forebears
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Forebears of Puttencove Promise and the thousands of other poodles in the U.S. were working dogs, alert, spring-legged animals, clever enough to serve as performers in traveling French circuses.
From Time Magazine Archive
But recent science now the truth declares The human race descended from Forebears.
From A Phenomenal Fauna by Herford, Oliver
A FEW notes had better here be given as to our "Forebears," the kind of stock from which my father and mother sprang.
From The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by Paton, James
And since we're so inclined to war, I'll wager One of our Forebears was the Ursa Major.
From A Phenomenal Fauna by Herford, Oliver
