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- noun Plural form of
great-grandfather .
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Perhaps Barbara and I were so taken with it because we both happen to have Irish immigrant great-grandfathers ourselves and fantasized about tripping across such a discovery in our own families.
Megan Smolenyak: Orphan Heirloom Rescue: 1870 Diary of an Irish Immigrant Megan Smolenyak 2011
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Perhaps Barbara and I were so taken with it because we both happen to have Irish immigrant great-grandfathers ourselves and fantasized about tripping across such a discovery in our own families.
Megan Smolenyak: Orphan Heirloom Rescue: 1870 Diary of an Irish Immigrant Megan Smolenyak 2011
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Their kids should have to do what their great-grandfathers did – walk to school, in the snow, up hill, both ways.
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Lieutenant-Colonel William Borthwick, V.D. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Like their wives, our maternal great-grandfathers, William Borthwick (above) and William Pearson, were lifelong friends and neighbours near Sale in East Gippsland, but they also shared a close involvement in military matters.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Watching those grandfathers and great-grandfathers sitting in that place of honor behind Obama, missing Bob and all those others inevitably lost every year, I knew they still had more stories in them.
Trey Ellis: The Tuskegee Airmen Are for Everyone Trey Ellis 2012
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My great-grandfathers marched down south singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic — “As he died to make men holy, let us kill to make men free.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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A scion of football royalty—her great-grandfathers, Timothy Mara and Art Rooney Sr ., founded the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers, respectively—Ms. Mara parlayed a popular (if small) part in David Fincher 's "The Social Network" (as Mark Zuckerberg's jilted girlfriend) into consideration for the central role of Lisbeth in Mr. Fincher's new adaptation of Stieg Larsson 's best-selling novel.
A Piercing Performance Alexandra Cheney 2011
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WHAT WENT RIGHT: The Crimson couldn't knock off Cornell atop the Ivy League, but the team did make the postseason for the first time since the current players 'grandfathers and great-grandfathers were their age.
Ivy League 2010
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(Two of my great-grandfathers were Union veterans and I have no Confederate ancestors.)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginia “Confederate History Month” Proclamation 2010
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Watching those grandfathers and great-grandfathers sitting in that place of honor behind Obama, missing Bob and all those others inevitably lost every year, I knew they still had more stories in them.
Trey Ellis: The Tuskegee Airmen Are for Everyone Trey Ellis 2012
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