Read full poem →Vengeful across the cold November moors,
Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak
Sad wind that shrieked, and answered with a shriek,
Dictionary Entry
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors
In a Sentence
“an ancestral estate”
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Common Phrases
home ancestralspirits ancestrallands ancestralland ancestralproperty ancestralform ancestralancestral common
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Poetry examples for “ancestral”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →In the cottage of the rudest peasant,
In ancestral homes, whose crumbling towers,
Speaking of the Past unto the Present,
Read full poem →Yet not of these I muse
In this ancestral place,
But of a kindred face
Read full poem →considerations of an opposite tendency began to prevail, the inside
of the church became comparatively deserted, except when ancestral
reasons gave no choice" (Hales).