Riddles thus have a distinguished literary ancestry, although the contemporary sort of conundrum that passes under the name of "riddle" may not make this obvious.

She was leaving her respected home, her family of distinguished ancestry, her two sisters with whom she had lived in harmony, and the dogs and horses that loved her.

Both Richard Clarke and his wife were of distinguished ancestry and occupied a high social position.

Colts and fillies of distinguished ancestry bring high prices for their hopeful heredity.

Through his maternal grandmother, Jones fancied he could trace a distinguished ancestry back to the Norman conquest, but he grew up in straitened circumstances, and money remained a problem throughout his life.

She carried a distinguished Canadian ancestry - her great-grandfather was Edward Palmer, Q.C., of Prince Edward Island, who was also one of the Fathers of Confederation.

Cody-193 had a distinguished ancestry.

This arose out of a desire to incorporate distinguished maternal ancestry in a name or, in order to inherit property, an heir was required by a will to incorporate the testator's name into his own name.

According to the majority opinion, Walker agreed with Theodore Sherwood, a banker, to sell him a cow of distinguished ancestry known as "Rose 2d of Aberlone".

The epistolary novel has a distinguished ancestry and is a notoriously difficult form.