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Sentences ending with ancestors

But if you wish war, persist in trying to grind the spirit from a people who have in them the pride of your own ancestors. [9]
Oh, stop, stop, while you are still temperate in your appreciation of your ancestors! [5]
This was another very noticeable personage in the line of Emerson's ancestors. [6]
The partnership was very common among our British ancestors. [3]
Among the many to whom my apologies and thanks are due is Mr. Pierre Chouteau of St. Louis, whose unremitting labors have preserved and perpetuated the history and traditions of the country of his ancestors. [9]
I should like to show the Egyptian Princess that we understand the art of building as well as her own ancestors. [10]
Russia will shudder to learn of the abandonment of the city in which her greatness is centered and in which lie the ashes of your ancestors! [2]
It is pleasant to celebrate in this peaceful way, upon this old mother soil, the anniversary of an experiment which was born of war with this same land so long ago, and wrought out to a successful issue by the devotion of our ancestors. [5]
Eugenie, watching at the window across the street, ran to tell her father, who came out on his steps and reviled the van with all the fluency of his French ancestors. [9]
I have often taken note of the resemblances of living persons to the portraits and statues of their remote ancestors. [6]

Short sentences using ancestors

But where are my ancestors? [5]
Remember your ancestors! [5]

Sentences containing ancestors two or more times

When it comes to selecting her ancestors she is still human, natural, vain, commonplace--as commonplace as I am myself when I am sorting ancestors for my autobiography. [5]

More example sentences with the word ancestors in them

My own history would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged. [5]
All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine! [5]
The amazed comment when the heir to the Chiltern fortune had returned to the soil of his ancestors had been revived on his arrival in Newport. [9]
His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania. [7]
Anybody whose ancestors were in this country when we were trying to free ourselves from oppression, must sympathize with those who now are trying to do the same thing in Russia. [5]
That the habit was most extensively practised during former times, even by the ancestors of civilised nations, is clearly shewn by the preservation of many curious customs and ceremonies, of which Mr. M'Lennan has given an interesting account. [1]
John Hodder's mother was a widow, and to her, in the white, gabled house which had sheltered stern ancestors, he travelled in the June following his experience. [9]
The men who treasure their dead for thousands of years, and would rather lose their last loaf than allow a single bone belonging to one of their ancestors to be taken from them, are not constant, they are foolish. [10]
I bought them to start a portrait-gallery of my ancestors with. [5]
It is inclined to remember and record those ancestors who do most honor to the living heirs of the family name and traditions. [6]
They were more to him than he had ever known; they were parts of himself which had slowly developed, as the features and characteristics of ancestors gradually emerge and are emphasized in a descendant as his years increase. [11]
Well, I proved to him he might have one hundred and twenty-six other ancestors besides Ebenezer and his wife. [9]
From time to time these ancestors had continued to buy desirable corners, which no amount of persuasion had availed to make them relinquish. [9]
His ancestors from time immemorial have held the office he now fills, and he even supposes himself to be related to the extinct royal dynasty through the mistress of some one of the Lagides. [10]
Rodney, inheriting the thrift of his ancestors, had pushed out from his home, adapting this thrift to the modern methods of turning it to account. [4]
There is one thing that always puzzles me: as inheritors of the mentality of our reptile ancestors we have improved the inheritance by a thousand grades; but in the matter of the morals which they left us we have gone backward as many grades. [5]
Our friends, after they had laid their wreaths on the magnificent altars of their royal ancestors without being recognized, late in the afternoon joined the throng who followed the procession. [10]
Her ancestors were the very roots of Manhattan. [9]
The study of the portraits, with the knowledge of some parts of the history of the persons they represented, and the consciousness of instincts inherited in all probability from these same ancestors, formed the basis of Myrtle's 'Vision. [6]
Finally he found the Northwest Passage, as I regarded it--he found the long lost record of that beef contract--he found the rock upon which so many of my ancestors had split before they ever got to it. [5]
So real was the momentary illusion that, as he passed through the great hall where hung the portraits of the Duke's ancestors, he made a sudden outward motion of his arms as though to free himself from a physical restraint. [11]
A trick of the mind opened for Stephen one of the histories in his father's library in Beacon Street, across the pages of which had flitted the ancestors of this blue-eyed and great-chested Saxon. [9]
Cleopatra, daughter of the Macedonian house of the Ptolemies, had the sole right to govern the city of her ancestors, founded by the great Macedonian. [10]
Do you recognize the images of the king's ancestors, Nefert? [10]
The face was that of one of Lord Northwell's ancestors, a sporting nobleman of the time of the second Charles. [9]
Mr. Burlingame said that herein lay China's bitter opposition to railroads; a road could not be built anywhere in the empire without disturbing the graves of their ancestors or friends. [5]
Archaeologists are convinced that an enormous interval of time elapsed before our ancestors thought of grinding chipped flints into smooth tools. [1]
Thanks to a strong pigment in my skin, derived probably from Scotch-Irish ancestors, my colour was fresh. [9]
Withal he had spoken so quietly, Dr. Leiden possessed a temper drawn from his Teutonic ancestors. [9]
We of the South think of our ancestors, and drift deeper and deeper into debt. [9]
Under the Hohenstaufen rule their upright ancestors had so strengthened this confidence that wherever he went the Nuremberg merchant received respect and confidence above many--perhaps all others. [10]
So then we remembered our glorious forefathers and ancestors, and we recollected that a man lives in our midst who knew many things which we others have lost sight of in the lapse of years. [10]
Paaker, the king's pioneer, had caused it to be erected after the death of his father, in the place of the more homely dwelling of his ancestors, when he hoped to bring home his cousin, and install her as its mistress. [10]
This was a peculiarly gratifying discovery, because of late times it has become fashionable to regard this creature as a myth and a superstition, a work of the inventive imaginations of our remote ancestors. [5]
From the far past, through Quaker ancestors, there had come to Hylda now this grey mist of endurance and self-control and austere reserve. [11]
We are not particular about our ancestors, if they are sufficiently remote; but we must have something. [4]
Mr. Dickens saw our ancestors bowed in a task that had been too great for other blood,--the task of bringing into civilization in the compass of a century a wilderness three thousand miles it breadth. [9]
The door swung open, and Virginia stood in the hall of her ancestors. [9]
He now received only a very small portion of the profits of the lumber trade which had supported his ancestors, his father, and himself very handsomely, for he had been compelled to mortgage his share in the business. [10]
Still more, if one of our ancestors built on an unsafe or an unwholesome foundation, the best thing we can do is to leave it and persuade others to leave it if we can. [6]
Half a dozen old hags with the parchment also sat upon the rocks in the sun, spinning from distaffs, exactly as their ancestors did in Greece two thousand years ago, I doubt not. [4]
I guess some of your ancestors must have come over with that Mayflower outfit--first cabin, eh? [9]
I had something of this feeling, but at another hour I might perhaps be overcome by emotion, and weep, as my fellow-countryman did at the grave of the earliest of his ancestors. [6]
By the side of this dignified, but impetuous and warm-hearted man they appeared like the old, rigid idols of his ancestors in comparison with the freely-wrought works of Greek art. [10]
With the spirit of their ancestors who had left their farms to die on the bridge at Concord, or follow Ethan Allen into Ticonderoga, these had come to Freeport. [9]
Her nose was of patrician straightness, and the curves of her mouth came from generations of proud ancestors. [9]
These early ancestors of man, thus seen in the dim recesses of time, must have been as simply, or even still more simply organised than the lancelet or amphioxus. [1]
Following the instincts of his Irish ancestors, he then leagued with a professional smuggler, and began to deal in contraband liquors and cigars. [11]
Among the groups of elders gathered for gossip were piratical Calabrians in sombre clothes, descended from Greek ancestors, once the terrors of the Adriatic Sea. [9]
There are also numerous barren cliffs on the higher portions of the mountains, and where they towered in the most rugged, inaccessible ridges, our ancestors built their fastnesses, to secure themselves from the attacks of their enemies. [10]
But you did not remind him, as you might have, that your ancestors fought for the King at Marston Moor, and that your grandfather was once an intimate of Charles James Fox. [9]
The leprosy does not come of sins which they committed, but of sins committed by their ancestors, who escaped the curse of leprosy! [5]
Myrtle adopted the nearly obsolete superstition more readily on this account, and loved to cherish the fancy that the guardian spirit which had watched over her ancestors was often near her, and would be with her in her time of need. [6]
I had exhausted my family records, bit by bit, like a curate in his first parish; and had gone so far as to testify that one of my ancestors had been banished to Australia for political crimes. [11]
The bones of my ancestors are held in reverence and worship, even by men. [5]
Later ancestors of mine were the Quakers William Robinson, Marmaduke Stevenson, et al. [5]
This lady, as may be guessed, was not given to discussion of her husband's ancestors, nor of her own. [9]
Saint-Gre is a man with a wonderful quality of mind, who might, like his ancestors, have made his mark if necessity had probed him or opportunity offered. [9]
Every man is made up of heredities, long-descended atoms and particles of his ancestors. [5]
There was a look in Orlando's eyes which was a reflection from a remote past, from ancestors who had settled their troubles with the first weapon and the best opportunity to their hands. [11]
It transmits itself like physical form and feature; and for a man, in those days, to have had an idea that his ancestors hadn't had, would have brought him under suspicion of being illegitimate. [5]
Pentaur followed the king as soon as he had closed his mother's eyes, and accompanied her body to Heliopolis, there to have it embalmed; from thence the mummy was to be sent to Thebes, and solemnly placed in the grave of her ancestors. [10]
As soon as Katuti was alone, she hastened into the little chapel in which the figures of her ancestors stood, apart from those of Mena. [10]
But had not Joseph, Ephraim, and his sons, Hosea's ancestors, been called his subjects and lived content to be numbered among the Egyptians. [10]
Your ancestors founded it, and fought for it, that the descendants of mine might find a haven from tyranny. [9]
Jane Withersteen knew it now, and in the realization further coolness and sureness came to her, and the fighting courage of her ancestors. [13]
I look upon it as a great evil, and deeply lament that we have derived it from the parental government and from our ancestors. [7]
I suppose this is the tongue which our Saxon ancestors carried to England with them. [5]
Then, after sacrificing in the tomb of his ancestors, he set out for Syria. [10]
One can lay in ancestors at even cheaper rates than these, in Europe, if he will mouse among old picture shops and look out for chances. [5]
But then he implored him, with earnest, pleading urgency, not to be wroth with him if he remained firm and clung to the faith of his father and his ancestors. [10]
This age, which imitates everything, even to the virtues of our ancestors, has invented a fireplace, with artificial, iron, or composition logs in it, hacked and painted, in which gas is burned, so that it has the appearance of a wood-fire. [4]
The astonishment which I felt on first seeing a party of Fuegians on a wild and broken shore will never be forgotten by me, for the reflection at once rushed into my mind--such were our ancestors. [1]
For my life I cannot see that my ancestors are inferior to those who are so bitterly opposed to my marriage with Ambulinia. [5]
Little by little I became familiar with the principles of embryonic evolution, ontogeny, and of biological evolution, phylogeny; realized, for the first time, my own history and that of the ancestors from whom I had developed and descended. [9]
In the first hours of each evening Antoine smoked, and Angelique sang the old songs which their ancestors learned in Normandy. [11]
That's the form his remnant of the intellectual curiosity of his ancestors takes. [9]
Well, leave him his dream, it pleases him and does no one any harm: It was the dream of his ancestors before him. [5]
The religion of his ancestors would have pronounced him defiled, had he eaten at the same table with men of another nation. [10]
It was not his ancestors who had sinned; it could only be his own that had called down this ruin. [10]
Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. [5]
I will remark here, in passing, that certain ancestors of mine are so thoroughly well-known in history by their aliases, that I have not felt it to be worth while to dwell upon them, or even mention them in the order of their birth. [5]
I will remark here, in passing, that certain ancestors of mine are so thoroughly well known in history by their aliases, that I have not felt it to be worth while to dwell upon them, or even mention them in the order of their birth. [5]
The Dutch captain here put his foot into the conversation, as his ancestors used to put theirs into the scale, when they were buying furs of the Indians by weight,--so much for the weight of a hand, so much for the weight of a foot. [6]
And yet, my heart went out to this country, the home of my ancestors. [9]
He enjoyed life; he was genial and jovial, both lavish and parsimonious,--this latter characteristic being the curious survival of the trait of the ancestors to which he owed his millions. [9]
With friendly words he restored Wolff's liberty, and expressed the expectation that, with such a companion, he would raise the noble house of his ancestors to fresh prosperity. [10]
As he spoke he opened his eyes wide with the look of those hard, opaquely-glittering stones which his ancestors had been wont to set for eyes in their portrait statues. [10]
Not only is he great, but so are his ancestors, his brothers, his stepsons, and his brothers-in-law. [2]
But those people have no holy reverence for their ancestors. [5]
Then if the harmless liquid which it contains, together with the adage and the example of their parents, arouse a craving for truth within them we shall have cared better for them than Doctor Melchior did for our ancestors. [10]
We do not hang our grandmothers now, as our ancestors did theirs, on the strength of the positive command, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. [6]
Were we not greatest when our gates were closed to the stranger, when we depended on ourselves and our own strength, and lived according to the ancient laws of our ancestors and our gods? [10]
Your ancestors were great people in France; and you know that mine, centuries ago, were great also--that the d'Avranches were a noble family in France. [11]
Saint-Gre is a good fellow,--a cousin of the present Marquis in France,--and his ancestors held many positions of trust in the colony under the French regime. [9]
Now I will go into my little temple, in which the images of our ancestors stand, and think of my mother and the blessed spirits of those loved ones to whom I may not sacrifice to-day. [10]
Yet somewhere, in generations gone, their ancestors may have toiled, feasted, or governed, in the same social hemisphere; and here in the mountains life was levelled to one degree again. [11]
One cannot but feel a respect for this historical strait, on account of the protection it once gave our British ancestors. [4]
Our pious New England ancestors were philosophers in their way. [4]
We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. [4]

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