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the blood line traced from family members to their ancestors; or the people related in that line

That form of cancer is traced back many generations in her lineage.

his entire lineage has been warriors
I was wishing that I came of a more honourable lineage.
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
He scolded and fumed and demanded their lineage; they listened with folded arms.
John Gardner -- Grendel
Thought she was better than the rest of us, with her looks and her lineage.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Bones
Again Annie's lineage, her head start, the varied and ancient advantages she enjoyed, were keeping Mae second.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
The same for the pursuit of lineage—Gilgamesh died without issue, being a city man.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
You can be quite powerful, because my lineage is unique.
Rick Riordan -- The Lost Hero
"Bear gently on the unfortunate, pretty Mabel, and do not confound the king's servants—may Heaven bless him and all his royal lineage!
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
It's more about the lineage, you know?
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
' 'Because Aragorn is descended in direct lineage, father to father, from Isildur Elendil's son himself.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
I can trace my lineage back to the first Daenerys, the Targaryen princess who was sister to King Daeron the Good and wife to the Prince of Dome.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
When Luna adopts a flag, I would like it to be a cannon or, on field sable, crossed by bar sinister gules of our proudly ignoble lineage.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
And then Saphira repeated her name and lineage in the ancient language, as did Glaedr.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
You are a demigod and your lineage is very great.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
"I have never heard anything to show that my son's lineage is not as good as the Vyes'—perhaps better.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
She was the womb that bore the lineage, and the vine from which the sacred fruit sprang forth!
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
Perhaps Tess's lineage had more value for himself than for anybody in the world beside.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
But from her the lineage of the Elf-lords of old descended among Men.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
"Lineage affiliations," writes the scholar Rene Lemarchand, "could rectify and even reverse the formal rank-ordering established through the caste system."
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains

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