Grandsire

Your grandsire was a chauffeur, a servant, and without education. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A quick brain and a better education elsewhere showed the boy very soon that his grandsire was a dullard, and he began accordingly to command him and to look down upon him; for his previous education, humble and contracted as it had been, had made a much better gentleman of Georgy than any plans of his grandfather could make him. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I remember her telling me that the magic ran in her family, but deep; her grandsire was a Master, but not her father. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)

"Yudhishthira said," Tell me of that, O grandsire, which is the root of all duties, which is the root of kinsmen, of home, of the Pitris and of guests. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

Oh, Monsieur le Chevalier, having an income, need not be paid moneys; because Monsieur le Chevalier was born in the saddle, his father is an eagle, his grandsire was a centaur. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

One day when my grandsire was a young lad he was playing with some other children on the pastures near the shore, when all of a sudden what should they see among their own cows but a fine young dun-colored heifer without any horns. ❋ Lucy Fitch Perkins (1901)

Now this my grandsire was a man whose word was law and every day he held a Divan wherein the traders craved his counsel about taking and giving and selling and buying; and this endured until what while a sickness attacked him and he sensed his end drawing near. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

My grandsire was a particularly holy man; and I have heard my father say, that one night an archbishop came to his house secretly, merely to have the satisfaction of kissing his head. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

When I was a youth, his grandsire was my friend; I had some fancies then myself. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

A quick brain and a better education elsewhere showed the boy very soon that his grandsire was a dullard, and he began accordingly to command him and to look down upon him; for his previous education, humble and contracted as it had been, had made ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

For not so dear to the spent age of the grandsire is the late born grandchild an only daughter rears, who, long-wished-for, at length inherits the ancestral wealth, his name duly set down in the attested tablets; and casting afar the impious hopes of the baffled next-of-kin, scares away the vulture from the whitened head; nor so much does any dove-mate rejoice in her snow-white consort (though, 'tis averred, more shameless than most in continually plucking kisses with nibbling beak) as thou dost, though woman is especially inconstant. ❋ Gaius Valerius Catullus (1855)

-- your grandsire is a false knave to say so! cried Harry. ❋ William Harrison Ainsworth (1843)

In our version, therefore, the "grandsire" becomes -- we trust without any loss of dignity or interest -- the "grandame" of the Russian navy: -- ❋ Various (N/A)

My grandsire was the arms commander for Lord Julenn, Lord Hadrenn's grandsire. " ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1999)

He will be the sire and grandsire of many sons and grandsons for which the Californians will fall over themselves to buy of me at from three to five thousand dollars ❋ Unknown (2010)

They're good eating, crabs, mighty good eating when you've no more teeth and you've got grandsons that love their old grandsire and make a point of catching crabs for him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[an old] [ninny] ❋ Just A Big Ol David! (2003)