great-grandfather

Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”

His great-grandfather, David Yellin, was a prominent Zionist scholar and Israeli pioneer.

Lobanov hadn't seen the sea until he was 28, though he has some maritime roots—his great-grandfather was from the Greek islands.

His great grandfather sailed from Cape Verde and was involved in the whaling industry of Nantucket Island, Mass.

“Your great-grandfather killed my great-grandfather” can also do the trick.

You might do for the United States what your English great-grandfather helped to do for this country in 1832.

That brave knight was my great, great grandfather, and he has often sat in this very chair in which I am sitting now.

A spendthrift rallying a miser, among other things, said, "I'll warrant these buttons on your coat were your great-grandfather's."

From a cold country called Newfoundland his great grandfather came.

I think my grandfather saw them, or my great-grandfather, somewhere back there.