Sentence examples for of long pedigree from inspiring English sources
And what of the oddballs like mourvèdre, roussanne, tempranillo and primitivo, Old World grapes of long pedigree but only recently "discovered" and promoted by American vintners?
A FEW weeks ago it looked as if Lazard, an international investment bank of long pedigree, was heading for a buy-out of its controlling shareholders and then for flotation.
Most are of long pedigree.
"None of Mr. Lincoln's family seems to have been aware of the preciousness of long pedigrees," William Dean Howells remarked, in his "Life of Abraham Lincoln".
About Lincoln's ancestry he had not a clue: "There is a dim possibility that he is of the stock of the New England Lincolns, of Plymouth colony; but the noble science of heraldry is almost obsolete in this country, and none of Mr. Lincoln's family seems to have been aware of the preciousness of long pedigrees".
The people inside - it employs 250 - are keepers of a long pedigree of canny Dundonians.
In the Historia Brittonum, Guillem Guercha is listed as part of a long pedigree: Woden begat Casser, who begat Titinon, who begat Trigil, who begat Rodmunt, who begat Rippa, who begat Guillem Guercha, who was the first king of the East Angles.
Yes, the Aekard 2i, which comes from a long pedigree of of such cards, is now fully compatible with the DSi.
He has a long pedigree of goals — 237 of them in 493 games for various German clubs since playing in Lima as a teenager.
The iconography of suffering has a long pedigree.
The study of institutions has a long pedigree.
