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  • That's what happens when you marginalize people based on "ancestorship".

    Atlantic Review 2008

  • Welsh mountain ponies trace their ancestorship back through Hackneys to the Darley Arabian, one of the four foundation studs of the modern Thoroughbred.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • Welsh mountain ponies trace their ancestorship back through Hackneys to the Darley Arabian, one of the four foundation studs of the modern Thoroughbred.

    Hume's Folly 2006

  • And we are cross streets, members of the same family, properly imitative, proving our ancestorship in a primeval genius for trees, or bursting out in inexplicable weaknesses of Court-House, Engine-House, Town Hall, and

    Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

  • Here the former Marquis, who is now Duke di Ripalda, lives very much aggrandized as a descendant of the Cid, glorying in his ancestorship.

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

  • Mr. Herbert Spencer, who has done so much in calling attention to ancestorship as a natural ingredient of religion among all savage nations, declares in the most emphatic manner, [277] "that he has seen it implied, that he has heard it in conversation, and that he now has it before him in print, that no

    India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge Alexander Wilder 1861

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