"Great grandfather" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his Family Arms from the Herald's Office; by which it appears, that he had been Officer and Bailiff of Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire; and that he enjoy'd some hereditary Lands and Tenements, the Reward of his Great Grandfather's faithful and approved Service to King ...
— Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare • D. Nichol Smith
... their forces—some nineteen men and a brace of bull pups in all—and were overtly at work, their object being to oust the tyrant. O'Mulligan was a young man between fifty-three years of age and was chiefly distinguished for being the son of his aunt on his great grandfather's side. Schnappsgoot was a man of liberal education, having passed three weeks at Oberlin College. He was a man of great hardihood, also, and would frequently read an entire column of "railway matters" in the "Cleveland Herald" ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 3 • Charles Farrar Browne
... stocked in the deep vaults of Bracquemont, by my great grandfather the Rhinegrave Godfrey," said the ...
— Quentin Durward • Sir Walter Scott
... John Wesley, and in this room he slept at intervals for thirty years. My great grandfather, Squire Gregory Hallam, was a Methodist—one o' t' first o' them—and so you see, Phyllis, my lass, you hev come varry naturally by your ...
— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr
... why, I was the first founder of the three sects of philosophy, except one of the Peripatetics, who acknowledge Aristotle, I confess, their great grandfather. ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various
... before, when his great-great-great grandfather was chief (Mambo, he called it), the natives of all that part of South Africa rose against the white men—Portuguese, I suppose—who still worked the gold there. They massacred them and their slaves by thousands, driving them up from the southward, where Lobengula rules now, ...
— Benita, An African Romance • H. Rider Haggard |
