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Converse of object
- have: Both are British born and both have forefathers who were non-British.
Adjective modifier
- Victorian: The issues For the past 150 years successive generations at Amport have had reason to be grateful to our Victorian forefathers.
Noun used with modifier
- pagan: Our pagan forefathers believed the oak to be a sacred tree and that the marks in the bark revealed the presence of a dryad.
Preposition: in
- faith: Do you seriously imagine our forefathers in the faith would have found your version of that faith acceptable?
Preposition: of
- today: The larger of these were the forefathers of today 's English Springer Spaniel.
Preposition: with
- conscience: First, in thanking God, the Apostle makes the remarkable statement, " Whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience.
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