Usage examples for ancestress
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Violet had started by giving the Douglas- heart ring which had come down to her from an ancestress made even more famous than she would have been otherwise, by Sir Walter Scott. – Lord John in New York by C. N. Williamson A. M. Williamson
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Like a certain ancestress she had coveted the fruit of knowledge and knowledge had been given her. – The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay