progenitors

He and his progenitors have been crowned Kings for centuries.

Fancy might have regarded the act as the recrudescence of a trick in which her armed progenitors were not unpractised.

We have also seen that he has what are known as "feelings," which depend upon his previous experience and that of his progenitors.

And Evan himself had been of one piece with his progenitors; and was not dead with them, but alive in the twentieth century.

They build their nests, or dens, in almost precisely the same manner as did their progenitors in the stone-age.