Here he traffics in the ebullient style of Django Reinhardt, his most famous forebear.

Although he followed his father into the Guards, his most famous military forebear is undoubtedly Field Marshal Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough.

The new Charger's appearance, too, is quite different from its famous forebear, though it certainly has a déjà vu quality.

Like one of her more famous bed-bound literary forebears, the dreaming hero of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," Lucy Marsden is a vessel of mythic human history.

He wanted British soldiers to be as practiced with the rifle as their famous forebears had been with the longbow.

Tucked in among the foliage, painters emulate their famous, infamous and anonymous forebears in capturing the magic of the gardens, which were laid out in the early 1930's but have been largely unattended in recent decades.

A further reorganization brought about the final Advance-Rumely Company by 1915, a move which both streamlined the organization and highlighted its famous forebears.

Concerning these latter, I may say that the writers of agonized letters, who beg that the honour of their families or the reputation of famous forebears may not be touched, have nothing to fear.

Famous as Master Juba, William Henry Lane became one of the few black performers to join an otherwise white minstrel troupe, and is widely considered to be the most famous forebear of tap dance.

Mr. Post's famous forebear wrote, "Whenever two people come together, and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette."