And in Nan the soul of her French ancestress lived anew. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Mine ancestress Io from sorrow: thine healing it was that. From Wordnik.com. [The Suppliants] Reference
Omnium, — the ancestress, it was to be hoped, of all future. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
Margaret of Scotland, and ancestress of the kings of England?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850] Reference
“Of course you belong to Love, owning such an ancestress!”. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
"But she is my revered ancestress," Ah Kim explained to Li Faa. From Wordnik.com. [THE TEARS OF AH KIM] Reference
An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King. From Wordnik.com. [Novels by Eminent Hands] Reference
Dinah was the ancestress of Dinaite tribes who settled in Sumeria Ezra 4:9. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
The name means ancestress, and is frequently used for the mother of heroes. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
Still, there is something to be said in defence of that venerable ancestress. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859] Reference
Nor could be omitted from the purple record the later ancestress, Moya Doolen. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER VII] Reference
He accordingly marries Ruth, who thus becomes the ancestress of the great King David. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Old Testament] Reference
She is remembered in the prophecies of Isaiah 51 (v. 2) as the ancestress of her people. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah/Sarai: Bible.] Reference
Sarah is the wife of Abraham, the mother of Isaac, and thus the ancestress of all Israel. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah/Sarai: Bible.] Reference
These three clans all have one ancestress who bore three children, all of them daughters. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
“Not an ancestress,” said Mrs. Swithin, as they came level with the head in the picture. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Acts] Reference
Nella-Rose, now that her father considered, was dangerously like her picturesque ancestress!. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
Some ancestress, it was said, could not show her marriage lines, or something else was wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
The ancestress of Tutankhamen has left as many questions as to her reign as there are answers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
My ancestress — but there is no need to publish her revered name — did indeed live at Bungay. From Wordnik.com. [Roundabout Papers] Reference
Skip out of here before the luscious primordial ancestress can offer her dark musky loins to you. From Wordnik.com. [Up The Line]
It appeared in the portrait of an ancestress of her own by Titian which had never left the family. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
The blush emphasized her resemblance to her ancestress, whose brilliant complexion, however, hinted at rouge. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Earl William's youngest daughter, who was married at Birmingham, and whom he represented as his own ancestress. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
Giving me the highest degree of hospitality in his lexicon, Metaxas sent his ancestress Eudocia into my bedroom. From Wordnik.com. [Up The Line]
With each birth the founding ancestress became increasingly influential over the lives of an expanding community. From Wordnik.com. [Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE] Reference
She didn't even resent it that the ancestress Niolente had taken a part in fomenting and prolonging the Rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
The goddess Maswasi was the mythical ancestress of the Dhanwars, the wife of Karankot, and also the daughter of Maiya. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
She herself is not in danger of her life — but the reader knows that nascent Israel is in danger of losing its ancestress. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah/Sarai: Bible.] Reference
The system of gentes prevails, each gens consisting of a hypothetical female ancestress, and all her descendants through females. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Elizabeth, later Queen of Bohemia and ancestress of many of the sovereigns of Europe, as well as of the present reigning house in. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from] Reference
He had a tale to tell about one ancestress, whose dark beauty seemed as that of a flower of the south: he joined her, and began to tell it. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
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