Sample Sentences forprogenitor (auto-selected)
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You'd better hurry up and cut the umbilical cord to your mortal progenitor.† (source)
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I seem to have a stronger claim to a residence here on account of this grave, bearded, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor—who came so early, with his Bible and his sword, and trode the unworn street with such a stately port, and made so large a figure, as a man of war and peace—a stronger claim than for myself, whose name is seldom heard and my face hardly known.† (source)
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He was one of the progenitors of the human race along with the goddess Nuwa.† (source)
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For this reason, the Jews in France considered Magdalene sacred royalty and revered her as the progenitor of the royal line of kings.† (source)
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There was no religiosity in his reverence for the supreme powers of heaven and earth, which he worshipped as his progenitors.† (source)
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This was an historical pageant, representing the King's immediate progenitors.† (source)
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Which was fine with me, because after all who did I think I was, showing up in a limousine, picking a lock, and then claiming to be the progenitor of a famous writer?† (source)
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For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in all Asia, or Africa either; yet (ere the final truck was put to it) as that great stone mast of theirs may be said to have gone by the board, in the dread gale of God's wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians.† (source)
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Whence he was called Creation.... The enduring substratum of the individual and of the progenitor of the universe are one and the same, according to these mythologies; that is why the demiurge in this myth is called the Self.† (source)
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Yes, fatality and curse on the South and on our family as though because some ancestor of ours had elected to establish his descent in a land primed for fatality and already cursed with it, even if it had not rather been our family, our father's progenitors, who had incurred the curse long years before and had been coerced by Heaven into establishing itself in the land and the time already cursed.† (source)
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When my progenitor was an old man, along came one of these missionary priests from New Spain, begging.† (source)
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Fancy might have regarded the act as the recrudescence of a trick in which her armed progenitors were not unpractised.† (source)
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His blood boiled with honest British exultation, as he saw the name of Osborne ennobled in the person of his son, and thought that he might be the progenitor of a glorious line of baronets.† (source)
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The historians of culture are quite consistent in regard to their progenitors, the writers of universal histories, for if historical events may be explained by the fact that certain persons treated one another in such and such ways, why not explain them by the fact that such and such people wrote such and such books?† (source)
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if so, take the Torah, and search the Book of Numbers, and of the seventy-two generations after Adam, you can find the very progenitor of your house.† (source)
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They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a noble race of men.† (source)
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