Example Sentences
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Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Thou hast caused me to descend lineally from the natural princes of Cambria, I command these birds, in Thy name, to declare it.”
From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by Davies, R. Rice
—Is the present Lord Clifford lineally descended from the Lord Clifford who was Lord High Treasurer temp.
In one sense the East Roman Empire was more lineally and really Roman than the West: it was absolutely continuous from ancient times.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
“I am called Howard Tracy because I am descended lineally from both those noble families.”
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
