Is this the pleasant little legacy which my respected ancestor has bequeathed to his only grandson?

"In fact, I don't think I'd particularly enjoy meeting somebody's great-great-ancestor in the dark.

For seven days my ancestor hemmed in with his forces the Emperor Kaoute; until, by the contrivance of the minister, a treaty was concluded, and the Princesses of China were yielded in marriage to our K'hans.

Our ancestor Kaoute emerged from a private station, and raised his family by extinguishing the dynasty of Tsin, and slaughtering their race.

I feel as our great ancestor, Baron Moore, felt at Fontenoy when the Sassenachs were over against the French linesas if all the blood in Munster was in my veins and I wanted to spill it on the villains ferninst us.

A Lee was the chief of the military staff, a Randolph ruled the war office; scions of the Washingtons family filled a dozen subordinate places; the kin of Patrick Henry revived their ancestor's glory by as zealous a devotion to the new revolution.

He indeed hath not injured me; but his father slew my father, wherefore it is meet that I should slay that ancestor's son's son.

He went home to his aunt, Lady Jane, for Sundays and holidays; and soon knew every bird's-nest about Queen's Crawley, and rode out with Sir Huddlestone's hounds, which he had admired so on his first well-remembered visit to the home of his ancestor.

It was ever his custom to expose his life freely in battle, and to emulate the personal prowess of his great ancestor, Achilles.

This Lewis Gordon became third Marquis of Huntly, and was the ancestor of one who made a better conquest, the gallant Marquis of Huntly, who sought and won the hand of Miss Brodie.

She began to realise the sentiment of her ancestor, the good Lord Brodie:"God can make use of poison to expel poison: in London I saw much vanity, lightness, and wantonness."

It had been in the family of the Verplancks ever since their ancestor Gulian Verplanck with Francis Rombout, in 1683, purchased it, with other lands, of the Wappinger Indians for a certain amount of money and merchandize, specified in a deed signed by the Sachem Sakoraghuck and other chiefs, the spelling of whose names seems to defy pronunciation.

the story to tell Of his riches and high descent, As it fell into one rosy shell of an ear Out of its mate it went; How one grim old ancestor into the land With William the Conqueror came, She thought, the sweet, of a conqueror She knew with that very name.

So strange a thing I warrant you Happens not every day, That the pride that had thriven for centuries One slight little maiden should slay; Why the proud Squire's Roman features Quivered and burned with shame, And the picture of his grim ancestor Blushed in its antique frame.

How intimately the two sets of glands are connected is neatly pointed by this fact of a common ancestor.

They are divided into two branches, the Sherfah Hoseinee, so named from the founder of the dynasty, who began to reign at Taroudant and Morocco in 1524, and over all the empire in 1550, and the Sherfah El Fileli, or Tafilett, whose ancestor was Muley Shereef Ben Ali-el-Hoseinee, and assumed sovereign power at Tafilett in 1648, from which country he extended his authority over all the provinces of that empire.

The first stock-father of gentleness ancestor of the race What man desireth gentle for to be [of the gentle. Must follow his trace, and all his wittés dress track, footsteps: Virtue to love and vices for to flee; [apply.

He loved to picture his ancestor among the ship's rigging.

Mr. Trevelyan (Life of Macaulay, ed.1877, i. 6) says: 'Johnson pronounced that Mr. Macaulay was not competent to have written the book that went by his name; a decision which, to those who happen to have read the work, will give a very poor notion my ancestor's abilities.'

He's an ancestor of mine, and history has a funny fashion of repeating itself.

E. The Arabs, so called from their supposed ancestor, Ismael.

BARCLAY, Robert, of Ury, ancestor of Barclay the brewer, iv. 118, n. 1; Apology for the Quakers, in Paoli's library, ii. 61, n. 3; on infant baptism, ii. 458.

n. 3, 386, n. 2. BOSWELL, David, a remote ancestor, ii. 413.

BRUCE, James, the traveller, ii. 333; v. 123, n. 3. BRUCE, Robert, Boswell's ancestor, v. 25, n. 2, 379, n. 3; not the lawful heir to the throne, v. 204.

He thereupon devoted himself with ardor and confidence to his desire of winning back the kingdom of Naples, which Alphonso I., King of Arragon, had wrested from the house of France, and of thereby re-opening for himself in the East, and against Islamry, that career of Christian glory which had made a saint of his ancestor, Louis IX.