"We should remember their souls," Mr. Kong Soeun said of his forebears who built Angkor Wat.
"We stand on the shoulders of forebears who stood up, of forebears who weren't afraid to challenge the status quo, of forebears who weren't afraid to challenge that which is wrong," he told his congregation this morning.
Bard's grasp of thrush language is inherited from forebears who conversed with the birds regularly.
(A collection on the theme of witchcraft was dedicated to one of her forebears, who was hanged in Salem).
Here there is great pride in the legends of forebears who came over from the old country.
Some have forebears who worked on ships and relied on lighthouses as a guide to safe harbor.
And when you, like your forebears who cut it from a pond, procured it with your own two hands?
I doubt that our forebears who ratified the Second Amendment in 1791 ever imagined how carelessly and callously firearms would be used centuries later.
Now, for the first time, the white forebears who have remained hidden in the first lady's family tree can be identified.
People no longer feel compelled to rewrite their personal sagas so as to eliminate any forebears who were neither Muslim nor Turkish.
The Egyptian practice of incest among royals was adopted by her Macedonian forebears, who had ruled Egypt since the death of Alexander the Great.
