Sentence examples for we were descended from inspiring English sources

"Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters'.

A year later, we were riding the subway when we were descended upon by an overjoyed Josie who could see that I was pregnant.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I put it to you: if we were descended from monkeys, then why aren't I stupid, hirsute, and scratching my purple ass?: William Jennings Bryan successfully prosecutes Tennessee teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution.

Twain's trepidation in anticipation of public scorn is reminiscent of Darwin's procrastination in publishing his theory of evolution with its shocking implication that we were descended from apes.

However, there is a letter from Cantor's brother Louis to their mother, stating: ("Even if we were descended from Jews ten times over, and even though I may be, in principle, completely in favour of equal rights for Hebrews, in social life I prefer Christians... ......) which could be read to imply that she was of Jewish ancestry.

Some 147 miles and 31 minutes later, we were descending.

As we were descending, I looked out over the city, all lit up and glittering.

We were descending from the summit of Glacier Peak in the Cascade Range, and our guide wasn't sure where we were.

As we were descending past Seventy-seventh Street, I looked up and glimpsed the corner of the New York Historical Society, the more stately, mellow cousin of the Museum of Natural History to its north.

We were descending in the elevator on the Post Street side of the hotel, the side where Sara Jane Moore had taken a shot at Gerald Ford a decade earlier, when Steve suddenly stopped the elevator.

Soon we were descending a steep twisting path that led to Meiringen, famous for the Parkhotel du Sauvage, said to be the place where Sherlock Holmes left for his fatal encounter with Moriarty.