Meanings of degenerate son in inglês

He was by no means a degenerate son of the family.

A degenerate son causing you problems?

A change was observable in this degenerate son of the Cumberlands since many there had confronted him face to face.

Louvier here turned to address himself to Colonel Morley, but finding that degenerate son of America indisposed to get cent.

To-morrow I go, with this to Mr. Clayton Spencer, not to that degenerate son of his, and I ask him.

Incapable of words, the maddened woman once more raised her hand against her degenerate son, but he put back her arm.

The man had sunk beneath her; even he, Bill, was more worthy of her than this degenerate son of cities and culture.

Splendid character studies of the Emperor Augustus, of Herod and his degenerate son, Antipater, and of his daughter "the incomparable" Salome.

Degenerate son of a noble father, will nothing reform him!

Well might the degenerate sons of the Goths fear their coming and strive to keep them out with talismans and spells.

Their degenerate sons are content to be furnished, as they want it, from the dubious stores of the vintner, by retail.

About half of these were degenerate sons of aristocrats, ex-convicts, soldiers of fortune, and religious enthusiasts-therest were plain, every-dayfolk.

Are we such degenerate sons that we are willing to give up the legacy they left us, at half its original cost?

"Your father," said Nicholas sternly, "was a faithful servant, but he has left behind him a degenerate son.

"The matter is, my mother," he said in a voice of heart-broken despair, "that I am an unworthy, degenerate son!

"It appears, then, that it is to you, degenerate son of a most worthy father, that I must repeat my demand," continued the veteran.