Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins. . . . Their confidence was founded on the prophecy of an enthusiast or an impostor . . . that an angel would descend from heaven with a sword in his hand, and would deliver the empire...
Lucie's husband ("descended from the corsair just as you descend a long staircase when you slip-on his backside") died years ago. And Luc La Hourie, her only son, was reported lost at sea with a Breton fishing trawler just three months after he married Françoise...
...imposing sentence, Judge Francis J. W. Ford said he could not understand how a man of his "background and intelligence could descend to the level of a common thief." He reprimanded him sharply for his "thefts from veterans or anyone else, so that he could keep up with him associates in the circles in which he moved...
...Alpine spring. "There was still snow upon the summit of the Lady in White, which rose over the dark lake, dwarfing it as the cathedral tower dwarfs the rain puddle. . . ." While a detachment of U.S. troops is making a bordello out of the village inn, the SS men descend from the pine forests to seize Gustave and the Wiedemeyers...
...craftsmen he has composed of brass and iron. . . . If the son of a gold or silver parent has an admixture of brass and iron, then nature orders a transposition of ranks and the eye of the ruler must not be pitiful toward the child because he has to descend in the scale . . . just as there may be sons of artisans who having an admixture of gold and silver in them, are raised to honor. . . . For an oracle says that when a man of brass or iron guards the State, it will be destroyed...