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Example sentences for "direct descendant"

  • There every other man is a direct descendant of some Moorish king, as for centuries it has served as a sort of overflow for the prolific Royal house.

  • Matilda of Flanders, a direct descendant of Alfred the Great, (No.

  • Henry further strengthened his position with his English subjects by his marriage with Maud, nice of the Saxon Edgar, a direct descendant of King Alfred (S51).

  • General Hasbrouck is a direct descendant of Abraham Hasbrouck, one of the twelve New Paltz patentees.

  • Swartwout, of Port Jervis, a direct descendant of Roeloff Swartwout, who came from Holland and settled at Kingston, N.

  • Ramsdell was Laura Ann Gedney before her marriage, and a direct descendant from an officer of the Revolutionary army.

  • Richard Buckley, and a direct descendant of Col.

  • Worcester, and a direct descendant of Rev.

  • Fraser (a direct descendant of 1st Lord Lovat), who was created a bart.

  • M’Kinnon, who was a direct descendant of Lachlan M’Kinnon, of the Isle of Skye, who was made a Knight Banneret by Charles II.

  • I am a direct descendant of the great chief Attakullakulla, friendly to your people, who, in 1761, made peace between the Cherokees and the great war governor, Bull.

  • Yes, because she is a direct descendant of the sire of my grandfather's favourite saddle-horse.

  • Well, I own a direct descendant of the sire of that very animal.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    direct assault; direct descendant; direct examination; direct foreign; direct interest; direct knowledge; direct observation; direct opposition; direct pressure; direct question; direct ratio; direct relation; direct result; direct sunlight; direct their; direction contrary; directly after; directly opposed; directly opposite; for want; million sterling; oriented economy; remain here; sell again; stone walls; stop them