Primogenitors

The poor creature was ostriches up and down and so along his way he saw many peculiar devices and obstacles and treasures ... stones, islands ... distant forgotten horizons seen by the ancestral primogenitors of the human being and so forth; he saw all that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Soundgarden and alice in chains, for example, to supposed primogenitors of the grunge sound were really rather more metal, at least in the image of the foremen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hence, not only the flight, hiding-place, and fig-leaf aprons of our primogenitors, but every word of dire meaning and evil omen, as terror, horror, tremor, and whatever else harasses guilty mortals, have derived their origin. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

If "the Single Tax party will not long survive its creator," perhaps it is because it has not as much attraction for the great sovereign voter as the blessed protective tariff, which, to use your own fantastic expression, you should "cosset on your heaving brisket" for its splendid success as a survivor of its primogenitors. ❋ Unknown (1905)

"Saturdays" was produced by Ken Thomas, who has worked with Sigur Rós and dream-pop primogenitors Cocteau Twins, and Ewan Pearson, who has remixed countless artists and produced Tracey Thorn, The Rapture and Ladytron. ❋ Unknown (2008)

* 'How far our primogenitors com - plied with thefe terms, we are ftill Ig - norant; bur it would appear that Hap - pinefs, like other injured females, not only continued to refent former ill - ❋ Unknown (1785)

_primogenitors_, and, like _Mores_ translated into Northern _European_ ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)

Divine Will was made to the primogenitors of our race, "and to this source _alone_ we are indebted for all correct ideas of right and wrong. ❋ Unknown (1852)