Meanings of immediate descendants in English

The immediate descendants of Sir Henry Colley were more or less distinguished.

They and their immediate descendants belonged to a crooked and perverse generation.

His immediate descendants were numerous, and it was predicted that his seed would replenish the earth.

His immediate descendants were famous and sturdy Puritans, characterized by their thrift and force of character.

Nor does it now seem likely that one of his immediate descendants will ever rule Great Serbia.

Charlemagne and his immediate descendants possessed the reality, as well as the ensigns and dignity of imperial power.

She confessed, however, with unassumed candour, that the immediate descendants of her sister were gracefully proficient in the art.

In fact, it is really composed either of the most successful men of that class, or of their immediate descendants.

The pretensions of Hengist and Horsa to be the immediate descendants of Woden would seem to imply their mythical origin.

All the accounts that have come down to us have been penned by the aggressors themselves, and their immediate descendants.

This indicates an evolutionary significance of cell wall modifications, as similar changes are known in their immediate descendants, the land plants.

This prince, whose immediate descendants were to play so prominent a part in later history, was the fourth son of Edward III.

Indeed, Star Wars, ET and Close Encounters are the immediate descendants of that earlier enthusiasm for big intergalactic ideas and horrifying invasions.

These passages are simply withheld at the present time from motives of delicacy to persons still alive, or to their immediate descendants.

The Sheahs acknowledge Ali and his immediate descendants (eleven in number) 'the right and only lawful Emaums', in succession, after Mahumud.

Now the source of this nobility was, of course, the poet, and his immediate descendants, therefore, were invested with greater luster than the collateral branches.