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Example sentences for "granddad"

Lexicographically close words:
grandaunt; grandbebee; grandchild; grandchildren; grandchillun; granddaddy; granddaughter; granddaughters; grandee; grandees
  1. My beloved old granddad had his nerve with him," he grunted as he rode on into the tiny settlement.

  2. JIM: Ay: and so the grandam’s To sit in the ingleneuk, while granddad hoofs it?

  3. He had pointed that the truth must not come out in open court--that the romance of a new search for Granddad Lauderdale's mysterious legacy would be seized upon by reporters and given undesirable newspaper publicity.

  4. Just you hand over Granddad Lauderdale's crypt and those carte-blank permits and I'll save you from being your own lawyer defending a charge of before-and-after burglary.

  5. I'm here to say," he made comment, "that granddad went in for inexpensive verse.

  6. Indeed, he had not earned her answer until after the Granddad Lauderdale riddle had been solved.

  7. Thus, through deeds and not words, he learned the nature of Granddad Lauderdale's buried hoard.

  8. But it's the money both Granddad and Grandfather have put in the bank for me I'm using and shall use.

  9. Both Granddad and Grandfather came around in their stands, after they found I'd actually done the thing, and agreed to put me through the four years of college.

  10. Also Granddad might have waked up, and we can get his advice," said Ruth.

  11. Besides, I've heard Granddad tell about the Rookery, as he calls it, many times.

  12. It will be fun, because it isn't often that I cook for anyone but Granddad and myself.

  13. I worried so that I hardly slept, and Granddad woke me three or four times to know if you had come back.

  14. I'm going to play polo next term, if I can get my granddad to stump up.

  15. I suppose my granddad and he were brothers.

  16. She had always been with Granny Sue and Granddad Si, and so, of course, that proved that she belonged to them.

  17. Maybe Granny and Granddad will think I ought not.

  18. Our darlin'll need it all an' more when her granddad an me are took.

  19. Well, I know Granddad is going into town.

  20. He hasn't been back since, I am sure, for he told granddad he would come to the farm the very next time his mother permitted him to visit Santa Barbara.

  21. Then early in the morning Granddad would drive both of the girls to Santa Barbara and take the money from the bank, then they would go to the railway station and buy a ticket, both for the train and the steamer.

  22. An hour later Jenny drove away, laughing to herself over her amusing adventure and eager to tell Grandma Sue and Granddad Si all about it.

  23. Her granddad had told her always to come to a full stop before driving across, as there were often processions of high-powered cars passing their lane.

  24. If Granny and Granddad will let me, I'll loan you a hundred dollars, because I know you'll pay it back.

  25. Ay, ay, forbye the windows are barred, and the granddad has his door locked--that I ken weel.

  26. Nance was all agog to hear of the wonders of Deep Moat Grange, which she had never seen except from the outside, and news of the mad people my lassie's granddad had gathered about him.

  27. I had never heard of granddad Lawrence being cross.

  28. I don't believe that I ever saw granddad Lawrence so angry before.

  29. And on the other side there was granddad Lawrence, whose courage no one could possibly question.

  30. For one moment I thought that he was going to shake Burton; but after a bit he calmed down, and we all went home together, the bridal couple in their buggy in advance, and granddad and I behind in the dog-cart.

  31. Granddad seemed very sorrowful, and, at last, he unburdened his mind to me.

  32. I used often to wish that Madame Tomaso had granddad to deal with.

  33. And granddad was always so horribly sharp!

  34. What a dreadful bad boy dear granddad had been!

  35. Most of all he was good to us, his grandchildren, and hardly a day passed by that granddad Lawrence did not come walking in to hear the news.

  36. There were no children at his own house, for Auntie May was growing into a young lady, and granddad Lawrence liked children, being a child himself at heart, with all a child's love of mischief.

  37. The old gentleman was my granddad Lawrence, who lived around the corner in a big house that outshone ours as the sun does the moon.

  38. I did not tell anybody about the things which she said, for I was ashamed, but I imagined that granddad suspected.

  39. It seems to me that I've heard about Hottentots before," granddad Lawrence went on, nodding his head.

  40. And I'd be a real Whittaker, a man who should stand for somethin', as my dad and granddad did afore me.

  41. Her granddad was John Thayer, over to Orham.

  42. I told her her granddad did, an she could git that or go to work and earn some.

  43. Shadrach Wingate, Seth's granddad 'twas, tried to fix up a dicker with him for a boat he had.

  44. Anyhow, the girl's left, and if she don't pay I'll show her granddad up for what he was.

  45. But it's plain to me now that when you caught me tryin' to guzzle your granddad you thought I belonged to the Taggart bunch.

  46. Has she got a granddad named Malcolm Clayton, an' a brother Bob?

  47. I don't know jes what it wuz about, but I reckon my granddad wuz right, and I'll see it through.

  48. My granddad had some misunderstandin' with their granddad.

  49. Granddad heard the noise, a sort of tapping, but he couldn't see anything until he looked out the pantry window.

  50. Granddad didn't care to go back for his gun for fear some of the other nimrods in the neighborhood would come on the scene and bag the game first, but there wasn't any need of a gun.

  51. You can imagine my delight the next morning on finding a fine red fox tangled up among some huckleberry bushes near by, and you may be sure I thought Granddad the greatest trapper in the world, and myself the next.

  52. Pete was comin' in and was goin' to take granddad in with him on the mine, but he can't even tell where it was except that it was somewhere along the way he had come.

  53. I've heard granddad call him 'the last of the gunmen,' because the country was settling up and getting civilized then.

  54. Great-granddad built them all, helped by his two slaves.

  55. I lived with granddad until he died, four year back.

  56. Granddad always said I should be put to school some day, but my uncle won't have that.

  57. My nine-times great-granddad has your nine-times great-granddad hung and that removes all my objections to marryin' you.

  58. Granddad left me just after a very early dinner, and then I felt awfully miserable and depressed.

  59. I think it must be when you can let Granddad know that you are alone and have nothing to do," was the girl's reply.

  60. I shall insist on Granddad taking me to hear you.

  61. We must get back to the house," Beatrice said; "Granddad and Sir George will have returned by this time, and they will want their tea.

  62. Granddad often tells me that I let my tongue run away with me.

  63. It's not often that a soldier is a scholar, but Granddad says there are few men alive who are greater authorities on Egyptian questions.

  64. I think the danger is over--I feel sure it is; and Granddad will be anxious if he comes back and does not find me.

  65. Of course Granddad and I have often talked of you," she went on.

  66. I don't know what Granddad will say to me.

  67. As though I would have kept you and Granddad away from your fossils," she laughed.

  68. I've learnt to drive, and Granddad thinks I'm very clever at it.

  69. She was evidently questioning him and brokenly he was telling that the robbers had carried him off and that Granddad was dead.

  70. Where would they find Sister Theresa that they might take him there as his granddad had requested?

  71. Granddad used to be away all by hisself for as much as two years, trappin' up in Canada.

  72. It's my opinion there isn't any Granddad Grimes, or Uncle Hiram, Nicodemus and so forth.


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