Meanings of lineal descendants in English

No lineal descendants can claim as an ancestor this extraordinary man.

There are no lineal descendants of Warren Hastings in existence.

So much for the Cushites and Ethiopians, the lineal descendants of the accursed Ham!

He contends that those five blood-coloured points signify the founder of the baronetcy and his four lineal descendants.

As for heredity, environment's collaborator, both he and Barbee were lineal descendants of father Adam and mother Eve.

But the family clung fast to their belief that they were the lineal descendants of the Turralds of Buckinghamshire.

It would serve them right!-theselineal descendants of Balaam, who have inherited his club and wield it more cruelly.

A part of this landed estate remained in the possession of his lineal descendants until long after the revolutionary war.

During the meal, we diligently inquired if any lineal descendants of the d'Arc family were to be found in Domremy.

The Israelites held them sacred in the old patriarchal times, and these other Arabs, their lineal descendants, do so likewise.

All the Browning clubs that have nourished so extensively for many years past might be considered Levi Thaxter's lineal descendants.

One of the cherished traditions of my family is that we are lineal descendants of King Richard the First of England.

But now, when the life of sixty myriads of Abraham's lineal descendants is at stake, Thou sendest me, and not the angels.

There is nothing quite as old among the Thames fishes as the mud fishes, the lineal descendants of the earliest of their race.

The only seeming difference of relationships lies in the names applied to some of the lineal descendants, descriptive instead of classificatory names being used.

The ghouls that haunt the tombs and waste places of the regions where they were once worshipped are their lineal descendants and modern representatives.