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"When you're probably speaking to someone who is older than the nation of your ancestors, that can happen
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ancestors would crawl ashore a few
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The bone, full of air bubbles inherited from the creature’s flying ancestors to reduce
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ancestors coded and catalogued us, when they marked us out as a lesser breed, even
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The bone, full of air bubbles inherited from the creature’s flying ancestors to reduce weight and density, skittled across the stone floor and came to rest by MacKenzie’s bare feet
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And then, when your ancestors coded and catalogued us, when they marked us out as a lesser breed, even then we stood the prejudices and the spite
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This is your culture, you have been living it for longer than the nation of my ancestors has existed
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The quibarta's ancestors preyed on stryders
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As before, I am impressed by the skill of our distant ancestors … I can’t imagine the work and organisation that must have gone into building this place
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Fortunes varied, were won and lost, and the family name changed through the ages, becoming a proper product of each model of social propriety, until, at the very end of a long line of ancestors , there was but one member of the family left living
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She had a vague and hazy image in her head of one of her early ancestors running his opponents through with a large sword, and in her more candid moments she secretly approved of this approach
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'According to legend, somewhere in this gorge is an oracle where our ancestors came and sought council or prophetic predictions as to what their future held
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Then Manolis spoke, 'If I may make a suggestion, at the present time the village population is swelled by many proud Sophians who have travelled far to be on the soil of their ancestors for the festival and this soil is very precious to them
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I will tell her they insult our ancestors and hold our village to ransom
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I wondered how many of my ancestors had brought me to this moment
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I’ve met our ancestors that came over on the boats
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at the very end of a long line of ancestors , there was but one
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of one of her early ancestors running his opponents through with a
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and other ancestors, you can also inherit trapped
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I once had a patient whose ancestors were black slaves
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originally occurred to one of his ancestors in the 1700s,
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“In a thousand years there will be, but remember, your mortal ancestors at this time were living in caves and fighting bears with spears
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“Just shut up and give me the damned bottle! I don't care what the reason is, Amanda, your clients, your weakness, your parents, your long-dead ancestors! I don't care
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But our days on Earth are not guaranteed to last and there were some generations who lacked fulfillment of training, it has not been so with your father's ancestors
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Harry explained to her, “My ancestors would turn in their graves to know that someone, or group, used the external training of their art for self-aggrandizement
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Vilbarl was still the speaker, as he had been when Delurna’s ancestors began to come down out of the High Westland’s keeps in the late 32nd
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She and George and White Feathers, indeed all their ancestors too, waited in expectation of some further developments in that line before making anything known to the girls and Jameson
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Their ancestors watched the developments of Harry's endeavors carefully, but would not comment or apprize George and Belle until, “the bold experiment had reached the end of its first fragile stage
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” They had stopped for a brief lunch and before they went back to the gardening, Belle walked her through the house and recited to her the stories of her own and George's ancestors, pointing out how they honored them and venerated their sagacity and far-sightedness
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37He will show no regard for the gods of his ancestors or for the one
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his ancestors he will honor with gold
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“What do you mean? Why do you call my ancestors dirty?”
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and grandmother, X’ander thought, storing the memory of her alongside that of her maternal ancestors
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"Or maybe our ancestors stole a starship from a visitor and took off with it
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those ancestors in a place called Gerstheim
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Wrapping both hands around “Hell’s Bane’s” handle, he hoisted the shimmering brick of crystal to his shoulder and continued, “To be sure, our ancestors had a plan
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For thousands of years my ancestors
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Drau'd and his ilk are a meager reflection of their great ancestors
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Our ancestors fought them from world to world, all the while fleeing before them, never once halting their momentum
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That was my ancestors talking, not me
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I think it is obvious their ancestors were carried to this world long before they had evolved morally to what we are today with the birth of Jesus Christ
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The being we and our ancestors know as 'God' cannot prove he is not a simulation in some higher space
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"My ancestors came from the world where humans evolved
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“Bore us? Why do you think I hired you? My own ancestors gained their glory in this
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His blood passed to his ancestors, the Makii, who eventually used the power to create the Gate, thus beginning the second conquest of the universe
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this way their own ancestors
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name, to use the very word as some sort of malediction, but my ancestors spread our power
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It seems to have been a common practice among our ancestors during the violence of the feudal government
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Humans and animals have ancestors and, in a way, so have minerals, vegetables and gases
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a copper wire, which proves that their ancestors
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that his ancestors knew the wireless telegraphy
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They say that Hesiod comes from Boeotia -- it’s where my ancestors The Maiden’s Odyssey
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Our ancestors were idle for want of a sufficient encouragement to industry
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The possibilities of communicating with the first witches from your line would be amazing, but I had a feeling it would take a lifetime to communicate with all your ancestors
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ancestors represented in stone, must go to Rome
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“Why would your parents or why did your ancestors?”
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culture of our ancient ancestors had collapsed because they’d run out of timber
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ancestors brought it east
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’ That’s why He chose to hide the secret of fire from our ancestors
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Thinking back to her anony-mous High Rock ancestors, she gave an exasperated sigh
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It’s who my father was and all of our ancestors
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To dream that you are stretching your earlobes indicates your desires to be more connected with your ancestors and understanding of where you came from
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She wondered if it had passed through countless generations of Tragus's ancestors
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Or it may refer to the experiences of your parents or ancestors
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Our ancestors seem to have imagined, that the people would buy their corn cheaper of the farmer than of the corn merchant, who, they were afraid, would require, over and above the price which he paid to the farmer, an exorbitant profit to himself
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The ancient Parthians appear to have been a nation of Scythian or Tartar extraction, and to have always retained a good deal of the manners of their ancestors
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All families are equally ancient ; and the ancestors of the prince, though they may be better known, cannot well be more numerous than those of the beggar
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As a military officer submits, without reluctance, to the authority of a superior by whom he has always been commanded, but cannot bear that his inferior should be set over his head; so men easily submit to a family to whom they and their ancestors have always submitted; but are fired with indignation when another family, in whom they had never acknowledged any such superiority, assumes a dominion over them
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There are no nations, accordingly, who abound more in families revered and honoured on account of their descent from a long race of great and illustrious ancestors ; because there are no nations among whom wealth is likely to continue longer in the same families
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Among those nations of husbandmen, who are but just come out of the shepherd state, and who are not much advanced beyond that state, such as the Greek tribes appear to have been about the time of the Trojan war, and our German and Scythian ancestors, when they first settled upon the ruins of the western empire; the sovereign or chief is, in the same manner, only the greatest landlord of the country, and is maintained in the same manner as any other landlord, by a revenue derived from his own private estate
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After placing it back in its holder, he said, “As my ancestors taught their sons the carpentry trade, so I shall teach our sons
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“What they mean, Mary, is we must go to register in the city where our ancestors lived
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He was a learned man who knew most of the stories of our ancestors
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The Rabbi continued the stories until he came to the last of the ancestors
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Would the people be friendly? Would we find other Jews to live nearby? My thoughts turned to our ancestors who had fled to Egypt so many years before
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him the riches of his ancestors
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She was in fact from one of the seaside clans whose ancestors had invaded Kismeria after travelling across the Great Sea over three hundred years ago
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Supposed to be impossible to blacks, inasmuch as their ancestors were persecuted, and they lack power
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“Good,” Martha exclaimed in the accent of her ancestors
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“I swear on the blood of my ancestors that I will serve the Light and protect what is good and what is innocent
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Today she would prove herself to her father and her ancestors and the people who had woven themselves into her life
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A shame? Vanquished ancestors, was he actually regretting what he had done? Did he feel guilty? Or was she imagining it? Maybe he had just come down to gloat
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Cursed ancestors! He’d kill her for sure now
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“No, curse your ancestors, I was never—damn it, you can’t try to save the emperor on one hand and kill his civil servants on the other
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bellowed at Sicarius and cursed his ancestors
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their ancestors, had sexual intercourse with them, and finally swallowed the remnants of their brains
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When he ran for president, genealogists uncovered the actual town of his Irish ancestors
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The ancestors then come through the
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the ancestors to answers my prayers
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Her ancestors and angels were asked to open
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Many of these ancestors were of African descent
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arms of her ancestors
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ancestors and have something to tell you
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No other president had so many ancestors on the Mayflower, or a family fortune so large
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I included this evocation in my talk because, like many other citizens of that sprightly village, I fondly and nostalgically recalled that sacred icon which our ancestors from earlier centuries had bequeathed to us and which a mayor and a priest had, just a few years ago, secretly and foolishly demolished some four centuries after concrete documents rendered evident its existence
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On some of the larger, with hilly interiors and waterfalls spilling into the bay, villages inhabited by Cuna Indians – who continue to live much the same as their ancestors for countless generations – could be seen
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And that made me highly uncomfortable, and as was usually the case that sort of thing tended to kick off my run-and-hide instincts, perhaps the single most useful of the traits passed on from our early hunter-gatherer ancestors (that and the tendency to proliferate sexually - which in Memphis was still called porkin’)
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It seems that our ancestors knew much more than we are prepared to admit
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Your ancestors were just hunters and gatherers that lived off the land
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He stood and explained, “Forty thousand years ago, your Euro ancestors were still living in caves and gluing their Stone Age tools together, thinking about creating the wheel