Noun : The balloon is an ancestor of the modern dirigible. ,a philosophical ancestor.    From Dictionary.com. 

But being proud of who you are and your ancestors is a personal issue, and the government should stay out of, and so should everyone else.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me'] Reference

One of Norman's ancestors is a player in each story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico by James Michener] Reference

One of the authors 'ancestors is a character in the novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiz: Test your vampire knowledge] Reference

Turkmans, who had followed his ancestors from the Oxus to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

One of their ancestors is Lakeridge Charlemagne, for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field & Stream] Reference

Latin ancestors, and thus the habits of her entire family were modified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes] Reference

So it will tell you that every one of your ancestors is mormon. justhesh.    From Wordnik.com.  [FamilySearch Beta Finds Historical Records On Your Family | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

Another, and priceless heritage from our own ancestors, is our instinct for freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Romance in Canada] Reference

A return to the tribal social customs of our pre-Christian ancestors is what I mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Equal time for Sorcery] Reference

The sort of man who brags about his ancestors is never bragged about by his descendants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maxims and Light Verse] Reference

Giving people money for what happened to their ancestors is not going to solve anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Senate to take up resolution apologizing for slavery] Reference

But now consider the probability that none of my 40th-generation ancestors is Charlemagne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

The real work of global abolition, a pledge written in the blood of our ancestors, is a complex struggle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton takes up Lincoln’s ‘unfinished work’] Reference

But she was ever a careless child, and honored not her ancestors from the time the Beaver, son of the son of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Law of Life] Reference

I feel strongly that North Carolina, home of my UK ancestors, is going to end up in Hillary Clinton's column of wins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton up with new ad starring Easley] Reference

Though India, the country of my ancestors, is growing in leaps and bounds, day to day life is still a huge struggle for most.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help Alleviate World Poverty with the Power of Your Blog | Write to Done] Reference

Respect for ancestors is a part of natural law, and it is embodied in the Ten Commandments as, "Honor thy father and thy mother.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Response to Mir] Reference

The more you read of A Passion for Parties, the more it recalls not the rich of postwar London but their ancestors from the age of Dickens.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 December 06 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Backlog Studies] Reference

Not unless he and his ancestors are the same person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Butler: a sketch] Reference

One of his ancestors was the first settler at Windsor, Ct., in 1628.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Dartmouth College] Reference

Likely his ancestors were a wild phenotype but had recessive mutations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

Even now they complain that our ancestors were the ruin of their ancestors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities] Reference

Their ancestors were the builders, it is believed, of the Wisconsin mounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference

Robert's attempt to win back the lands of his ancestors was a sorry failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

Our ancestors were a people of some consideration in the councils of the empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Pamphlets] Reference

More fortunate than my ancestors was the celestial Rishi Narada, the son of Pramesthi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

One of the best places to get a major lead into vital records of your ancestors is the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ajc.com - News] Reference

The great drawback to the stately old furniture of our ancestors is the space it occupies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House in Good Taste] Reference

But, to say the truth of them, they are a race of tigers, and their ancestors were the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I] Reference

I can prove by a bone in my body that my ancestors were the Amphitherium, the Amphilestes, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dot and the Kangaroo] Reference

The Greeks believed that their ancestors were a race of heroes of divine or semi-divine lineage.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

NOTE: Henry Russell is quite proud of the fact that his ancestors were the first families of Russellville.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6] Reference

"The life of our ancestors was a perpetual Campingtrip," says Arthur De Vany, "but of course without camping stoves and energy bars.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Arthur De Vany Members] Reference

A popular anime and manga series about young ninja learning the ways of their ancestors, that is garnering itself fans around the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently updated products at JBOX.com] Reference