It was no long fight, for I suppose that there are men of no race who can stand before the Northmen at sea, at least since we have forgotten the old ship craft of our forefathers.
I do not think it is your way, or Owen's, to hold that a feud must be carried on in the old heathen way of our forefathers.
Marion, I fear you do not bring a spirit of sympathy to the study of the ways of our forefathers, and without sympathy we can not understand others.
In the so-called political economies of our forefathers we read a vast deal about the advantages to a country of having an international trade.
Well, now, we are in a position to appreciate how necessary a part the waste pipes played in the economic system of our forefathers.
So much for the material cost of the profit system to our forefathers; but, vast as that was, it is not worth considering for a moment in comparison with its cost in human happiness.
The tree was planted frequently by our forefathers in churchyards, because of its value in the manufacture of bows.
These aromatic herbs were employed to season the homely dishes of our forefathers, before commerce had brought the spices of the East at a cheap rate to our doors; and Cresses were held in common favour by peasants for such a purpose.
Our forefathers, upon certain frequent plagues, and as following a certain ancient superstition, had a custom of observing that day which by the Jews is called the Sabbath.
And this account of his is the truth; for feeding of sheep was the employment of our forefathers in the most ancient ages [10] and as they led such a wandering life in feeding sheep, they were called Shepherds.
And so ended the Quaker persecution,--one of the most mournful passages in the history of our forefathers.
It is the more proper, too, that you should hear it, because it will show you what a terrible calamity the smallpox was to our forefathers.
Ah, Charley, there spoke the very spirit of our forefathers.
But it is right that you should know what a dark shadow this disease threw over the times of our forefathers.
The peg tankard was another measured vessel used in the jollifications of our forefathers, and is still to be found in some parts of England, more especially in Derbyshire.
But why should we marvel at the credulity and superstition of our forefathers, when we daily observe equal absurdities?
We have somewhat too much glass in our modern House to afford to throw stones at our forefathers' old St. Stephen's.
While the first thought of our forefathers was to provide an adequate home, they undoubtedly possessed a peculiar instinct in the choice of a picturesque location.
In the study of this work I have grown to feel a deep reverence for the old homes of our forefathers, and have come to realize as never before the care and painstaking thoroughness of the old master builders.
We have no right, however, to laugh at our forefathers about a matter of this kind, who might, I daresay, very well laugh at some of our modern customs.
If the truth must be told, our forefathers in the good old times had a way of preventing its being "dry," and the parish accounts I have no doubt in every village in the district as well as in Royston, still record the unvarnished tale!
Surely it should have been discovered in northern Korea and on the Siberian coast of the Sea of Japan also, if our forefathers, inclusive of the ruling class, came over from northeastern Asia.
They would never go so far as to look to the element for the bulk of our forefathers or for the ancestors of the ruling class.
If regarded from the linguistic point of view only, it may be not at all unnatural thus to exclude the Chinese blood from the veins of our forefathers.
Mid all the light a happier age has brought, We work not yet as our forefathers wrought.
Some of these customs are so quaint that they are worth recording, not only as memorials of a past that we can but dimly enter into, but as throwing considerable light upon the manners and doings of our forefathers.
There was an immense mass of legendary matter of this kind current in the middle ages, with which it is necessary, in a certain degree, to be acquainted, in order to understand the literature and manners of our forefathers.
Here are remains of the buildings erected by our forefathers, and tower-like buildings constructed of bricks.
To Fayuhm five days; this is Pithom[265]; it contains about twenty Jews, and has some remains of the buildings erected by our forefathers even to this day.
It is three parasangs hence to Ramleh, which is Harama, where you still find walls erected by our forefathers, as is evident from the inscriptions upon the stones.
I was carefully trained at the feet of Gamaliel in the Law of our forefathers, and, like all of you to-day, was zealous for God.
Our forefathers, however, would not submit to him, but spurned his authority and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.
That Tent was bequeathed to the next generation of our forefathers.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our forefathers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
