Person from whom another person is descended.
1 The new enthusiasts see West as the ancestress of strong modern women.
2 And then the stolidly common-sense Puritan ancestress in her made her laugh.
3 So Mrs. Clifford had an ancestress who was a Roumanian, had she?
4 Nella-Rose, now that her father considered, was dangerously like her picturesque ancestress !
5 And in Nan the soul of her French ancestress lived anew.
6 Her ancestress had been baptized by the subject of the story.
7 She was the ancestress to half the modern world's million-plus population.
8 From the maternal ancestress , the Demoiselles Blake inherited a certain amount of money.
9 Nor could be omitted from the purple record the later ancestress , Moya Doolen.
10 Still, there is something to be said in defence of that venerable ancestress .
11 Today no small host of Americans have for ancestress the daughter of Powhatan.
12 Ruth was the ancestress of our blessed Saviour, and of the Virgin Mary.
13 The former Archbishop of Cologne accepted Linz from my ancestress Matilda.
14 Did you get your greedy nature from some sable Dodonean ancestress ?
15 Came down to them, don't you know, from that Roumanian ancestress .
16 Nobody knew whence Bessie had stolen her good looks: probably some remote ancestress !
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