Nay, without that progenitor would he ever have been born,--would a Squills ever have introduced him into the world, or a nurse ever have carried him upo kolpo!
From every grave where a progenitor slept, he had heard a parent's voice.
The offspring of this marriage was Mopsus, who was probably called the progenitor of the family from which, even in the Roman time, the priests of the oracle were selected.
Hercules, the heroic progenitor of the royal family, was worshipped in their first residence at Edessa:(2112) he was called in Macedonia Aretus.
This hero is in general the mythical progenitor and hero of the Doric nation; hence Pindar called the customs and laws of that people "the ordinances of AEgimius.
It was in fact his delight to feel himself a link in the chain of tradition--at once the successor and progenitor of scholars.
As a cover to his design he requested permission to enter the island, and sacrifice to Melkarth [Hercules] the tutelary god of Tyre, and the progenitor of the Macedonian kings.
He was always spoken of as the principal god, the creator of the world and progenitor of the other gods and of mankind.
In Portugal, grape juice is boiled down with quinces into a sort of jam--the progenitor of all marmalades.
The wild woodland Strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is the progenitor of our highly cultivated and delicious fruit.
The fruit of the wild Rose, which is so familiar to every admirer of our hedgerows in the summer, and which is the common progenitor of all Roses, is named Hips.
Fancy the progenitor of the Dorias thus haunting those heavy halls where his posterity reside!
Methinks you, by your native qualities, are as well entitled to her favor as ever your progenitor could have been.
Its progenitor was a being not altogether human, yet partaking so largely of the gentlest human qualities, as to be neither awful nor shocking to the imagination.
A legislator and saint, the son of Brahmá or a personification of Brahmá himself, the creator of the world, and progenitor of mankind.
Who else than the world do they believe to have this power, to which it has been said: "Almighty Jove, progenitor and mother?
Other stories represent him as marrying a female musk-rat, by whom he became the progenitor of the human race.
Each species of animal has its great archetype, its progenitor or king, who is supposed to exist somewhere, prodigious in size, though in shape and nature like his subjects.
The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired.
The zany wasprogenitor to the specialist in humor, as we to-day have the unhappiness to know him.
The great middle country in Western Asia, where the true Eden, the original abode of the first man, and great progenitor of mankind, was situated, forms the central point in the general historical survey of Moses.
But there is, in particular, a passage relative to the first great progenitorof mankind which deserves to be here noticed.
Marshal Ney's, was the progenitor of him with the mustache and imperial of the sixties.
He is chiefly memorable as the father of Sackville the poet, afterwards lord Buckhurst and progenitor of the dukes of Dorset.
It was erected by her remote progenitor Edmund of Langley, son of king Edward III.
This great progenitor of one creation, became the intellect in another, this became the volitive male agent of creation afterwards, and at last look upon it a male form according to its volition.
Once on a time the sage Narada went to the empyrean of his father Brahma accompanied by his young progeny, and there made his obeisance to the prime progenitor of mankind.
Now right here it may be asked, How do we know that the little Hyracothere was the progenitor of the horse, and how can it be shown that there is any bond of kinship between him and, for example, the great French Percheron?
This celestial being is therefore described as appertaining to five men, and he is the progenitor of five tribes.
Thou art the progenitor of Truth, the destroyer of Diti's progeny (Asuras), and the great conqueror of the enemies of the celestials.
On the other hand it is highly probable that with many animals the embryonic or larval stages show us, more or less completely, the condition of the progenitor of the whole group in its adult state.
This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed amongst the Quadrumana, as surely as the still more ancient progenitor of the Old and New World monkeys.
After that he gradually developed into a man and became the progenitor of the Turtle clan.
These last markings are probably remnants of an oblique striping formerly possessed by the progenitor of this and other species of the genus (see, for instance, Fig.
The embryonic convolutions again are smooth, and the author believes (on other grounds) that the more remote progenitor possessed a smooth shell.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "progenitor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
