The trés grande dame was presiding over a levee of her one hundred and one descendants.“After all, I belonged to the decadent Georgian era. You cannot expect me to even pay lip service to the rigid respectabi
I felt for Townsend and his family and wanted to restore his memory to the place it deserved. His triumphs and his travails were of compelling human interest, a tale of suffering and sacrifice endured in service to the public, and they were always going to be the backbone of this narrativ...
of flesh like her grandam but with immense propelling power and famous limbs. She also had the lop ears that are a peculiarity of the family.” Once in training. Lily Agnes’ true measure began to surface. She won all 4 of her starts at 2 with comparative ease; in 1874 she won ...
and others - Descendants/Descendants: Wicked World Romeo, Laila, Charlie Anna, Guru, Hero English, Interval, Mini and Chhainu - Roadside Romeo Ozzy the Beagle, Chester the Fox Terrier, Fronky the Daschund, Doc the Sheepdog, Vito the Chihuahua, Radar the Corgi, Warden Grunt the St. Bernard...
of Don Juan in his own country, in ours, and in other parts of Europe, he has kindly noted down the names of many court-beauties who fell victims to his powers of fascination; and very pleasant reading no doubt it must be for the grandsons and descendants of the fashionable persons ...
Directly facing him was the box of old Mrs. Manson Mingott, whose monstrous obesity had long since made it impossible for her to attend the Opera, but who was always represented on fashionable nights by some of the younger members of the family. On this occasion, the front of the box ...
Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen (Anna Massey), the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making. She sneaks in...
Take the basic evolutionary property of leaving descendants, a property which I am going to call fertility. This property depends on a sequence of elements: a desire for sexual intercourse, an ability to beget and bear offspring, a viability of embryos and offspring.* To these elements the ...
Yet Marling is transfixed not by the individualism of the nuclear family, but the patterns that transcend generations. Oh, the gravity of caring for another, blood relative or not. Marling’s maternal experience may be newfound, but her wisdom is that of a great-grandmother whose descendants ...
Joseph Haines/Hains, my 3rd great uncle, was the elder brother of my 3rd g-grandfather, William John “John” Haines. He was likely born in Richibucto, New Brunswick, Canada, 22 June 1849 to John Hains and Alice Edith Childs, the eldest of seven, a family of five boys and two girls...