All 3 Uses of
lineage
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- And lo, as they quaffed their cup of joy, a godlike messenger came swiftly in, radiant as the eye of heaven, a comely youth and behind him there passed an elder of noble gait and countenance, bearing the sacred scrolls of law and with him his lady wife a dame of peerless lineage, fairest of her race.†
Chpt 12
- BIDDY THE CLAP: One immediately observes that he is of patrician lineage.†
Chpt 15 *
- Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct line of lineage which, though interrupted, would continue at distant intervals to more distant intervals to its most distant intervals.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
the blood line traced from family members to their ancestors; or the people related in that line