Sentence examples for great ancestor from inspiring English sources

He was a soldier, a "warlord," a warrior-statesman in the mold of Frederick the Great, Napoleon, Oliver Cromwell or his great ancestor the Duke of Marlborough.

Their collective name was Zafindraminia, or "descendants of Raminia," the ultimate great ancestor.

Putting their great ancestor Bridge on the screen, however, abolishes this contract of understanding between writer and reader.

Winston spent the 10 years before the second world war researching and writing a four-volume biography of his great ancestor.

The great ancestor of the Christmas film is Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which laid down the template for personal crisis and miraculous redemption around Christmastide.

He could have done with a little of the steely approach to appearances of his great ancestor on his mother's side, the animal painter George Stubbs.

Largely uncelebrated, Matheson, who died in 1940 aged 52, is one of the great ancestor-figures of the BBC.

"They feel it is their birthright to inherit these antiquities from their great ancestors".

It is not surprising that this bond of the flesh should still manifest itself when it came to gathering together the great ancestors into the family burial chamber, the cave of Machpelah.

It's a preamble to everything — not just the constitution but human civilization itself: In the outset of history, the dawn of human consciousness arose and shone forth in the hearts of our great ancestors, whose goodwill banded together to found the first central State that regulated and organized the life of Egyptians on the banks of the Nile.

An intelligent adaptation of the Mediterranean diet, one of the popular "fast today, feast tomorrow" diets or even a so-called paleo diet — one that stresses vegetables rather than animal products (our great ancestors, after all, were gatherer-hunters who saw meat not as routine but as an occasion to feast) — can put you on the right track.