stirps

Example Sentences

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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

They do not refuse the knowledge of other colonies of other stirps and origins, and they even combine in temporary alliance with them.

From April Hopes by Howells, William Dean

Hic in honore Dei requiescit stirps Clodovei, Patris bellica gens, bella salutis agens.

From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Turner, Dawson

Si vero quod absit, regalis ex nostris nuptiis stirps qu� jure deinceps regnare possit non nascatur, hoc regnum civilibus atque intestinis se versabit tumultibus aut in exterorum dominationem atque potestatem veniet.

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony

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 Ideal Commonwealths by More, Thomas, Sir, Saint