Yunis and Ahmed were brothers, children of Nuh, the ninth in descent from Ishak el Hazrami.
He is sixteenth, according to his own account, in descent from Ishak el Hazrami [23], the saintly founder of the great Gerhajis and Awal tribes.
Thus the wolves might call themselves Claudii, from their chief's name, and, giving up belief in descent from a wolf, might look back to a fancied ancestor named Claudius.
But the Australians, to the best of my knowledge, though they are much governed by belief in descent from animals, do not usually blazon their crest on their flesh, nor on the trees near the place where the dead are buried.
The only way in which women can be color blind through inheritance is by descent from color-blind fathers and from mothers who are either themselves color-blind or are hybrid with respect to the trait.
If this happened often enough, and time were allowed for it to work out, all the kinds of plants and animals that are now in existence might have come by descent from a very few ancestors.
One famous example, that has been much cited as tending to reinforce the belief in man’s descent from tree-dwelling ancestors, is the curling of the fingers about a slender rod that is pressed against the palms.
The myth of descent from or kinship with the animal or plant, the Darwinian myth, does not stand alone.
Round the mystery of this connection the savage mind would play freely, and would invent the explanatory myths of descent from, and kinship with, or other friendly relations with, the name-giving objects.
If I grant you the myth of descent from an animal to have arisen out of a pre-existing name system, I am no nearer the understanding of totem-kinship as the basis of a social group.
From them is descended the present owner of Townley, nephew to that celebrated scholar and antiquary, Charles Townley, the twenty-ninth in descent from Spartlingus, the first Dean of Whalley upon record.
All the ancient dynasties traced their descent from Poseidon, who at the time of the Achaean conquest was the chief male divinity of Greece and the islands.
It arises from the fact that algae, as generally understood, do not constitute a homogeneous group, suggesting a descent from a common stock.
Then Ceolwulf ascended the giddy height of empire, seventh in descent from Ida: a man competent in other respects, and withal possessed of a depth of literature, acquired by good abilities and indefatigable attention.
Matilda, queen of William the First, was daughter of Baldwin earl of Flanders, the fifth in descent from Ethelswitha.
Possibly the custom of denoting Highland clans by animal or plant badges may be connected with a belief in descent from plants or animals.
A common feature in genealogical lore is the tracing of a people's descent from an ancestor of the same name.
The next stage is the occupation of Tara, the old capital of North Leinster, by Cormac, who is fourth in descent from Tuathal, and who should therefore have flourished in the period A.
And the chastity of married women then became of vital importance to the community, because the lack of it would cause strangers to be born into the clan, which now based its tie of kinship on descent from a common male ancestor.
The same argument seems to demonstrate that the idea of kinship within the clan was prior to the idea of descent from a common ancestor, whether an animal or plant, a god, hero or nicknamed ancestor.
The abstention of the Brahmans from meat, the pseudo-revealed injunction to the Hebrews against certain flesh-foods (has that against pork its origin in the forgotten tradition of descent from a boar?
The children and grandchildren who saw him will not be led into error; but in later generations, descent from "the Wolf" will inevitably come to mean descent from the animal known by that name.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "descent from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
