Meanings of german extraction in English

The neighbourhood was highly respectable, and inhabited by families of German extraction.

Marga was five years older than Paul, of German extraction but brought up in England.

He was a Lutheran, although not of German extraction.

Yes it is, sure as I'm of German extraction!

No, I remember his saying that she was of German extraction, and I have seen her portrait.

Mr John Dolan is a third-generation Irish-American, and his bride, Ms Dee Hubble, is of German extraction.

There was in the Senate a truly great man, of German extraction, named Gottlieb Orth, from Indiana.

His mother, who was a native of Winchester, Virginia, was of German extraction, her maiden name being Extene.

Orde spent the rest of the morning with Heinzman, a very rotund, cautious person of German extraction and accent.

I told them of the many Americans of German extraction, whose sympathies were honestly and sincerely on the other side.

His parents were of German extraction, and had settled in this country only a few years previous to his birth.

The order consists of thirty members of German extraction, but distinguished foreigners are admitted to a kind of extraordinary membership.

Delphine wished for money; she married Nucingen, a banker of German extraction, who became a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire.

The free-labor system is of German extraction, and it was established in our country by emigrants from Sweden, Holland, Germany, Great Britain and Ireland.