Meanings of great grandfathers in English

Three of her great grandfathers were officers in the War of the Revolution.

Advertisements feature everyone from new-born babies to great grandfathers, adds Daniels.

You Americans laugh at our custom of honouring our ancestors, our many-times great grandfathers.

Solyman Agu, a Turk, whom our great , great grandfathers well remember, sold the first cups in 1760.

Now, those savages were the great , great , great grandfathers and mothers of the English-speaking peoples of the world.

They were the lot of most Europeans and North Americans when our great grandfathers and great grandmothers were in their prime.

With that endeavour before us, I am pleased to reintroduce a program that has not been seen since the days of your great - great grandfathers.

'What did your fathers and grandfathers and great grandfathers do to Sara Tidwell and her family?

Take almost anybody's 'sixteen quarters'-hisgreat -greatgrandfathers and great-greatgrandmothers, of whom he has sixteen all told-andwhat do you often find?

"Gunslinger, our many-times- great grandfathers conquered the-disease-which-rots, which they called cancer, almost conquered aging, walked on the moon-

"I wonder if it were not one of his great grandfathers that swallowed Jonah," said the observant Minnehaha.

'Her four great grandmothers and her four great grandfathers yet live,' answered Yspaddaden Penkawr; 'it is needful that I take counsel with them.'