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Sentence Examples
| Let me picture him dying, my ancestress by his side, happy after years of love. |
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| After a minute or two my beautiful ancestress would disappear briefly, soon to return with the satisfaction of a duty performed. |
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| Among the Akan, towns and villages are comprised of distinct wards in which matrilineal descendants of the same ancestress reside. |
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| Include your name and address along with the name of your ancestress or ancestor on the back of all material included with this application. |
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| From the lustral water falling from his left eye was born the sun goddess Amaterasu Ōmikami, ancestress of the imperial family. |
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| Must Ruth relive the night of her ancestress, in order to redeem the ignominy of the conception of her ancestor Moab? |
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| The new enthusiasts see West as the ancestress of strong modern women. |
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| In it Lucretius prays to Venus, not only as the universal life force but also as ancestress of the Romans, begging her to intervene with her lover Mars and save the troubled Roman republic from civil strife. |
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| Thus matriliny, with its associations with the Iawbei or ancestress, and Suidnia or eldest maternal uncle, is central to the Khasi religion. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Today no small host of Americans have for ancestress the daughter of Powhatan. |
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| Ova was my ancestress, and the knowledge of this mine is consequently a family secret for us. |
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| His ancestress Asenath, the wife of Joseph, had been an Egyptian and he had boasted of the fact. |
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| An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King John. |
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| The girl read and re-read the description of this ancestress, then gasped. |
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| The Quaker woman Elizabeth Hooton was an ancestress of mine. |
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| The moon herself was claimed as the ancestress of certain families. |
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| Her ancestress had been baptized by the subject of the story. |
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| Nor could be omitted from the purple record the later ancestress, Moya Doolen. |
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| Our speakers this fall included Jennifer DeBruin who read us excerpts on her loyalist ancestress. |
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| His third dam Viva La Sec is also ancestress of Poule d'Essai des Poulains hero Astronomer Royal. |
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| Would they not rather have poisoned me at my meals, or with the fumes of wax, as they did my ancestress, Jeanne d'Albret? |
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| And did not Biddy trace to Erin, mother and star of the breed, through a long descendant out of Breda Mixer, herself an ancestress of Breda Muddler? |
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