"With all due respect to the wisdom of our most ancient forebears," said Ruin, "the gebling king has decided not to go along with the plan."

He walked between the ancient forebears of his line, entombed in the walls and upon great catafalques.

It might be noted that ch'ashu, the Chinese art of tea, is an ancient forebear of the Japanese tea ceremony chanoyu.

In fact, there are many parallels between the 'achievements' of Renaissance artists and their ancient forebears.

The novel also contains the in-depth narrative of his ancient forebear.

I was thankful at that moment that the poise gene of some ancient forebear had been preserved in my line and handed down to me.

Like its ancient forebear, it is most decidedly in the red zone.

His ancient forebears had been crudely interrupted by the Psychlo invasion.

Unfortunately for Doctor Jordan's theory, those ancient forebears cannot live up to this fine reputation.

Like our ancient forebears, we too exclaim: It flies!