Grandmother

Examples

• I was told your grandmother Mingott's carriage was seen standing at Mrs. Beaufort's door. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Still, to have kept her grandmother's carriage at a defaulter's door! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• If Ellen had consented to come and live with her grandmother it must surely be because she had recognised the impossibility of giving him up. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Archer was aware that Madame Olenska, who had seated herself at her grandmother's side, was still thoughtfully scrutinising him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• They had a she-wolf for a nurse; I had only a she-wolf for a grandmother. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Facing Huxley with a smiling insolence, he begged to know, _was it through his grandfather or grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey_? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not fit to polish the teeth of her grandmother's cat! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Early in the day, I heard of the arrival of the aged grandmother of one of our servants at the Castle. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The company were, the farmer and his wife, three children, and an old grandmother. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• But, none the less, my turn that way is in my veins, and may have come with my grandmother, who was the sister of Vernet, the French artist. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The most vivid thing about her was the fact that her grandmother had been a Van Alstyne. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Archer looked at him, and thought he saw in his gay young eyes a gleam of his great-grandmother Mingott's malice. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• And that her grandmother's cat may now have no one to polish its teeth? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• What happiness it must be to her good old grandmother and excellent aunt, when she comes to visit them! Jane Austen. Emma.
• Lovers' Vows were at an end, and Lord and Lady Ravenshaw left to act My Grandmother by themselves. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• What would not your grandmothers have given to be asked to Lady Hester's parties in that now decayed mansion? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Good mothers are married over again at their daughters' weddings: and as for subsequent events, who does not know how ultra-maternal grandmothers are? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The two grandmothers, with not less partiality, but more sincerity, were equally earnest in support of their own descendant. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Knitting Days of our Grandmothers and Knitting Machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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