great-great-grandfathers

Yes, Neanderthals were rough, tough bad dudes, as were aboriginal hunters, Roman soldiers, Tutsi tribesmen and all of our great-great-grandfathers.

Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

Two of my great-great-grandfathers died in the battle of the Crater.

Is That Legal?: Dealing With Abusive Commenters 2007

I have an old loveseat that was given to one of my great-great-grandfathers as payment for carpentry work he did right after the Chicago Fire.

Remembrance In Things Past kittenpie 2006

One of my great-great-grandfathers just showed up in New York out of the blue.

The World's Most Exclusive Hereditary Society 2006

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So What if Mitt Romney's Grandfathers Had a Few Extra Wives 2007

If our great-great-grandfathers had put $1000 away for a long while, then we (or our children) would be sitting pretty either now or in the future some time.

October | 2005 | Impromptus 2005

Their great-great-grandfathers had started a railroad or a coal mine or an insurance company, or their great-grandfathers had invented the flow-through tea bag or the cornflake, or their grandfathers had mastered the engineering of the aerosol spray valve or the sanitary napkin.

Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

The very meanings of the words shift from one generation to another, and we are perhaps more really in harmony with our great-great-grandfathers than with the more immediate generations.

Castle Rackrent 2006

The faces, dress, passions, gratitudes, and revenues of the great-great-grandfathers and grandmothers who had been the first to gaze from those rectangular windows, and had stood under that key-stoned doorway, could be divined and measured by homely standards of today.

The Woodlanders 2006

COLLIER: It was originally the estate of Franklin D. Roosevelt's father, James Roosevelt, who was from a collateral branch with common great-great-grandfathers to that of the Theodore branch and very close, actually, to the Theodore branch which is settled in the Long Island area of Oyster Bay.

The Roosevelts: An American Saga 1994