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the immediate descendants of a person

He had sojourned among various tribes, and perhaps left progeny among them all; but his regular, or habitual wife, was a Sioux squaw.
Irving, Washington -- Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains

The progeny will doubtless be a strange hybrid race...
Bronte, Charlotte -- The Professor
But it is only among our own progeny.
Barrie, James Matthew -- The Adventures of Peter Pan
And this same progeny of evils comes
From our debate, from our dissension
Shakespeare, William -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
So, to be candid, unreserved and true,
I'd rather you were I than I were you.
Perhaps, however, in a time to be,
When Man's extinct, a better world may see
Your progeny in power and control,
Due to the genesis and growth of Soul.
So I salute you as a reptile grand
Predestined to regenerate the land.
Bierce, Ambrose -- To My Pet Tortoise (in The Devil's Dictionary)
It was his function to build, the absence of water or of possible progeny was an accident for which he was not accountable.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas -- Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
But issued from the progeny of kings;
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 1
Was celebrating in song her fair progeny whose days were to be long, and to know no sickness.
Plato -- The Republic
Atheism is the child of Roman Catholicism—it proceeded from these Romans themselves, though perhaps they would not believe it. It grew and fattened on hatred of its parents; it is the progeny of their lies and spiritual feebleness.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
So a queen overseeing her realm of living plants, food, and progeny.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
He stared, amazed, at his own progeny.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It grew and fattened on hatred of its parents; it is the progeny of their lies and spiritual feebleness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
One would say the Akhaian gentlemen were progeny of yours.
Homer -- The Iliad
The thirty-two that we shall use to-night are its progeny; they are all entirely black, with the exception of a star upon the forehead.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
He was ambitious in the extreme, and like Walt McCandless, his aspirations extended to his progeny.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
Bantu Education had come back to haunt its creators, for these angry and audacious young people were its progeny.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
He was apart from his progeny, as if having no clue where they came from, and no interest in what happened to them.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
As the minutes dragged by, we separated into two groups: the progeny of Noah and Allie and their spouses.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Wedding
It is the woman, by herself, who brings forth her progeny, and carries it off to some remote corner of existence, a quiet, safe place for a crib.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Donald Trump was not the only one bursting with pride over his progeny.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me

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