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Meanings of remote ancestors in English

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Usage of remote ancestors in English
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The matter was worked out in the mental evolution of remote ancestors.
The Land of Footprints
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Nothing like what our remote ancestors called marriage is recognised at all.
Across the Zodiac / The Story of a Wrecked Record
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This comes out quite distinctly in the legislative enactments of our remote ancestors.
The Customs of Old England
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His forefathers were from Holland, and his more remote ancestors were from Denmark.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History
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Of one's very remote ancestors it is superfluous to say much.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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He took up the various remedies of our remote ancestors.
The Goose Man
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His remote ancestors had contended with Fitzstephen and De Burgh.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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I mean, you know, our remote ancestors, but people no different from us, really .
The subtle knife
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His remote ancestors, it is said, were ecclesiastical magnates.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
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Children, he wrote elsewhere, were 'diamond editions of remote ancestors, full of savage whims and impulses'.
The suspicions of mr. whicher: a shocking murder and the undoing...
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Their present forms and structures are modifications from the common forms possessed by their remote ancestors.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
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The others went back to more remote ancestors.
The History of England / From the Accession of Henry III. to the...
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Our remote ancestors had also learned by experience that wine maketh glad the heart of man.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
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No one could have guessed from her countenance that any of her remote ancestors were Africans.
Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life
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When our remote ancestors crawled out of the sea, they no doubt had the minds of fish.
Jitterbug Perfume
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We asked for serious suggestions, not reminders-evenif intended humorously-ofthe barbaric customs of our remote ancestors.'
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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