Usage examples for ancestral
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Now more than ever there came to his mind the ancestral letter which his father had inclosed to him- the message from old Ralph Brandon in the treasure- ship. – Cord and Creese by James de Mille
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Accordingly they despatched Agesilaus as ambassador to the Mantineans, choosing him as the recognised ancestral friend of that people. – Hellenica by Xenophon