| 单词 | ancestress |
| 例句 | Polyneices won her over to his side by bribing her with the wonderful necklace that had been the wedding gift of his ancestress Harmonia, and she made her husband go to the war. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Yang Asha is the mythical ancestress of the Miao people, an ethnic minority in China closely related to the Hmong of Southeast Asia. A Soaring Monument to Beauty in China Is Stirring Passions. Mostly Anger. 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z Enshrined at “Kashikodokoro” is the goddess Amaterasu, the mythological ancestress of Japan’s emperors. Japan’s Naruhito to proclaim himself emperor at palace rite 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Enshrined at Kashikodokoro is the goddess Amaterasu, who is the mythological ancestress of Japan’s emperors. Japan’s emperor reports to Shinto gods week after succession 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps a tender remembrance of his ancestress Ruth, the damsel from Moab, who had been so eminent for her devotion to her mother-in-law. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z The broken-hearted Duchess of Orleans became the ancestress of two lines of French sovereigns, and through her the kings of France founded their claims to the Duchy of Milan. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z It was, nevertheless, an innovation on the usage of generations to which bygone ancestors and ancestresses would not readily have reconciled themselves. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z We last saw the "Autocrat" in his easy-chair, among the treasures of this apartment, with a portrait of his ancestress "Dorothy Q" looking down at him from a side wall. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z The daughters married into some of the best Antiguan families, and became the ancestresses of the Williams, Thomas, and Ffry families. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The first story of this group is that of Naomi and Ruth, the ancestress of David. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z There is an amusing story told of another of Mrs. Cameron's ancestresses. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Violet had started by giving the Douglas-heart ring which had come down to her from an ancestress made even more famous than she would have been otherwise, by Sir Walter Scott. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z When under the lash for serious offences their pride deserts them; they dance and howl, and either implore the gaoler to have mercy, or curse his ancestresses to the fourth generation. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z The old spirit that had led her remote ancestresses to the funeral pile to die in the flames that devoured their dead husbands' bodies, rose strongly within her and bound her to her living husband. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z It was this Gentile woman Ruth who became the ancestress of the royal house of David. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z Then one ancestress—we have her picture at home, taken in a flowing white gown, and piled-up curls—married the last Earl of Mount Alexander. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z The death of Asdahag put an end to the battle and the war, and Tigran led his sister back to Armenia, where she became the ancestress of the race of Osdan. The History of Antiquity Vol. V. 2011-12-06T03:00:24.110Z You have the name of the ancestress of your race, as I have the name of the god who begot mine. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z One of them transformed herself into the likeness of a Khasi maiden and came to live with mankind, where she became the ancestress of a race of chiefs. Folk-Tales of the Khasis 2011-11-01T02:00:19.730Z Discretion and Success.—That great quality of discretion, which is fundamentally the virtue of virtues, their ancestress and queen, has in common life by no means always success on its side. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z I must tell you that an ancestress, Judith de la Cherois, escaped from France with her sister by riding at night across the country, their jewels sewn in their dresses. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z The picture of the awful ancestress met with little injury in its fall; but several years elapsed before it was hung up again in its former place. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z The compact they had made was null and void as long as their common ancestress lived. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Remember, an ancestress of yours came from Port Royal, Jamaica. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z The word Edda means ancestress, and it is so called because it is considered the mother of Icelandic poetry. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z The very disappointment of 1848 is a positive earnest that the prophecy of our ancestress Victoria the Great will be accomplished. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z Pilgrims to the shrines of Ise, where the ancestress of the Imperial line was enshrined, may also be counted among the busy interprovincial travellers. An Introduction to the History of Japan 2011-08-25T02:00:29.177Z "Berntrudis--unworthy daughter of your pious ancestress, how dare you carry on such unseemly doings?" The Hour Will Come: Volumes I and II A Tale of an Alpine Cloister 2011-07-23T02:00:09.843Z My wife, your ancestress, was a most lovely woman, and so passionately was I enamoured of her, that I tried by every art to heighten and preserve her beauty. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z Wilfrid Blair’s diseased mind had fastened upon the strange history of his ancestress, and brooded on it until he became convinced that her spirit was reincarnated in himself. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Every condition arising from a toxic cause capable of producing profound systemic nervous exhaustion in the ancestor, and especially the ancestress, is likely to be transmitted as degeneracy to the descendant. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Rome is the great Latin ancestress whose conquests are destined to give the world one catholic and universal language—a prelude and a means to another Catholicism, deeper and vaster yet. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z But the one I cared for most was of our remote ancestress Sybil Filiol, who lived at Old Court Manor in the reign of Edward II., Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The Countess of Essex, the Countess of Pembroke, and that beautiful Lady Salisbury, the ancestress of the Montagu family, whose famous mischance gave rise to the Order of the Garter, were also among Chaucer's patronesses. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z Through her veins ran the blood of white forefathers; her ancestress was one of those unfortunates who had been stranded at the Umbeesam River when the Grosvenor was wrecked. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z Therefore, with a touch of ruthlessness that came to her directly from her famous ancestress, she thanked him and added, “It can be managed near the place where you put your hat and coat.” The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z I went almost every day to Karnak, where your ancestress Hena, the Virgin of the Isle of Sen, immolated herself centuries ago, offering her blood as a sacrifice to the gods of Gaul. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z We returned to Glasgow by the Gareloch, which allowed me to visit at Paisley the tomb of my royal ancestress, Marjory Bruce. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z They are the ancestresses and mothers, to whose worth the literary men, poets, and artists who have sprung up in the following generations may attribute a portion of their success. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. Was it she herself, Balder's old friend, sunning her weary limbs on this lofty perch, or was it a descendant, which bore such a striking resemblance to its ancestress? The Children of the World And his father answered him, "By your great ancestress, by Hine-nui-te-po, who, if you look, you may see flashing, and, as it were, opening and shutting there, where the horizon meets the sky." The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Other times I thought of imitating your ancestress Hena; I thought of cutting with a firm hand the slender thread that fetters our existence here below. The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z In her will she left me a box which had belonged to my unhappy little ancestress, Grace Naylor. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z She was a nymph of the train of chaste Artemis, but yielded to the love of Zeus, and became the ancestress of all the Arcadians. Custom and Myth New Edition They all have a common ancestress, by virtue of the descent that makes the different female generations sisters. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Thou wilt burst in two, O vile one, O thou toad, in three will burst thou, If I should seek out your mother, And should search for your ancestress. Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two They are at this hour what they were on the day when your ancestress offered her innocent life to the gods, in order to appease their anger, and save Gaul from the foreign invader! The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z That same evening, Hena, our ancestress, offered her blood to Hesus for the deliverance of Gaul, and the cry of war resounded from one end of the country to the other! The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century We have already seen that at least one ancient γένος, the Ioxidæ, revered the plant which, as the myth ran, befriended their ancestress. Custom and Myth New Edition He was buried quite quietly, in the same vault as his great-uncle Henry, Duke of Gloucester, beside their common ancestress, Mary, Queen of Scots. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History And that which you hear frogs croaking all night long is nothing but this story which I have told you of their ancestress and the bronze boar.” Legends of Florence Collected from the People, First Series My ancestress Gentiliska was the daughter of a long line of gipsy kings. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" On one side of the vault ran a long table, round which was seated, eating and drinking, not the countess's ancestors and ancestresses, but all the servants of her household. Black Diamonds I think that the ghost was that of an old retainer of the family, or possibly an ancestress. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 His ancestress from whom he obtained fire recognized him as the man called "the deceitful Maui." Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina She was lying on the sofa in Aunt Rosa's room; above her smiled down the ancestress with the powdered hair, and the whole wonderful rose-wreathed room was in the full glow of the morning sunshine. Gertrude's Marriage The silver cabinet in the oak dining room had been broken open, and a teapot, sugar bowl, and cream-jug, given by Queen Anne to an ancestress, were absent. The Brightener Hagar, of whose sad life the Hebrew narratives give us record, though herself called an Egyptian woman, became ancestress of an Arab clan and plays some part in Arabian tradition. Oriental Women On the plains there lives some common mother of the common weal, who is the ancestress of our kings to be. Seeds of Pine On one or two groups Mafuia, an ancestress of Maui, is mentioned as finding the fire. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina The goddess of love was the ancestress of the Julian race; and so her attributes, but not her beauty, descend to the empress. Roman Women Ali hastened with quick pace towards the distant mountains, and, like his ancestress Hagar, in former days, wished for a fountain to quench his thirst. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors She was the ancestress of the restless, roving Ishmaelites--a typical Arabian tribe. Oriental Women The Iroquois Indians, for instance, believed that their original female ancestress fell from heaven. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance The story of fire finding in Polynesia sifts itself to Maui under one of his widely-accepted names, or to his father or to his ancestress—with but very few exceptions. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina When you told me she was one of your ancestresses, I no longer entertained any doubt but that we were either brothers or close relatives. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres And the Old Church walls so sacred, Fell beneath the stormy cargo, Our Republican ancestress Bent her hoary head in shrinking; All the rank and mouldy ruins Fell before the thund’ring onset. The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky to the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. It is hardly possible to exaggerate the esteem in which the tribal ancestress is held; she is so greatly reverenced that she may truly be said to be deified. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy I have in my possession an old will of an ancestress, sealed with the crest of Bartholomew Barnes, of London, merchant, whose daughter was second wife and mother to Sir Maurice's children, viz., Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc This was serious mischief, and Maui's mother decided that he should go to the under-world and see his ancestress, Mahuika, the guardian of fire, and get new fire to repair the injury he had wrought. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina "The sweet Hena, to whom the chant refers, was one of my ancestresses." The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres He had a tale to tell about one ancestress, whose dark beauty seemed as that of a flower of the south. Shirley On her bare throat, round and white as a marble column, there was an old-fashioned necklace of wrought gold, which had belonged to some ancestress, who was doubtless the belle and beauty of her generation. The Romance of a Plain Man Why, the very name on the old bells of the church there, records the memory of an ancestress of hers! Robinetta White of New Zealand says that Maui went down into the underworld to meet his great ancestress, who was one side dead and one side alive. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina I bequeath them to you five hundred and twenty-six years after our ancestress Genevieve witnessed the death of Jesus of Nazareth. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Prince Yamato-dake first visited the temple of the Sun Goddess in Isé, where he worshipped at the shrine of his great ancestress. Japan Her grandson, Algernon, became Earl of Northumberland, and his daughter, Elizabeth Seymour, was the ancestress of the present family, her husband being created the first Duke of Northumberland. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The benediction was scarcely spoken before the fair bride left her bridegroom's side and moved softly and swiftly to the side of the easy-chair, where the form of her ancestress lay reclining. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend Therefore Maui's "magic hook," with which he fished up islands, was made from the jawbone of his ancestress Mahuika. Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina Dame Suddlechop suggests, for the first time unfavourably, a Shakespearean ancestress, Mistress Quickly, and the story halts and fails to carry the reader rapidly over the stony path. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series He sent the spoils of his expedition to the temple of his great ancestress, the Sun Goddess. Japan She thus united two rival families and became the ancestress of the present duke. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 They had two children,—a son, the idol of his father's heart, who died as a child; and a daughter, who married Richard Bache, and is the ancestress of a large family. Benjamin Franklin The Baron began to stroke his moustache and then related a story of Napoleon and our ancestress Marie Louise, the Austrian Archduchess, not found in school books. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess No one boasts of his own illegitimacy, but most men like it to be known that an ancestress, whose memory is kept green, once enjoyed royal favour. The Education of Eric Lane The girl read and re-read the description of this ancestress, then gasped. The Roof Tree That 834 persons should have descended from five persons in 75 years covering five generations, exclusive of the 5 ancestresses, does not strike us as evidence of an exceedingly prosperous birth-rate. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science "She is of the first generation brought forth in the laboratory, and is no different from you or I, except that, at the age of five years, she is the ancestress of twenty generations." Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Miss Heritage's parentage may, it is true, be obscure—but not more so, from all I have been told, than that of most of your own ancestresses. In Brief Authority The blush emphasized her resemblance to her ancestress, whose brilliant complexion, however, hinted at rouge. The Invader A Novel To me the grave of our common ancestress, Eve, would be more worthy of my filial affection, but, instead of weeping over it, I should proudly rejoice by reason of her irrepressible desire for knowledge. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier Also Ruth, the mother and ancestress of our Saviour, was a Moabite. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood The ermine of which she was so proud is said to have come from her ancestress, Madame Inoge, wife of Brutus and daughter of Pindarus the Trojan. In Château Land But I can make allowances for you, considering who your ancestresses were! In Brief Authority Ah, sweetest, best of women! paragon Of all thy sex, since first thy ancestress Helen, the curse of cities and of men, 56 Marshalled the hosts of Greece! Gycia A Tragedy in Five Acts To me, the grave of our common ancestress, Eve, would be more worthy of my filial affection; but instead of weeping over it, I should proudly rejoice by reason of her irrepressible desire for knowledge. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier But ever as we paused before a portrait and he explained that this was some fair ancestress his backward glance at Giulia told that in his estimation she surpassed them all. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) The one who knows all that was, is, and shall be, she tells him; the ancestress of the everlasting world, older than time; the mother of the Norns who speak with Wotan nightly. The Wagnerian Romances A pair of brass-bound pattens hinged in the middle, once worn instead of overshoes by some colonial ancestress, sat alongside a pair of oriental sandals. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York So on the back of each of these pieces is still to be found the printing of that ancestress of mine.” Polly's Business Venture He meant to read the letter at the meeting and perhaps to present his Highness, in the name of the Society, with the original in the handwriting of his ancestress. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 They said the poor ghost moaned when death drew near to any of her descendants, and she was Eberhard Ludwig's ancestress. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg Perhaps, centuries before that, her ancestresses had ridden with burly, skin-clad warriors out of the great forests of northern Europe down to the pleasant weaker south. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters "If the Greek religion were not the best," they said, in conclusion, "Olga, your ancestress, and the wisest of mortals, would never have thought of embracing it." Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality I daresay there was some improper ancestress—except that you Americans don't seem to have ancestresses.' A London Life and Other Tales A divine ancestress of the Bantiks, a tribe inhabiting the Celebes Islands, came down from the sky with seven companions to bathe. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Bardsley first drew attention to the very large number of surnames derived from an ancestress. The Romance of Names There were little discrepancies of detail, and gaps in the narrative here and there; but all the household, from the astute ancestress to the last bewildered pantry-boy, were at one in saying that Mlle. Coming Home 1916 Louise de Quérouaille, a mistress sent by France to win him to its interests, became Duchess of Portsmouth and ancestress of the house of Richmond. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 Their noble ancestresses of the Renaissance understood and did these things better—so Helen reflected. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Something, however, must be said on the Swan-maiden as divine ancestress. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology This was her room, Handassah—the chamber of my ancestress—of all the Ladies Rookwood—where they say——Ha! did you not hear a noise?—a rustle in the tapestry—a footstep near the wall? Rookwood The Königsmarks had a sister, the beautiful Aurora, who was mistress of Frederick Augustus, Elector of Saxony, and so mother of the famous Maurice de Saxe, and ancestress of George Sand. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I According to Southey, the British blue-stocking is descended from these woad-stained ancestresses, which assertion dimly hints at their having been literary. The Gypsies She was ancestress of the present Earl of Derby, and founded a perpetual chantry. The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See It was guarded there by a blind old ancestress of his, whom he restored to sight, and from whom he obtained directions how to climb the plant. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology "And this is the legend of my ancestress?" said Luke, as Sybil's strains were ended. Rookwood Elizabeth Weller, a woman happily cast in a different mould from her husband, was an ancestress of Jane Austen who deserves commemoration. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record The Takalkar are said to take their name from a forest called Takali, where their first ancestress bore a child to the god Siva. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II But these heroes doubtless inherited the spirit of their great ancestress, whose story is necessary to be known. Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book" I do not expect to find this ancestress of mine in the flesh, nor sitting in any one of the splint rockers behind the checkered window-panes of the old South East houses. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes "Perhaps some ancestress of yours was here, and did some sweeping," said I. But it was a mistake for me to speak. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon She has been claimed to be the literary ancestress of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Chateaubriand; nor is it any exaggeration to find Byron and Rousseau in her train. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Since our fair ancestresses made their night-dresses of “muslin,” it would appear that they extended the term to some stouter material than the thin and flimsy manufacture to which we restrict it. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) There, too, was a portrait of a beautiful lady, sound asleep: this was Madame La Belle au Bois-dormant, also an ancestress of the royal family. Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book" There, too, was a portrait of a beautiful lady, sound asleep: this was Madame La Belle au Bois-dormant, also an ancestress of the royal family. Prince Prigio Jack and I saw it together, and he laughed, and said now he knew who my first ancestress was. A Soldier of the Legion But Meshu-kwa claimed the head of her ancestress, and set it up on a scaffold within the lodge, spreading a new blanket beneath it and strewing tobacco-leaf in front of its nose. Fort Amity Yes," screamed Mistress Putnam again, "your ancestress too was a noted witch. Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem And her writing table!—the famous one given by Louis XV to the ancestress, who refused his favours—A mass of letters and papers, and reports, a bottle of creosote and a feather! Man and Maid Poetry is, as Plato says, a divine sort of experience, some strange blending of inherited characteristics, perhaps the fierce emotion of some dumb ancestress combining with the verbal skill of some unpoetical forefather. Joyous Gard The name applied after her death and apotheosis to Papa, the wife of Wakea, and the ancestress of the Hawaiian race. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula According to this, Witig, after he sank in the lake, was received by his mermaid ancestress and borne away to Zealand. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Of the two latter titles, the first is derived from the name of Venus Genetrix, the ancestress of the Julian house, the second indicates that the colonists were drawn from the plebs urbana. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Our ancestresses particularly were often charming women, and almost as often sensible women; but, like the men of Athens, they were too superstitious. The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note Apollonia had brought it to the beloved Signorina, as her ancestresses in the wild mountain village might have laid offerings on Baal's shrine. The Guests Of Hercules I should like to scatter largesse as did my fair ancestress in France. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont In that chamber the Lady Marian Ripon, an ancestress of mine, is said to have died of a broken heart. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow What can be more beautiful than the idea 27 that our great ancestress teaches her descendants the sacred traditions, the concentrated wisdom, of the race? The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda She was what her ancestresses had been for generations. The Butterfly House It is sweet-tempered above everything, and only the long upper lip and large mouth, derived from his ancestress, Meg Murray, convey the promise of the power which was in him. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) In North America the Shawnees invoked earth as their great ancestress. Myth and Science An Essay I looked around me at the ruffled and periwigged gentlemen, the smiling ladies, who were my ancestors and ancestresses, with interest. The Story of Bawn The look of her New England ancestresses who had borne life and death without flinching was on her face. By the Light of the Soul A Novel Sir George was sitting on the very spot where sat Hine-Moa, the great ancestress of the tribe, when she swam the lake to join her sweetheart Tutanekai. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. She's only four years old, but she's ridiculously like the picture of an ancient ancestress of ours Who defended an old castle in Cornwall, against the French, for hours and hours. Verses for Children and Songs for Music And in Nan the soul of her French ancestress lived anew. The Moon out of Reach I suppose in her earlier day she might not have been a bad representative of their "ancestress." Records of a Girlhood One of my ancestresses fought as a shield maiden--as I thought myself until today--in the great Bravalla fight long ago. A Sea Queen's Sailing It seemed to Sulpice that the sunlight came streaming in with Adrienne's entrance into the vast salon, from the walls of which her pictured ancestresses in their huge leg-of-mutton sleeves seemed to smile at her. His Excellency the Minister Thus we see in the ceremony an acknowledgment of the kinship of the snakes with the Hopi, both having descended from a common ancestress. The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi Clasping his hands behind his head, he leaned back against the carving of his chair, and fixed his gaze on the portrait of the English ancestress over the mantelpiece. One Man in His Time And then the stolidly common-sense Puritan ancestress in her made her laugh. Captivity However, in less than one minute the assembled guests were listening to the old-time tale of Margaret's ancestress, and the waiter paused breathless on the threshold to hear the end, before he announced dinner. Doctor Claudius, A True Story She felt like an ancestress or a family portrait. Balloons Said to be the ancestress of all the florists' pansies, but this I much doubt, the next following species being far nearer the forms most chiefly sought for. Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers Nella-Rose, now that her father considered, was dangerously like her picturesque ancestress! The Man Thou Gavest But other times other manners, and nineteenth-century men and women are no doubt as charming in their way as were our pretty ancestresses and their gallants of a century ago. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 An ancestress of Mrs. Hubbard's—a lady-in-waiting at the Tottenham Court—at the Tudor Court—was fortunate enough to catch the eye of—er— MRS. Second Plays On the other hand, if the earth had originally been thought of as a female, she as Earth-mother would be ancestress of men. The Religion of the Ancient Celts "I think," cried the girl indignantly, "that my ancestress was in the right, refusing further communication with this ignoble Churchman who dared to impugn her good faith." The Sword Maker Some ancestress, it was said, could not show her marriage lines, or something else was wrong. Stories of the Border Marches From her ancestress Eve woman was believed to inherit the natural propensity to lure man to his undoing. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family All that the ancestress has been able to do, the descendant will be able to surpass in grim magnificence. Atlantida We have said that the opinion of obstetricians is that the modern woman has more difficulty in delivering herself than did her ancestress. The Nervous Housewife That was an ancestress of mine," she said coldly, "an Italian lady. Marcella Moved by instinct, for she really felt that his sacrifice to her in marrying had condoned for his father's blow at her ancestress, she tried to return him harm for good. The Son of Clemenceau Still there is something to be said in defence of that venerable ancestress. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays That is where the body of Antinea's ancestress, that Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, was laid to rest. Atlantida The modern woman fears childbearing as her ancestress did not, partly through greater knowledge, partly through her divided attitude towards life. The Nervous Housewife Wife of Edward the Outlaw.—Can any of your correspondents inform me who was the wife of Edward the Outlaw, and consequently mother of Margaret of Scotland, and ancestress of the kings of England? Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 My father won an illustrious name and, her ancestress, whom he married, was dragging it publically in the mud amid all the scandals of society, when he slew her on her couch of gilded infamy. The Son of Clemenceau And I often wonder whether my ancestress, Fenella Stanley, had any traditional knowledge of the Queen of Death when she had her portrait painted as the Sibyl. Aylwin The voice of many Knickerbocker ancestresses spoke in her, and between herself and a real emergency she interposed the impenetrable buckler of a conventionality. The Collectors A Moabitess was the ancestress of David, and it was to the court of the King of Moab that David entrusted his parents when hard pressed by Saul. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations The captain of the Olga speaks Eskimo fluently, and to him this ancestress of the "lost tribe" had an interesting story to tell. The New North Besides, the prospect held out was for him to continue beside the dazzling beauty, whose influence seemed more wide than her deceased ancestress. The Son of Clemenceau And yet I will not deny that affinity with the kinsfolk of my ancestress Fenella Stanley must have had something to do with this passage in my eccentric life. Aylwin "Hi, woe is unto me," she would wail in jargon, throwing herself on the ground in a corner and rocking herself to and fro like her far-away ancestresses remembering Zion by the waters of Babylon. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Now, the nymph from whom that mountain ridge is named was the mother of Lacedæmon; therefore the mythic ancestress of the Spartan race. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm Here his ancestress, the swan maiden Wachilde, took charge of him, and conveyed him to a place of safety. Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art And from some far back Spanish-Jewess ancestress she probably got that glorious head of red hair, the color of a ripe chestnut when it falls from its shell, or a beautifully groomed bright bay horse. The Reason Why Our French ancestress, according to the family tradition, was of no very exalted origin, being in fact the only daughter and heiress of one Monsieur Tartine, Perruquier in chief at the Court of Versailles. In the Days of My Youth Nobody knew whence Bessie had stolen her good looks: probably some remote ancestress! Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People One Sunday evening, Gustavus was disconsolate; the Knight was long sleepless, and at daybreak he went into the church, to the tomb of his ancestress, St. Bridget. Pictures of Sweden When the expedition reached Biloxi, there were two suitors for the hand of Agricola's great ancestress. The Grandissimes "None of the royal ladies, your ancestresses, ever looked more like a queen." The Reason Why The first woman who followed her spinning-wheel out of her home into the factory was the natural ancestress of the first woman who demanded the ballot. What eight million women want Bessie was in every way the most agreeable member of the family, inheriting some of her father's brains, but wisely going for the rest of herself to that remote ancestress. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People By dint of a succession of alliances, some regular, others highly irregular, she became the ancestress of nearly all the great Anglo-Norman families in Ireland. The Story of Ireland And yet the portrait of this great ancestress, which served as a pattern to one who, at the ball, personated the long-deceased heroine en masque, is hopelessly lost in some garret. The Grandissimes Now, while he still raged, she tenderly smiled on their trembling ancestress. Kincaid's Battery Your ancestress," said the Duke, "was won at a tourney--you shall be fought for in real melee. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction As beautiful as she was accomplished, she might in these respects be compared to her famous ancestress, Cleopatra; but here the resemblance ended. Woman: Man's Equal He made me many compliments, and said how very like I was growing to my ancestress, Ambrosine Eustasie de Calincourt, and he told me again the old story of the guillotine. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Still, there is something to be said in defence of that venerable ancestress. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 A low laugh tinkled from the ancestress: "Ha, ha! you thought the fool would be scandalized, and instead he is only the more enamored." Kincaid's Battery I fancy she must have inherited it from an Indian ancestress, for her great-great-grandfather rescued a begum on her way to be burnt on her husband's funeral pyre. From out the Vasty Deep And so the Arrow, moving at the rate of forty-six miles an hour, followed the course of her ancestress, the Clermont, when she made her first long trip almost a hundred years before. Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers It has doors that shut, and I don't let her look too much at the mustard-yellow walls, my pretty ancestress. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel The family took its origin from a white ancestress, and had consequently been free for several generations. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays I call her — the picture, you know — after an ancestress of mine who came to this country in the old Colonial days. Hermione's Group of Thinkers He wanted to thank her for having been to see his mother, but under the ancestress's malicious eye he felt himself tongue-tied and constrained. The Age of Innocence It is probable that the creature chosen was the traditional ancestress, as we are told that the First Man had many wives among the animal people. The Soul of the Indian She was regarded as the ancestress of the Heracleidae, and worshipped at Thebes and Athens. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Her ancestress had been baptized by the subject of the story. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Descended in the third degree from Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Georgiana Spencer is said to have resembled her celebrated ancestress in the style of her beauty. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire Well, now tell me all about the party, please, my dears, for I shall never get a straight word about it out of that silly Medora," the ancestress continued; and, as May exclaimed: "Cousin Medora? The Age of Innocence It might also very well be a portrait of one of her actual ancestresses, for her grandmother was a lady of an old Tuscan family. The Loudwater Mystery Yes, yes! it was made in the fifteenth century, and the work was done by one of my far-off ancestresses. The Dream He also largely endowed Mary and Agnes Becket, the Archbishop's sisters, with possessions in his newly-conquered domain in Ireland; and one of them became the ancestress of the noble family of Butler, Earls of Ormonde. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II Nobody ever heard of a man being an ancestress. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice We must give them time to get to know each other a little better, mamma," Mrs. Welland interposed, with the proper affectation of reluctance; to which the ancestress rejoined: "Know each other? The Age of Innocence What that innocent and happy gathering was in the monotonous existence of our ancestors and ancestresses, we of the present pleasure-filled days can hardly comprehend. Sabbath in Puritan New England From the maternal ancestress, the Demoiselles Blake inherited a certain amount of money. The Uninhabited House Your arms and hands were modeled for some untraced Greek ancestress and born again. The Sisters-In-Law "Men are not always rational, I grant you: but then," says Jurgen, slyly, "so many of their ancestresses are feminine." Jurgen A Comedy of Justice One of them, the editor of his ancestress's papers, kept up his acquaintance with the guest he had met in the Paludan-Müller home for over forty years. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth She would not care to read the volumes, over which her pretty ancestresses wept and thrilled a hundred years ago; which were commended by divines from pulpits and belauded all Europe over. The Virginians She is married to him, and becomes the ancestress of David, and, through him, of the Messiah. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII It is interesting, on account of the name of Catherine Davy, an ancestress of the famous Sir Humphry, whose marble statue stands before the Penzance Market House facing Market Jew Street. A Traveller in Little Things The system of gentes prevails, each gens consisting of a hypothetical female ancestress, and all her descendants through females. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day The ancestors of a family form its household gods; but only the male ancestors are worshipped: no offerings are ever laid on the shelf of the household gods before an ancestress. Peeps at Many Lands: Japan As surely as Mr. Gough is alive now, our ancestresses were accustomed to partake pretty freely of strong waters. The Virginians Your ancestress," said the Duke, "was won at a tourney—you shall be fought for in real melee. Quentin Durward Her scarlet lips and sweet, grave eyes might have been the inheritance gift of some remote ancestress whose feet, instead of being bare and brown, had trod in high-heeled, satin slippers. The Call of the Cumberlands According to Dr. Brinton, the Quiche Indians of Guatemala speak of Xmucane and Xpiyacoc as being "the great ancestress and the great ancestor" of all things. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day It is said to be an ancestress of mine, a Lady Cordelia Carne, who was murdered, when her husband was away, and buried down there, after being thrown into the moat. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War He accordingly marries Ruth, who thus becomes the ancestress of the great King David. Introduction to the Old Testament She was human, after all, and had thousands of plebeian and primitive ancestors and ancestresses. We Can't Have Everything Yet if they had only been able to claim some ancestor with a wig and a degree for the humanities, or some beautiful ancestress with a romantic reputation! Young Lives And the ancestress, the forgotten one, lived again, emerged from her oblivion, rigid and wasted, like a specter of terror and grief. Doctor Pascal Lady Louisa Stuart, writing in 1837—that is, seventy-five years after the death of her grandmother, Lady Mary—wrote indignantly of the attacks that had been made upon her ancestress. Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) And he reminded them of his ancestress, the peasant girl Arlotta of Falaise, where the citizens were famous for their working in skins. Henry the Second As for the big shawl, once belonging to a venerated ancestress, it is always safe to take a big shawl on a country trip even in June heat with the thermometer going up. Up the Hill and Over She had on her walls two charming oval portraits of ancestresses, possibly—for she was uncertain as to their identity—two of the handsome sisters whom Lamb extols. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia The ancestress, the forgotten one, tall, bony, ghastly, remained motionless, her eyes, only seeming to have life, her eyes shining clear as spring water in her thin withered face. Doctor Pascal That far-off ancestress of the middle-ages had, it would appear, handed down to her sons forever, with the clear cut profile, the philosophy which allows itself time to get through life unruffled. The Velvet Glove A story was told of a demon ancestress of the Angevin princes: "From the devil they came, and to the devil they will go," said the grim fatalism of the day. Henry the Second That the spirit is the spirit of your ancestresses, though the form in which it must show itself is changed with the change of society. All Saints' Day and Other Sermons After the death of her first husband, Octavia was married to Mark Antony, by whom she had two daughters, through whom she was the ancestress of three Emperors, CLAUDIUS, CALIGULA, and NERO. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Fronting each other, the imbecile child of a deathlike beauty seemed the last of the race of which she, forgotten by the world, was the ancestress. Doctor Pascal The Queen's ancestress was herself a princess and a queen, yet she was fated to fall under an infamous, unproven charge, and to pine to an early death in a prison fortress. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 Moses did not question, as did his great ancestress, that his god could do all he promised, if he had the will. The Emancipation of Massachusetts In it there were some very old and very tiny painted boxes which had doubtless been handled every day by one or another of our ancestresses. The Story of a Child That is the picture of a wretched ancestress of mine, of whose crimes a black and fearful catalogue is recorded in a family history in my charter- chest. Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Curtains and coverlets showed the delicate embroidery of some ancestress, long since laid to rest in the family chapel. The Eve of the French Revolution The great attraction lay in the fact that not only did her Majesty represent one of her predecessors, an ancestress however remote, but that many of the guests were enabled to follow her example. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 So Mrs. Clifford had an ancestress who was a Roumanian, had she? What's Bred in the Bone Of course X., Y., Z. contend that their particular woman, or her ancestress, was duly redeemed from the legal owner. Travels in West Africa The family that can point to one of these little memorials and say: "She who burned herself there was an ancestress of ours," is envied. Following the Equator, Part 6 Yasmini's blue eyes looked into hers and there was a Viking glare behind them, suggestive of the wintry fjords whence one of her royal ancestresses came. Guns of the Gods It was with these two families, then, both descended from a common ancestress, and sometimes subsequently united by intermarriage, that the whole series of novels was to deal. A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; Hence the 'creation' of the becoming violet velvet riding-dress, copied from the picture of her ancestress in Abbot's Manor gallery. God's Good Man Not solely, nor indeed chiefly, on her own account did Arabella thus falsify the past; it was as the ancestress of May Tomalin that she spoke, and on behalf of May's possible children. Our Friend the Charlatan Call her merely a handsome woman, with the face of some remarkable ancestress, with just enough of warmth to be subdued by the vigorous passion of such a fine fellow as Carnaby. The Whirlpool Like a certain ancestress she had coveted the fruit of knowledge and knowledge had been given her. The Window-Gazer Did you get your greedy nature from some sable Dodonean ancestress? At the Mercy of Tiberius He was not only as handsome as his ancestress was beautiful, but he was also very strong and brave, and was famous for being the greatest hunter in the land. Japanese Fairy Tales He himself accounts for it on the score of heredity, in that an ancestress of his married a highwayman who was hanged at Tyburn under William and Mary. Simon the Jester But this girl, this American girl, was to be the mother and grandmother of future Dukes of Omnium,—the ancestress, it was to be hoped, of all future Dukes of Omnium! The Duke's Children If in our days you are each confined to a standing family-dish, it is because your ancestress of the lacustrian schists never taught you variety. More Hunting Wasps Thusnelda, you are an incomparable creature, and quite calculated to be the ancestress of all the Germans. Old Fritz and the New Era The strange legend that you will find inscribed by your remote ancestress upon the potsherd was communicated to me by my father on his deathbed, and took a strong hold in my imagination. She It was that in which we had found the body of my ancestress; but since then thieves had been in this place. The Wanderer's Necklace Ah, Beatrice, with all your brains you could never learn those simple principles necessary to the happiness of woman; principles inherited through a thousand generations of savage and semi-civilized ancestresses. Beatrice How great was your mistake in allowing the wise eclecticism of your ancestress, whose relics now repose in the hard mud of some lacustrian stratum, to become obsolete! More Hunting Wasps Today no small host of Americans have for ancestress the daughter of Powhatan. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Thus adjured, Leo told her the wonderful story of the casket and of the potsherd that, written on by his ancestress, the Egyptian Amenartas, had been the means of guiding us to her. She I think that these came from the bending of the brow in thought, but others say that they were inherited from an ancestress on the female side. Moon of Israel Black people are so coloured, according to the Ovaherero, because when the first parents emerged from the tree and slew an ox, the ancestress of the blacks appropriated the black liver of the victim. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 The dove had suddenly changed to a hawk; the child-girl into an antique virago; the spirit hitherto dimly outlined in her face, of some shrewish Garcia ancestress, came to the fore. The Story of a Mine After we parted at dawn I slept heavily, and in my sleep a dark and royal woman stood before me whom I knew to be my great ancestress, the beloved of Solomon. Queen Sheba's Ring "I christened it by my real name, Lady Enid Thistle, and said Lady Enid was an ancestress of mine." The Prophet of Berkeley Square As it is, a woman’s wealth is invariably the result of a marriage, either her own or that of some shrewd ancestress. Tea-Table Talk It was undoubtedly owing to this quality during a brief visit of the famous viceroy to a remote and married ancestress of Don Jose at Leon that the singular resemblance may be attributed. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales That poem was written by a very clever man who married one of my ancestresses. A Damsel in Distress In the old days it was otherwise, when my great ancestresses ruled, and then we did not fear the Fung. Queen Sheba's Ring "But she is my revered ancestress," Ah Kim explained to Li Faa. On the Makaloa Mat "Why, if I'm not mistaken, there are accounts of an Aztecan princess of that name, an ancestress of my wife's family, in some old documents that I have in a box, at home." The Golden Fleece, a romance Remember Rahab, and how she became The ancestress of the great Psalmist David; And wherefore should not I, Helen of Tyre, Attain like honor? The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Amid its emptiness of dismantled shelves and walls and floor, only the tiny ancestress still hung in her place, last token of the home that had been. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains The name means ancestress, and is frequently used for the mother of heroes. The Nibelungenlied "She is nevertheless my ancestress," Ah Kim protested, "the mother who gave me birth, whether I am in China or Hawaii, O Silvery Moon Blossom that I want for wife." On the Makaloa Mat One ancestress of Volumnia, in high-heeled shoes, very like her—casting the shadow of that virgin event before her full two centuries—shoots out into a halo and becomes a saint. Bleak House There, on her wall still, was the miniature, the little silent ancestress; and upon this face the girl's glance rested. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains And as Molly Wood's eyes fell upon her ancestress of Bennington, 1777, there flashed a spark of steel in them, alone here in the room that she was leaving forever. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains This ancestress was her chief claim to be a member of those shining societies which I have enumerated. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains |
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