35 adjectives to describe progeny

One might think that in a former day Captain Cuttle had settled here to live and that his numerous progeny had kept the place.

As light therefore, immediately proceeds from the sun, and wholly subsists according to a solar idiom or property, so truth or the immediate progeny of the good, must subsist according to a superessential idiom.

The priest-like father reads the sacred page; How Abram was the friend of God on high; Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Or how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire; Or Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry; Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.

The bride brought her husband a "little progeny" consisting of two interesting stepchildren; also property worth about a hundred thousand dollars, including many negro slaves, money on bond and stock in the Bank of England.

Nempe sibi semper constat, crescitque quotannis Lucida progenies, castos confessa parentes; Dum virides inter saltus lucosque sonoros Vere novo exultat, plumasque decora Juventus Explicat ad solem, patriisque coloribus ardet.

In Potts's hand the nugget gave birth to a mighty progeny.

The one is the parent of the most pure and ardent piety; the genuine progeny of the other are impiety and atheism.

They produce an innumerable progeny, which at first are very small and soft but develop their hard shell with time.

The demons of the Jews were considered either as the distant progeny of Adam or Eve, resulting from an improper intercourse with supernatural beings, or of Cain.

Sidney's Arcadia, however, though the most important, was not the only so-called pastoral romance which left dramatic progeny.

in whose gentle hand The bridale bowre and geniall bed remaine, Without blemish or staine, 400 And the sweet pleasures of theyr loves delight With secret ayde doost succour and supply, Till they bring forth the fruitfull progeny, Send us the timely fruit of this same night, And thou, fayre Hebe!

We knew at once who she was, because she led, by the ear, as it were, her hopeful progeny, young David.

The eldest son is "my lord," and his sisters are "my lady;" and ever since the days of Mr. Foker, Senior, it has been de rigueur for an opulent brewer to marry an earl's daughter; but the younger sons are not distinguishable from the ignominious progeny of viscounts and barons.

You well know I have ever considered it the logical progeny of Unitarianism and Infidelity.

In 1841, he announced his first sale of young bulls, and every year since that date has put up at public auction the male progeny of the herd.

Or if some monstrous progeny of Tellus Found thou wast Power and made the high gods jealous I do not know (I've lost my Lemprière), Nor if the fate that thereupon befell us Was for each load of coal two loads of care; Yet oft I wonder if beyond the Styx The price of thee is three pounds ten and six.

We have been Europe's sink, the Jakes where she Voids all her offal outcast progeny.

We resent the high estate, purchasable and purchased, of the cynical intriguer and the vulgar profiteer, of the tradesman in "big business," the cheap prophet and the pathetic progeny of "successful men" fast reverting to type.

Is Heaven and Earth, that magnificent confusion of two worlds, in which mortal beings mingle in love and hate, joy and despair, with immortalthe children of the dust claiming alliance with the radiant progeny of the skies, till man and angel seem to partake of one divine being, and to be essences eternal in bliss or baleis Heaven and Earth, I ask you, James, a failure?

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.

Between sinless man and his sinful progeny, the distance is immeasurable.

He was kind enough to say that it was I, among other people, who had made him an idealist, and therefore I ought not to be ashamed of my spiritual and intellectual progeny.

He then calls to his tiny progeny to follow him, though they are utterly incapable of doing so, and generally come to hopeless grief in the attempt.

an education free from the usual sources of depravity, and the inheritance, long since lost by their unfortunate progeny! of an honest fame.

Some marry at their own social level, some above them, some beneath; some go down in childless bachelorhood or leave an unkempt and illegitimate progeny.

35 adjectives to describe  progeny