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forebear |
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forebear or forbear Noun an ancestor
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forebear or forbear |
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| Presently the willows parted on the other bank, and Robin could hardly forebear laughing out right. It was in the dusk of Death's fluttery wings that Tarwater thus crouched, and, like his remote forebear, the child-man, went to myth-making, and sun-heroizing, himself hero-maker and the hero in quest of the immemorable treasure difficult of attainment. He had, in Castra Regis, a large collection of curious and interesting things formed in the past by his forebears, of similar tastes to his own. |
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