1 So saying, he arose and left the banqueting room, followed by Athelstane, and by several other guests, who, partaking of the Saxon lineage, held themselves insulted by the sarcasms of Prince John and his courtiers.
2 When they entered, they found themselves in the presence of about twenty matrons and maidens of distinguished Saxon lineage.
3 The stranger must first show," said Malvoisin, "that he is good knight, and of honourable lineage.
4 My name," said the Knight, raising his helmet, "is better known, my lineage more pure, Malvoisin, than thine own.
5 Menelaus then greeted them saying, "Fall to, and welcome; when you have done supper I shall ask who you are, for the lineage of such men as you cannot have been lost."
6 So they came up one after the other, and each one as I questioned her told me her race and lineage.
7 On the wall hung a row of portraits, representing the forefathers of the Bellingham lineage, some with armour on their breasts, and others with stately ruffs and robes of peace.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL 8 As she was also so white as not to be known as of colored lineage, without a critical survey, and her child was white also, it was much easier for her to pass on unsuspected.
9 The glories of Mary held his soul captive: spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolizing her royal lineage, her emblems, the late-flowering plant and late-blossoming tree, symbolizing the age-long gradual growth of her cultus among men.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 10 In short, Nozdrev's whole lineage was passed in review; and many of its members in the ascending line fared badly in the process.
11 Some few of gods' lineage have availed, such as Jupiter's gracious favour or virtue's ardour hath upborne to heaven.
12 Neither could I wonder at all this, when I saw such an interruption of lineages, by pages, lackeys, valets, coachmen, gamesters, fiddlers, players, captains, and pickpockets.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.