forefathers

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After he finished reading, he'd talked to the children for 15 minutes about something called "The National Monument to the Forefathers," a miniature statue of which he'd placed on the table behind him.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2023

Forefathers like Bruce and Pryor reveled in infiltrating the mainstream with beliefs so progressive about sex, race, and culture as to be dangerous.

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2019

Riffing on Forefathers and Mothers “COMING out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian,” the painter Deborah Kass said on a recent morning in her Brooklyn studio.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2012

The first theme, worked and reworked in the movement called An Elegy to Our Forefathers, is from Old Black Joe: "I'm coming, I'm coming."

From Time Magazine Archive

Or Normans; Hereward enrolled among, to qualify for knighthood, 339; Hereward’s trick on, with Fairy Bear, 341, 342 Forefathers.

From Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by Ebbutt, M. I. (Maud Isabel)