generations

To all the generations before our own matter was a sheer and positive density.

Bitterly he recalled the stain upon his family in generations gone by.

Every one on 'em's took back as much as three generations for their noses an' tempers.

But the accumulated weight of generations of broken law is on our heads.

On his father's side a pedigree of three generations can be traced.

In neither his father nor his mother was there any weakness, nor in the generations before them.

Generation by generation, down all the generations, had this fear of the Wild been stamped into their natures.

Sell this farm, an' it's been in our family these generations past!

And one of the two processes or generations is visible—for surely the act of dying is visible?

It will take us two generations to do it, my boy, but we'll alter the history of England.