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lineage as in:  traced her lineage

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  • The noses in my maternal lineage are all large and hooked.†  (source)
  • During telephone conversations he idly flipped through whatever folder happened to be in front of him, doodling lineage charts on the newspaper.†  (source)
  • Now that the gates were open he sought all I could remember of Odysseus, his lineage, his kingdom, his wife, his son, his childhood occupations, his honors in the war.†  (source)
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  • And as scary as her lineage was, Mamaw Bonnie herself was so terrifying that, many decades later, a Marine Corps recruiter would tell me that I'd find boot camp easier than living at home.†  (source)
  • It was a ponderous tome by Grand Maester Malleon on the lineages of the great houses.†  (source)
  • She was the womb that bore the lineage, and the vine from which the sacred fruit sprang forth!†  (source)
  • At Clarkebury, plenty of the boys had distinguished lineages, and I was no longer unique.†  (source)
  • Of one hundred and ten questions about his lineage, Werner can accurately answer only sixteen.†  (source)
  • Tutsis were divided into at least two different classes, the Tutsi-Hima and the Tutsi-Banyaraguru, and both Hutus and Tutsis belonged to lineages of varying status.†  (source)
  • For the first time, willingly, she'd embraced her lineage as a child of Pluto.†  (source)
  • It involves bloodlines, amazing lineages that stretch back through the centuries, generation after generation.†  (source)
  • It had been stupid of me to write him a check —greediness on my part; I'd been thinking about establishing a lineage for the piece, though at this point even an envelope of cash placed under a napkin and slid across the table was no assurance he was going to let the matter drop.†  (source)
  • The Lineages and Histories of the Great Houses of the Seven Kingdoms, With Descriptions of Many High Lords and Noble Ladies and Their Children, by Grand Maester Malleon.†  (source)
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