Sentence examples for am descended from inspiring English sources

I am descended from Charles II.

I am descended from farmers shipped to the coast when they lost civil wars and battles over their farmlands.

I know a strong sermon from a weak one because I am descended from generations of preachers and evangelists, dating back to my great-grandfather, the Rev. Frank Patterson, a Methodist in late 19th-century Virginia.

I am descended from a long line of women who lived into their 90s, and their last years suggest that my generation's vision of an ageless old age bears about as much resemblance to real old age as our earlier idealization of painless childbirth without drugs did to real labor.

And yet I am descended from these people, as I found out in the Dublin airport Saturday morning, standing in an endless line at security that wound back and forth and moved slowly slowly slowly between the poles and the plastic tapes, and there I was, far back in line, at 9 05 a.m. when my flight to Glasgow was boarding.

As a person with some experience in these regards - I am descended from those women and have had a couple of children - I can report that most women are made of tougher stuff and that children (from all the continents I've ever visited) do not chant softly, not even when instructed by harassed parents and frustrated music teachers to do so.

Descend, descend, descend!" Bonin: "I am descending!" Dubois: "No, you're climbing".

He was descended from Russian peasants.

English and Frisian are descended from North Sea Germanic.

Canetti was descended from Spanish Sephardic Jews.

Sándor Fischer was descended from shtetl Jews.