But then, she was Fort Weyrbred, a linear descendant of one of the First Riders, Aliana Zuleita, and knew things.

There, he will work beside Bob Costas, who, in television lives, is McKay's linear descendant.

"I am probably the linear descendant of an 18th-century sheep thief."

Now meet their linear descendant, a nattily attired fellow working for the re-election campaign of Senator Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican.

Membership in the society is open to any linear descendants of the original members of the Society of Montana Pioneers.

Perhaps he was the linear descendant of such times, of a vigile, Kelly told himself, keeping watch at night.

It's a nice little effect, as if to mark the modern East Villager as a linear descendant of those in the play's ragtag group.

The present Sparta is not, of course, a linear descendant of the old militaristic place that caused so much trouble for Athens.

Rather, they were linear descendants of the Spanish Barb, with some evidence of genetic similarity to light racing and riding breeds.

California chardonnay is the linear descendant of these potions: not fizzy perhaps but often too sweet.