The results of these experiments are in no way diagnostic, nor can they be used to determine parentage or sibling relationships. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
In chambers today in Los Angeles, the judge presiding over this case decided that he, in fact, has jurisdiction over what he calls parentage issues. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2006] Reference
One of the bonus side effects of toxic parentage is a lack of childhood memories, so paper images also function as tangible proof of an events you can't recall. From Wordnik.com. [scan your life] Reference
When he shows reservations in embarking on an affair with her, she points out to him that as an illegitimate son, his parentage is uncertain, to which Spurio agrees. From Wordnik.com. [Final drafting stuff:] Reference
So much of it so far has been about the pet store and buying purebreds, and that desire to have a “clean” dog, both in history and parentage, is part of the problem. From Wordnik.com. [Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs Book 14 » Manga Worth Reading] Reference
So much of it so far has been about the pet store and buying purebreds, and that desire to have a ‘clean’ dog, both in history and parentage, is part of the problem. From Wordnik.com. [Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs Book 14 » Manga Worth Reading] Reference
The mere accident of his parentage was a factor that weighed nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Anonymity wasn't easy for me in Japan when my parentage was a matter of public record and schoolyard taunts. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Hard Rain by Barry Eisler] Reference
The two are classic hijos de chingada, and their parentage is a little uncertain, though each boasts of the superior virtues of his long-gone father. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Born of a family which combined high rank with intellectual distinction, his parentage was a passport to all that was best in social and political life. From Wordnik.com. [Collections and Recollections] Reference
Of course on earth in our cities there are now many who never live that life of parentage which is the natural life of man. From Wordnik.com. [First Men in the Moon] Reference
I know thy parentage is base and low. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
Her parentage is a mystery. From Wordnik.com. [Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo] Reference
A deep mystery hangs over the parentage of Roy Gilbert. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
I have already told them something of Eleanor's parentage. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
If such people marry, they had better, in most cases, avoid parentage. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Ernani, an Italian rebel of obscure parentage is the accepted lover of. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Nursery, however, trees of undoubted parentage were successfully raised. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
Born of noble parentage on December 11, 1810 -- his full name being Louis. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Perhaps the mystery of Mabel Allison's parentage was to be solved at last. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
Myrtilla Miner, of poor and humble, yet of industrious parentage, was born. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
The hero of the Book of Job came from a strange land and of a strange parentage. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Both men were well born, but their presidential parentage is out of a Faulkner novel. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Illegitimacy] Reference
Cosby denied parentage but conceded that he had had an affair with the woman's mother. From Wordnik.com. [Family Secrets] Reference
But his life took a terrible turn after the war, he says, because of his German parentage. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler's Children] Reference
Despite his parentage, he seems curiously unmoored from history and evokes no American archetypes. From Wordnik.com. [A Very Human Hero] Reference
No man today knows the parentage of some of the cultivated plants and grains on which we now depend. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912] Reference
A thousand times No! Let us remember that they are His own children, whatever earthly parentage they may have. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
But in battle there was no distinction of ranks, and no man cared a stiver about the birth and parentage of another. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
At the hotel, where I remained ten days, I made the acquaintance of two young ladies, of Greek and Armenian parentage. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
There was not much mention of whose son he was, his social prestige had a more remote source than his immediate parentage. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
He was determined to find the missing box which was supposed to contain the testimonies and proofs as to the girl's parentage. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
The sybil in Virgil gives a civil answer to a civil question, and narrates the birth, parentage, and education of her protegé. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
I have noticed this undesirable characteristic in tasting hybrid nuts derived from trees possessing ~Castanea crenata~ parentage. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
Conversely, trees of poor parentage, either as timber or nut producers, will tend to reproduce the poor characteristics of their parent. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
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