28 adjectives to describe lineage

[Footnote 1: Musa ben Abil Gazan, Boabdil's best cavaliera fiery soldier, of royal lineage.]

It was a gallant and unselfish determination: if in one point of view it was unwise, it was at least becoming her lofty lineage, and consistent with her heroic character.

And yet how much better it was to be as they were, than as most scions of aristocratic lineage, whose present was so often nothing and their past everything.

BUTTERWORTH, CHARLES C. The literary lineage of the King James Bible, 1340-1611.

Then Gersíwaz pressed him more warmly, and represented how inconsistent, how unworthy of his illustrious lineage it would be to betray so meek a spirit, especially as he had a considerable army at his command, and could vindicate his dignity and his rights.

The direct lineage of the renowned characters that lie buried in this splendid chapel has long been extinct.

Nobody knew who was her father, although it was surmised that he belonged to the illustrious family of the Montmorencies, which traced an unbroken lineage to Pharimond, before the time of Clovis.

Theresa was proud of her feet; they were short and plump, and had those abrupt, towering insteps that are regarded by the people who have them as unfailing indications of haughty lineage, just as the people who have flat feet dwell fondly upon the flat feet of the Wittlesbachs, kings in Bavaria.

The romance with which readers have always invested it is the outcome of a misconception no less complete than that which led the fair dames of London to make obeisance to the tawny Pocahontas as to a princess of imperial lineage.

If there were among us an intellect sufficiently encyclopedic in knowledge and versatile in genius, it could take every one of these facts and trace its intricate lineage of principles and mechanisms, step by step, up to the original Adam of the first invention and the original Eve of the first necessity.

I do not know who you are, but I did not think you were of kingly lineage.

No longer shall the widowed land bemoan A broken lineage, and a doubtful throne; 10 But boast her royal progeny's increase, And count the pledges of her future peace.

Then passes before me the old Cock that crew over the doorway in Fleet Street, a Johnsonian tavern of mighty lineage and celebrity for chops and steaks.

The blood of a proud aristocratic ancestry was flowing through his veins, and generations of blood admixture had effaced all trace of his negro lineage.

The foreign power was the "father-in-law", i.e. the older and, therefore, in a certain way the more privileged; the Chinese were the "son-in-law", the representative of the paternal lineage and, therefore, in another respect also the more privileged!

In the light of the oldest records it appears that the Samaritans were able to establish almost as pure a lineage as the Jews.

They hovered like witches around the seething caldron of early Christian Europe, in which, "with bubble, bubble, toil and trouble," a new civilization was forming, mindful of the brilliant lineage of their worshippers, from Homer to Boethius, looking upon the vexed and beclouded Nature, and expecting the time when Humanity should gird itself anew with the beauty of ideas and institutions.

Another of the notables of this region, of sable lineage, called, on account of a peculiar propensity to split two-inch planks with his head, "Abe Bunter," not long since honored the students of this institution with a series of calls for the purpose of soliciting money to purchase for himself a bovine, to replace one providentially taken from him.

Most deplorable! Poor creature, unable, I suppose, to realise the Emperor's exalted situation, his splendid lineage, the wonderful talent with which he can draw pictures of the apostles with one hand while he writes an appeal to his Mohammedan comrades with the other.

Within these time-honored walls no woman can remain who is not of stainless lineage and stainless repute.

JEFFERSON, JOSEPH, comedian, born in Philadelphia, of theatrical lineage; was on the stage at the age of 3; made his first success in New York as Dr. Pangloss in 1857, and in London in 1865 began to play his most famous rôle, Rip van Winkle, a most exquisite exhibition of histrionic genius; B. 1829.

BY E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS, LL.D. Robert Edward Lee had perhaps a more illustrious traceable lineage than any American not of his family.

Many Spaniards from Murcia, for instance, of undoubted noble lineage are darker than Richmond mulattoes.'

"Love is of a detestable lineage; he has killed thousands of men without a sword.

" "There are few within the dominions of St. Mark of better lineage or of fairer hopes than the Duke of Sant' Agata.

28 adjectives to describe  lineage