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  • She seeks immortality through her progeny.
    progeny = children and their descendants
  • The progeny will doubtless be a strange hybrid race...†  (source)
  • He had sojourned among various tribes, and perhaps left progeny among them all; but his regular, or habitual wife, was a Sioux squaw.†  (source)
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  • For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny.  (source)
    progeny = children
  • Jam redit et virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna: Jam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto.†  (source)
  • He was ambitious in the extreme, and like Walt McCandless, his aspirations extended to his progeny.†  (source)
  • A second number told them how many of a dog's progeny had contributed to the master score— an index of confidence.†  (source)
  • What is it about a nation that would foster a willingness in its people to destroy their own artworks, ravage their own cities, and kill their own progeny without compunction?†  (source)
  • "Estimated Progeny Differences," said the older man.†  (source)
  • And which is also busy—but instead of people in sharp suits going about their day—it's now wizards and witches in robes mostly trying to work out how to say good-bye to their beloved progeny.†  (source)
  • One of the faculty wives—one especially prolific with progeny, and one whose maternal girth was more substantial than well coordinated—slipped under the Volkswagen as it was being returned to its wheels; although she was not hurt, she was wedged quite securely under the stubborn automobile.†  (source)
  • The regime created an instant pool of such women by the simple tactic of declaring all second marriages and nonmarital liaisons adulterous, arresting the female partners, and, on the grounds that they were morally unfit, confiscating the children they already had, who were adopted by childless couples of the upper echelons who were eager for progeny by any means.†  (source)
  • So a queen overseeing her realm of living plants, food, and progeny.†  (source)
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