63 examples of forebear in sentences

He knew it was the Bona Nova in the November of 1619,for the first Musgrave had settled in Virginia, prior to his removal to Lichfield,which had the honor of transporting the forebear of this family into America.

Also in the analysis of the dictionary definition of tension we learned that the word has, not only a Latin forebear, but French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian kinsmen as well.

Her paternal forebears to the third generation had lived in England and married Englishwomen, she said; and more than this much about herself, nothing; perhaps deriving some gratification from leaving such broad fields of conjecture open to the interest which an enigmatic personality never failed to excite.

That waywardness which was a legitimate inheritance from generations of wilful forebears, impatient of all those restraints which a fixed environment imposes upon the individual, an impatience which had always been hers though it slumbered in unsuspected latency, asserted itself of a sudden, possessed her wholly, and warmed, her being like forbidden wine.

Children draw closer when the tale is told, and marvel sagely to themselves at the madness of those who might have been their forebears had they not provoked the Sunlanders and come to bitter ends.

"Yes, father," he said, "that old ruffian forebear of ours could swear and could kill.

The family at Millknowe, consisting at this time of three brothers and two sisters, all of whom had reached middle life, were relatives of his father, the connection dating from the time when his forebears were farmers in the same region.

Hélas!" I had it in my mouth to say that she was as beautiful and as smooth-skinned as any of her forebears.

But she, pointing out the fact that he was scarcely able to stand, said this was no time to speak of marrying or giving in marriage, asked him if his grandfather had not done some good to the forebear of MacCallumore.

She sat on the grassy low mound above her forebear, released the top of the long black stocking from the bite of a hidden garter and lowered it to the bulky burden.

Massive mahogany wardrobes, bureaus, and washstands are as generations of forebears have used them.

General Leroy Augustus Stafford: his forebears and descendants, a geneaology.

General Leroy Augustus Stafford: his forebears and descendants, a geneaology.

General Leroy Augustus Stafford: his forebears and descendants, a geneaology.

General Leroy Augustus Stafford: his forebears and descendants, a geneaology.

General Leroy Augustus Stafford: his forebears and descendants, a geneaology.

General Leroy Augustus Stafford: his forebears and descendants, a geneaology.

General Leroy Augustus Stafford: his forebears and descendants, a geneaology.

General Leroy Augustus Stafford: his forebears and descendants, a geneaology.

exhorted Kirby; albeit despairing of opening the mind of a man whose forebears for thousands of years had lived in a land where the corvéeforced labourwas a hallowed institution; and where the money of employers could always enlist the aid of government soldiery to keep the fellaheen at their tasks.

"One of our forebears did see ghosts, but that was rather the fashion.

On the other hand, there is, in the several States, legislation requiring that he shall be given life or health insurance policies on the same terms and conditions as are applied to whites, despite the alleged fact that his expectation of life is less and not so easy to determine, owing to the lack of information as to the health and longevity of his forebears.

The rapid extension of industry and commerce after 1750 (the bourgeois revolution) completed the transformation of a rural, semi-feudal west and central Europe into a continent of town and city dwellers devoting their lives to pursuits unknown to their immediate forebears.

Human beings have lived under the aegis of tradition, custom, habitthinking and acting "normally" and "naturally" in ways accepted by their forebears and followed by them with little or no regard for reason, foresight, or creative imagination.

] Stands there not, at the side, The Castle Retiro, where, all concealed, My forebear, Sancho, with a Moorish maid! SERVANT.

63 examples of  forebear  in sentences