Usage examples for descent:

• I could not help smiling at his national pride;- yet this is man: in every country and condition he is proud of his descent and loves the race to which he belongs. "A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America" – S. A. Ferrall

• The " Great Power" was of the humblest descent now he could quietly go back to the class he was born in! "Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 2" – Martin Anderson Nexo

• " No- I've done nothing but look at the letter- except to trace the Duval descent Croyden replied. "In Her Own Right" – John Reed Scott

• Gwen's last letter said we might expect a descent from her mamma. "When Ghost Meets Ghost" – William Frend De Morgan