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However they had little else in common with their forebears.

They may not remember his name, but he knows all about their forebears.

Because what was the past, as our forebears knew it?

The bank had been started by his forebears in 1874.

"But what if there is no world of forebears at all?"

I must take the remains of our forebears with me.

The land of his forebears had been made the enemy.

Some are ancient and go back to the countries of our forebears.

But of course their forebears had believed exactly the same thing in the past, too.

The young, we are repeatedly told, know less than their forebears.

It was what her forebears had promised, so long ago.

Many of his forebears have written primarily about their own lives.

He drove by the birth county of his forebears without a thought.

You'll be wanting to have him away to lie with his forebears?

The drive which brought their forebears to the Bahamas is gone.

Yet for millions of years our forebears had almost no privacy.

"Our forebears made a mistake on the issue," he said.

"I will probably talk about my forebears and our long history in this country since 1906.

Some current pop stars stand in for their rock forebears.

Many of the new restaurants and food stores are very much like their older forebears.

How, as their brains got bigger, did our forebears keep them running?

There are, of course, some ways in which Buffy is like her forebears.

Our forebears thought science was going to put an end to hunger and poverty.

"Such is the law, by which our forebears lived while others died.

The thing is my forebears did do something to improve their descendants education.

Such sounds they had never heard before, nor any of their forbears.

He was interested in history and the identity of his forbears.

I found the spot where my forbear sacrificed his leg.

Each generation has the illusion of superiority over its forbears.

Then, take a walk in the Ramble, looking for the few forbears that remain.

I had robbed him of the power to repent and forbear.

However, both he and his brother Alan, who was to become a physicist, did not follow their forbears.

Kimball was a deeply religious man, as were many of his forbears.

Let us move on from our recent differences as our forbears did a hundred years ago.

Villages were founded by an individual, who identified himself with the clan of his forbear.

In Burl's fellows and his immediate forbears it had been.

Many races have traditions of exceptionally long life amongst their early forbears.

This is significant as these rulers were the immediate forbears of Rama.

"Our forbears ruled this land and helped to guard its borders.

But in an era when few Americans share their rural forbears' clear sense of what an acre is, 2 million acres may sound like more.

Like her parents and so many of her forbears, Eva never does anything by halves.

His own world had known no real war since his forbears had come to power.

In a manner of speaking, we now enjoy twice as much life as our forbears.

Now seeking means to combat the Chemicals Age, we look to our forbears for help.

In April, an officer whose forbears were from India filed the second suit.

They sought revenge for those who wronged their forbears.

And all the word's pet hamsters are descended from a single Syrian forbear.

I know, now, that my forbears were Vikings.

They were people who had lived all of their lives, even as their forbears had done before them, in this place.

As for words, whose greatness answers words, Let this my sword report what speech forbears.