I hope that kindly roof-tree still stands firm, and that the little children have not alone prospered, but taken after their immediate forbears.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
And I would like to take with me a few portraits, of my family and forbears, that can be of no use to any one; and one or two books likewise; then the rest can go to the liquidators, to roup or scatter to the winds as they see fit.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
These hairy forbears of ours lived in caves until competition led up to the building of huts.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter