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1. It was far from the same thing, and where did that leave Leand in her parentage? Did she have three parents, but didn't the child who became the ghost also have two? Could he ever make love to such a creature? He had made love to such a creature, made love to her so much that she ran from him
2. After all, my parentage is as good as any girl’s, whether she’s the daughter of a king or some great hero’s bride
3. Another cadet had the bad luck to have a fly land on his pillow during an inspection which meant that we were all “f communists and horribly filthy people of uncertain parentage, breeders flies and other vermin, but not to f worry because our filthy habits will be cured in short order time by Sergeant van der Merwe, by the grace of General Coetzee blah blah blah
4. Skiddles was of no known parentage, hardly of any known breed, but he
5. I thought he was a Timacua, but he turned out to be of mixed parentage
6. 25 For just as in a council-room beholding in her own soul vehement counsellors nature and parentage and love of her children and the racking of her children 26 she holding two votes one for the death the other for the preservation of her children 27 did not lean to that which would have saved her children for the safety of a brief space
7. Halfdan briefly explained his parentage
8. Goodness knows what his parentage was
9. The shore, about 50 yards from the shack‘s front door, was littered with fish heads, glistening globs of fish scales, turtle shells, various and sundry alligator parts haphazardly distributed around assorted pole racks and crude tables sheltering a variety of ice chests of unknown parentage
10. Colonel Aureliano Buendía who at first received them with mistrust and even doubted the parentage of some, was amused by their wildness, and before they left he gave each one a little gold fish
11. Tormented by the certainty that he was his wife’s brother, Aureliano ran out to the parish house to search through the moldy and moth-eaten archives for some clue to his parentage
12. The Armenian denied the parentage of the boy and sent him away
13. ’ He does his famous patter, ‘I come from mixed parentage, one male, one female
14. We all know that no one can love Tarana the way Karan does and Singhania’s have also always treated Tarana as their own daughter and never even questioned her about her parentage
15. He decided to find out everything about them as well as his own birth and parentage
16. Victoria Moon King had found that only her own six poodles were of suitable parentage to live in her Poodle Emporium
17. ed in an unprecedented assault on the nature of your national parentage
18. There you are in the middle of a fraught negotiation getting roundly abused and shouted at; your parentage is being called into question and all kinds of dire threats are coming your way
19. We have seen from the Quran that the relationship between ‘the God’ and the believer is that of the Master and the servant, which provides for a strict religious parentage
20. He even went on to lie about his parentage
21. * with the cloning technique of electrical-stimulation to begin cell division, female eggs can be caused to gestate without intervention of male sperm, thereby avoiding the introduction of any additional male characteristics beyond those already present due to a mother’s dual-gendered parentage
22. I told her everything, including what Michael had told me about his secretly illustrious parentage and his suspicions and finally, hugely, that Augustine’s painting had been stolen
23. The puppies’ parentage could not be questioned since the puppy on her lap, along with two others in the box, were the spitting image of their father
24. “Luckily, bad parentage affects people in very different ways
25. The taint of thy parentage is heavy upon thee
26. And what had Dwight got out of it? She hardly could face it, it was so extremely mortifying, but she couldn't help thinking that what Dwight had got out of it, being a youth perhaps developed in business instincts beyond his years but in harmony with his American parentage, was her social usefulness
27. She, a country-bred girl, of obscure but pleasant parentage, with four brothers and two sisters, all most reliable, was of the very stuff, in his opinion, good wives are made of--healthy, sweet-tempered, sensible, simple, ready to learn, enjoying looking up to him, interesting herself in all he did, not knowing any of his former friends, and liking to be read aloud to
28. The kids explode into arguments over appropriate changes that can and should be made to the story – arguments that quickly dissolve into insults against Eugene's story telling capabilities and each other's intelligence and parentage
29. Besides, what sort of husband would want a fatherless bastard for a wife? And if my parentage didn't concern him, surely the fact I had conversations with the dead would
30. I had assumed that it was the paradox of the child’s parentage that caused the Sundering
31. But when the actual war was about to be launched: that little spoiled child of diseased royal parentage became timid and showed his true colors;, he drew back from the actual implementation of the war plans
32. The King said nothing and I waited, expecting him to tell me to leave because of my mixed parentage
33. Despite whatever your parentage may be I’m glad to see that you’re all following in my footsteps as best as your able to
34. After enlarging at great length in this book on the 'error,’ as he terms it, 'of the doctrine of the soul’s natural immortality,’ he breaks out into the following apostrophe to the heathen philosophers:—'Will you lay aside your habitual arrogance, O Men, who claim God as your Father, and maintain that you are immortal, just as He is? Will you inquire, examine, search, what you are yourselves, whose you are, of what parentage you are supposed to be, what you do in the world, in what way you are horn, how you leap into life? Will you, laying aside all partiality, consider, in the silence of your thoughts, that we are creatures either quite like the rest, or separated by no great difference? 'a fact which Arnobius then proceeds to illustrate with great vivacity (ii
35. Countless are they who, born of mean parentage, have risen to the highest dignities, pontifical and imperial, and of the truth of this I could give thee instances enough to weary thee
36. And I began, half dreaming, to weary myself with imagining some fit parentage for him; and, repeating my awaking meditations, I tracked his existence over again, with grim variations; at last, picturing his death and funeral: of which, all I can remember is, being exceedingly vexed at having the task of dictating an inscription for his monument, and consulting the sexton about it; and, as he had no surname, and we could not tell his age, we were obliged to content ourselves with the single word, "Heathcliff
37. “How dare he ask me if I'm his father! Where have you heard of a child questioning his parentage? I don't know who's been feeding him nonsense, but it stops now,” said Chinedu, leaving the kitchen
38. “I'm still shocked that he doubts his parentage
39. It probably hadn't been all that good-looking in any case- it was said that Zlorf had chosen a profession in which dark hoods, cloaks and nocturnal prowlings figured largely because there was a day-fearing trollish streak in his parentage
40. There is madame overwhelming me with questions respecting the count; she insists upon it that I can tell her his birth, education, and parentage, where he came from, and whither he is going
41. What purpose I had in view when I was hot on tracing out and proving Estella's parentage, I cannot say
42. For the daughter's? I think it would hardly serve her to establish her parentage for the information of her
43. Maybe they have discovered some fact about his parentage that even he doesn’t know, something ruinous
44. The plea of love then over-ruling all objections, for him, which he could not but read the sincerity of in a heart ever open to him, obliged me to receive his hand, by which means I was in pass, among other innumerable blessings, to bestow a legal parentage on those fine children you have seen by this happiest of matches
45. But it still didn’t mean she was any relation of Will or, indeed, that her mother had been telling the truth about her parentage
46. He and the padre could be seen frequently side by side, meditative and gazing across the street of a village at a lot of sedate brown children, trying to sort them out, as it were, in low, consulting tones, or else they would together put searching questions as to the parentage of some small, staid urchin met wandering, naked and grave, along the road with a cigar in his baby mouth, and perhaps his mother's rosary, purloined for purposes of ornamentation, hanging in a loop of beads low down on his rotund little stomach
47. This letter, in Antonia's handwriting, was signed by Don Jose, who appealed to the "young and gifted Costaguanero" on public grounds, and privately opened his heart to his talented god-son, a man of wealth and leisure, with wide relations, and by his parentage and bringing-up worthy of all confidence
48. The opinions he expressed appeared eminently natural and proper in a man of his parentage and antecedents
49. After all, with his English parentage and English upbringing, he perceived that he was an adventurer in Costaguana, the descendant of adventurers enlisted in a foreign legion, of men who had sought fortune in a revolutionary war, who had planned revolutions, who had believed in revolutions
50. Mr Samgrass was a genealogist and a legitimist; he loved dispossessed royalty and knew the exact validity of the rival claims of the pretenders to many thrones; he was not a man of religious habit, but he knew more than most Catholics about their Church; he had friends in the Vatican and could talk at length of policy and appointments, saying which contemporary ecclesiastics were in good favour, which in bad, what recent theological hypothesis was suspect, and how this or that Jesuit or Dominican had skated on thin ice or sailed near the wind in his Lenten discourses; he had everything except the Faith, and later liked to attend benediction in the chapel of Brideshead and see the ladies of the family with their necks arched in devotion under their black lace mantillas; he loved forgotten scandals in high life and was an expert in putative parentage; he claimed to love the past, but I always felt that he thought all the splendid company,