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8 total sentences available.
"But we, thy progeny, to whom alone / thy nod hath promised a celestial throne, / our vessels lost, from Italy are barred, / o shame! and ruined for the wrath of one. / Thus, thus dost thou thy plighted word regard, / our sceptred realms restore, our piety reward?"
Source: tatoeba (6785680)
'If the name / of Palamedes thou hast chanced to hear, / old Belus' progeny, if ever came / to thee or thine in talk the rumour of his fame, / whom, pure of guilt, on charges false and feigned, / wroth that his sentence should the war prevent, / by perjured witnesses the Greeks arraigned, / and doomed to die, but now his death lament.'
Source: tatoeba (6805223)
We're laying the groundwork of a better future for ourselves and our progeny.
Source: tatoeba (10104648)
I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include issue, offspring, born of, breed, brood.
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