Lexicographical Neighbors of Lignages
Literary usage of Lignages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... many lignages. And, daily, other warlike swarms arrive, Men of like hew and
speech and countenance. Are these then children of the Northern gods. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"They were divided into seven groups, or lignages, but it is certain that many
... Admission to the aristocracy and to different lignages was to be obtained ..."
3. Sketches and Studies: Descriptive and Historical by Richard John King (1874)
"These, as at Brussels and Louvain, were formed into lignages ... Between the
lignages and the workmen of the guilds there was the usual contest, ..."
4. Historical Introductions to the Rolls Series by William Stubbs, Arthur Hassall (1902)
"lignages d'Outr. 455. There are some verses in Martene and Durand, Ampl. Coll.
v. ... According to the lignages, which were probably drawn up by ..."
5. Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard I. by William Stubbs, Ricardus, Osbernus, Neophytos, Canterbury, Eng., Christ church priory (1864)
"According to the lignages, which were probably drawn up by a member of the
family, "Balian le François fu frère '• au conte Guilin de Chartres, ..."
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