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forebears
1. ' Such were the responses Belle and George received from his forebears when he announced his intent to begin his daughters' external training
2. In the words of our forebears, the state is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master
3. But this would have come out of the mists of very ancient times when storytelling would have been about the only way of preserving memories of a people’s forebears
4. Both parties hoped that this agreement would create a new political entity, and deserves a name that symbolizes and honors the struggles of our forebears in Mindanao
5. former administration, is not in keeping with the sacred traditions laid down by our forebears
6. Do you not recall how the Scriptures begin by asserting that "In the beginning the Gods created the heavens and the earth"? This indicates that when that record was made the Trinity concept of three Gods in one had found lodgment in the religion of our forebears
7. Some suffer from the accidents of time, others as a result of the mistakes of their forebears, while some of you struggle under the handicaps of the imperfect conditions of your temporal existence
8. 11 Jesus transcended all the teachings of his forebears when he boldly substituted clean hearts for clean hands as the mark of true religion
9. 5 "Your forebears feared God because he was mighty and mysterious
10. His forebears were beholden to no one and if faced with his current problem, Can thought, would do as he was doing now
11. Was he displaying the same single-mindedness and toughness that characterized his noted forebears or was he a self-serving shadow of these time magnified ancestors? What would his namesake, great Granddad Can Martin say? What‘s the difference the sweating rancher rationalized, no one would know what he did tonight much less his illustrious ancestors
12. Joe Billie Bloodtooth had never heard, much less uttered, this war cry of long departed forebears
13. Úrsula would converse with her forebears about events that took place before her own existence, enjoying the news they gave her, and she would weep with them over deaths that were much more recent than the guests themselves
14. In the long term it causes distress and grief for the investors and seriously erodes the fabric of our fine society that our forebears
15. “A lake discovered by my own forebears!”
16. From a Palestinian perspective, the land they call Palestine is theirs because it belonged to their forebears
17. Because that Maiden Ye’s forebears was once
18. In their race to excel and to best the lands of their forebears, Americans had subverted their own native intelligence, such as it was, into a passion for unpleasant-truths-evasion any ostrich would envy
19. Pursuing and delving deep into eternal truths, their forebears had disseminated their insights add revelations all over the world
20. “ I’m told that some of my forebears were sailors on the sea
21. She had supposed herself full of courage and common sense, and had liked to take it for granted that if occasion arose she wouldn't act less heroically than her famous forebears; and now occasion, entirely absent till then from her fortunate and padded life, had arisen, and it was in so sordid and mean a form, and in other people's eyes so certainly silly, that it seemed almost absurd to bring heroism to bear on it
22. " ' With monies made from that day my forebears knew providence had smiled upon them and the next generation was able to make the move to the great land of America in 1897
23. " I am told that some of my forebears were sailors on the sea
24. Needing to investigate the restored powers of the Boverns after their forebears had
25. “I remember your forebears were
26. subdued by westerners, and lost touch with the ancient wisdom of its founders and forebears
27. its forebears controlled and manipulated empires since the time of ancient Babylon
28. mighty forebears, the blood of the Eldar
29. From this primitive function has arisen, unquestionably, all the forms and ceremonials of modern church and state, for through all the countless ages, back beyond the uttermost ramparts of a dawning humanity our fierce, hairy forebears danced out the rites of the Dum-Dum to the sound of their earthen drums, beneath the bright light of a tropical moon in the depth of a mighty jungle which stands unchanged today as it stood on that long forgotten night in the dim, unthinkable vistas of the long dead past when our first shaggy ancestor swung from a swaying bough and dropped lightly upon the soft turf of the first meeting place
30. It was a great pleasure, so Miss Herron assured all her friends, to feel sure that her little cousin was for a few months at least to be brought under the influence which had shaped the lives of her New England forebears