"Parentage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a real anxiety that was preying on Syd's mind. Very likely something connected with his parentage. ...
— Two Boys and a Fortune • Matthew White, Jr.
... civilization yet, as W. F. Mayers remarks, "No one can compare the Chinese legend with the popular European belief in the 'Man in the Moon,' without feeling convinced of the certainty that the Chinese superstition and the English nursery tale are both derived from kindred parentage, and are linked in this relationship by numerous subsidiary ties. In all the range of Chinese mythology there is, perhaps, no stronger instance of identity with the traditions that have taken root in ...
— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley
... bird with the folds in his neck, the stained glaucous complexion, the bald head and the brown human eye. He had the same look of respectable rascality. The younger Fujinami showed signs of becoming exactly like him, although the parentage was by adoption only. He was not yet so bald. His black hair was patched with grey in a piebald design. The skin of the throat was at present merely loose, it did ...
— Kimono • John Paris
... have interpreted aright the agitation exhibited by Lady Nora on discovering the parentage of the ...
— The Heir of Kilfinnan - A Tale of the Shore and Ocean • W.H.G. Kingston
... to the parentage of the several European breeds, we already know much from Nilsson's Memoir (3/37. A translation appeared in three parts in the 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' 2nd series volume 4 1849.), and more especially from Rutimeyer's ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin
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