It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present.
" and forthwith their shrill little voices uprose on the air, singing one of the old-time carols that their forefathers composed in fields that were fallow and held by frost, or when snow-bound in chimney corners, and handed down to be sung in the miry street to lamp-lit windows at Yule-time.
Years and years before Brownie's time his forefathers had come there, and finding that there were many trees in the neighborhood with the sort of bark they liked to eat—such as poplars, willows and box elders—they had decided that it was a good place to live.
What we have now was built from the imagination of our forefathers.
Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered, because they believed and were not afraid, we have so much to be thankful for.
"I would willingly go to the manor house, be boiled, and laid on a silver dish; all our forefathers have been treated so; there is something extraordinary in it, you may be sure!
American-born giant panda Bao Bao will be heading from Washington's National Zoo to the land of her forefathers, China, early next year, it was announced last Thursday.
I ask you to help reveal that character once more, and together, we can carry forward as one nation, and one people, the legacy of our forefathers that we celebrate today.
If you and I did not come from abroad ourselves, our forefathers did.
" In return, the Chinese gives Spielberg a slap and says "You sank the Titanic, my forefathers were on that ship.
It is my happiest dream that new generation of Chinese will not only grow up drinking Coca cola and watching Hollywood, but also be blessed with the far-reaching benefits of multiple cultures; benefits that our forefathers had never, ever dreamed of.
In return, the Chinese gave Spielberg a big slap and said, "You sank the Titanic, my forefathers were on that ship.
Now each of the sons wished to have the house after his father's death, but the father loved them all alike, and did not know what to do, he did not wish to sell the house, because it had belonged to his forefathers, else he might have divided the money amongst them.
Yes, we have endured and suffered, that is to say, our forefathers have; they and we, it is all one.
She never thought, on Christmas Eve, of setting so much as a spoonful of porridge for him; though all his forefathers had got this, and from dames, too, who had had no reading at all: their porridge used to be swimming with cream and butter.
(1859) ON one of the Danish islands, where old Thingstones, the seats of justice of our forefathers, still stand in the cornfields, and huge trees rise in the forests of beech, there lies a little town whose low houses are covered with red tiles.
Counting the time of one night for half a day, our forefathers managed to expend the month by fifteen days.
