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.
The ‘puritan forebears’ who didn't drink, swear, gamble, or fool around are pretty much an invention of 19th and 20th century Comstockery.
Of course, once permanently established, the Australian settlers lived and worked as their forebears in England and their cousins in North America.
After decades of Marxist-Leninist education, Hungarians of all classes are showing an obsessive interest in their aristocratic forebears.
Bennington was handsome, and, but for his father's blood, the idleness of his forebears would have marked him with effeminateness. Half a Rogue
These letters had all been posted in Kilkelly and as he poured through them he was overcome with the emotion which re-united him in an extraordinary way with the land of his forebears.
It does not really take very much time over a family lunch to begin to enquire about one's forebears.
On both sides of his family tree, his forebears were descended from so-called Scots-Irish immigrants lowland Scots and northern English who had displaced the Celtic Irish in Northern Ireland who began coming to North America in the late 1700s. Raymond Carver
And Gilligan also rightly gets at how often comic-strip creators stand on the shoulders of their forebears, both visually and comedically. The Riff: From 'SOUTH PARK' to 'POOCH CAFE': When a sense of plagiarism plagues comedy
But these trees were not indigenous to southern England, and whilst self-seeded from their forebears, the originals were deliberately planted in a very dim and distant past to mark critical points on trackways, be it a crossroads, junction or simply to act as a waymark. Landmark Firs
The royal equivalent of a Hollywood matinee idol, he was tall, suave, charming and debonair, with the unmistakeable look of his Hanoverian forebears.
She draws a long whip gently across their backs and legs to get them used to ropes and lassos as their forebears would have been.
In the small fishing village of his forebears Quoyle discovers an ice-bound version of Sea Change's Pearl Bay.
Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forebear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
I have limited, sketchy information on my forebears.
Many of the sports explored here document the callous treatment of animals by our forebears in the name of entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
Greatly influenced by DC hardcore forebears like Fugazi, QANU's music bristled with taut, pointed rhythms and impassioned verse.
For Katz's Jewish paternal forebears, who'd been driven from shtetl to shtetl by implacable anti-Semites, as for the old Angles and Saxons on his mother's side, who'd labored to grow rye and barley in the poor soils and short summers of northern Europe, feeling bad all the time and expecting the worst had been natural ways of equilibriating themselves with the lousiness of their circumstances. Franzen On The Book, The Backlash, His Background
Joseph Proudhon, a man ahead of his time, and who would soon become known as a forebear to anarchism. Nefac.net
Indeed it was the religious fervour of our forebears that caused them to "tremble before the Lord" that early won them the nickname of Quakers from the verb to quake or tremble. Friends Service Council - Nobel Lecture
Indeed, the prime impulse behind the campaign to save nature, and expressly to husband wilderness, was aghast awareness of its imminent disappearance, in tandem with conscience-stricken guilt at their forebears' rapacity and greed.
The mortgage company had acted with forebearance, only taking them to court as a last resort.
My experience with historical societies is that some of them like to do a bit of ‘glorifying the ancestors’ - if you want a trip down Smug Alley I have a family history written by one of my mother’s forebears detailing the wonders of the landed squattocracy. Cheeseburger Gothic » Doing some breakfast radio in a coupla weeks.
Subsequently, we are entering Empty Nestdom at the age our forebears may have been retiring from jobs -- if they had any -- and were well into doting grandparenthood. Michele Willens: Face It: Monikerless Murmurs
As a child, I heard the stories from my father about our notable forebear, an honest man who was saved from a massacre, the sole survivor.
Thanks to the allegiance of these sons and daughters of toil you have escaped what your affluent forebears used to call "confiscatory" income-tax levels. Latest entries from edstrong.blog-city.com
But a congregation of Christian believers are not able to use it and love it as the holy space that it was for generations of their forebears.
The media should distinguish between gals from the peerage and those from the beerage, plainly the latter have Guiness in their bottles from birth and are no more aristocratic than their forebears. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
Oddly, there's a sense that some current contenders are simply slavishly imitating their post-punk forebears.
That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul.
Our forebears were perfectly well able to adapt their message to the medium. Times, Sunday Times
The greatest single British contribution to the defeat of the Third Reich, and possibly the greatest British achievement of the past century, is known to us as Bletchley, the unprepossessing country house halfway between Oxford and Cambridge, where an eccentric team of mathematicians, musicians, and classicists broke what the Germans had with good reason believed to be the unbreakable codes of their Enigma machines, and in the process pretty well invented modern computing: the huge creaking and whirring "bombes" of Bletchley, running over endless patterns and permutations, were the forebears of your laptop. Box
The mortgage company had acted with forebearance, only taking them to court as a last resort.
The Puritans - who sought to frame their lives according to God's Word and were Edwards' spiritual forebears - wrote a great deal about this subject.
T.S. Eliot, who was in many ways associated with the New Criticism, one of its intellectual forebears, nevertheless took a somewhat dim view of it and called it "lemon squeezer criticism.
He's qualified to pronounce on such matters because he has spent more than a decade researching what our distant forebears used to survive on. Times, Sunday Times
The fillings are as generous as their Stateside forebears and the rye bread has a nice, chewy texture.
It could be akin to the experience of your forebears when, a century ago, they saw a pioneering car for the first time. Times, Sunday Times
Those of us who appeal to biblical or churchly authority would do well to admit the ways in which our formulations of these appeals differ from our premodern forebears.
Clearly he likes nothing more than tickling the undercarriages of his stuffier forebears. Times, Sunday Times
Their forebears came from north-eastern Asia.
Americans have always had a tenuous relationship with the idea of eccentricity, unlike our forebears in England, where eccentrics occupy a hallowed part of the cultural fabric. Lesley M. M. Blume: Grey Gardens: What We Can Learn From The Edies
The display summons Condo's art-historical forebears, including Velazquez, Magritte, Picasso and Rembrandt, artists to whom he is indebted for his brush stroke, textures and subject matter. A 'dark, twisted fantasy' revealed
Even Queen Victoria, that most German-connected and -minded of 19th-century British monarchs, would denounce her most illustrious forebear, Elizabeth I, for the "cruelty to my ancestress, Mary Queen of Scots. Servants To Masters
The lights are full on, but there's an inner darkness ... because we're retreating into a sort of [mind-set] of our pre-rational forebears who lived in a kind of animist world where everything had a spirit -- every twig, every stone in a stream ... where questions of guilt and anxiety and fear and aggression ruled our reflexes. (from an interview with V. Vale. Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives
The time of Sigmar passed, and he became a legend, the heroic forebear of his people.
Worn out, he retired to Cardross, his quiet, thatched, unfortified summer hall on the Clyde, and sailed and fished like the Celtic forebears he was careful to acknowledge.
I can feel the shades of my forebears crowding before me, waving their spectral hands at me and admonishing me to go no further.
We have much to learn from our medieval forebears, but we cannot turn to them for an ideal or example of scholarly humility or subservience.
Sheep graze, and cows gaze, over a bucolic, rustic world that their forebearers would recognize at once.
Millett purchased a large piece of land in Anson to accommodate his relatives, drew a large family tree on the ground with orange spray paint, and started digging up, transporting, and reinterring the remains of his forebears, each in the appropriate spot. Archive 2005-10-01
No longer do young people absorb information about their forebears from grandparents.
What the Council might have said more explicitly is that their forebears are also our forebears.
Our forebears were cast out from their homeland by the ruling class.
Often, these works of autofiction are explicit about their superior authenticity and the phoniness of their forebears. Times, Sunday Times
In other words, we must do here and now what our theological forebears-including our patristic and monastic forebears-did there and then.
And you never know: perhaps some of their stardust will rub off on their forgotten forebears, such as Caius Gabriel Cibber. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Animal collective nouns owe their origins to our pleasure-seeking forebears rather than scientists. Times, Sunday Times
OTOH it does not mean that old arguments against the Trinity or other affirmations made by our forebears should be dismissed now for being "anachronistic" or "obsolete". Philocrites: Isaac Newton's anti-Trinitarianism in the news.
One reason imperialism is so discredited in postimperial times is that, contrary to the old saw, history has often been written not by the victors but by the vanquished—or at least by those who tell the story from the vantage of their aggrieved, often enslaved forebears. The Great Experiment
I'm sorry, your forebears must have lived in a parallel universe to mine. Is this the Victorian age of the Little Match Girl?
Toth, the Indiana anthropologist, is the founder and co-director of the Stone Age Institute at Bloomington, where he demonstrates how he can skillfully craft the hammers, sharp knives and spear points that evolution enabled the forebears of Homo Sapiens to make long before the dawn of true humanity. Archive 2007-02-01
If so, this bolsters the identification of Homo antecessor as a distinct species and as the direct forebear of both modern humans and Homo heidelbergensis. A New Species?
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I do not know where your forebears come from in diaspora terms, but my Muslim forebears came from Andalusia. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
He was a frail, shy, smallish, unhealthy boy with the pale skin and transparent eyes of his Scottish forebears and a speech impediment that some described as a lisp and others as a slight stutter. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
The royal equivalent of a Hollywood matinee idol, he was tall, suave, charming and debonair, with the unmistakeable look of his Hanoverian forebears.
We pity our forebears for the pain and suffering they endured along the way and revel in our comfortable present-day lives.
We don't mean by ‘tree’ quite what our animist forebears meant by the word they used to talk about oaks, limes, and beeches.
Many of the sports explored here document the callous treatment of animals by our forebears in the name of entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
The scene where he battles the wolf especially emphasizes his transformation into that good dog, as the wolf represents Yeller's undomesticated forebears and the wild animal he resembled so closely at the beginning of the story.
Those who remain cling tenaciously to what their forebears laid down, but retreat into the shade.
Their forebears came from north-eastern Asia.
Let us show ingenuity, lateral thinking, and a dedication to the best outcome for all New Zealanders, because our forebears blazed a trail for us in creating a forum for the free exchange of ideas.
Gilbert and George were the forebears of an artistic generation that holds everything to be ironic.
That and this ruckle of stones we sit in are all that's left of what was my father's and my grandfather's and their forebears back till the dark of time. Doom Castle
A small estate winery, located west of St. Catharines on 80 acres of land first deeded to family forebear in 1794.
The height he must have inherited from English forebears, and the musculature was the result of hard labor. Morgan’s Run
What this aesthetic shares with its uncomic nouveau roman forebears is an anti-naturalist, anti-humanist bent: we're being given access not to a fully rounded, self-sufficient character's intimate thoughts and feelings as he travels through a naturalistic world, emoting, developing and so on - but rather to an encounter with structure. London Review of Books
They have become as indispensable to 21st century criminals as skeleton keys were to their forebears. Times, Sunday Times
Sharks, especially some of the more wonderful ones, like the Great White or the Mako, are infinitely cooler than the velociraptor actually, the deinonychus, if you're talking about the model for the film because they - or their forebears - survived a friggin' meteor strike. An ode to the shark
His chosen forebears were Diggers and Ranters and Fifth-Monarchy Men.
I do not pretend to know why the documentation of unbroken heredity through generations of forebears brings us so swiftly to tears and to such a secure sense of rightness, definition, membership, and meaning.
They have become as indispensable to 21st century criminals as skeleton keys were to their forebears. Times, Sunday Times
In that moment, she was a throw-back of a million years, and through her veins fumed the ferine blood of her paleolithic forebears. The Gun-Brand
The report describes discrimination in the songbun system, which classifies entire families on the perceived political loyalty of their forebears. Times, Sunday Times
We are much closer to our Victorian forebears than we might imagine. Times, Sunday Times
Dreyfusism had brought to Swann an extraordinary simplicity of mind and had imparted to his way of looking at things an impulsiveness, an inconsistency more noticeable even than had been the similar effects of his marriage to Odette; this new loss of caste would have been better described as a recasting, and was entirely to his credit, since it made him return to the ways in which his forebears had trodden and from which he had turned aside to mix with the aristocracy. The Guermantes Way
We should avoid, however, acts of apparent contrition that are, in fact, acts of detraction against our forebears in the faith.
Wanderer comes in and scarifies Mime out of his wits, we are taken back to the remotest and dimmest past, to the beginnings of time, to a time that never existed save in the imagination of our forebears. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians
If there's a positive thing to come out of the saga, it's the forebearance and forgiveness our political leaders have shown towards the shortcomings of the spy chappies.
But our Victorian forebears would have risen to the challenge. Times, Sunday Times
But can we really trust the FCC to 'forebear' authority to reach any further than the transport level? Rick Carnes: Net Neutrality -- Can We Trust the FCC Not to Censor the Internet?
14In addition to subsistence practices, they likely shared commonalities in sociocultural institutions and worldviews likewise inherited from Mashariki and Kaskazi forebears. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
It is possible that the thumbscrew, the rack, or physical mutilation such as ear-cropping would not have been considered cruel by our forebears.
Even if, as some have supposed, the manor court, or hall moot, had Anglo-Saxon forebears, it was an institution that must have changed out of all recognition after 1100.
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Neither her Syrian ancestors in Brazil, nor my Dutch-German forebears in the United States could avail themselves of that sort of opportunity.
They have become as indispensable to 21st century criminals as skeleton keys were to their forebears. Times, Sunday Times
This assertion rested upon a corporate locus in matters of salvation, even that of individuals, for our forebears and was affirmed in both predestinarian and non-predestinarian expressions of Baptist conviction.
i 'the "killing times," ye ken, preachin' till the puir hill folk, an 'baptizin' their bairns -- he baptized a forebear o 'my ain -- and it would likely be the annivairsary o' the day when he escaped frae the hans o 'the hunters through the "haar," when I chanced to come by here an' saw a bit tent pit up, an 'heard folk carousin' within. Border Ghost Stories
But if you squint, or view the design at a distance, it morphs in the mind's eye into a much more conservative composition, very much the after-image of its symmetrical Central Park West forebears.
Many of the sports explored here document the callous treatment of animals by our forebears in the name of entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
It has the taint of the louche, as did its forebear, the nautch show.
Seeing the work as a crude forebear of Elizabethan tragic drama effaces its status as an instance of de casibus literature.
In those days, the merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles for the billhooks, maces, broadswords, and war hammers guaranteed them under the Second Amendment to Erik Bloodaxe's Rules of Civilized Mayhem. Stop the Government Takeover of America's Armed Forces!
We're not likely ever to experience the thrill that our forebears found on discovering new exotica on Earth - even the rooster caused a sensation when it was brought from China to Europe.
One thing sets base jumpers apart from their Victorian forebears: they do not need an audience. Times, Sunday Times
Many of his forebears had colonial ties and his father spent his career in India.
Hart has no big-picture sense of the place of the Great War in the narrative of the 20th century — he is as committed to the mud of Flanders and Picardy as his forebears were. The Pity of War
Now the peace-loving people of Scotland's most northerly communities are being engulfed by a rising tide of anger over what they regard as a threat to the ancient links with their Scandinavian forebears.
Red snapper was crusted in coconut and further enhanced by persimmon chutney and green curry, and the two dessert courses featured a soup pressed from pomelo (the Asian forebear of the grapefruit, aka shaddock, named after the sea captain who brought its seed to the West Indies from the Malay Peninsula in the 17th century) and a soufflé of kalamansi, the delicate citrus of the Philippines. A Seat in the Kitchen
We must erect a national monument to our forebears who lived and died in U.S. slavery.
In Europe the little creature was given the totally erroneous name hyracotherium, because his discoverers could not imagine him to be related in any way to the horse; they classified him as a forebear of the hyrax, a small shrew-like animal, the cony of the Old Testament. Centennial
Present generations need to know about their forebears, he said.
The village had been the home of Eliot's forebears, and it was from here that his ancestor, the Reverend Andrew Elyot, set out for a new life in America in 1669. Roger Housden: T.S. Eliot's Village Bares Its Teeth
My forebears on my mother's side were farmers and fishermen at Marshside near Southport.
The Crows were an offshoot of the Hidatsas, and they made summer journeys east to trade with the descendants of their forebears.
Individualism in our culture is further reinforced by competitive capitalism, at least partially rooted in the puritan ethic of our forebears.
Karlin relates the oppressive anti-Semitism his forebears endured in a vague, almost elliptical style with dips into the stream of consciousness.
But their forebears were, generations ago, driven from this area by European settlers.
The notion of invention, of creation, is submerged in the long line of intellectual forebears.
What's more, the genes he inherited from those fortunate forebears may have made him largely immune to HIV.
The FCC promises it would 'forebear' any attempt to control content under Title II. Rick Carnes: Net Neutrality -- Can We Trust the FCC Not to Censor the Internet?
A person from whom one is descended , especially if more remote than a grandparent; a forebear.
Amateur genealogists are able to find a potential wealth of information in indexes compiled by the religion, which encourages its members to trace their forebears.
The grace of God that was at work in our spiritual forebears is still at work, teaching us not simply how to repeat their formularies, but how to see God's grace offering life in our own day, in our own varied contexts.
These tales are filled with the blood and tears of my forebears.
Our forebears lived and died here from the end of the last ice age to the time of Stonehenge itself. Times, Sunday Times
She is Version 2.0 of the old-school, a little more gussied-up and pop photogenic than their aesthetic forebears perhaps, but still possessing the unsoftened grit and untouched toughness.
The Woking-based outfit, who have been dubbed the 'British super-team' since reigning world champion Jenson Button joined their ranks alongside his title forebear Lewis Hamilton, became only the second of the 2010 F1 entries to officially launch their new car. The Latest From www.inthenews.co.uk
We think our readers will be surprised and encouraged to discover that the forebear of fundamentalism was a true Baptist guided by historic convictions.
The fillings are as generous as their Stateside forebears and the rye bread has a nice, chewy texture.
This suggests that diasporic Chinese communities can and may continue to pursue this multiple-identity path as their forebears.
One cannot hope to rise or succeed in the world unless one's forebears had the requisite abilities.

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