stirps
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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
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
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
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 we have only to suppose a distinct stirps for each of the classes, and that the developments took place along parallel lines, in order to harmonize the facts with the hypothesis.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward