In Origine des plantes cultivées (1883) Candolle sought to establish centres of plant origins by using historical, linguistic, and archaeological, as well as botanical, data.
The dynasty's founder, Malhar Rao Holkar, rose from peasant origins by his own ability.
Who, in the early years of the 20th century, sought to remember or flaunt his British origins by decorating his studio like an Elizabethan manor house?
The house was restored to its lavish Italianate origins by its current owners, Maureen and Marshall Cogan, who bought it in 1998.
The encounter with Eliot brought out Groucho's characteristic tendency to hide his embarrassment about his origins by pushing them in his audience's face.
BERLIN — As a youth in the 1950s, the film director Volker Schlöndorff tried to hide his German origins by learning to speak unaccented French.
Briand, like Clemenceau, belied his left-wing origins by forcibly repressing a major strike in 1910; in foreign affairs, however, he preferred a policy of coexistence with Germany.
For conservative Christians, "Coming to Peace With Science," by Darrel Falk, and "Origins," by Deborah and Loren Haarsma, are accessible and reassuring reads.
In Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth, the red-maned alien crash-lands in the New Mexico desert and confirms his extraterrestrial origins by telling a local woman: "I'm British".
Trump responded to the joke (inspired by Trump's role in the "birther movement" that questions Barack Obama's origins) by drawing attention to Stewart's changed surname (he was born Jonathan Leibowitz) and estrangement from his father.
Ms. Castle gave the work's premiere at the Morgan Library & Museum on Wednesday evening in "Nothing Sacred," a program that opened a series called Muses and Origins, by the Orchestra of St . Lukes Chamber Ensemble.
