It seemed he was running behind some ultimate ancestor, something that had run in days before steel, or concrete, when blood and bone and primal fury were stronger than conscious thought.

Varrman is not the most potent of Indian arts-that ultimate ancestor is forgotten now, lost when the Aryans swept into northern India.

The noble de Langlée family of France claimed him for their ultimate ancestor.

According to the Canadian and U.S. National Archives, Thomas is the ultimate ancestor of the Cormiers in the New World.

In this they may be preserving its original meaning: the ultimate ancestor, here evoked by two continuous lines joining its twelve primary joints.

And the past presented him with an ultimate ancestor - one who was called Harum and without whom the distant future would not be.

The place where your ultimate ancestors came from-and mine, too, of course.

The ultimate ancestor of the helek was a small Babylonian time period called a barleycorn, itself equal to / of a Babylonian time degree (1 of celestial rotation).

(GENESIS 3:16-19) Thus pain, oppression, labor, and death are punishments that we (or our ultimate ancestors) brought upon ourselves.

They are sometimes worshiped as the ultimate ancestor of all humankind, and are often represented as half-snake, half-humans.