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Usage examples of forefather.

All this, if you please, because I have brought away the image of a god that none of their forefathers can have seen for generations, since the tablets buried with it, written in old Accadian, show that it was set beneath the angle of the temple, probably in a time of danger at least a thousand years ago.

By violence you have forced your way to me, Adana, of the Older Race who fed your forefathers with the fruit of our wisdom.

In addition, he feels a longing to visit Albania, the land of his forefathers.

A tribe of savages has been described who hoped to go after death to their forefathers in an under ground elysium whose glory consisted in eternal drunkenness, that being their highest conception of bliss and glory.

He called a general assembly of the oldest and wisest men of Cuzco and other parts, who with much diligence scrutinized and examined the histories and antiquities of the land, principally of the Incas and their forefathers.

Nevill could catch no word, for they were talking their own Kabyle tongue which had come down from their forefathers the Berbers, lords of the land long years before the Arabs drove them into the high mountains.

For Versilov himself, ever since the 1840s when he so lightheartedly discarded the traditional values of his forefathers, has been vegetating in a moral vacuum.

Other strong peoples besides the Mandingo and the Songhay grew strong enough to nourish wider ambitions than their forefathers and to see the chance of larger and perhaps better ways of life and livelihood.

We are not bound, of course - as those old Rechabites considered themselves bound - to do in everything exactly what our forefathers did.

Just as in the days of yore their forefathers excelled in the use of the spear, brandishing and twirling it as easily as an Indian club or singlestick, so they excel to-day in the exercise of their five-foot flint-locks, performing the most dexterous feats on horseback at full gallop.

Generations ago then: forefathers had divided up Crete, and its fat vineyards, olive orchards and acres were their heritage.

Crete that consisted not of rocks and clods and roots, but of thousands of forefathers who never died and who gathered, every Sunday, in the churches.

His blood kindled, his youth came back, and all his forefathers who had fallen in battle against Turkey rose up in him.

All our forefathers had worn full breeches and high boots, and carried a gun.

Our forefathers were mighty workers and mighty warriors--else our race would have perished from the earth.