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lineage as in:  traced her lineage

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  • We trace our lineage through our mothers.†  (source)
  • "Hollin will grow into his lineage," Chaol grumbled.†  (source)
  • But from her the lineage of the Elf-lords of old descended among Men.†  (source)
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  • The nodder nodded as Rahel's ancestral lineage fell into place for him.†  (source)
  • It was a ponderous tome by Grand Maester Malleon on the lineages of the great houses.†  (source)
  • Not when they thought we were Mayflower people with this unimpeachable lineage!†  (source)
  • At Clarkebury, plenty of the boys had distinguished lineages, and I was no longer unique.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • It was the continuation of the story that Gabriel had begun amid the ruins of Sumayriyya, the story of an accomplished young woman, a doctor, who had been born in France of Palestinian lineage.†  (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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