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Перевод: descendant
[прилагательное] происходящий; спускающийся; [существительное] потомок
Тезаурус:
- Some appear as GHOSTS, while others turn into cannibalistic monsters like the witch BLACK ANNIS who was said to be a descendant of the Celtic winter goddess, Anu or Danu.
- One of the craft was in a mighty hurry when he set Judas for Jesus at John vi.67, as happened in 1609; and so was his descendant in 1653 when, at Corinthians vi.9, he pronounced that "the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God", which must have been a great comfort to a considerable number of citizens under the Commonwealth.
- The clay tile and its descendant, the plastic pipe, were to take their place alongside the plough and the axe as among the major agents in the settlement of England.
- His descendant, John, the third baron Ashburnham, served as a soldier while following the family tradition of dynastic marriages; in his case, he excelled his inherited duties by outliving the three heiresses he married, bringing him 30,000 in dowries.
- Did God really care that the Lord's Anointed, blessed with royal oils on hands, feet and brow, the descendant of St. Margaret with the blood of Edward the Confessor in his veins, had been destroyed, brought low, murdered, tossed off the top of a cliff like a spent leaf blown in the wind?
- His starting-point is La finta giardiniera which he regards, perhaps arguably, as a descendant of Richardson's novel Pamela and also, unarguably, as the first time we hear, dramatically, Mozart's individual voice.
- For, according to Hughes, his mother Sycorax is a black sorceress and a Queen of Hell, as well as being a lineal descendant of Dido, Queen of Carthage, a white magician, whom Aeneas loved and betrayed.
- The Diary of Adrian Mole is a descendant of Dickens's urgent, knowingly innocent style.
- He, as well as Anne and Joan herself, was of Plantagenet stock, being a descendant of Edward the Third's son Lionel, through the female line.
- The Shurmur family kept the mill up to 1800, when a descendant of Thomas Shurmur, who was running the mill at the time, was declared bankrupt.
- Henry married Matilda, sister of the King of Scotland, himself a direct descendant of Alfred the Great, and Henry established a civil service and a centralized exchequer to hold the government of the people together.
- Today it is the home of his descendant, Commander Michael Saunders Watson and his family.
- 1160), whose famous namesake and descendant, bearer of Edward III's standard at Crey , was known as Sir Guy Brian, with later generations being called Bryan.
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