Meanings of ancestresses in English

Their noble ancestresses of the Renaissance understood and did these things better-soHelen reflected.

She was human, after all, and had thousands of plebeian and primitive ancestors and ancestresses.

She was what her ancestresses had been for generations.

That poem was written by a very clever man who married one of my ancestresses.

Your ancestresses came from citadels and castles; no Schorlin ever yet brought his bride from a tradesman's house.

The look of her New England ancestresses who had borne life and death without flinching was on her face.

You've got a gay old lot of ancestors here, and ancestresses; and stunningly handsome some of 'em is, too.

Shades of my modest ancestresses!

In the old days it was otherwise, when my great ancestresses ruled, and then we did not fear the Fung.

One of my ancestresses fought as a shield maiden-asI thought myself until today-inthe great Bravalla fight long ago.

When we have dined, Madaline, I will take you to the picture-gallery, and introduce you to my ancestors and ancestresses.

I looked around me at the ruffled and periwigged gentlemen, the smiling ladies, who were my ancestors and ancestresses, with interest.

Apollonia had brought it to the beloved Signorina, as her ancestresses in the wild mountain village might have laid offerings on Baal's shrine.

Our ancestresses particularly were often charming women, and almost as often sensible women; but, like the men of Athens, they were too superstitious.

Quavers stopped at demi-semi-demi, but there is no reason to suppose that either atoms or ancestresses of the Virgin will be so complacent.

The voice of many Knickerbocker ancestresses spoke in her, and between herself and a real emergency she interposed the impenetrable buckler of a conventionality.