He knows the pedigree of every horse on the place, and has bestrode the great-great-grandsires of most of them.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
They can strike with infinitely greater hopes of success than could their fathers and their grandsires: but if they let this chance slip ...
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
The grandsons of her girlhood suitors were as madly in love with her as had been their grandsires.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune