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.

An Idiot is Never Worth Your Time or More Mythomania for Your Buck An Idiot is Never Worth Your Time or More Mythomania for 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.

Billy Corgan + Jessica Simpson = Oh Christ, No 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.

A Dissertation on Divine Justice 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.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 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.

ÜberDrivel 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 -

Interesting Memoirs: By a Lady. In Two Volumes. ... 1785

_primogenitors_, and, like _Mores_ translated into Northern _European_

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon 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.

Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 1852