Meanings of great-great-grandparent in English

It was my great-great-grandfather who cursed the Ballards in the first place.

Bedtime stories about her great-great-grandfather Jamie McGregor came flooding into her mind.

She loved to tell Robert how much he looked like his great-great-grandfather.

And Old Gerontius was my great-great-grandfather: that puts it back a bit.

Few people can claim their great-great-grandfather's actions changed the course of world history.

Every human being has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, and so on.

My great-great-grandparents were among those who saw it coming and that's the only reason I'm here.

The same trick, which would impress you today, is one that entertained your grandparents or great-great-grandparents.

I asked Papa, and he said it's ever been the same, even before our great-great-grandparents were born.

Manford thought of his great-great-grandparents on Moroko.

Their great-great-grandmothers of the time of Joan of Arc and Catherine Sforza were not of this way of thinking.

A New Zealand man will today hand back treasures his great-great-grandfathers ransacked from a Burmese pagoda more than 160 years ago.

Thirty great-great-grandfathers and great-great-grandmothers had made us what we were; it was no good fighting against them and the millions at their backs.

It's something that was passed on by their great-great-grandfathers and their grandfathers and now the sons are getting an interest, Mr Rabago said.

Prof Shriver is confident that in two years the idea of seeing the faces of our great-great-grandfathers will no longer be science fiction.

At the Lighthouse School, kids knew every branch of their entire family tree, going back to their great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers, and before that.