Pedigree ancestry

Usage examples of bloodline.

Ahzad was the name of the leader who emerged, a prince of ancient bloodlines, and it was in his name that the Drujani took up their swords, slaying the Akkadian vizier and his garrison.

The bloodlines of most Amish, and those Mennonites descended from them, are so tangled and intertwined that most of us are our own cousins.

By linking cocaine use with blacks and white women, antidrug campaigners were pulling out all the stops, as they knew that the image of racial minorities having congress with white women would strike at the heart of American society - the very bloodline of the country.

Where the Empire gains over the usual bloodline set-up is they use the game to recruit the cleverest, most ruthless and manipulative apices from the whole population to run the show, rather than have to marry new blood into some stagnant aristocracy and hope for the best when the genes shake out.

This, Drago knew, was the reason why the Covenani so needed the Wizards back in their bloodline.

Stetson Kennedy, a thirty-year-old man with the bloodlines of a Klansman but a temperament that ran opposite.

I carried a child that mingled the bloodlines of wizard and Landscaper, at best they would have punished him.

The entrance to the plasma center was from the side street, up four cement steps, through a set of glass doors stenciled in blue with the name Bloodlines as well as a parent corporation, Lifeways Inc.

It shames me that a boy of my own bloodlines could use such tricks on his own grandmother.

The best of them do have some thoroughbred or standardbred or Morgan blood in them, if you trace back their bloodlines.

Remember, my own gift is to sense bloodlines by touchback a hundred generations, if necessary.

But their disgrace did not strip from her the inheritance she received through her mother nor the royal bloodlines that tied her to both the ruling house of Wendar and the princely house that had once ruled Varre.

By marrying into the powerful House of Benjamin, Jesus fused two royal bloodlines, creating a potent political union with the potential of making a legitimate claim to the throne and restoring the line of kings as it was under Solomon.

And high priestesses, like Roman emperors, were chosen by their followers on the basis of merit, not bloodlines.

Still, it chagrins me that a prince of your bloodlines should go unacknowledged amongst his own folk.