lineally
Example Sentences
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Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pirate with his stout sea chest hidden above high-water mark is lineally descended from the enchanting characters who lived in the shadow land of myth and fable.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
Yet I believe the prohibition plank in the platform of the great progressive party, lineally descending, would be the centre of attraction and of repulsion.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
The relationship has never been verified, but one would like to believe it; to find something lineally Dutch in the English writer.
From Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons
—Is the present Lord Clifford lineally descended from the Lord Clifford who was Lord High Treasurer temp.
