Use nephew in a sentence
Sentences ending with nephew
- She is going to their estate near Moscow either today or tomorrow morning, with her nephew. [2]
- Herdegen she sent to the other end of the table to sit near his uncle, and Ursula far from him near the middle; to the end that it might be clearly seen that she knew naught of any alliance between that damsel and her nephew. [10]
- Somehow, I forget that I am talking to his nephew. [11]
- Andree took it, started at the handwriting, tore open the envelope, and read: Zoug-Zoug congratulates you on the conquest of his nephew. [11]
- Another lately added sorrow arose from the lessons she gave her six year-old nephew. [2]
- This was the senator's nephew. [10]
- They were Sherlock Holmes and his nephew. [5]
- She thought of her nephew. [2]
- She had confessed her feelings to her father, her best friend, and persuaded him to have patience a little longer, and wait for the change which he himself expected in his nephew. [10]
- Such gnawing and grinding disturb the sleep of one who longs for slumber; but Joshua desired to keep awake to continue to open the eyes of the blinded youth, yet he waited in vain for any sign of life from his nephew. [10]
More example sentences with the word nephew in them
- The great merchant would do everything for his fame-crowned nephew, and he, Hermon, was conscious that had his uncle been in his situation he would have divided his last obol with him. [10]
- Come, nephew, off with you, and head the minuet with Miss Dolly! [9]
- The indulgence with which he treated his nephew was, no doubt, imprudent. [6]
- Behind the gun-carriage, which bore the body, walked the nephew of the great Dakoon, then came a clear space, and then Pango Dooni, and Cumner, and behind these twenty men of the artillery, at whose head rode McDermot and Cumner's Son. [11]
- He will learn where his nephew is soon enough. [10]
- Seeing who it was--a widow who, with no demureness, had tried without avail to bring Luke Claridge to her--her lips pressed together in a bitter smile, and she said to her nephew clearly: "Patience Spielman hath little hope of thee, David. [11]
- If Caesar's spirit wakes within him, he will wrest from the dissembler Octavianus the heritage of which the nephew robbed the son. [10]
- I did not wake till morning, and then it was to find the governor's nephew building up the fire again. [11]
- The murder of Vindex and his nephew had been the death-blow of this hope. [10]
- Princess Mary had two passions and consequently two joys--her nephew, little Nicholas, and religion--and these were the favorite subjects of the prince's attacks and ridicule. [2]
- Your nephew is to marry her sister; let her be swallowed up--a shame behind the veil, the sweet litany of the cloister. [11]
- She had returned to her rooms in the inn kept by Sostratus, but her nephew Narses had remained with Katharina and her mother. [10]
- This task was to fall to Hermon, and also another, still more important one; for he, his nephew and future son-in-law, if any one, could persuade the wealthy Archias to lend the plot his valuable aid. [10]
- It was at this very point that the danger lay, for the nephew of the Dakoon, Gis-yo-Bahim, was a weak but treacherous man, ill-fitted to rule; a coward, yet ambitious; distrusted by the people, yet the heir to the throne. [11]
- Young George was there, Mr. Hutchins's nephew, who was daily becoming more and more of a factor in the management of the mills, and had built the house of yellow brick that stood out so incongruously among the older Hutchinses' mansions, and marked a transition. [9]
- He spoke of the young man's much admired work on the subject called Sohar, nor did he omit to mention that Gamaliel's nephew was able to foretell the positions of the stars even on future nights. [10]
- Eleven years ago the only nephew of the Prince, after some naughty escapades, fled from the Court with Rullecour the adventurer, who invaded the Isle of Jersey. [11]
- Gotthard von Ramsweg, the Lady Wendula's older brother, a valiant knight, went to his sister's home after her husband's death to manage the estate and instruct his nephew in all the exercises of knighthood. [10]
- She went through the accounts with Alpatych, conferred with Dessalles about her nephew, and gave orders and made preparations for the journey to Moscow. [2]
- It thus transpired that the Extraordinary Man's nephew was the only person in the camp who had a killing-grudge against Flint Buckner. [5]
- Althea, however, declared that the blind man's marriage to Daphne was only a question of time, and Proclus added that the easily excited nephew would show himself more pliant than the uncle if Arsinoe exerted upon him the irresistible charm of her personality. [10]
- His nephew at that stepped in, and, with a little disdainful laugh at me, made some galling gibe at my 'distinguished learning. [11]
- This was not strange; these three persons, Dudley Venner, his daughter, and his nephew, represented all that remained of an old and honorable family. [6]
- It was a strange and terrible surprise to Dudley Veneer to find that his nephew, who had been an inmate of his house and the companion of his daughter, was to all intents and purposes guilty of the gravest of crimes. [6]
- In this considerable space the Extraordinary Man was moving about, attended by his nephew with a lantern. [5]
- This seemed to satisfy Zeno, and ere Gorgias could urge him to extend a protecting hand over his nephew, he excused himself and, with a message to the wounded man, turned his back upon him. [10]
- If the Mohar sacrifices a fortune for Nefert, he will be her master, and Katuti will not stand in his way; she knows well enough why her nephew pays for her. [10]
- Now her eyes rested on the sturdy, strongly-knit figure of her nephew, and it struck her that he bore no resemblance to his tall, handsome father. [10]
- Up-stairs the uncle reproached the nephew gently, saying: "What did you get me into that engagement for? [5]
- But the nephew persisted: "I say, Belward, Aunt Sophie was cut up no end when she heard of it. [11]
- But he was painstaking and cautious, and I soon found out that he looked askance upon any one whom his nephew might recommend. [9]
- Under almost any other circumstances, her father would have been unwilling to take a young fellow of whom he knew so little under his roof; but this was his nephew, and anything that seemed like to amuse or please Elsie was agreeable to him. [6]
- Sometimes an uncle or aunt lives over again in a nephew or niece, as if the knight's move were repeated on the squares of human individuality. [6]
- He shuddered!--the image of Vindex and his nephew rose once more before his mind's eye; at the same moment, however, Theocritus hailed him with the exclamation: "That fellow, Tarautas, is not a man at all! [10]
- Two thousand soldiers of the Dakoon, under command of his nephew, Gis-yo-Bahim, were gathered there. [11]
- In the presence of his nephew, there grew the envy of a man who knew that youth was passing while every hot instinct and passion remained. [11]
- The old man now invited him to accompany his nephew to the studio. [10]
- Proclus, who neglected no opportunity of serving the nephew of the rich man whose aid he constantly required for the Queen's finances, was his guide, and described the decoration of the inner apartments of the royal residence. [10]
- Ian looked his nephew up and down with a cool kind of insolence as he passed, but did not make any salutation. [11]
- Then uncle and nephew recrossed the street, and as they walked off the Colonel was seen to laugh. [9]
- You are the nephew of Rebecca Swiveller, spinster, deceased, of Cheselbourne in Dorsetshire. [12]
- He is a nephew of ours. [6]
- We have Hosea's nephew in the snare, and it will be your part not to let him escape. [10]
- Vindex and his nephew are no more; but I embarked soon enough to escape the rage of him who might have attained the highest favors of fortune if he had but known how to be merciful. [10]
- The King is near his end; my nephew is mad--mad will mount the throne, and mad remain. [5]
- The portraits of myself and uncle and nephew are very good indeed, and your impressionist reproduction of the palace of the Governor General of India is accurate and full of tender feeling. [5]
- Then the good man also saw how nobly, in spite of his wild life, his obstinacy, and the work so unpleasing to him, his nephew always showed the noble impulses inherited from his brave father, and thus Hermon gained the day. [10]
- What if she loved the nephew as she had once loved the uncle who, through her, had learned what bliss life can offer? [10]
- She had never loved my grand-uncle Im Hoff, and, as soon as she had recovered herself, she vowed she would bring his craft to nought and likewise would let her nephew, now in Paris, know her opinion of his knavish unfaith to a sacred pledge. [10]
- Miss Rosannah Ethelton, let me introduce to you my favorite nephew, Mr. Alonzo Fitz Clarence. [5]
- They were no less important personages than Don Carlos himself and Alessandro Farnese, John's nephew, the son of that Ottavio at whose admission as Knight of the Golden Fleece Barbara had made at Landshut the most difficult resolution of her life. [10]
- Our master's nephew, Leonax, Alciphron's son, will accompany his uncle and stay for a week or longer as a guest, not over yonder with Protarch, but here in our house. [10]
- This was due largely, he thought, to the constant advocacy of the Chevalier de la Darante, whose nephew had married Mademoiselle Georgette Duvarney. [11]
- He did not know,--but sometimes thought that this nephew of his might take a serious liking to Elsie. [6]
- He would repay Joshua for what he had done, when he remained in chains and captivity that he, his nephew, might go forth as free as a bird. [10]
- His nephew, the ingenious, inventive, and inexhaustible. [6]
- Emerson, Mary Moody: influence over her nephew, 16-18; quoted, 385. [6]
- He was lying in his study with a book, and Lady Belward sent to ask him if he would care to see her and Lord Dargan's nephew, Cluny Vosse. [11]
- When Vindex and his nephew were beheaded, three trumpet-calls had sounded; her brother had told her so. [10]
- The Colonel eyed his nephew sharply. [9]
- In spite of his deep vexation and the unbridled violence with which the nephew had allowed himself to address his uncle, my father did not dream of withholding his assistance from him. [10]
- Princess Mary roused him from his abstraction by drawing his attention to her nephew who had entered the room. [2]
- Chrysilla would accompany her, but she could leave her father alone in Pergamus a few months without anxiety, for he had a second son there in his nephew Myrtilus, and had found a kind friend in Philetaerus, the ruler of the country. [10]
- Katuti had kept her unfortunate nephew Paaker concealed in one of her servants' tents. [10]
- Princess Mary, in her position as absolute and independent arbiter of her own fate and guardian and instructor of her nephew, was the first to be called back to life from that realm of sorrow in which she had dwelt for the first fortnight. [2]
- Governor Seward says he has a nephew (Clarence A. Seward, I believe) who would be willing to go and play colonel and assist in raising the force. [7]
- If anything should happen to Elsie, it would be the most natural thing in the world that his uncle should adopt him, his nephew and only near relation, as his heir. [6]
- The nephew who had died was Samuel E. Moffett, son of Pamela Clemens. [5]
- And, besides, he had destined his nephew to become his successor, the head of one of the largest commercial houses in the city. [10]
- Bring him greeting from me, and tell him that I, whom he honors with his love, dare to entreat him modestly but earnestly not to punish the aged Claudius Vindex and his nephew for the fault they were guilty of on my account. [10]
- Martina was especially fond of having young people about her, and Heliodora, the widow of her nephew, had found comfort with her in her trouble; it was in her house that Orion and Heliodora had met. [10]
- So I was first cousin to Nick, and nephew to that selfish gentleman, Mr. Temple, in whose affectionate care I had been left in Charlestown by my father. [9]
- The most brilliant figures in all the stately throng were Don Juan himself, and his youthful nephew, Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma. [10]
- It was the face of Faith Claridge, the sister of the woman in the graveyard, whose soul was "with the Lord," though she was but one year older and looked much younger than her nephew, David. [11]
- Meanwhile, will you extend your hospitality to Hosea's nephew and commend him to your fair daughter's nursing; he seems in sore need of care. [10]
- Uncle and nephew emerged from the battle as heroes worthy of renown, but the glory of this victory clung to Don Juan's name. [10]
- These guests--the famous Count Rostopchin, Prince Lopukhin with his nephew, General Chatrov an old war comrade of the prince's, and of the younger generation Pierre and Boris Drubetskoy--awaited the prince in the drawing room. [2]
- While in the city during the next few days I met a young gentleman named Daniel Clark, a nephew of that Mr. Clark of whom I have spoken. [9]
- Clemens had established Charles L. Webster, his nephew by marriage, in a New York office, as selling agent for the Mississippi book and for his plays. [5]
- You know that Caracalla threatened old Claudius Vindex and his nephew with death because of their opposition to his union with you. [10]
- And besides, I can't get my nephew Dion out of my mind. [10]
- She was rescued by my nephew at the risk of his life, and she has been delirious ever since she has recovered her consciousness. [6]
- Besides, there is business behind it--railways, mines, and all that; and Hampstead's nephew is going to the States fortune-hunting. [11]
- One year he brought his nephew, a young fellow of about twenty-three. [11]
- Gamaliel's nephew, Rabbi Ben Jochai, enjoyed a reputation little inferior to that of his father, Ben Akiba. [10]
- If you had been another sort of nephew, you would have come into possession (so says the will, and I see no reason to doubt it) of five-and-twenty thousand pounds. [12]
- He examined the bailiff's accounts of the village in Ryazan which belonged to his wife's nephew, wrote two business letters, and walked over to the granaries, cattle yards and stables before dinner. [2]
- The fate which awaits the consul Claudius Vindex and his nephew, who by their want of respect to you offended me, will teach the others to have a care. [10]
- He had written, asking his nephew to come for some final sittings. [11]
- Such a passage as the following might have come from his Essay, "Nature," but it was written when her nephew was only four years old. [6]
- He shall die, and his nephew with him! [10]
- Like his nephew and heir Eumenes, he was a friend to art, and induced the laurel-crowned Alexandrian to execute the relief, modelled in clay, in marble for the Temple of Dionysus at Pergamus. [10]
- He called softly, and directly after his nephew whispered: "I'll loose your ropes, if you will hold up your hands to me. [10]
- Because, forsooth, I am the nephew of Zeno, the Keeper of the Seal, who is on the brink of despair because he himself knows nothing, not even the veriest trifle. [10]
- Mr. Charles Wrexell Allen's chair was finally awarded to a nephew of Judge Short, who could turn a story to perfection. [9]
- Gamaliel let the Alexandrian speak to the end, but then, as his nephew was beginning to argue against their host's hesitancy, the old man abruptly interrupted him. [10]
- Could there be a more important matter than his own nephew kept in durance, and in danger of being murdered by Dutch butchers in the frenzy of their victory? [9]
- So I said: "Well, here is the unfilled duplicate of the blank which the Oakland hospital people sent to you by the hand of the sick-nurse when she came here to nurse your little nephew through his dangerous illness. [5]
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