Sentence examples for First grandfather from inspiring English sources

That he'll be the first grandfather known to play in the N.F.L.? (Yes, we're still cleansing).

I built my first grandfather clock when I was 17. Thirty plus years later I still have it and it still runs.

Klopfer's neighbor, a textile design artist, agreed to do the illustrations, and Darwin and the First Grandfather was born.

Thus evolved Darwin and the First Grandfather, a small, colorfully illustrated (by Gretchen Morrissey) book of how humankind began.

I remember much more of my third grandfather, mostly because he lived longer, and probably because all my life he's been such an iconic figure in our family, much loved, much revered, distinguished and much remembered.

"When's it going to be?" "You'll fight me first," my grandfather said.

In the Fall of 1837, he opened his "Transmutation Notebooks," first revisiting Grandfather Erasmus' Zoonomia (Kohn 1980) and within a year discovering natural selection.

Notable among his ancestors were his seventh great grandfather, the 1st Earl of Shaftesbury and leader of the Whig party in Parliament; and his second great grandfather, the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury and 19th-century evangelical social reformer, who was honoured with the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in London's Piccadilly Circus.

Any day now, I will become a first-time grandfather.

From The Maharal of Prague to Me. Digging in, I was able to connect that the Maharal of Prague was my fourteenth great grandfather.

On a grave marker in the foothills of North Georgia is the name "John Lyon," my fifth great grandfather, the founder of Refuge Baptist Church.