"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A few dozen of Strahd's illustrious ancestors slept their last sleep here.
- I might also add that four of us are currently named Gilbert, after one of our more illustrious ancestors.
- John, unlike his illustrious ancestors, is poor and powerless.
- Over the fireplace in the drawing room hung a large old painting of what was not but looked like an illustrious ancestor.
- Stories taught that his illustrious ancestor had crossed rough, rocky country clear to the eastern sea.
- And you'd be advised to live your life in a way that gives honor to such illustrious ancestors.
- To a Roman of any kind, illustrious ancestors mattered more than anything else.
- As an illustrious ancestor used to say: 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'.
- 'Our illustrious ancestors,' Feargal said softly from close behind her.
- Like his illustrious ancestors, he grew up in a multitalented household.
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