Ancestors

Examples

• We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mr Lightwood murmured 'Vigorous Saxon spirit--Mrs Boffin's ancestors--bowmen--Agincourt and Cressy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Possibly he did not even have a name, but in some way he hit upon a scheme for throwing stones farther, harder and straighter than any of his ancestors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The simple candle of our ancestors was now replaced by the oil lamp, which gave a brighter, steadier, and more permanent illumination. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The shotgun and rifle, the familiar weapons of the sportsman and the foot-soldier, are not the ancestors of the cannon, as might be surmised. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• No one had ever before heard Adrian allude to the rights of his ancestors. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Our not remote ancestors held the right of life and death over the surrounding vulgar. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It is not certain whether the Neolithic pastoral people who left those remains were the direct ancestors of the later Egyptians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Our ancestors were idle for want of a sufficient encouragement to industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But all machines, however complicated in appearance, are in reality but modifications and combinations of one or more of four simple machines devised long ago by our remote ancestors. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• DEAR SON,--I have ever had a pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Our ancestors have transmitted to us their physical forms, but not their brains, not their heroism. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• It seemed as if she was not an imposter any more, and was coming to the home of her ancestors. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They fear the black pirates of Barsoom, O Prince, she said, from whom may our first ancestors preserve us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The myth is not one of the outgrown crudities of our pagan ancestors. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• My ancestors were country squires, who appear to have led much the same life as is natural to their class. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But bird-like though they were, they were not birds nor the ancestors of birds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the Babylonian and Assyrian world the traders were predominantly the Semitic Arameans, the ancestors of the modern Syrians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As peoples develop towards nomadism, they seem to lose even such primitive religion and magic as their Neolithic ancestors professed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When you see the chorus throw incense on the altar, think not that they are sacrificing to the wine-god of their ancestors. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Come back to the ways of our common ancestors, come back to the light of kindliness and fellowship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• For what we have received from our ancestors is only a fraction of what we are, or may become. Plato. The Republic.
• My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics; and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I asked, feeling the hot blood of my fighting ancestors leap in my veins as I awaited her reply. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The voices of our dead ancestors, whose portraits hang on the wall, and the eloquent words of Demosthenes and Cicero would be preserved to us. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Our ancestors with a candle at a distance of one foot from a book were as well off as we are with an incandescent light four feet away. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The Gun of Our Ancestors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• At that time in Northern Mexico the mule, or his ancestors, the horse and the ass, was seldom used except for the saddle or pack. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Certainly either mammals, or the ancestors of the mammals, must have lived throughout the Mesozoic period. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It must have been an heir-loom, and shows that she had ancestors. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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