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- noun Plural form of
great-grandson .
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They’ve built onto the original house over the years, and the last time I was there, they were building a new place for one of the sons—one of Granny Frick’s great-grandsons, that is—who’d just gotten married.
Voices Carry Mariah Stewart 2001
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They start dynasties that persist to this day … but their grandsons and great-grandsons are notably whiter than they were, since the men of the family have been exploiting their social ascendancy to marry white women.
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In one of the first and best examples of investigative journalism as literature, two grandsons of John Quincy Adams and great-grandsons of John Adams sought to explain where America had gone wrong since the days when the country elected Adamses president rather than consigning them to the status of mere observers.
Scandals in Truth Or Just in Print H.W. Brands 2011
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Survivors include his wife of 51 years, Betty Jo Carpenter Dickson of Springfield; two children from his first marriage, Susan M. Tweedell of Riverside, Calif., and David K. Dickson of Grass Valley, Calif.; two granddaughters; and two great-grandsons.
W. Kent Dickson, Air Force Officer Post 2010
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Survivors include four children, Brian McCarthy of Waterbury, Vt., Donna Lord and Christine Conti, both of Barre, Vt., and Candace Buchholz of Frederick; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandsons.
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Genghis 'sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons were privileged by his power and wealth.
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I wished so much that she could have been there to meet her two great-grandsons and know how happy I was with my “John Boy.”
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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They start dynasties that persist to this day … but their grandsons and great-grandsons are notably whiter than they were, since the men of the family have been exploiting their social ascendancy to marry white women.
Allan Wall Interview on Breitbart TV´s B-Cast, 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time, April 30th 2010
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I wished so much that she could have been there to meet her two great-grandsons and know how happy I was with my “John Boy.”
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers Jack Canfield 2011
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They start dynasties that persist to this day … but their grandsons and great-grandsons are notably whiter than they were, since the men of the family have been exploiting their social ascendancy to marry white women.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The Love Life Of Hugo Chavez 2010
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