stirps

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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

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

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

The stanzas of Michele Ferno of Milan conclude: Borgia stirps: bos: atque Ceres transcendit Olympo, Cantabunt nomen sæcula cuncta suum; which turned out to be a true prophecy.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand

I must not omit the inscription on the south front: "Omnipotens faxet, stirps Sunderlandia sedes Incolet has placide, et tueatur jura parentum, Lite vacans, donec fluctus formica marinos Ebibat et totum testudo perambulet orbem!"

From Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George