Our ancestors were a people of some consideration in the councils of the empire.
Cotta, the lieutenant, when encouraging all the cohorts and companies, is wounded full in the mouth by a sling.
The work having been begun, a cavalry action ensues in that plain, which we have already described as broken by hills, and extending three miles in length.
For Vistilia, a lady born of a Praetorian family, had before the Aediles published herself a prostitute; upon a custom allowed by our ancestors, who thought that prostitutes were by thus avowing their infamy, sufficiently punished.
Surely, whether we look at the usefulness and happiness of the individual, or the prosperity and security of the State, this, which was the course of our ancestors, is the better course.
Our fathers accepted it in as good faith as any Christian ever believed in the gospel of Christ, and so it had a similar influence in moulding the social, religious, political and literary life of our ancestors.
The religion of our ancestors forms an important chapter in the history of the childhood of our race, and this fact has induced us to offer the public an English translation of the Eddas.
Of course the whole story is only a myth; but we should remember that in the minds and hearts of our ancestors it served every purpose of genuine history.
Our ancestors got on usually very ill in these matters: and when they got on well, it was because they had good ventilation in spite of themselves.
This wish on the part of constituents to know and scrutinize the conduct of their representatives, which to us appears so reasonable a claim, was regarded in a different light by our ancestors.
A conviction of the importance of public instruction was one of the earliest sentiments of our ancestors.
Local attachments and sympathies would ere long spring up in the breasts of our ancestors, endearing to them the place of their refuge.
Our ancestors had a great predilection for them, and they seem to have constituted an essential article, not only of comfort, but of luxury.
It is believed that this presentation of a literature which held unrivalled sway over the imaginations of our ancestors, for many centuries, will not be without benefit to the reader, in addition to the amusement it may afford.
This form of oath is doubtless quite ancient, for the essay says "our ancestors appointed" it.
No one shall lose his estate unless according to the custom of our ancestors, and, the judgment of his peers.
Upon the whole, we cannot but admire the wise economy and admirable provision of our ancestors in settling the distribution of justice in a method so well calculated for cheapness, expedition, and ease.
Footnote 167: See the interesting "Glimpses of Our Ancestors," by Charles Fleet, p.
In other words, our ancestors in the dark ages were infinitely behind the Romans in intellect, and we are just reaching their standard of common sense.
It is difficult for us, at the close of this nineteenth century, to realise the feelings of our ancestors in those times of daily terror and anxiety.
I have learned another account of this Brutus from the ancient books of our ancestors.
Our ancestors, it seems, had a livelier sense than we have both of the glory of good deeds and the shame of bad.
Nothing was left of the old-fashioned discipline and the good rules of our ancestors, who preferred to base the security of Rome on character and not on money.
Gentlemen, we are growing effete: we are no longer that senate which, after Nero had been killed, clamoured for the punishment of all informers and their menials according to our ancestors' rigorous prescription.
They confer upon us the inestimable advantage of being able, so rapidly and with so little fatigue, to visit countries which were much less accessible to our ancestors.
The spring and the rivulet, the brook, the river, and the lake, seem to give life to Nature, and were indeed regarded by our ancestors as living entities themselves.
We may, I think, venture to hope that other designs may hereafter be found, which will give us additional information as to the manners and customs of our ancestors in those remote ages.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our ancestors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
