What would their grandfathers have said to that?
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Probably our great-grandfathers didn't even know they were sick; at all events, those who had to live in the vicinity of the sea were satisfied to be a little distance from it, out of sight of its grey desolation and, if possible, out of hearing of its "accents disconsolate."
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
It is not surprising that these respectable merchants, whose error consisted in carrying on business on a system deeply rooted in the country, and which in more than one case had descended to them from their fathers and grandfathers, should have felt deeply the interference of new laws, the expediency of which they were naturally unable to see.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie