We can now exhibit in tabular form the amazing pedigree of radio-active change shown by this one family of elements. An immediate descent is indicated by >, while one which may either be immediate or involve an intermediate step is shown by .... No place is found in this pedigree for thorium and its derivatives. They seem to form a separate and independent radio-active family.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
"It's most extraordinary odd," he said, " for, although I make it almost a religion never to have any but pedigree dogs, it happens that just at this very moment I have got, for the first time in my whole career, an inferior animal. It's not mine. Oh, no; I'm only taking care of it for a friend. But it's a retriever all right, and a good one, mark you, though not a pedigree dog. My friend wants a good home for it. He's very particular about that. Kind, nice people, you know. Bones.英文原著 · 《The Slowcoach》
The First Vijayanagar Dynasty
[The following shows the pedigree of this dynasty as given in the EPIGRAPHIA INDICA (iii. Inscriptions not yet satisfactorily examined will probably add to the information given.]英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
[299] -- Vol. 247 -- 249, 276 -- 282. [300] -- See the pedigree above. The young son would be Venkata, and the uncle, Ranga. [301] -- Who all these were we do not know. The boy Venkata's uncles would be either brothers of Ranga or brothers of the queen-mother, widow of Achyuta. Achyuta's nephew referred to could not be Sadasiva, because he survived. He may have been nephew of the Rani.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
[345] -- The pedigree is taken from the EPIGRAPHIA INDICA, iii. I am not responsible for the numbers attached so the names. Thus I should prefer to call Rama Raya II. "Rama I.," since his ancestors do not appear to have reigned even in name. But I take the table as Dr. Hultzsch has given it. See the Kondyata grant of 1636 (IND. ANT., xiii.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
But it is certain that my own immediate ancestors were both indifferent and ignorant as to questions of pedigree, and accepted with sturdy dignity an inheritance of hard work and the privileges of poverty, leaving the same bequest to their descendants. And poverty has its privileges. When there is very little of the seen and temporal to intercept spiritual vision, unseen and eternal realities are, or may be, more clearly beheld.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》