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The greater intellectual vigour and power of invention in man is probably due to natural selection, combined with the inherited effects of habit, for the most able men will have succeeded best in defending and providing for themselves and for their wives and offspring. [1]
Now as I understand it, dear and magnanimous 1365, you are going to recreate Tom Sawyer dramatically, and then do me the compliment to put me in the bills as father of this shady offspring. [5]
We have seen that the intemperate suffer from a high rate of mortality, and the extremely profligate leave few offspring. [1]
We can see, that in the rudest state of society, the individuals who were the most sagacious, who invented and used the best weapons or traps, and who were best able to defend themselves, would rear the greatest number of offspring. [1]
Read it with reverence and gratitude and send it back to me; for Mark is impatient to see once more his wandering offspring. [5]
They paired and produced hybrid offspring. [1]
There should be open competition for all men; and the most able should not be prevented by laws or customs from succeeding best and rearing the largest number of offspring. [1]
There can also be no doubt that the most vigorous, best- nourished and earliest breeders would on an average succeed in rearing the largest number of fine offspring. [1]
Prithee let ye author confess ye offspring. [5]

Sentences containing offspring two or more times

Nor is it at all obvious how the offspring from the more beautiful pairs of hermaphrodites would have any advantage over the offspring of the less beautiful, so as to increase in number, unless indeed vigour and beauty generally coincided. [1]

More example sentences with the word offspring in them

Agne, Marcus, the young soldier--nay, even Gorgo, were loftier and nobler than she or her people, and she was conscious for the first time that the dangers from which Marcus had longed to protect her were not the offspring of his fancy. [10]
All the adults would marry or pair, and all the offspring, as far as that was possible, would be reared; so that the struggle for existence would be periodically excessively severe. [1]
Such well-endowed pairs would commonly rear a larger number of offspring than the less favoured. [1]
Chief of all was the renowned Bend Or, a Derby winner, a noble and beautiful bay, destined in a few weeks to gain new honors on the same turf in the triumph of his offspring Ormonde, whose acquaintance we shall make by-and-by. [6]
Besides this, she was the only offspring of a rich and noble house. [10]
If we come to our own country, who can fail to recognize that Benjamin Rush, the most conspicuous of American physicians, was the intellectual offspring of the movement which produced the Revolution? [3]
The Plimptons, with their rubicund and aggressively healthy offspring, were always in evidence. [9]
When man selects the offspring of two distinct species for the same object, he sometimes induces a considerable amount of convergence, as far as general appearance is concerned. [1]
It is conceivable that two hermaphrodites, attracted by each other's greater beauty, might unite and leave offspring which would inherit their parents' greater beauty. [1]
Dr. Brown-Sequard has shewn that if certain animals are operated on in a particular manner, their offspring are affected. [1]
If, on the other hand, a new character appears at maturity, or even during old age, it tends to reappear in the offspring at the same advanced age. [1]
Many of the original settlers have died; yet, like people else-where, their offspring outnumber those deceased. [7]
They are the offspring of idleness of mind and a want of something to fix the feelings. [4]
Thus the crossed offspring from the Tahitians and English, when settled in Pitcairn Island, increased so rapidly that the island was soon overstocked; and in June 1856 they were removed to Norfolk Island. [1]
Were you told of the kingdom of which you speak by an oracle, or is it only a picture drawn by your imagination, a vision, and the offspring of your soul's desire? [10]
Suspicion, the offspring of fear, is eminently characteristic of most wild animals. [1]
The ordinary result of a cross is the production of a blended or intermediate form; but in certain cases some of the offspring take closely after one parent-form, and some after the other. [1]
That Bylaw was not the offspring of a forecast, an intuition, it was certainly born of a sorrowful experience. [5]
These are not my legitimate scientific offspring, and you may consider them left on your doorstep. [6]
For it is known that, when the law of inheritance at corresponding ages fails, the offspring often inherit characters at an earlier age than that at which they first appeared in their parents. [1]
No good is in a dog the offspring of a dog. [11]
The object of his love is in part the offspring of her legal parents, but more of her lover's brain. [6]
Again, birds which have had their nests destroyed, or barren pairs, or retarded individuals, would easily be induced to desert their mates, and would probably be glad to take what share they could of the pleasures and duties of rearing offspring although not their own. [1]
And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue. [11]
He has a great deal of that sort of mischief that is the offspring of such animal spirits. [7]
Here is excellent evidence on the character of the offspring from an experienced ornithologist. [1]
Her kindness, however, did not go so far as to share her food with her adopted offspring, at which Brehm was surprised, as his monkeys always divided everything quite fairly with their own young ones. [1]
As far as deliberation, and the victory over opposing motives are concerned, animals may be seen doubting between opposed instincts, in rescuing their offspring or comrades from danger; yet their actions, though done for the good of others, are not called moral. [1]
And yet these creatures were ignorant and unlettered-barbarians themselves and the offspring of barbarians, who knew not the light of philosophy and science. [5]
Yet he might by selection do something not only for the bodily constitution and frame of his offspring, but for their intellectual and moral qualities. [1]
It has often been objected to views like the foregoing, that the most eminent men who have ever lived have left no offspring to inherit their great intellect. [1]
Poetry, which may be considered as the offspring of song, is likewise so ancient, that many persons have felt astonished that it should have arisen during the earliest ages of which we have any record. [1]
A new character, appearing in a young animal, whether it lasts throughout life or is only transient, will, in general, reappear in the offspring at the same age and last for the same time. [1]

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