I was born in Baltimore, September 12, 1880, and come of a learned family, though my immediate forebears were business men.

We now seem more comfortable speaking the languages of our immediate forebears, albeit in our own ways.

In addition, he pointed out: "There is a generation of Jewish parents who feel that their immediate forebears went too far in assimilation.

Of Mark Twain's immediate forebears, however, there is something to be said.

A scandal surrounding Alfred Escher's immediate forebears had, however, damaged the family's reputation.

Haydn worked with a vocabulary and syntax given him by his immediate forebears; Mr. Tan assumes he is doing the same thing.

The tree concentrated its entire intellect upon its immediate forebear and finally, after so many weeks, passed the news of its great failure.

Mr. Alagna is an excellent tenor and possesses more taste than the majority of his colleagues, not to mention his immediate forebears.

This was further evidence that, although the more immediate human forebears arose in Africa, their earliest primate ancestors appeared to come from Asia.

All their minds moved as one, and only as they neared the present did they separate into their immediate forebears and finally themselves.