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descendant sentence examples

  • Descendants of these settlers ran egypt for a thousand years, right down to the arab conquest.
  • This area is now inhabited by the descendants of european settlers and african slaves who arrived just 500 years ago.
  • Matthew traces the descendants of abraham, all the way from abraham himself, down to joseph.
  • A further change was introduced in 1805 when the order was extended to include lineal descendants of george ii.
  • His only living descendant in our day was an elderly mr jacob, who kept the small village store.
  • Descendants of slaves " took him to court for " disputing a crime against humanity " .
  • Their last surviving descendant was said to have died in the 19th century.
  • The velvet-eyed descendant of eve shot a fearful glance at him and continued, still casually tracing invisible arabesques with her foil's point.
  • His eminence is the 26th generation descendant of shinran himself.
  • Descendants of french immigrants, these people lived in small farming villages without healthcare or contraception.
  • Burials are not disturbed where there is a possibility of living descendants.
  • The scottish blues brothers are direct descendants of old blind doug himself.
  • Descendants of a common ancestor.
  • He will then leave more descendants who in turn do not act for the group.
  • His male descendants range around the room down to my brother.
  • Descendants of the original inhabitants, were also conducted.
  • New member ian sewell has traced his family back to thomas sewell in munton essex around 1772 and was seeking descendants.
  • Or if you are from central england or east anglia, you could be a distant descendant of the saxons and angles.
  • The descendants of a node are the children of the node and the descendants of a node are the children of the node and the descendants of the children of the node.
  • Were some of vortigern's immediate descendants still in positions of authority, still to be reckoned with?

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