| 1. | "Do I smell a Boche Or only an American millionaire of unfortunate ancestry At all events we'll call at lunch-time. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | Yea, more than equally, thought Ahab since both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | The point under discussion was, how far any singular gift in an individual was due to his ancestry and how far to his own early training. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | They know that I am the daughter of ten thousand jeddaks, that I trace my ancestry straight back without a break to the builder of the first great waterway, and they, who do not even know their own mothers, are jealous of me. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 5. | Thus hath Avaunter blowen ev'rywhere All that he knows, and more a thousand fold His ancestry of kin was to Lier. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 6. | In "The Court of Love," the poet says of Avaunter, that "his ancestry of kin was to Lier and the stanza in which that line occur. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |