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Putting out offerings for my father's or mother's ancestors,
Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 1985
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Putting out offerings for my father's or mother's ancestors,
Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 1985
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Instead of commending the Normans of his time for their sobriety, as he might have done their ancestors,
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson
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True to his race, he also was to be a pioneer -- not indeed, like his ancestors,
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln Helen Nicolay 1910
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Let the rulers of each sect and of each opinion be counted up; a late one [Julian] practised the ceremonies of his ancestors,
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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Young men and women inherit, from a long series of ancestors,
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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Stumbling over it some days after this, a spasm of ungovernable rage came upon me, for terribly was my blood struggling with Fenella Stanley and Philip Aylwin, and thousands of ancestors,
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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The scarcely perceptible aquiline of her nose, she inherited from her Semitic ancestors,
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867
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The scarcely perceptible aquiline of her nose, she inherited from her Semitic ancestors,
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 02 Georg Ebers 1867
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Do you recognize the images of the king's ancestors,
Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867
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