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"Great grandfather" Quotes from Famous Books

... what everyone calls me, but the name they gave me when I was too little to know better, was awful—it's Reuben Wales. Just because my great grandfather had it, they made me take it, too." And poor little ...

— The Blue Birds' Winter Nest • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... Loring and in the following September opened his own office and began the active practice of law. He was born August 1, 1815, at Cambridge, Mass., with a line of ancestors reaching back to the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, with several colonial governors in the maternal lines. His great grandfather, Richard Dana, was one of the early patriots, a "Son of Liberty,'' who frequently presided at the meetings at Faneuil Hall at which Otis, Adams and others spoke. This man's son, my father's grandfather, Francis Dana, was several ...

— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... round to be aware of the dwarf ash-trees and willows which were scattered along the strip, and might catch heedless collars and spoil sport, when, lying lazily almost on the surface where the backwater met the stream from the meadows, he beheld the great grandfather of all trout, a fellow two feet long and a foot in girth at the shoulders, just moving fin enough to keep him from turning over on to his back. He threw himself flat on the ground and crept away to the other side of the strip; the king fish had not seen him; and the next moment ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... fellow is Rover. From a cold country called Newfoundland his great grandfather came. And he seems to think life is a very serious matter. His coat is black with snow-white patches. His hair curls a little. It feels very soft when you lay your ...

— Seven O'Clock Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

... that," he replied drily. "I believe her great, great, great grandfather was a brigadier while mine was only a colonel ...

— A World Apart • Samuel Kimball Merwin

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