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  • He hoped it wasn't hereditary.†   (source)
  • His face was pink and swollen with premature middle age, and I thought, not for the first time, how there'd been no freedom for Platt in his refusal to grow up, how by slacking off too long he'd managed to destroy every last glimmer of his hereditary privilege; and now he was always going to be loitering at the margins of the party with his gin and lime while his baby brother Toddy—still in college—stood talking in a group which included the president of an Ivy League college, a…†   (source)
  • She's always said that when sovereignty is vested in a single person whose right to rule is hereditary, the principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community are irrevocably lost.†   (source)
  • There was a deep-seated hatred of the Empire in Carvahall, almost hereditary in nature.†   (source)
  • The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.†   (source)
  • It's a hereditary condition.†   (source)
  • Biologists, for example, would be at a loss to construct a science if only individuals and no species existed, and if heredity didn't make children like parents.†   (source)
  • Unlike mass-produced cars, however, mass-produced pedigree puppies can come with serious hereditary problems, running the gamut from hip dysplasia to early blindness, brought on by multigenerational inbreeding.†   (source)
  • When a cell divides into two, two identical cells are produced with exactly the same hereditary factors.†   (source)
  • We know that this so-called "wild talent" is really a hereditary trait, produced by a gene that is usually recessive, if present at all.†   (source)
  • Once, explaining to an acquaintance why she and her husband had abandoned "family estates in the North of England," exchanging the hereditary home-"the jolliest, oh, the prettiest old priory"-for an old and highly un-jolly farm-house on the plains of western Kansas, Mrs. Warren-Browne said: "Taxes, my dear.†   (source)
  • The king was the true hereditary leader of the Zulus, who loved and respected him.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, all of the results strongly suggest that our environment plays as big — if not bigger — a role as heredity in shaping personality and intelligence.†   (source)
  • Now, what would you say, in her heredity, makes a common girl like that step and look like a queen?†   (source)
  • Perhaps more important, parents with higher IQs tend to get more education, and IQ is strongly hereditary.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio, his older brother, would pass on that wonderful image as a hereditary memory to all of his descendants.†   (source)
  • The title of King's Thief is a hereditary one now in Eddis, and I think the current Thief is named Eugenides.†   (source)
  • But Hobbits have never, in fact, studied magic of any kind, and their elusiveness is due solely to a professional skill that heredity and practice, and a close friendship with the earth, have rendered inimitable by bigger and clumsier races.†   (source)
  • The strange behavior—the so-called "madness" of King George III—for which he would be long remembered, did not come until much later, more than twenty years later, and rather than mental illness, it appears to have been porphyria, a hereditary disease not diagnosed until the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • The Keeper's post has never been hereditary.†   (source)
  • Heredity or Society?†   (source)
  • Suitable candidates shall be granted land, hereditary title, and a retinue befitting royalty in the grand tradition.†   (source)
  • Then, at Aslan's command, Peter ... and confirmed the Bulgy Bear in his hereditary office of Marshal of the Lists.†   (source)
  • Heredity and perhaps a devotion to gymnastics and swimming had made her figure both very pretty and very full.†   (source)
  • The chief executive of the union is a hereditary prince.†   (source)
  • He had learned some tolerance of the light, but he still suffered the hereditary weaknesses it imparted upon his kind.†   (source)
  • Hereditary.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's hereditary.†   (source)
  • She was the daughter of an hereditary chief, the wife of a chief, the mother of a chief.†   (source)
  • Among these was Leonard I, Baron of Taxis, Gentleman of the Emperor's Privy Chamber and Baron of Buysinghen, the hereditary Grand Master of the Post for the Low Countries, and executor of the Thurn and Taxis monopoly.†   (source)
  • As I scanned the group I could not help but feel at the same time a slight but real awkwardness over my bony hide and its hereditary paleness.†   (source)
  • The office is not hereditary.†   (source)
  • He knew this hereditary trait in himself and watched with an alert diffidence for symptoms of it in himself.†   (source)
  • …and relatives running in and out of each other's arms, as if rendered by the Devil unrecognizable; a band of ragged boys with a ball; a family of dogs, another of blind and crippled people; and what looked like generations of guides and porters, in hereditary caps; and now moving in through the big arched gate (an outer rim of carriages, horn-blowing taxis, streetcars and cars reached around the Piazza beyond) a school of nuns with outstretched plates, all but late for the boat.†   (source)
  • Their belief in the Unseen, so far as it manifests itself at all, seems to be rather a pagan kind; their moral notions, though held with strong tenacity, seem to have no standard beyond hereditary custom.   (source)
  • I was no hereditary alcoholic.   (source)
  • a rare hereditary form of cancer
  • Can knowledge of boring Egyptian stuff be hereditary?†   (source)
  • Because each cell in our body carries the same hereditary material.†   (source)
  • By DNA we mean the chromosomes, or hereditary structures, that are found in all living cells.†   (source)
  • Mankind's hereditary potential for re-sisting serious disease will be weakened.†   (source)
  • Darwin had only the vaguest idea of heredity.†   (source)
  • "It was a hereditary title for many years," Attolia answered thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • Still, he did not see hereditary monarchy and aristocracy as necessarily contrary to human nature.†   (source)
  • In Venice, hereditary nobles exercise the absolute power over the people.†   (source)
  • It is even more important as a defense against the oppression of a hereditary monarch.†   (source)
  • "I am no friend to hereditary limited monarchy in America," Adams wrote explicitly.†   (source)
  • The British senate [House of Lords] is a hereditary legislature of rich nobles.†   (source)
  • This is totally different than a British king, who is a hereditary monarch.†   (source)
  • …to ascertain a good deal about her family situation as a child, and about her crossing of the Atlantic, as an emigrant; but none of it is very far out of the ordinary — only the usual poverty and hardships, etc. Those who believe in the hereditary nature of insanity might take some comfort in the fact that her father was an inebriate, and possibly an arsonist as well; but despite several theories to the contrary, I am far from being convinced that such tendencies are necessarily…†   (source)
  • You seem to grasp the principles of heredity, and thus I am astonished at what you think you might accomplish.†   (source)
  • She spoke gently out of the freshness of her grief: "Whatever you are, Paul, the heredity is as much your father as me."†   (source)
  • Double-entry on-screen bookkeeping, banking by fingertip, using a microwave without nuking your egg, filling out housing applications for this or that Module and job applications for this or that Compound, family heredity research, negotiating your own marriage-and-divorce contracts, wise genetic match-mating, the proper use of condoms to avoid sexually transmitted bioforms: those had been the Life Skills.†   (source)
  • And some enforce their patents aggressively: Myriad Genetics, which holds the patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes responsible for most cases of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, charges $3,000 to test for the genes.†   (source)
  • Such practitioners held that mental disturbances were organic in origin — due, for instance, to lesions of the nerves and brain, or hereditary conditions of a definable kind, such as epilepsy; or to catching diseases, including those that are sexually transmitted — he was elliptical here, considering the presence of ladies, but everyone knew what he meant.†   (source)
  • Likewise, we apply the scientific principles of heredity toward the perfection of a breed, so that instead of only one dog out of two litters being suitable for service, 90 percent make the grade.†   (source)
  • Because of patent licensing fees, it costs $25,000 for an academic institution to license the gene for researching a common blood disorder, hereditary haemochromatosis, and up to $250,000 to license the same gene for commercial testing.†   (source)
  • …and A. Hoo gasian, "Preservation at Subzero Temperatures of Mouse Fibroblasts (Strain L) and Human Epithelial Cells (Strain HeLa)," Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 87, no. 2 (1954); T. C. Hsu, "Mammalian Chromosomes in Vitro: The Karyotype of Man," Journal of Heredity 43 (1952); and D. Pearlman, "Value of Mammalian Cell Culture as Biochemical Tool," Science 160 (April 1969); and N. P. Salzman, "Animal Cell Cultures," Science 133, no. 3464 (May 1961).†   (source)
  • If we pay absolutely no attention to what is called hereditary hygiene, we could find ourselves facing a degeneration of the human race.†   (source)
  • If we simplify it a bit, we can say that we are now talking of the first hereditary material, the first DNA or the first living cell.†   (source)
  • Absolutely random changes in hereditary factors supplied one of the giraffe's ancestors with a slightly longer neck than average.†   (source)
  • One of life's great mysteries is that the cells of a multicellular animal have the ability to specialize their function in spite of the fact that not all the different hereditary characteristics are active in all the cells.†   (source)
  • But this theory of the heredity of 'acquired characteristics' was rejected by Darwin because Lamarck had no proof of his bold claims.†   (source)
  • Even in 2058 with the gun ban, even though genetic testing often weeded out the more violent hereditary traits before they could bloom, murder happened.†   (source)
  • Written to be understood by everyone, Common Sense attacked the very idea of hereditary monarchy as absurd and evil, and named the "royal brute" George III as the cause of every woe in America.†   (source)
  • On most occasions, her youth did not show-due to the influence of her hereditary instincts and memories-but, in this arena, she was even more inexperienced than he was with his feeble stabs at romance in Carvahall and Tronjheim.†   (source)
  • Arcadio took her by the waist with his tremendous hereditary strength and he felt the world disappear with the contact of her skin.†   (source)
  • She sat up and leaned over me, and I held my breath as I imagined the dream come true: Why, it can't be hereditary because you are not your mother's daughter, you are my daughter, Kitty, mine.†   (source)
  • All Lydia Sessions's considerable forces were by heredity and training turned into one narrow channel—the effort to make a creditable, if not a brilliant, match.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.†   (source)
  • The spies reported mainly on her own army—at least on its hereditary officers—but they also confirmed the reports that the Eddisian army had camped just within the pass.†   (source)
  • Aureliano Segundo recognized him at once, because that hereditary memory had been transmitted from generation to generation and had come to him through the memory of his grandfather.†   (source)
  • Her secret seemed to lie in the fact that she always found a way to keep busy, resolving domestic problems that she herself had created, and doing a poor job on a thousand things which she would fix on the following day with a pernicious diligence that made one think of Fernanda and the hereditary vice of making something just to unmake it.†   (source)
  • These were not hereditary titles he was proposing, but titles conferred by society for merit and that went only with positions of high federal responsibility.†   (source)
  • A hereditary monarchy could be a republic, Adams held, as England demonstrated, and hereditary aristocracies could be usefully employed in balanced governments, as in the House of Lords.†   (source)
  • The founders of our republic knew that an all-grasping hereditary monarch, supported by a hereditary legislature, jeopardizes liberty.†   (source)
  • Americans should be applauded for imitating it as far as had been done, but also, he stressed, for making certain improvements in the original, especially in rejecting all hereditary positions.†   (source)
  • The President of the United States would be elected every four years; the King of Great Britain is a perpetual and hereditary prince.†   (source)
  • Were Adams to be elected, warned the Boston Chronicle, the principle of hereditary succession would be imposed on America, to make way for John Quincy.†   (source)
  • It was a republic, but with no real executive power, only a symbolic head of state, the hereditary Stadholder, William V, Prince of Orange, who was related to the British royal family and personally devoted to the status quo.†   (source)
  • He greatly regretted that "the indiscretion of a printer" had doubtless offended his "friend Mr. Adams, for whom, as one of the most honest and disinterested men alive, I have cordial esteem," despite "his apostasy to hereditary monarchy."†   (source)
  • The people of Massachusetts were to have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, and in an article intended to prevent the formation of a hereditary monarchy, an expanded version of a similar article in the Virginia constitution, Adams wrote: No man, nor corporation or association of men have any other title to obtain advantages or particular and exclusive privileges distinct from those of the community, than what arises from the consideration of services rendered to the…†   (source)
  • But Adams adamantly opposed hereditary monarchy and hereditary aristocracy in America, as well as all hereditary titles, honors, or distinctions of any kind—it was why he, like Jefferson and Franklin, strongly opposed the Society of the Cincinnati, the association restricted to Continental Armyofficers, which had a hereditary clause in its rules whereby membership was passed on to eldest sons.†   (source)
  • If you suppose that I have or ever had a design or desire of attempting to introduce a government of Kings, Lords, and Commons, or in other words a hereditary executive, or a hereditary senate, either into the government of the United States or that of any individual state in this country, you are wholly mistaken…… If you have ever put such a construction on anything of mine, I beg you would mention it to me, and I will undertake to convince you that it has no such meaning.†   (source)
  • Now he was convalescing at the military hospital in Krasnoyarsk, and his wife and two daughters had gone there to see him and to bring him home (the Tiverzins, hereditary railway workers, travelled all over Russia on official passes).†   (source)
  • In principle, membership of these three groups is not hereditary.†   (source)
  • Besides, we start with a different heredity.†   (source)
  • 'I too believe in heredity,' said Poirot thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • I, like Prince Paul, believe in heredity!†   (source)
  • Heredity, date of fertilization, membership of Bokanovsky Group–details were transferred from test-tube to bottle.†   (source)
  • So maybe she considers you partly responsible through heredity for what happened to her and her family through him.†   (source)
  • Hermine had read the article, and it had informed her that Harry Haller was a noxious insect and a man who disowned his native land, and that it stood to reason that no good could come to the country so long as such persons and such ideas were tolerated and the minds of the young turned to sentimental ideas of humanity instead of to revenge by arms upon the hereditary foe.†   (source)
  • I believe in heredity, M. Poirot.†   (source)
  • But I have seen life in blocks, substantial, huge; its battlements and towers, factories and gasometers; a dwelling-place made from time immemorial after an hereditary pattern.†   (source)
  • She was suspicious of what could have been, given one wrong stitch of heredity, a family vice by which we could have been exploited.†   (source)
  • A considerable company gathered there that evening, including some of the military people, and several hereditary enemies of the Olivares brothers.†   (source)
  • I imagined as well a Platonic hereditary work. transmitted from father to son, in which each new individual adds a chapter or corrects with pious care the pages of his elders.†   (source)
  • …son still lived) his name would be different and those to call him by it strangers and whatever dragon's outcropping of Sutpen blood the son might sow on the body of whatever strange woman would therefore carry on the tradition, accomplish the hereditary evil and harm under another name and upon and among people who will never have heard the right one; daughter doomed to spinsterhood who had chosen spinsterhood already before there was anyone named Charles Bon since the aunt who came…†   (source)
  • In the crucial years, the fact that the Party was not a hereditary body did a great deal to neutralize opposition.†   (source)
  • It is true that our society is stratified, and very rigidly stratified, on what at first sight appear to be hereditary lines.†   (source)
  • Thank God', not for the incest of course but because at last they were going to do something, at last he could be something even though that something was the irrevocable repudiation of the old heredity and training and the acceptance of eternal damnation.†   (source)
  • Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?†   (source)
  • The older kind of Socialist, who had been trained to fight against something called 'class privilege' assumed that what is not hereditary cannot be permanent.†   (source)
  • Imagine a factory staffed by Alphas–that is to say by separate and unrelated individuals of good heredity and conditioned so as to be capable (within limits) of making a free choice and assuming responsibilities.†   (source)
  • …contention to be the false one and was more than ever interdict against returning home; Jesus, think of the load he had to carry, born of two Methodists (or of one long invincible line of Methodists) and raised in provincial North Mississippi, faced with incest, incest of all things that might have been reserved for him, that all his heredity and training had to rebel against on principle, and in a situation where he knew that neither incest nor training was going to help him solve it.†   (source)
  • He did not see that the continuity of an oligarchy need not be physical, nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been shortlived, whereas adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.†   (source)
  • …know all the better what Henry was doing because he did not know what he himself was going to do, that he would not know until all of a sudden some day it would burst clear and he would know then that he had known all the time what it would be, so he didn't have to bother about himself and so all he had to do was just to watch Henry trying to reconcile what he (Henry) knew he was going to do with all the voices of his heredity and training which said No. No. You cannot You must not.†   (source)
  • An hereditary servility, no doubt, was responsible.†   (source)
  • Recognizes him as a hereditary foe, I guess.†   (source)
  • "Nothing hereditary?" he asked, seriously.†   (source)
  • A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate,†   (source)
  • To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia.†   (source)
  • Temple turned back to Stephen and asked: —Do you believe in the law of heredity?†   (source)
  • Yes, but it's hereditary, my dear fellow.†   (source)
  • Was there anything congenital or hereditary?†   (source)
  • The Hereditary Diaperer took it away with reverent manner, and without word or protest of any sort.†   (source)
  • Hereditary influence could not be comparable to such environment in the shaping of character.†   (source)
  • His heredity was a life-stuff that may be likened to clay.†   (source)
  • You are sure a severe chill isn't hereditary, or anything of that kind?†   (source)
  • Alas! there was no Hereditary Scratcher.†   (source)
  • Yes, but you said yourself that a severe chill was not hereditary.†   (source)
  • Major Cavalcanti is already one, perhaps; but then, hereditary rank is abolished.†   (source)
  • What are the Duke of Dunder's hereditary towns and hamlets but Fast-Fish?†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, it cannot be denied, that upon the whole they are hereditarily entitled to EMBONPOINT.†   (source)
  • White Fang grew stronger, heavier, and more compact, while his character was developing along the lines laid down by his heredity and his environment.†   (source)
  • He was naked, broad-shouldered, thin-waisted-the Indian body again triumphant— and it was his hereditary office to close the gates of salvation.†   (source)
  • They quickened the old life within him, and the old tricks which they had stamped into the heredity of the breed were his tricks.†   (source)
  • …this Swann, who, in his capacity as the son of old M. Swann, was 'fully qualified' to be received by any of the 'upper middle class,' the most respected barristers and solicitors of Paris (though he was perhaps a trifle inclined to let this hereditary privilege go into abeyance), had another almost secret existence of a wholly different kind: that when he left our house in Paris, saying that he must go home to bed, he would no sooner have turned the corner than he would stop, retrace…†   (source)
  • Hereditary, I suppose.†   (source)
  • Aye, there have been generations of Sir Johns among you, and if knighthood were hereditary, like a baronetcy, as it practically was in old times, when men were knighted from father to son, you would be Sir John now.†   (source)
  • "Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not," and thus her charming salon was reserved for originality and intellect, for brilliance and wit, for clever men and talented women, and the entrance into it was soon looked upon in the world of intellect—which even in those days and in those troublous times found its pivot in Paris—as the seal to an artistic career.†   (source)
  • That health might be determined by temperature, heredity, profession, soil, natural immunity, or by anything save health-department campaigns for increased washing and morality, was to him inconceivable "Variables!†   (source)
  • The bubble of Heredity has been pricked: the certainty that acquirements are negligible as elements in practical heredity has demolished the hopes of the educationists as well as the terrors of the degeneracy mongers; and we know now that there is no hereditary "governing class" any more than a hereditary hooliganism.†   (source)
  • His scientific heredity might have bequeathed him a wider world but he seemed to have deliberately chosen the standpoint of an humbler class, a choice typified by his selection of a wife.†   (source)
  • Lily's preference would have been for an English nobleman with political ambitions and vast estates; or, for second choice, an Italian prince with a castle in the Apennines and an hereditary office in the Vatican.†   (source)
  • But I thought he seemed crestfallen; indeed, he was clutching at every straw, and all the time, I dare say, saw the faces of his hereditary foes on the bench, and in the jury-box, and the gallows in the background.†   (source)
  • Children and grandchildren observe in order to admire, and they admire in order to learn and develop what heredity has stored within them.†   (source)
  • You, gentlemen, who by nationality, by heredity, or by the possession of natural gifts, are fitted to hold your respective places in the moving world, I take to witness that I am as sane as at least the majority of men who are in full possession of their liberties.†   (source)
  • Arrived at the gate, the prince looked up at the legend over it, which ran: "House of Rogojin, hereditary and honourable citizen."†   (source)
  • They had been diverted from their hereditary connotation to signify impressions for which Nature did not intend them.†   (source)
  • The bubble of Heredity has been pricked: the certainty that acquirements are negligible as elements in practical heredity has demolished the hopes of the educationists as well as the terrors of the degeneracy mongers; and we know now that there is no hereditary "governing class" any more than a hereditary hooliganism.†   (source)
  • "Dear me—is it possible?" observed the clerk, while his face assumed an expression of great deference and servility—if not of absolute alarm: "what, a son of that very Semen Rogojin—hereditary honourable citizen—who died a month or so ago and left two million and a half of roubles?"†   (source)
  • It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the affair.†   (source)
  • Far more potent were the memories of his heredity that gave things he had never seen before a seeming familiarity; the instincts (which were but the memories of his ancestors become habits) which had lapsed in later days, and still later, in him, quickened and become alive again.†   (source)
  • Your Majesty had not spoken before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and hereditary King of Bohemia.†   (source)
  • It was a fact that would soon be forgotten—that bit of distinction in poor Tess's blood and name, and oblivion would fall upon her hereditary link with the marble monuments and leaded skeletons at Kingsbere.†   (source)
  • The Admiral passed the hose to the Hereditary Grand Diaperer, and had hardly breath enough in his body to ejaculate, "See, my lord!"†   (source)
  • White Fang was to her a wolf, the hereditary marauder who had preyed upon her flocks from the time sheep were first herded and guarded by some dim ancestor of hers.†   (source)
  • Then he struck the boy a light blow on the shoulder with the flat of his sword, exclaiming, "Rise, Humphrey Marlow, Hereditary Grand Whipping-Boy to the Royal House of England!†   (source)
  • Violence of temper approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been intensified by his long residence in the tropics.†   (source)
  • One of the nobles knelt at the royal couch, and said— "The King's majesty knoweth that the Hereditary Great Marshal of England lieth attainted in the Tower.†   (source)
  • A chaplain said grace, and Tom was about to fall to, for hunger had long been constitutional with him, but was interrupted by my lord the Earl of Berkeley, who fastened a napkin about his neck; for the great post of Diaperers to the Prince of Wales was hereditary in this nobleman's family.†   (source)
  • His meal being ended, a lord came and held before him a broad, shallow, golden dish with fragrant rosewater in it, to cleanse his mouth and fingers with; and my lord the Hereditary Diaperer stood by with a napkin for his use.†   (source)
  • …who passed it to the Chancellor Royal of the Duchy of Lancaster, who passed it to the Master of the Wardrobe, who passed it to Norroy King-at-Arms, who passed it to the Constable of the Tower, who passed it to the Chief Steward of the Household, who passed it to the Hereditary Grand Diaperer, who passed it to the Lord High Admiral of England, who passed it to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who passed it to the First Lord of the Bedchamber, who took what was left of it and put it on Tom.†   (source)
  • …pieces as he could don without assistance, and for a while was minded to call for help and complete the matter, but bethought him of the nuts he had brought away from dinner, and the joy it would be to eat them with no crowd to eye him, and no Grand Hereditaries to pester him with undesired services; so he restored the pretty things to their several places, and soon was cracking nuts, and feeling almost naturally happy for the first time since God for his sins had made him a prince.†   (source)
  • Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.†   (source)
  • * * * * * * * * * Hereditary bondsmen!†   (source)
  • The men of whom it is composed naturally derive from their superior and hereditary position a taste for what is extremely well made and lasting.†   (source)
  • it is too fruitful a subject, this of hereditary resemblances,--the frequent recurrence of which, in a direct line, is truly unaccountable, when we consider how large an accumulation of ancestry lies behind every man at the distance of one or two centuries.†   (source)
  • She believes in heredity and hierarchy.†   (source)
  • If the latter, gratitude must close our mouths; but if the former, both Cora and I shall have need to draw largely on that stock of hereditary courage which we boast, even before we are made to encounter the redoubtable Montcalm.†   (source)
  • Not only (said Rumour) had the troubled Decimus his own hereditary part in this impression, but he also knew of several Barnacle claims already on the file, which came into collision with that of the master spirit.†   (source)
  • He entered, then, bowed to those present with the hereditary smile of the great for the people, and directed his course slowly towards his scarlet velvet arm-chair, with the air of thinking of something quite different.†   (source)
  • Of the two ladies from Lockleigh she was the one Isabel had liked best; there was such a world of hereditary quiet in her.†   (source)
  • The horrible disease of leprosy is too common in Iceland; it is not contagious, but hereditary, and lepers are forbidden to marry.†   (source)
  • Hereditary influence did certainly exist, but there is much reason to believe it existed rather as a consequence of hereditary merit and acquired qualifications, than as a birthright.†   (source)
  • The serf wore the customary garb of serving-men at that period, and long before, in the old hereditary halls of England.†   (source)
  • How to reverse this process, how to take the sting out of heredity, has for long been one of the most constant cares of the thoughtful men amongst us.†   (source)
  • Times are altered at Ostend now; of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy.†   (source)
  • Their belief in the Unseen, so far as it manifests itself at all, seems to be rather a pagan kind; their moral notions, though held with strong tenacity, seem to have no standard beyond hereditary custom.†   (source)
  • Hereditary wealth afforded me an education of no common order, and a contemplative turn of mind enabled me to methodize the stores which early study very diligently garnered up.†   (source)
  • Even Miss Nancy's refusal of her cousin Gilbert Osgood (on the ground solely that he was her cousin), though it had grieved her aunt greatly, had not in the least cooled the preference which had determined her to leave Nancy several of her hereditary ornaments, let Gilbert's future wife be whom she might.†   (source)
  • He no longer seemed stout, though he still had the appearance of solidity and strength hereditary in his family.†   (source)
  • There, too, were the medals of our own Society of Cincinnati, by means of which, as history tells us, an order of hereditary knights came near being constituted out of the king quellers of the Revolution.†   (source)
  • I could now find room to doubt the evidence of my senses; and seldom called up the subject at all but with wonder at extent of human credulity, and a smile at the vivid force of the imagination which I hereditarily possessed.†   (source)
  • Dorothea was not at all tired, and a little circuit was made towards a fine yew-tree, the chief hereditary glory of the grounds on this side of the house.†   (source)
  • His friends, and he had many, who, as well as Cedric, were passionately attached to him, contended that this sluggish temper arose not from want of courage, but from mere want of decision; others alleged that his hereditary vice of drunkenness had obscured his faculties, never of a very acute order, and that the passive courage and meek good-nature which remained behind, were merely the dregs of a character that might have been deserving of praise, but of which all the valuable parts…†   (source)
  • The last trace of hereditary ranks and distinctions is destroyed—the law of partition has reduced all to one level.†   (source)
  • We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training.†   (source)
  • The coloring in Madame de Cintre was the same, and the high delicacy of her brow and nose was hereditary.†   (source)
  • The accidental injury you have received from Judge Temple has heightened the sense of your hereditary wrongs.†   (source)
  • The old man would start at some hereditary feature or tone unconsciously used by the little lad, and fancy that George's father was again before him.†   (source)
  • It is said that in the early days of our epoch there were a good many people who were hereditarily afflicted with a disease called Idleness, because they were the direct descendants of those who in the bad times used to force other people to work for them—the people, you know, who are called slave-holders or employers of labour in the history books.†   (source)
  • The circumstances were unprecedented in Mrs. Glegg's experience; nothing of that kind had happened among the Dodsons before; but it was a case in which her hereditary rectitude and personal strength of character found a common channel along with her fundamental ideas of clanship, as they did in her lifelong regard to equity in money matters.†   (source)
  • Those who took me from my father, and who always intended, sooner or later, to sell me again to my original proprietor, as they have now done, calculated that, in order to make the most of their bargain, it would be politic to leave me in possession of all my personal and hereditary worth, and even to increase the value, if possible.†   (source)
  • …be nothing more like the history of old, we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of civilization depending on a marriage of kings, on a birth in hereditary tyrannies, a partition of peoples by a congress, a dismemberment because of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we shall no longer have to…†   (source)
  • By this advanced hour of the day, the Squire was always in higher spirits than we have seen him in at the breakfast-table, and felt it quite pleasant to fulfil the hereditary duty of being noisily jovial and patronizing: the large silver snuff-box was in active service and was offered without fail to all neighbours from time to time, however often they might have declined the favour.†   (source)
  • Her hereditary reverence made her afraid to judge the character of the original so harshly as a perception of the truth compelled her to do.†   (source)
  • The Indians, who believe in the hereditary transmission of virtues and defects in character, suffered him to depart in silence.†   (source)
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