Meanings of dead generations in English

Be that as it may, republican ceremonies to honour the dead generations continue unabated.

The dead generations live again in these old self-biographies.

The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

She looked like three dead generations mummified.

The flagstones, trodden by the feet of numberless dead generations, are become uneven through the settling of the soil.

All the gladness and the grief of dead generations come back to haunt us in countless forms of harmony and of melody.

Thus also does the ever-living earth from the dust of dead generations of leaves re-make a fresh foliage, and for herself a new garment.

The stones in the crumbling corridors seemed always hideously damp, and there was an accursed smell everywhere, as of the piled-up corpses of dead generations.