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Great´-grand´fa`ther
Translations great-grandfather [ˌgreɪtˈgrænˌfɑːðəʳ] n → bisnonno great-grandfather [ˌgreɪtˈgrænˌfɑːðəʳ] n → bisnonno How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Others carry the matter still further, and inquire how many of his ancestors have been citizens, as his grandfather, great-grandfather, etc. Mounttop's here (by the way, Captain --Mounttop; Mounttop--the captain); --as I was saying, I jumped into Mounttop's boat, which, d'ye see, was gunwale and gunwale with mine, then; and snatching the first harpoon, let this old great-grandfather have it. Among those of his relations who professed the modern faith of heredity it was well understood that in him the character of the late Myron Bayne, a maternal great-grandfather, had revisited the glimpses of the moon--by which orb Bayne had in his lifetime been sufficiently affected to be a poet of no small Colonial distinction. |
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