#descended

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Oh no, I am descended from the important Carters. ↗

— Henry Carter Stuart

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She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to. ↗

— Gypsy Rose Lee

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When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations? ↗

— Tina Brown

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Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. ↗

— Ferdowsi

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