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  • Perhaps a description would be more helpful than a lecture on fairy genealogy.†   (source)
  • Afterward, Annie had, at Mae's insistence, shown her some documents, ancient yellowed papers detailing their family history, a beautiful black portfolio of genealogies, scholarly articles, pictures of grave old men with extravagant sideburns standing near rough-hewn cabins.†   (source)
  • Mr. Smit disentangled himself gently from Father's genealogical inquiries and followed me upstairs.†   (source)
  • A placid or melancholy bull with no interest in cows will have no interest for genealogy either, since with characteristics like these, its line will die out at once.†   (source)
  • Have you ever had a genealogy done?†   (source)
  • Blomkvist had spent five hours with Vanger, and it took much of the night and all of Tuesday to type up his notes and piece together the genealogy into a comprehensible whole.†   (source)
  • GENEALOGY On the fourth day after leaving Farthen Dur, Eragon and Saphira arrived in Ellesmera.†   (source)
  • I saw him in the genealogy room earlier.†   (source)
  • He was an encyclopedia when it came to Xhosa genealogy and told me facts about my father that I had never known.†   (source)
  • The genealogical trees at the end of the Red Book of Westmarch are a small book in themselves, and all but Hobbits would find them exceedingly dull.†   (source)
  • Perhaps some genealogist of the future will come across this patch of bones and wonder why so many fishermen died on the prairies.†   (source)
  • I have the Wate Family Tree in my genealogy hook.†   (source)
  • I've also done a fair amount of genealogical research, into the Hubbard, Tayber, and Rinds families.†   (source)
  • "But they're not in the official genealogy."†   (source)
  • He waved his hand, dismissing genealogies.†   (source)
  • But it is a vital, frisky city unburdened by the pretensions and the genealogical sinuosities of Charleston.†   (source)
  • A few years ago I tracked Grandpa down, told him we were studying family genealogy in school.†   (source)
  • Genealogy.†   (source)
  • As I say, he was notably left-leaning for a Southerner: six or seven years later, at the height of the McCarthy hysteria, he furiously resigned as president-elect of the Virginia chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, to which for largely genealogical reasons he had belonged for a quarter of a century, when that mossback organization issued a manifesto in support of the Senator from Wisconsin.†   (source)
  • Genealogists are worked to death winnowing the debris of ancestry for grains of greatness.†   (source)
  • Since I had some time left, I glanced through a genealogical chart:   (source)
    genealogical = related to family ancestry or its study
  • Number two: genealogical charts.   (source)
  • Besides that, I finished the first volume of a biography of Emperor Charles V yesterday, and I still have to work out the many genealogical charts I've collected and the notes I've taken.   (source)
  • They've had genealogies done tracing roots back to England and Ireland in the fifteen hundreds.†   (source)
  • And with the help of DNA and far better genealogical software, within the year we're hoping that anyone can quickly access every available piece of information about their family lineage, all images, all video and film, with one search request."†   (source)
  • And for several years the public has been sending samples by the millions to personalized DNA testing companies like 23andMe, which only provide customers with their personal medical or genealogical information if they first sign a form granting permission for their samples to be stored for future research.†   (source)
  • Later, of course, there would be a thousand who claimed they were there, or who invented genealogies to trace their blood back.†   (source)
  • To these four volumes there was added in Westmarch a fifth containing commentaries, genealogies, and various other matter concerning the hobbit members of the Fellowship.†   (source)
  • A love of learning (other than genealogical lore) was far from general among them, but there remained still a few in the older families who studied their own books, and even gathered reports of old times and distant lands from Elves, Dwarves, and Men.†   (source)
  • The only thing there was an old copy of Nature's Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy.†   (source)
  • But what good is a documented genealogy of Christ's bloodline?†   (source)
  • The only place I've managed to find the name 'Peverell' Is Nature's Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy.†   (source)
  • A complete genealogy of the early descendants of Christ.†   (source)
  • Nobody ever bothered with a genealogy, but I've never heard of any Hawkins on the family tree."†   (source)
  • My entire genealogy file, my notebooks, my books, everything was afloat.†   (source)
  • "Hasn't your uncle taught you anything about your genealogy?"†   (source)
  • I see the genealogy room from a distance.†   (source)
  • THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN "Mary Magdalene is here," Teabing said, pointing near the top of the genealogy.†   (source)
  • Although over the decades there have been many stories that I was in the line of succession to the Thembu throne, the simple genealogy I have just outlined exposes those tales as a myth.†   (source)
  • It was normal practice to absorb any religion the Radch ran across, to fit its gods into an already blindingly complex genealogy, or to say merely that the supreme, creator deity was Amaat under another name and let the rest sort themselves out.†   (source)
  • She harbors some idiotic curiosity about our genealogy, as if dissecting the beast could help us escape its malevolence.†   (source)
  • She steered me through the crowd, through the dense alliances of intermingled families where each face was a chronicle of privilege and subordination to the genealogy of great houses and proud names.†   (source)
  • You really should know your genealogy.†   (source)
  • Since the library was pretty much a ghost town, except for the occasional visit from one of the ladies from the DAR checking on questionable genealogy, Marian had free run of the place.†   (source)
  • We're studying genealogy."†   (source)
  • Sometimes we lettered on Jimmy's genealogical chart, it being a belief of the Kleins that they went back to a Spanish family called Avila, in the thirteenth century.†   (source)
  • Mr. Samgrass was a genealogist and a legitimist; he loved dispossessed royalty and knew the exact validity of the rival claims of the pretenders to many thrones; he was not a man of religious habit, but he knew more than most Catholics about their Church; he had friends in the Vatican and could talk at length of policy and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favor, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit…†   (source)
  • Names are often repeated in dynasties, and the genealogies show that a distant ancestor of Thror was referred to, Thrain I, a fugitive from Moria, who first discovered the Lonely Mountain, Erebor, and ruled there for a while, before his people moved on to the remoter mountains of the North.†   (source)
  • They were authorities on the genealogies of everyone who was anyone in Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia and did not bother their heads about the other states, because they believed that no one who was anybody ever came from states other than these three.†   (source)
  • From Grandma Fontaine, who was belching frankly with the privilege of her age, to seventeen-year-old Alice Munroe, struggling against the nausea of a first pregnancy, they had their heads together in the endless genealogical and obstetrical discussions that made such gatherings very pleasant and instructive affairs.†   (source)
  • It is a fact of some interest to the local historian and genealogist, nothing more.†   (source)
  • What tangled skeins are the genealogies of slavery!†   (source)
  • Most people imagined them to be the very apex of the pyramid; but they themselves (at least those of Mrs. Archer's generation) were aware that, in the eyes of the professional genealogist, only a still smaller number of families could lay claim to that eminence.†   (source)
  • [58] One sent forth the praises of Athelstane in a doleful panegyric; another, in a Saxon genealogical poem, rehearsed the uncouth and harsh names of his noble ancestry.†   (source)
  • All these he bequeathed to me, with a thousand Roman crowns, which he had in ready money, on condition that I would have anniversary masses said for the repose of his soul, and that I would draw up a genealogical tree and history of his house.†   (source)
  • Prince Andrew, looking again at that genealogical tree, shook his head, laughing as a man laughs who looks at a portrait so characteristic of the original as to be amusing.†   (source)
  • In sleep there come to the surface buried genealogical facts, ancestral curves, dead men's traits, which the mobility of daytime animation screens and overwhelms.†   (source)
  • That a creature made—in a genealogical sense—out of a man's rib, and in this particular case maintained in the highest respectability without any trouble of her own, should be normally in a state of contradiction to the blandest propositions and even to the most accommodating concessions, was a mystery in the scheme of things to which he had often in vain sought a clew in the early chapters of Genesis.†   (source)
  • It was long after their usual hour of retiring, and they had expected him, at the very latest, two hours ago; but the time had not hung heavily on their hands, for Mrs Nickleby had entertained Smike with a genealogical account of her family by the mother's side, comprising biographical sketches of the principal members, and Smike had sat wondering what it was all about, and whether it was learnt from a book, or said out of Mrs Nickleby's own head; so that they got on together very…†   (source)
  • Prince Andrew was looking at a large gilt frame, new to him, containing the genealogical tree of the Princes Bolkonski, opposite which hung another such frame with a badly painted portrait (evidently by the hand of the artist belonging to the estate) of a ruling prince, in a crown—an alleged descendant of Rurik and ancestor of the Bolkonskis.†   (source)
  • To trail the genealogies of these high mortal miseries, carries us at last among the sourceless primogenitures of the gods; so that, in the face of all the glad, hay-making suns, and soft cymballing, round harvest-moons, we must needs give in to this: that the gods themselves are not for ever glad.†   (source)
  • …of high-born relations: the way in which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty humors of old Lord Megatherium; the exact crossing of genealogies which had brought a coronet into a new branch and widened the relations of scandal,—these were topics of which she retained details with the utmost accuracy, and reproduced them in an excellent pickle of epigrams, which she herself…†   (source)
  • 'Nephew—to—Lord—Decimus,' Mr Meagles luxuriously repeated with his eyes shut, that he might have nothing to distract him from the full flavour of the genealogical tree.†   (source)
  • "A man, too, who could boast of Dante for a genealogist, and could reckon back to the 'Divine Comedy.'†   (source)
  • M. Coquenard did not carry his genealogical investigations any further; but withdrawing his anxious look from the chest and fixing it upon Porthos, he contented himself with saying, "Monsieur our cousin will do us the favor of dining with us once before his departure for the campaign, will he not, Madame Coquenard?"†   (source)
  • "It is possible," said Morcerf; "my father has in his study a genealogical tree which will tell you all that, and on which I made commentaries that would have greatly edified Hozier and Jaucourt.†   (source)
  • …they yield their beaches to wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams; for leagues and leagues are flanked by ancient and unentered forests, where the gaunt pines stand like serried lines of kings in Gothic genealogies; those same woods harboring wild Afric beasts of prey, and silken creatures whose exported furs give robes to Tartar Emperors; they mirror the paved capitals of Buffalo and Cleveland, as well as Winnebago villages; they float alike the…†   (source)
  • …well-looking young man, was also possessed of considerable talent and ability; moreover, he was a viscount—a recently created one, certainly, but in the present day it is not necessary to go as far back as Noah in tracing a descent, and a genealogical tree is equally estimated, whether dated from 1399 or merely 1815; but to crown all these advantages, Albert de Morcerf commanded an income of 50,000 livres, a more than sufficient sum to render him a personage of considerable importance…†   (source)
  • But sometimes he will judge that "Prince Akhilleus" suits the context better: "prince" is an appropriate interpretation, since Greek aristocratic genealogies often claimed divine ancestors, and it is, importantly, not intrusive.†   (source)
  • And genealogists come up from Boston—get paid by city people for looking up their ancestors.†   (source)
  • After Sir Bliant had ridden away, King Pelles stumped upstairs to do some biblical genealogy.†   (source)
  • This idea is superbly rendered in another metaphysical genealogy of the Maoris: From the conception the increase, From the increase the thought, From the thought the remembrance, From the remembrance the consciousness, From the consciousness the desire.†   (source)
  • His sister Eleanor had gone to Mexico, by bus the entire journey, to see whether she could make a go of it with the cousin there, the one that had started Jimmy's interest in genealogy.†   (source)
  • He thought it eccentric of Lancelot, to say the least, to lose his reason over a lover's tiff—and he wanted to find out, by looking up the Ban genealogy, whether there had been a streak of lunacy in the family which could account for it.†   (source)
  • "Ban's father," said King Pelles to himself, polishing his spectacles and blowing dust off numerous works of Heraldry, Genealogy, Nigromancy, and Mystical Mathematics, "was King Lancelot of Benwick, who married the King of Ireland's daughter.†   (source)
  • Oh, thou magnanimous! now I do glory in my genealogy.†   (source)
  • "Here is a true American genealogy for you," said Marmaduke, laughing.†   (source)
  • When she ventured to Sunday School and heard the teachers droning that the genealogy of Shamsherai was a valuable ethical problem for children to think about; when she experimented with Wednesday prayer-meeting and listened to store-keeping elders giving their unvarying weekly testimony in primitive erotic symbols and such gory Chaldean phrases as "washed in the blood of the lamb" and "a vengeful God"; when Mrs. Bogart boasted that through his boyhood she had made Cy confess nightly…†   (source)
  • She didn't say so much—she was interested in high life—she asked me a lot of questions about my genealogy and all that sort of thing, as if I knew anything about it.†   (source)
  • And according to one branch of science, whose notions of reality were equally unflattering and lurid, the embryo's development seemed to be a hasty recapitulation of zoological genealogy.†   (source)
  • And perhaps there had been some pleasure in pointing Mr. Brooke's attention to this ugly bit of Ladislaw's genealogy, as a fresh candle for him to see his own folly by.†   (source)
  • If a question in heraldry were started, Athos knew all the noble families of the kingdom, their genealogy, their alliances, their coats of arms, and the origin of them.†   (source)
  • No chance-child was he, for he could trace his genealogy all the way back to his parents, who lived hard by; his mother being a washerwoman, and his father a drunken soldier, discharged with a wooden leg, and a diurnal pension of twopence-halfpenny and an unstateable fraction.†   (source)
  • It scarcely seemed, however, to afford Mr Meagles as much satisfaction as the Barnacle genealogy had done.†   (source)
  • I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best-born.†   (source)
  • If Messala were here, he might say, as others have said, that the exact trace of your lineage stopped when the Assyrian took Jerusalem, and razed the Temple, with all its precious stores; but you might plead the pious action of Zerubbabel, and retort that all verity in Roman genealogy ended when the barbarians from the West took Rome, and camped six months upon her desolated site.†   (source)
  • Most of the American genealogists commence their traditions like the stories for children, with three brothers, taking especial care that one of the triumvirate shall be the pro genitor of any of the same name who may happen to be better furnished with worldly gear than themselves.†   (source)
  • Wars, calamities, other kings, and the countless obscuring processes of time had, as respects fortune, lowered his descendants to the common Jewish level; the bread they ate came to them of toil never more humble; yet they had the benefit of history sacredly kept, of which genealogy was the first chapter and the last; they could not become unknown, while, wherever they went In Israel, acquaintance drew after it a respect amounting to reverence.†   (source)
  • On the Trojan side, a complex royal genealogy results in the city being called variously Troy, Ilion, and Pergamos.†   (source)
  • I dreamed of genealogical charts, thin black branches, bearing clusters of dates on every stem.†   (source)
  • A man I knew only from a genealogical chart was not necessarily bound to resemble his descendants in conduct.†   (source)
  • Had told him the date written on the genealogical chart, in Frank's fine black calligraphic script—April 16, 1745.†   (source)
  • My attention was caught by a genealogical chart, tacked up with special care in a spot by itself, using four tacks, one to a corner.†   (source)
  • I could see the lines of Frank's genealogical chart as though they were drawn on the mortar lines between the stones of the wall, and the names listed by them.†   (source)
  • Not only mentioned him but insisted upon visiting him as well, armed with the usual collection of genealogical charts and notebooks, eager for any tidbits of family history about the famous Black Jack Randall.†   (source)
  • A most romantic incident occurred when a handsome young Oxford graduate, noted for his chivalry towards the fair sex, stepped forward and, presenting his visiting card, bankbook and genealogical tree, solicited the hand of the hapless young lady, requesting her to name the day, and was accepted on the spot.†   (source)
  • …both having been taught on the plain of Shinar 242 years after the deluge in the seminary instituted by Fenius Farsaigh, descendant of Noah, progenitor of Israel, and ascendant of Heber and Heremon, progenitors of Ireland: their archaeological, genealogical, hagiographical, exegetical, homiletic, toponomastic, historical and religious literatures comprising the works of rabbis and culdees, Torah, Talmud (Mischna and Ghemara), Massor, Pentateuch, Book of the Dun Cow, Book of Ballymote,…†   (source)
  • I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews, I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demigod, I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is, And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.†   (source)
  • I am not a genealogist, but if these preachers tell truth, we are all second cousins.†   (source)
  • The old servants of the family suspected him to have been the son of the Baron's sister, by a good, honest gentleman of the neighborhood, whom that young lady would never marry because he had been able to prove only seventy-one quarterings, the rest of his genealogical tree having been lost through the injuries of time.†   (source)
  • Frank's passion for genealogy was yet another reason for choosing the Highlands.†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid my own family is nothing to boast of, genealogically.†   (source)
  • Lord John Corley some called him and his genealogy came about in this wise.†   (source)
  • [11] Such changes, in fact, are almost innumerable; every work upon American genealogy is full of examples.†   (source)
  • Thus, /yourn/, /hern/, /hisn/, /ourn/ and /theirn/, whatever their present offense to grammarians, are of a genealogy quite as respectable as that of /yours/, /hers/, /his/, /ours/ and /theirs/.†   (source)
  • "Oh, Pangloss!" cried Candide, "what a strange genealogy!†   (source)
  • For the Book of Genesis, deriveth the Genealogy of Gods people, from the creation of the World, to the going into Egypt: the other four Books of Moses, contain the Election of God for their King, and the Laws which hee prescribed for their Government: The Books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Samuel, to the time of Saul, describe the acts of Gods people, till the time they cast off Gods yoke, and called for a King, after the manner of their neighbour nations; The rest of the History of…†   (source)
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