Sentence example with the word 'progenitors'

progenitors

Last update: June 9, 2015


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Of these cognate races, which are described by the Greek writers as barbarous or non-Hellenic, the Illyrians and Epirots, he thinks, were respectively the progenitors of the Ghegs, or northern, and the Tosks, or southern, Albanians.   [Please select]

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Grandsons in that race might just as well be dogs for all they know or care about their progenitors.   [Please select]

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There may be, there probably are, thousands of deposits still untouched containing countless fragments and vestiges of man and his progenitors.   [Please select]

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The costly progenitors of his herds were all beheaded in the park like mere slaughter-house animals.   [Please select]

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The two genera could be related, for the progenitors of _Conophis_ possibly inhabited much of North America in the Miocene.   [Please select]

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He discovered that many men looked like their progenitors, and proved his theories with the exception of one link.   [Please select]

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Here and there a stricken few remain; but how unlike their bold, untamable progenitors.   [Please select]

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His 168 progenitors, having become Huguenots, had taken refuge in England, where the name Xavier was finally changed to Sevier.   [Please select]

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It is interesting to remember in this connection that when we count back our progenitors to the twenty-first generation they number something over two millions.   [Please select]

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