forebear

How To Use forebear In A Sentence

• There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09
• I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
• It should already be clear that it was Mariana, rather than Suarez, who might be called the forebear of John Locke's theory of popular consent and the continuing superiority of the people to the government. LewRockwell.com
• He does not feel a kinship with the countries of his forebears.
• Your personality, life course and career will have no necessary relation to that of your forebear.
• Karlin relates the oppressive anti-Semitism his forebears endured in a vague, almost elliptical style with dips into the stream of consciousness.
• The son brings a small mound of rice, water, and flowers or fruit, and beseeches his forebears to keep their protective watch over the family and its fortunes.
• In this, they are deploying a weapon their forebears did not have.
• But the Barkindji, whose forebears were once permitted in town only as servants and nursemaids, or who worked as stockmen in the outer regions, now own the public spaces. Travel: Dickens down under
• My forebear was, according to the family account, very depressed when his teeth started falling out when he was in late middle age.