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.

We find in Cato innumerable beauties, which enamour us of its author, but we see nothing that acquaints us with human sentiments, or human actions; we place it with the fairest and the noblest progeny which judgment propagates by conjunction with learning; but Othello is the vigorous and vivacious offspring of observation, impregnated by genius.

The master said he took pains to breed from his best stockthe whiter the progeny the higher they would sell for house servants.

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!

It was emblematic of the fortunes of the place, and befitted the progeny of a ruin.

A great future beckons me on into the immeasurable; each idea develops a countless progeny.

In such places these animals resembling oysters are born and grow, engendering about them numerous progeny.

O may posterity from such a pair, Enjoy a progeny almost divine, Great as their fire, and as their mother fair, And good as both, till last extent of time.

On this a statue was given to him by our ancestors as a recompense for his life, which might ennoble his progeny for many years, and which is now the only memorial left of so illustrious a family.

It has already been shown how he fathered her "little progeny," as he once called them.

In some of these islands they found large herds of cattle, the progeny of the first few heads introduced by the early Spanish colonists, who afterward abandoned them.

There they would be at home, on the very breast of the beneficent earth, under the central and now gigantic oak, planted by the two ancestors, whose blessed fruitfulness the whole swarming progeny was about to celebrate.

I'll stay alone And hatch the progeny of my revenge.

One that bathes in Matri tirtha hath a large progeny and obtaineth, O king, great prosperity.

The cow had also increased her progeny, there being now no less than four younger animals, all of whom yielded milk to the people.

Do thou inspire thy progeny with that determination of thine, by which thou didst formerly recover from these same Sabines this citadel, when captured by gold.

It would not be strange if the young Adelie had to learn to swim (it is a well-known requirement of the Northern fur sealsea bear), but it will be interesting to see in how far the adult birds lay themselves out to instruct their progeny.

To the present day certain of the inhabitants of the Sûdân, pound the dried scarabaeus or beetle and drink it in water, believing that it will insure them a numerous progeny.

We must carefully avoid, I think, what is called "education;" try harder to avoid it than, say, three sensible fathers try, by anxious thought, to lace up their progeny from the very cradle in the bands of narrow morality.

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

I think he begins to love his Greek progeny.

We must notice also that in the Aeneid as in the Georgics Augustus is regularly called 'Augustus Caesar' or 'Caesar,' whereas in the only other references to Julius in the Aeneid the poet explicitly points to him by saying 'Caesar et omnis Iuli progenies' (VI, 789).

And they answered: The man demanded of us by order our progeny, if our father lived, if we had any brother.

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

" An old wild duck that left the garden last spring to rear her progeny in a more secluded spot half a mile up stream has returned to us.