Meanings of distinguished ancestry in English

Money is good, education is better, but distinguished ancestry is best of all.

She showed, too, quite unmistakably her descent from distinguished ancestry.

Already, people had settled there who could trace their descent down a long line of distinguished ancestry.

Behind him were a long list of distinguished ancestry, men who through successive generations had stood for achievements.

The company of the horses, who could think of nothing to talk about but their distinguished ancestry, upset her.

He was of distinguished ancestry.

All her beauty and her distinguished ancestry counted for nothing, as long as she had so uncertain a temper.

While focusing on the author's distinguished ancestry, it transmutes the chronicle of his family's 800-year association with south Tipperary into the story of a region.

William Gaston comes from an honored and distinguished ancestry on both his paternal and maternal side as will be seen by the succeeding genealogical notes.

'More than once,' he says 'I tried to picture myself in the position of a boy or man with an honoured and distinguished ancestry.