stirps

Example Sentences

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And here we may bring in the 'stock'-dove, as being the 'stock' or stirps of the domestic kinds.

From On the Study of Words by Trench, Richard Chenevix

He was a Jew and circumcised: for they have some few stirps of Jews yet remaining among them, whom they leave to their own religion.

From New Atlantis by Bacon, Francis

But for democracies, they need it not; and they are commonly more quiet, and less subject to sedition, than where there are stirps of nobles.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis

A syllable in Latin may consist of from one to six letters, as a, ab, ars, Mars, stans, stirps.

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen

The idea of a distinct stirps or germ for each great class of animals and plants seems to me to destroy an essential feature of the hypothesis.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward