Use grandmother in a sentence
Sentences starting with grandmother
- Grandmother says that the great poet Anacreon wrote another verse to this song, but she will not teach it me. [10]
- Grandmother was fond of me--poor grandmother! [11]
- Grandmother grew quite glad and young again while looking on these little ones, and as for me I gave them all my heart, though really it is your's and your's alone. [10]
Sentences ending with grandmother
- It is gratifying to me to reflect that we traveled in considerable style; we went in the Pioneer coach, and my friend took all his baggage with him, consisting of two excellent silk handkerchiefs and a daguerreotype of his grandmother. [5]
- Mistress Henneleinlein just then came out whereas she had been helping Dame Giovanna to tend the sick grandmother. [10]
- I don't doubt the old gentleman who lived so long on the top of his pillar would have kept a pretty sinner (if he could have had an elevator to hoist her up to him) longer than he would have kept her grandmother. [6]
- He was sure that the woman was his grandmother. [11]
- A young man slighting the lovely heroine of the little comedy and making love to her grandmother! [6]
- So did your sister's cat's grandmother. [5]
- Mr. Blank has not seen fit to deny the damaging accusation in regard to the treatment of his grandmother. [4]
- What then is left to us--to Ann and me, Grandmother? [10]
- His father and his brother Labaja were sitting in the house by the fire with his grandmother. [10]
- The State had confiscated his extensive and valuable lands, and the young officer, after retiring from the service, had purchased them with the splendid fortune left to Gorgo by her grandmother. [10]
Short sentences using grandmother
- And my grandmother! [10]
More example sentences with the word grandmother in them
- Grandmother, why is your skin so rough? [10]
- Thus three long years had passed, during which Sappho had seldom seen her grandmother, for, as the mother of Parmys, she was by the king's command, forbidden to leave the harem, unless permitted and accompanied either by Kassandane or the eunuchs. [10]
- These divided feelings worried and vexed her; but her grandmother had suggested a way of reconciling them. [10]
- I have often wondered why I recollect my grandfather so distinctly and my grandmother so dimly. [10]
- Seitz first knocked with his fingers and then with his clenched fist, until the grandmother exclaimed: "You have destroyed the house, at least spare the doors. [10]
- And even my wise grandmother can give me no better counsel than to 'wait patiently' and yet again 'Wait' . [10]
- In the bow window jutting out into the street, where the old grandmother sat in her armchair, two green and yellow parrots on brass perches interrupted the conversation, whenever it grew louder, with the shrill screams of their ugly voices. [10]
- He said he was very glad to hear it, did he, when you told him that your beloved grandmother had just deceased? [6]
- I remember these visits with pleasure, and the days when our grandmother and aunt came to Berlin. [10]
- Mother has made up her mind to the change, but grandmother is bitter about it. [6]
- I also became unintentionally acquainted with a secret, which seriously endangered his chances of obtaining the crown; and lastly, I prevented his carrying off a virtuous maiden from the house of her grandmother, an aged woman, beloved and respected by all the Greeks. [10]
- It had early transpired that Rosannah, poor suffering orphan, had neither returned to her grandmother in Portland, Oregon, nor sent any word to her save a duplicate of the woeful note she had left in the mansion on Telegraph Hill. [5]
- Sappho, therefore, had to take a short farewell of her grandmother, all the more tender, however, for its shortness,--and then, led by Rartja and followed by old Melitta, who was to accompany her to Persia, she went on board Syloson's boat. [10]
- Then she turned to Pentaur and said: "For weeks he has had nothing but papyrus-pith, and lotus-bread, and now he brings me the cake which grandmother gave old Hekt yesterday. [10]
- So she determined to make all preparations for going with us to our grandmother in Dresden. [10]
- Our daughter went to her grandmother to be brought up and educated in England--though it was a sore trial to us both--that she might fill nobly that place in life for which she is destined. [11]
- At the same time it was her duty to care for the little one's soul, and if it were not too hard for her grandmother to part from her, she longed to see Mary once more. [10]
- My grandmother in there is the wife of a paraschites. [10]
- Yes, it is the very face I had hoped to find it; and when, erewhile, I saw your likeness in the red hood, and heard your speech as you poured forth your inmost soul to grandmother Pernhart, I knew my own mind. [10]
- Undo it, grandmother, the ring is for you; I meant to bring it to you. [10]
- I could not tell even you, grandmother, for who among the Biamites ever found such lofty, heart-bewitching words as Hermon? [10]
- She had a taste for poetry, and an admiration of poets; but, what was better, she was modest and simple, and a perfect sister and mother and grandmother to the two little forlorn twins who had been stranded on the Widow Hopkins's doorstep. [6]
- But what would survive would not be the nothingness--the void of which her grandmother had spoken; it would be the One--the cold, ineffable, incomprehensible One! [10]
- My grandmother has strictly forbidden me to tell any one what dear little visitors we are expecting; but I feel as if I had known you a long time already, and you have such kind eyes that I could tell you everything. [10]
- And also my stepsister, my niece, my fourth cousin, my thirty-third cousin, my forty-second cousin, my great-aunt, my grandmother, my widowed sister-in-law--and next week she will be my wife. [5]
- Hoary Eliab had soon died, and the grandmother and Hogla--the former on the old man's ass--had followed the Hebrews amid unspeakable difficulties. [10]
- As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wetnurse, she has no equal among men. [5]
- She wears hoops, she does, the same as y'r grandmother used to. [11]
- Thereupon the newspaper says: "Of course a rich man who would put his own grandmother in the poorhouse would deny it. [4]
- Next day, being Saint Clara's day, there would be a great feast at the Tetzels' house by reason that it was the name-day of Dame Clara, Ursula's grandmother, and the eldest of their kin. [10]
- Common delicacy would prevent him from saying that he did not get his faith from his father, but from somebody else, perhaps from his grandmother Lois and his mother Eunice, like the young man whom the Apostle cautioned against total abstinence. [6]
- And how the pert young thing of eleven will chance to be the favorite wife and her own venerable grandmother have to rank away down toward D 4 in their mutual husband's esteem, and have to sleep in the kitchen, as like as not. [5]
- Those are his own words, and though it angers you, Grandmother, they are true. [10]
- At table we overheard Kurt say to Karl: "Little Hermy's present for grandmother was not a bad idea," to which Karl answered quickly: "I am going to put away some of my nuts to-morrow, and plant them in the spring. [10]
- He was an orphan and lived with his grandmother, an impoverished old lady with good blood in her veins who boarded in Graham's Row, on Olive Street. [9]
- Mary's most frequent opportunities of speaking to her friend were just before meals; for at that time no one was watching her, and her grandmother had not forbidden her calling Paula to table. [10]
- She was the only person in the house who dared to contradict her grandmother, and to insist on a thing when she thought it right. [10]
- That the deaf old grandmother did not hear her was easily understood. [10]
- After the death of the first William Emerson, the Concord minister, his widow, Mr. Emerson's grandmother, married, as has been mentioned, his successor, Dr. Ezra Ripley. [6]
- In the course of the dozen years or so of its unravelling the grandmother had died, and Peter had become, to all intents and purposes, a member of Uncle Tom's family. [9]
- My grandmother, spite of her sixty-six years--she married before she was seventeen--was said to look remarkably pretty. [10]
- The deaf grandmother of Helena and Barine, who had but half comprehended what threatened the citizens, terrified by the noisy entrance of the soldiers, had had another attack of apoplexy, and closed her eyes in death before Gorgias set out for the island. [10]
- We are happy now; not because she is mistress of Holwood and Marchurst--for her grandmother and another is dead--but because such as she is our daughter, and--" He said no more. [11]
- The evening brought no coolness, and when it was already quite dark, as her grandmother had not yet called her, Gorgo could no longer control her increasing anxiety, so, after knocking in vain at the door of the observatory, she went in. [10]
- Berenike bore her new dignity of grandmother with grateful joy, yet to-night she came oppressed by a grave anxiety, which was not solely due to her power of imagining gloomy events. [10]
- When her grandmother, my wife, my Julie, when she was young--ah, she was fair, fairer than Guida, but not so tall--not quite so tall. [11]
- The grandmother of my wife was also a Quaker, and used the "thee" and "thou" until the day of her death. [11]
- The spirit of my Quaker grandmother revives in me. [11]
- A visit to my grandmother in Dresden, and many pleasures which I was permitted to share with my brothers and sisters, seemed to me like the respite before execution. [10]
- Finally I wrote my grandmother about it. [5]
- If I may make a suggestion without seeming to be trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs, I will offer it. [5]
- Her grandmother is lying there; she was half choked by the flames, but she will soon come to herself--and I have room for both. [10]
- I am no longer ill, and could go indoors by myself if I wished; but grandmother will be here directly. [10]
- My grandmother, I learned, passed away scarcely a year after the death of her faithful companion, at the home of her son, a lawyer in The Hague. [10]
- He would have lampooned his grandmother, if he was sure she would not, or could not, hurt him. [11]
- My grandmother, too, knows nothing yet. [10]
- The Junker wrapped it with care in a green leaf which, as his lady grandmother had taught him, had a healing gift; Paulus held forth the laced kerchief, and the Italian was striking wailing tones from his lute. [10]
- That is, if it will not shock grandmother too much. [9]
- Mr. Blank, who is running for Congress in the First District, has permitted his aged grandmother to go to the town poorhouse. [4]
- Sappho followed Melitta into the palace, first whispering in her husband's ear with her arm round his neck: "Tell my grandmother everything and ask whether you are right. [10]
- She had departed in anger, because she had vainly endeavoured to induce her mother and grandmother, who opposed her, to speak more kindly of her husband. [10]
- Now, as the image of old Countess Rotterbach, Isabella's grandmother, forced itself upon his mind, he unconsciously knit his brow. [10]
- And she sent him his packet of sweetmeats the first day he went to school; but when the little lad went to thank his grandmother, the old dame was gone to her rest; and her husband lived after her no more than a few months. [10]
- You know that her own grandmother is averse to her. [10]
- Could her grandmother have opened the wine stores all too freely; were the miserable wretches already drunk? [10]
- Gorgo, when she had left her grandmother, could not rest. [10]
- For hours he had been alone with her, for her father and grandmother could no longer stop away from their occupations. [10]
- I knew my grandmother, and loved her. [6]
- Her mother and grandmother undertook the nursing, and as the husband found them both with the twins whenever he came to see the infants and their mother, the sick-room grew distasteful to him. [10]
- Her mother and grandmother tried to follow, but Siebenburg pressed between them and his wife, and his voice thrilled with the anguish of a soul overwhelmed by despair as he cried imploringly: "Hear me, Isabella! [10]
- Got his witch grandmother mummied in it? [6]
- But hark, my grandmother is calling. [10]
- A faint light glimmered in the cave of the sorceress Hekt, and in front of the paraschites' but a fire was burning, which the grandmother of the sick Uarda now and then fed with pieces of dry manure. [10]
- Their language is full of endearing diminutives; nothing that they love escapes the application of a petting diminutive--neither the house, nor the dog, nor the horse, nor the grandmother, nor any other creature, animate or inanimate. [5]
- My grandmother has forbidden me ever to stay in the garden when visitors are here, and indeed I don't care for all those strange men who always talk about things I cannot understand. [10]
- She was panting for breath, and before her, her mother, and her grandmother, Countess Cordula's pretty page, whom Siebenburg knew only too well, was moving to and fro with eager gestures. [10]
- It is the first my tree has borne; and it is very strange, when the bud first began to lengthen and swell my grandmother said, 'Now your heart will soon begin to bud and love. [10]
- The mother and father had a sort of bedstead in the corner; but Tom, his grandmother, and his two sisters, Bet and Nan, were not restricted--they had all the floor to themselves, and might sleep where they chose. [5]
- I saw my father and my mother as they look in the two small pictures; also my grandmother, and her father and mother and grandfather, and one other person, who lived a great while ago. [6]
- The grandmother nodded, exclaiming in a low tone, "Beautiful, beautiful--a wonderfully beautiful creature! [10]
- Her fascinations were everywhere confessed a few years afterwards; and when I last met her, though she said she was a grandmother, I questioned her statement, for her winning looks and ways would still have made her admired in any company. [6]
- I cannot imagine, either, that our grandmother would ever have consented to visit any one. [10]
- They have never done anything very hard certainly, but what they tend flourishes, and grandmother says they are 'lucky. [10]
- My grandmother had died, but my Aunt Sophie still lived in Dresden, and spent her summers in Blasewitz. [10]
- My grandmother is dead, and I am quite alone. [10]
- Sleep well, my darling, thy grandmother will wake and watch for thee. [10]
- Aunt Lucy was Cynthia's grandmother, and eighty-nine years of age. [9]
- It was bitter cold weather when Gottfried's grandmother was burned. [5]
- Yea, the most charming and glowing woman he had ever set eyes on was your mother and grandmother. [10]
- Only one reflection brought her any comfort, and that was the thought that the grave which had yawned already for her grandmother would soon, very soon, open for herself and all living souls. [10]
- It was thought best to keep--me perfectly quiet, and strangers and friends were alike excluded from my nursery, with one exception, that my old grandmother came in now and then. [6]
- It would be best that she should ask Teta to take care of the money for her, and to buy her a house and field; then she could remove into it, and live in it free from care with her grandmother. [10]
- Gorgo stood spellbound as she gazed at her grandmother. [10]
- His grandmother, the arrogant old Countess Rotterbach, agreed with him, and declared that Wolff ought to wed no one except a lady of the most aristocratic birth or an heiress like Ursula. [10]
- Her grandmother seemed annoyed by her lamentations for, pointing to Isabella's tears, she exclaimed sharply, glancing angrily at Siebenburg: "It's a pity for every one of them! [10]
- But the father and the grandmother were a couple of fiends. [5]
- There were salutations, and presently Gaston slowly followed his grandfather and grandmother into the courtyard. [11]
- Though my mother, and even my grandmother, urged her to go, she insisted that she belonged to the twins, and that some evil would befall the little ones if she left them. [10]
- It is almost an exact epitome of my own moral career--after simply substituting a grandmother for a mother. [5]
- My grandmother was an American Quaker. [11]
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