3 Metaphors for grandsires

Their grandsires knew Lebanon, and the grandsires of these were the servants of the King of Tyre and came to Solomon's court.

I am the bastard of great Mercury, Got on Thalia when she was asleep: My gaudy grandsire, great Apollo hight, Born was, I hear, but that my luck was ill, To all the land upon the forked hill. PHANTASMA.

my father's name, The noble stock from which I came: 'Marie de Brehan, sounds as well, Perhaps,' I cried, 'as Isabel! And were the elder branch restor'd, (My grandsire was the rightful lord,) I, in my injur'd father's place, Those large domains, that name would grace.'

3 Metaphors for  grandsires