The use of Ships may be instanced by the arms of many families, while a Galley or Lymphad (Fig.
They figured in early days outside the limits of heraldry as the badge of pilgrims going to the Holy Land, and may {300} be seen on the shields of many families at the period of the Crusades.
Spears and Spear-Heads are to be found in the arms of many familiesboth in England, Wales, and abroad; for example, in the arms of Amherst and Edwards.
Consanguine marriages are very common, and perhaps this accounts for the low intellect and mental debility perceptible in many families.
Many families, fearing that the insurgents had broken through the American lines and entered the city en masse, frantically fled from the hotels and houses.
To these several principal sources of genealogical materials may be added the private memoranda preserved in many families, correspondence, entries in family bibles, and others which it is unnecessary to mention.
Many families of this name bear crosses and crosslets.
But as nearly every ordinary and charge is common to many families, Dugdale's system cannot possibly be carried out.
Cromwell, deceived themselves in thinking that they had put an end to monasticism in the land which had been the cradle of so many families of religious.
Many families of Carlow, Wicklow, and Wexford, had been compelled to take a refuge in the mountains from the fury of the English troops.
Housekeeping books, with printed forms for the various heads of expenditure, and the several articles, are used in many families; but accounts may be kept with as much certainty in plain books.
The following method, though not generally known, is much practiced in many families.
In many families of the South and West, bread in loaves to be eaten cold is an article quite unknown.
Perfect bread and butter would soon drive cake out of the field; it has done so in many families.
Both these extremes have ill effects; but the first is the commonest, and is the disquiet of many families.
This distinction is quite untenable as a zoological conception, for the relationship of butterflies to some moths is closer than that of many families of Heterocera to each other.
In many families it carries a pair of small erectile plates--the patagia--which have been regarded as serially homologous with the wings.
In many families of Lepidoptera we can trace a degeneration of the cocoon.
Here the writer would protest against the practice common in many families, of having the daughters learn to play on the piano whether they have a taste and an ear for music, or not.
In many families will be found an aged brother, or sister, or other relative who has no home, and no claim to a refuge in the family circle but that of kindred.
Many families had a smoke-house, in which beef, ham, and bacon were smoked.
For many years the methods of striking a light were very primitive, just as they were in Europe; many families possessed no adequate means, or very imperfect ones.
Many families owned a strongly made leach-barrel; others made a sort of barrel from a section of the bark of the white birch.
Yet, I know in many families there is constant picking at opposite religious beliefs, and attempt at proselytism.
There never has been a time when so many families, healthy and abundantly able to support and direct homes of their own, have struck tent and taken permanent abode in these public establishments.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "many families" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
