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    Mankind's hereditary potential for re-sisting serious disease will be weakened.†  (source)
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    The hereditary Emperor is nearly dead and has been for many centuries.†  (source)
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    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 billionaire financier, and the publisher of an important magazine.†  (source)
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    It's a hereditary condition.†  (source)
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    We've a record on her family We've watched them carefully Heredity and environment are funny things.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Tom put on the greaves, the gauntlets, the plumed helmet, and such other 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)
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    Something natural, as if being on the water were beyond his control, part of a gene passed on to him from some obscure hereditary pool.†  (source)
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    The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.†  (source)
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    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)
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    The title of King's Thief is a hereditary one now in Eddis, and I think the current Thief is named Eugenides.†  (source)
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    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)
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    Nevertheless, it cannot be denied, that upon the whole they are hereditarily entitled to EMBONPOINT.†  (source)
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