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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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You'd better hurry up and cut the umbilical cord to your mortal progenitor.† (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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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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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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She understood then why she would have wanted to surrender herself to a man made manly by toil; she understood how a woman instinctively leaned toward the protection of a man who had used his hands—who had strength and red blood and virility who could fight like the progenitors of the race.† (source)
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that I had only to lock the house and take my place in the buggy and traverse those twelve miles which I had not done since Ellen died, beside that brute who until Ellen died was not even permitted to approach the house from the front—that brute progenitor of brutes whose granddaughter was to supplant me, if not in my sister's house at least in my sister's bed to which (so they will tell you) I aspired—that brute who (brute instrument of that justice which presides over human events which, incept in the individual, runs smooth, less claw than velvet but which, by man or woman flouted, drives on like fiery steel and overrides both weakly just and unjust strong, both vanquisher and innocent v† (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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When my progenitor was an old man, along came one of these missionary priests from New Spain, begging.† (source)
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This was an historical pageant, representing the King's immediate progenitors.† (source)
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For that bitter murder, 55 The killing of Abel, all-ruling Father {Cain is referred to as a progenitor of Grendel, and of monsters in general.† (source)
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Even philosophers have their preferences, and it must be admitted that of his progenitors his father ministered most to his sense of the sweetness of filial dependence.† (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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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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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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