descendants

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The picture represents my person not inaccurately; from the nickname my descendants will be able to gather what the knaves and fools with whom I lived thought of my character.

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  • Among his descendants are the present King of Sweden and the late Emperor of Brazil. —  The Private Life of Napoleon, V1
  • It's that need for answers that pretty much guarantees that if our descendants are anything like us, our history will continue to be a war between rationalism and superstition. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#213
  • Many of the foreign emigrants and their descendants were also under this sway, and the whole frontier was spotted with loyalists under the ever hateful name of Tories. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • Maybe your descendants will be a superior breed of silky-hair monkeys. —  to make a new
  • Allegedly, Ham's son Canaan and his descendants were thereafter doomed to serve their brothers 'lines for all of eternity. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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