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The spider in Little Miss Muffitt and the lupine ancestress in Little Red Riding Hood breed fear-complexes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Descendant of a Revolutionary War heroine who once detained General Howe for four days�whether from passion or patriotism�Minerva gets involved with a foundation that wants to honor her ancestress by "restoring" the town.

From Time Magazine Archive

Author Mackenzie says that Charles, like his ancestress Mary.

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He had taken to wife the Princess Charlotte of Oldenburg, petite and ravishing as her famed ancestress Queen Louise of Prussia.*

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I had an ancestress with a long gray tail and eyes as beady as mine, and her name was Katinka Van Tassel.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck