Sentence examples for of roman descent from inspiring English sources

It is often thought that Arthur was of Roman descent and died fighting invaders from the Angles or Saxon tribes.

In the play the lovers are portrayed as though they were French: the character Floria Tosca is closely modelled on Bernhardt's personality, while her lover Cavaradossi, of Roman descent, is born in Paris.

In the 19th century it was believed that the toponym "Ambrosden" came from a diminutive derivative of the name Ambrosius Aurelianus, a 5th-century British commander of Roman descent, and that the commander had encamped close the present site of Ambrosden to help the neighbouring military garrison at Alchester in conflicts with the Anglo-Saxons.

Ex: Heretes wields a long sword, he is of Roman descent and fights in the Roman army in their war against the Celts.

Some of Cardiff is of Roman origin.

Shostakovich's paternal grandfather, originally surnamed Szostakowicz, was of Polish Roman Catholic descent (his family roots trace to the region of the town of Vileyka in today's Belarus), but his immediate forebears came from Siberia.

(AP) — Two more passengers have died of injuries suffered in the wreck of a charter bus carrying a group of Roman Catholics of Vietnamese descent to a religious festival, bringing the death toll to 17, the authorities said Saturday.

Camille Paglia, the American critic and feminist, pictured her as in a line of descent from femmes fatales such as the Borgias or the wives and mothers of Roman emperors, who fused power and sex.

He then superimposes on these faces the raw theater of suffering, mixing the emotional symbols of Roman Catholicism with those of Mayan myths familiar to the majority of Guatemalans, who are Mayan or of Mayan and Spanish descent.

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Donne was born of Roman Catholic parents.