To-day the various bodies of Christians throughout the world make much of what they hold in common; seventy years ago their grandfatherscould not forget the petty differences of doctrine that held them apart.
But secular, state-owned colleges are a very modern growth, and few men among our grandfathers had the courage to champion such institutions.
The big houses which were occupied were not open to us, except in a trades-person sort of fashion, and Billy and I are not to be condescended to--we had a pair of grandfathers in the Mayflower.
The grandfathers of these boys used to see her light in the window of the old house on stormy nights, and they knew that it was an invitation to good cheer.
Twas on condition I'd alter my name, leave out the O that has come down to me from them that were kings and princes before his grandfathers broke stones on the road.
Why, Joe here will tell you what he's heard from his grandfathers about the way the men used to dress up and lead the buffalo into the piskuns.
I guess that is true, because there are old people still living whose fathers and grandfathers can remember old Piegans, who said that they had made that journey.
Our grandfathers preferred to sleep on the ground floor; we should expect to be carried off by burglars or malaria if we ventured to close our eyes within ten feet of the ground.
With plenty of land and building materials to be had for the taking, our colonial grandfathers should have had the most generous homes in the world.
We shall not, I think, be found wanting more than our grandfathers were.
Reader, do not get alarmed: there are as good men now as ever our fathers orgrandfathers were, and would hit as hard for the honour of our glorious Empire as they did.
And is there a message to the grandfathers and grandmothers on this glad day?
In the days of our grandfathers and grandmothers, the children were taught from the beginning to perform many household duties which the children of today know nothing of.
The grandfathers and grandmothers of Tom Titmouse were not people of strong character; they were a decorous race on both sides, with no heavy intellectual burdens, good enough people who wore well.
What our grandfathers were, a thousand new-comers now are.
Let us, then, dip here and there into it and see what "the best authorities" could teach our grandfathers when their youthful minds would know something of the wonders of creation.
Determine in your minds, on that which neither your fathers nor grandfathers could; neither those who seceded to the Sacred Mount, nor yet those who afterwards posted themselves on the Aventine.
Whatever sort of being God may be,' writes William James, 'He is nevermore that mere external inventor of contrivances intended to manifest His glory in which our great-grandfathers took such satisfaction.
The conception of our great-grandfathers may have been limited; but it is more important that we should try to be as good men as they were.
Several of them carried guns, the long clumsy weapons handed down to them by their grandfathers from the time, a hundred years past, when gun-making was still a known art.
The debates were read with semi-religious fervour by every good citizen over his breakfast, and a prominent politician was treated with even more exaggerated reverence than our worthy grandfathers paid to bishops.
I have not forgotten,' he went on, 'the days of my youth or the constitution which our fathers and grandfathers established.
You must have a pretty hard time trying to find out who your grandfathers were?
Now, then, your anecdote about the grandfathers hurt me.
Though their fathers and grandfathers may have been born in the new country, they would consider it an insult to be called Russians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandfathers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
