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- noun Plural form of
grandsire .
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Examples
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The greatest of his grandsires had been born before there were any humans.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The greatest of his grandsires had been born before there were any humans.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The greatest of his grandsires had been born before there were any humans.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The greatest of his grandsires had been born before there were any humans.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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The parish part of the great church was fuller than usual even at the monastic offices, with anxious wives, mothers and grandsires fervent in praying for their menfolk.
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Men were disguised as women, and women as men — children wore the dress of aged people, and tottered with crutch-sticks in their hands, furred gowns on their little backs, and caps on their round heads — while grandsires assumed the infantine tone as well as the dress of children.
The Abbot 2008
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Such are the compliments bandied between my great-grandsires and myself, across the gulf of time!
The recommended daily allowance M-mv 2005
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Elizabethan or Jacobaean era — nay, did not make the gorge of our grandsires turn rebellious.
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Such are the compliments bandied between my great-grandsires and myself, across the gulf of time!
Archive 2005-03-01 M-mv 2005
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From what Uncle Hafiz and my human grandsires have told me, you were freeing child slaves and confronting criminals at my age.
First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005
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