"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Journalist Richard Brookhiser, drawing on the relevant historiography, has written that these Puritan ancestors of Adams's "believed they lived in the Bible.
- We Americans, with our Puritan ancestors, are different from, say, the French, who are too busy passionately pursuing their own pleasure to worry much about other people's.
- She turned to me with the long, elegant, mournful face of her Puritan ancestors and held out her hand.
- It is my Puritan ancestor, who hangs yonder in the parlor.
- However just the parallel drawn, in some of the preceding pages, between his Puritan ancestor and himself, it fails in this point.
- Phoebe thinks she recognizes the face of her Puritan ancestor, the Colonel, without his cap, beard, or old-fashioned clothing.
- You Humans talk about 'getting spaced' like your Puritan ancestors talked about 'hell-fire'!
- Even in the age of the digital cordless phone, it seems that the ghosts of our Puritan ancestors are still with us.
- As deeply religious as any of his Puritan ancestors, he was most broadly tolerant of the beliefs of others.
- At Hepzibah's outburst, the Judge grows as stern as his Puritan ancestor to whom he bears an amazing resemblance.
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