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Sentences starting with aunt

Aunt Kate sat with her feet on a hassock, rocking gently and watching and listening. [11]
Aunt Caroline said with feeling that Dr. Hilliard's death was a blessing, after all, since it brought a long-separated father and son together once more. [9]
Aunt Sally she whispered to us and told us not to take notice of him, it embarrassed him. [5]
Aunt Silence's engine was responsibility,--her own responsibility, and the dreadful consequences which would follow to her, Silence, if Myrtle should in any way go wrong. [6]
Aunt Sally she was one of the mixed-upest-looking persons I ever see --except one, and that was Uncle Silas, when he come in and they told it all to him. [5]
Aunt Polly's happiness was complete, and Mrs. Thatcher's nearly so. [5]
Aunt Patsy stood up and took the oath, and Mr. Allen explained the point in issue, and asked her to go on now, in her own way, and throw as much light upon it as she could. [5]
Aunt Mary, helpful under the most trying circumstances, was putting her articles in a bag, the initials on which she did not recognize--H. L. S.--Honora Leffingwell Spence; while old Catherine, tearful and inefficient, knelt before her, fumbling at her shoes. [9]
Aunt Polly fell to crying and wringing her hands. [5]
Aunt Kate nodded, then tried to explain. [11]

Sentences ending with aunt

Are you visiting your aunt? [10]
And that evening, when I came in at five o'clock to study, I asked my mother what had become of Gene Hollister's aunt. [9]
Then the key was turned and the bolt cautiously withdrawn, and a crack of six inches disclosed her aunt. [9]
Well, this woman was his aunt. [11]
Probably you'll be uncomfortable, perhaps unhappy --you are certain to be if you marry to please society and not yourself --but better a thousand times one wild rush of real passion, of self-forgetting love, than an age of stupid, conventional affection approved by your aunt. [4]
Have you written to your uncle and to your aunt? [4]
Cathy has elected to abide with Spain and her aunt. [5]
He went to the Tory balls with my aunt. [9]
She never complained: the strain of asceticism, which mysteriously exists in us all, and makes us put peas, boiled or unboiled, in our shoes, gave her patience with the snub which the Leightons presented her for her aunt. [8]
Heavily, Virginia climbed the stairs to break the news to her aunt. [9]

Short sentences using aunt

Her aunt was quietly reading. [4]
Such was Aunt Mary. [9]
Yes, Aunt Listy is dead. [9]
My aunt was furious. [9]
His aunt was concerned. [5]
Look behind you, aunt! [5]
Suppose you telegraph Aunt Susan. [5]
Answer me that, Aunt 'Becca. [7]
Poor Aunt Mary. [9]
Poor Aunt Mary! [9]

Sentences containing aunt two or more times

One evening, when Uncle Tom had gone to play piquet with Mr. Isham, who was ill, Honora further surprised her aunt by exclaiming: "How can you talk of things other people have and not want them, Aunt Mary? [9]
Aunt Polly--Tom's Aunt Polly, she is--and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. [5]
We was setting on the front steps one day about sundown talking this way, when out comes his aunt Polly with a letter in her hand and says: "Tom, I reckon you've got to pack up and go down to Arkansaw--your aunt Sally wants you. [5]
To all this my aunt agreed, and presently, when Pernhart came in, clad in his holiday garb--a goodly man and well fitted for his new dignity, Aunt Jacoba bid me go look out for Ann. [10]
I am thinking if aunt knew so little of sin, What a wonder Aunt Tabitha's aunt must have been! [6]
She said: "He has been saying his Aunt Mary is a fool and his Aunt Martha is a damned fool. [5]
I would so dearly like it if your mother and your Aunt Susan--" "Our mother and our Aunt Susan, my Rosannah. [5]

More example sentences with the word aunt in them

You have heard your mothers and fathers speak of Aunt Patty, my dears, and they will tell you how she spoiled them when they went a-visiting to Gordon's Pride. [9]
I cannot stomach your Aunt Caroline. [9]
I only ask you to remember, Honora, that you have not explained these reasons very clearly in your letters to your aunt and uncle. [9]
I have told you before now how I went with our maid-servant into the Canopic way to the house of my aunt Archidike to look on at the great procession. [10]
Yassir, it'd break yo' Aunt Polly's heart to hear you. [5]
How gladly Eva would have accompanied her aunt to her sister to exhort her to take courage! [10]
I reckoned Tom would fly at his aunt and hug her head off; but if you believe me he set there like a rock, and never said a word. [5]
How delightful it would be to walk up and down the garden, with her aunt the abbess, with Els, and perhaps--she felt the blood crimson her cheeks--with Heinz Schorlin! [10]
Of course it would be my luck to find a sorrowing and aged maiden aunt of the deceased there, who had arrived from Springfield too late to get into the church. [5]
She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
His face beamed with pleasure, and there was so much open admiration in his eyes that Margaret, conscious of it to her heart's core, feared that her aunt would notice it. [4]
Your aunt is with him, and his dutiful son, Philip, now broken of his rank in the English army. [9]
The close association with her aunt, the abbess, was renewed. [10]
To be again with Eva under the protection of her uncle and aunt now seemed the highest goal of her longing. [10]
I hope you will remember that, with the exception of your aunt and uncle, you have no better friend than I. [9]
As your aunt will have you until you are married, which, I may say, without denying your attractions, is likely to be for some time, I intend to write to her to-night--with your consent--and ask her to allow you to remain with me all summer. [9]
Mr. Hays and wife, uncle and aunt of the bride. [5]
The elderly lady who had been sitting with the old aunt rose hurriedly and overtook Prince Vasili in the anteroom. [2]
Poor Aunt Mary, who did not understand that a performance of "Pinafore" could give birth to the unfulfilled longings which result in the creation of high things, spoke to Uncle Tom a week later concerning an astonishing and apparently abnormal access of industry. [9]
And after breakfast, while Aunt Mary occupied herself with that immemorial institution,--which was to lure hitherwards so many prominent citizens of St. Louis during the day,--eggnogg, Peter surveyed the offerings which transformed the sitting-room. [9]
The cottage in which Margaret lived with her aunt, Miss Forsythe, was not far from our house. [4]
The night before when, after her conversation with Els, she began to pray, she had feared that she had fallen into the snare of earthly love, and dreaded the confession which she had to make to her aunt Kunigunde. [10]
My Aunt Caroline, when she was not at picquet with Mr. Allen or quarrelling with Mrs. Willis or with Grafton himself, yawned without cessation. [9]
The next morning, when I returned from my inspection, I found the rector and Philip had decamped with two of our choice horses, and that my uncle and aunt had commanded the barge, and gone to Mr. Lloyd's. [9]
Ann likewise understood what had brought her sickly friend to her, and she whispered to me that albeit she was deeply thankful for the abundant goodness my aunt had ever shown her, yet could she never swerve from her well-considered purpose. [10]
She will have what Aunt Silence says she shall have. [6]
I says: "But what are we going to tell your aunt Sally has made us so long getting down here from the village, Tom? [5]
Yet, as the weeks passed, it seemed he must break upon this dangerous romance; and then suddenly she went to visit her sick aunt in the Far West. [11]
The next day we should have gone out to the forest, but we remained at home; Aunt Jacoba would see no one. [10]
As the summer waxed hot we went into the forest at the bidding of my uncle and aunt, who took great joy in seeing their favorite in right good heart and wondrous beauty, Mistress Giovanna having provided her with seemly and brave apparel. [10]
Mr. Merrill's brother was there with his wife, and Mrs. Merrill's aunt and her husband, and two broods of cousins. [9]
The housekeeper's face was seen at Aunt Jacoba's window, and so soon as tidings were brought of who it as that came, the dog-keeper's whips hastily silenced the hounds and drove them into the kennel. [10]
There, for instance, was Patience, the maiden aunt, his father's sister, the news-monger of the fireside, whose powers of ratiocination first gave Philip the Greek idea and method of reasoning to a point and arriving at truth by the process of exclusion. [4]
As I too was now preparing to retire, which methought but seemly Aunt Jacoba beckoned me to stay. [10]
But my aunt was not to be disabled by this, --not she. [9]
Now when all was made ready Aunt Jacoba begged of Ann that she should hold the sore closed while Master Ulsenius made the linen bands wet. [10]
Anna Pavlovna's alarm was justified, for Pierre turned away from the aunt without waiting to hear her speech about Her Majesty's health. [2]
If the dining-room was empty, other unprecedented demands were made upon Henrica, for then her aunt, who could not endure to be alone a moment, was sick and miserable, and she was obliged to nurse her. [10]
She thought she was doing right, and they might blame her or not, but her aunt would see that she could not permit any distinction to be set up between her and her husband, etc. [4]
I remember these visits with pleasure, and the days when our grandmother and aunt came to Berlin. [10]
All day long Virginia, assisted by Uncle Ben and Aunt Easter, toiled in the stifling kitchen, preparing dainties which she had long denied herself. [9]
An hour later, Virginia and her aunt and the Captain, followed by Mammy aster and Rosetta and Susan, were walking through the streets of the stillest city in the Union. [9]
The Marchesa cared very little about the library, or about the house, for that matter; a great aunt and uncle, spinster and bachelor, were living in it that winter, and they vacated for Mr. Crewe. [9]
She did not venture to oppose her father, but did not hesitate to express her opinion of the marquis to her excellenza, and her aunt, though she had favored the Frenchman's suit, allowed it. [10]
She could confidently venture to invite him to the meeting which she had in view; her aunt, the abbess, had promised to stand by her side, if she needed her, in her intercourse with the knight. [10]
Keep an eye upon her, careful mother, or virgin aunt, or vigilant duenna, whichever you may be, that walk behind! [4]
The door opened upon Aunt Lucy. [9]
I only picked up words I heard Aunt Cynthy use now and then when she was in the mood. [11]
Then she went up to the table, begged Paaker to sit down with her, broke her cake, and enquired for her aunt Setchern, Paaker's mother. [10]
I should come up here in December, and I should mulct my aunt in the price of a new breech-loader. [11]
Your aunt and uncle wouldn't like it at all at all if ye was to make noise in the middle of the night--and it's little better it is. [9]
My aunt and uncle brought me up, and my cousin, Mrs. Hanbury, Edith's mother, and Mary's, sent me here to school. [9]
How truly my uncle and aunt rejoiced at my brother's home-coming could be seen in their eyes, though the mother, who had banished her own son, was cut to the heart by the sight of such another well-grown youth. [10]
When she was tuckered out and had to hold up, he says, quite ca'm: "And yet, all the same, Aunt Sally--" "Shet up! [5]
But when she tried to eat the lunch Aunt Mary had so carefully put up, new memories assailed her, and she went with Mrs. Stanley into the dining car. [9]
And the family travelled in a coach as grand as Mr. Carvel's own, with panels wreathed in flowers and a footman and outrider in livery, from which my aunt descended like a duchess. [9]
On his way to the aunt he bowed to the little princess with a pleased smile, as to an intimate acquaintance. [2]
She would like to talk with you, and her aunt wants to see you too; they think there's nobody like the 'old Doctor'. [6]
I should like to see your aunt Patience in a theatre and hear what she said about it. [4]
Besides, I began to see the safe side of the bet I had made with my aunt, the dowager, and I was more than pleased with what had come to pass so far. [11]
It is safe to say that she had never accurately gauged the force which Virginia's respect for her elders, and affection for her aunt through Clarence, held in check. [9]
Seeing him talking to Patty, my aunt rose abruptly from her loo and made toward us, all paint and powder and patches, her chin in the air, which barely enabled her to look over Miss Swain's head. [9]
Thus it came to pass that my aunt was witness while they took leave, and he returned thanks in a few heartfelt words. [10]
He pretended not to notice it, but Aunt Mary's eyes were too quick. [9]
It always seemed to him the most peaceful religion; he thought it must be much easier to live by an internal light than by a lot of outward rules; he had a dear Quaker aunt in Providence of whom Mrs. Bolton constantly reminded him. [5]
She would write to her Aunt Mary and her Uncle Tom that very afternoon --one letter to both. [9]
I have enough to do to intercede for her with Eva and Aunt Kunigunde since she singed and oiled the locks of a Swiss knight belonging to the Emperor's court. [10]
A prince was to come who was to bear her away from the ragmen and the boarding-houses and the soot: and incidentally and in spite of herself, Aunt Mary was to come too, and Uncle Tom. [9]
Secondly, Carterette was to bring Sebastian Alixandre to the prison disguised as a sorrowing aunt of the condemned. [11]
She was not to be deceived by the face value of the ladies' praises, nor rebuffed unmercifully by my Aunt Caroline, who had held the sceptre in the absence of a younger aspirant. [9]
There is not time, alas, to linger over Anne Rory or the new histories which she whispered to Aunt Mary when Honora was out of the room. [9]
For a long time nothing more was written of the letter than "Dear Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary": what to say to them? [9]
Yes, the first time I ever ate hedgehog; was in Aunt Cynthy's house. [11]
The danger which threatened her aunt and her beloved nuns also increased her excitement. [10]
Her feeling of this would have been confirmed if she had known that when her aunt read the letter announcing a month's visit to the Eschelles in Newport, she laid it down with a sigh. [4]
Mark Twain, on this long tour, was accompanied by his wife and his daughter Clara--Susy and Jean Clemens remaining with their aunt at Quarry Farm. [5]
And I don't think Aunt Mary would object ---for a little while. [9]
Such an absurd thing to do at night, said the aunt, and then she kissed Margaret, and laughed a little, and declared that things had come to a queer pass when people made love by telegraph. [4]
Therefore, why should they not be permitted to die as happily and confidently as her aunt, the abbess? [10]
The first time these ladies clashed, which was not long in coming, my aunt met with a wit as sharp again as her own, and never afterwards essayed an open tilt. [9]
The Thatchers were there, the Harpers, the Rogerses, Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, the minister, the editor, and a great many more, and all dressed in their best. [5]
Wherever in Nuremberg there was a fine house we could find there an uncle and aunt, cousins and kinsmen, or at least godparents, and good friends of our deceased parents. [10]
Her aunt in the West was taken ill, and she's been with her ever since. [11]
The remainder of the summer I spent half with my mother, half with my aunt, and pursued the same course during the subsequent years, until from 1862 I remained longer in Berlin, engaged in study, and began my scientific journeys. [10]
When she heard the second signal on Katuti's silver whistle, she sat upright and muttered: "That gallows-bird Paaker, his vain aunt and that villain Ani, are no match for Rameses, even when he is asleep. [10]
When Rostov entered the room, the princess dropped her eyes for an instant, as if to give the visitor time to greet her aunt, and then just as Nicholas turned to her she raised her head and met his look with shining eyes. [2]
Manners quietly left the room, and after a while as quietly came back again and sat down by the fire, whispering to Aunt Lucy. [9]
She had told the Princess then that she was the daughter of an exiled English gentleman, and was in the care of her aunt, one Mistress Falkingham, while her father was gone on an expedition to Italy. [11]
I have had the portraits framed for a long time, waiting till my aunt gets everything ready for hanging them up in the parlor. [5]
He arranged with the planter, and mailed to Wilson the new bill of sale which sold Roxana to herself; then he telegraphed his Aunt Pratt: Have seen the awful news in the papers and am almost prostrated with grief. [5]
She had told the Pernharts what were the fears which had brought her into the town, so the chamber was presently cleared, and the master called away Mistress Giovanna after that my aunt had expressed her admiration of her rare charms. [10]
A hedgehog crossed the path here, and it brought those days back to me--Charley Long and Aunt Cynthy and all. [11]
A walk in the moonlight has pleasures, I own, But it is n't quite safe to be walking alone; So I take a lad's arm,--just for safety, you know, But Aunt Tabitha tells me they didn't do so. [6]
She was watching the married people about her with more interest-the Morgans, our own household, Mrs. Fletcher; and besides, her aunt, whose even and cheerful life lacked this experience. [4]
In spite of the fact that my aunt and uncle are the most unworldly people that ever lived--perhaps because of it--I knew nothing of the values of life. [9]
Aunt Cynthy was the daughter of a Gipsy--they say the only Gipsy in that part of the country at the time--who used to buy and sell horses, and travel in a big van as comfortable as a house. [11]
My aunt in the country stops the supplies, and writes an affectionate note to say that she has made a new will, and left me out of it--staggerer, number two. [12]
Peter, who was the complement of all who loved and served her, of Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom and Catherine, and who somehow embodied them all. [9]
Aunt Susan brought the bride from the islands, accompanied her across our continent, and had the happiness of witnessing the rapturous meeting between an adoring husband and wife who had never seen each other until that moment. [5]
Though when to the altar a victim I go, Aunt Tabitha'll tell me she never did so! [6]

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