (I) will form two sub-genera or genera. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Heaven forbid that I should grudge my native country any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by our descendants! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• For the most part they have left no descendants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Of his character we know nothing; but I am sure it was different to his descendants. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They did not become, as one might suppose, the inhabitants of Hungary, though they have probably left many descendants there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Those who live to old age, it is said, frequently see there from fifty to a hundred, and sometimes many more, descendants from their own body. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We, descendants from the one and the other, must be enemies also. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typist: Patricia