What is "great-grandfather"

Usage examples of "great-grandfather".

Great-grandfather himself who proposed to Drake the use of devil ships against the Spanish Armada as it lay anchored in Calais Roads, may it not?

Great-grandfather Bruder, he wondered, how easy do your bones lie, back in the cold and stony earth of the Cascades?

Ironically for the ghost of great-grandfather Bruder, it was the same spirit that Heinrich himself had ended up by extending over his descendants in the house where Ett had discovered his spiritual kinship with the old man.

Did great-grandfather Bruder see nights like this, wandering among those Pacific islands, and did he feel small and insignificant then?

Ned Cooley had gotten the original records that told exactly how his great-grandfather had defrauded the Arapahos of their land.

Her great-grandfather had started van der Hoven and Weiss, one of the first law firms in Boston.

Presently Huia came out and gave a suppressed giggle on seeing her great-grandfather.

Only Jai knew the truth: his great-grandfather had bred psi traits into the imperial line.

Son of Juba, whose great-grandfather was mighty Diniswayo, who was nobler even than his protege Chaka, who became King of Zulu, do you not feel the royal blood coursing in your veins, does it make you itch for things you dare not even speak aloud?

The harem was a foreign concept as well, imported into Jumar by my great-grandfather, a man whose appetite for your sex is a living legend.

I were the only children here at Blackwood Manor because the tourists who came almost never brought children with them, and so I soon learned the vocabulary of adults and that it was fun to play in the kitchen and listen to their endless storytelling and arguing, or to tag after the tour guides -- my great-grandfather Gravier and later my grandfather Pops -- as they went through the house detailing its riches and its legends, including the gloomy tale of Manfred, the Great Old Man.

Their many-times great-grandfathers had repopulated Australia, the Americas, Japan, and China.

His great-grandfather had founded the Epicurean Club with the proceeds of a tontine which he had taken great pains, in the traditional manner, to ensure that he had collected in full.

The codicil entails the estate upon James instead of bequeathing it outright, and so if the Court accepts it, that would mean that he had no clear title to the estate to sell to my great-grandfather.

Then I came home, Baas, feeling very proud because I had outwitted that great-grandfather of all snakes who killed Bena my friend, and had made the way clear for us to walk through the cave.