What is "forefathers"

Usage examples of "forefathers".

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

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.

Doubtless, to the old royal suite, furnished by her forefathers for entertaining the Hastur-Lords should they ever honor Storn Castle with their presence.

She had never been down here before, but her childhood had been soaked in stories of her Storn forefathers and the builders of the castle before them, and she knew that secret exits and tunnels could be honeycombed with nasty surprises for people who blundered through them without appropriate precautions.

He was religious after his fashion, but the time had passed when a man could believe, as his forefathers believed, that the earth is a school of trial, and that after death is the judgment.

The blessing which comes upon reverence for our forefathers, and above all for God, our Father in Heaven.

But we are bound to do, not exactly what our forefathers did, but what we may reasonably suppose that they would have done, had they lived now, and were they in our places.

So it was with our old forefathers, when they heard and believed the Gospel of Christ.

Our own forefathers were afraid of the night and its terrors, and looked on night as on an ugly time: but for very different reasons from those for which St.

I suppose, men should think of them rather than of God, as our forefathers seem to have been but too much given to do.

The forefathers I knew are all gone--the stout man, the lame man, the paralysed man, the gruff old stick: not one left.