Sentence examples for illustrious ancestry from inspiring English sources

With an illustrious ancestry (the Lebedevs particularly like the story of the relative who led Catherine the Great's fleet), Greig is scrupulously polite, even gracious, in answering questions.

Bolaño, no doubt aware of this illustrious ancestry, prefers to ignore it: not only the models, but their wit and discernment as well.

Noble rank did not represent "recognition of illustrious ancestry".

To be sure, modernism had its illustrious intellectual ancestry.

What many people want from genealogy is not just any ancestry but an illustrious one, or, at least, one that is compatible with their cultural DNA.

Descended from an illustrious Italian family that traced its ancestry to the exiles carried off to Rome from Jerusalem by Titus in A.D. 70, Rossi had an upbringing privileged enough to include extensive musical education.

M: Illustrious?

Crusader ancestry?

Jewish ancestry.

Dickey joined illustrious company.

He is in illustrious company.