Judith Merril was known as the grandam of science fiction and Phyllis as the mother of Canadian SF. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian SF Giant Dies « Colleen Anderson] Reference
The grandam of my grandam was the Lyre. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Seas] Reference
Anything their grandam took seriously affected them. From Wordnik.com. [Phaze Doubt]
Credibly; so grandsire, grandam alike did agree. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
She'd been the grandam of the University of North Carolina Medical School. From Wordnik.com. [Kiss the Girls]
He knew better than to naysay his grandam, though he was Adept and she was not. From Wordnik.com. [Phaze Doubt]
The man thought a moment, and then replied, "Tell your grandam that I will come.". From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference
Nepe exclaimed happily, hardly caring about the technicality that she was Flach's grandam. From Wordnik.com. [Phaze Doubt]
Strange office for a bride, the day after the wedding, to be nursing her bridegroom's grandam. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
All took part in it, from the toddling infant to the ancient grandam whose feeble limbs required the aid of a staff. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Khorii's grandsire and grandam were no less remarkable than her parents, both having recently returned from the dead. From Wordnik.com. [First Warning]
"Yes-we lost everything in the Finiah disaster," the grandam told the sympathetic human campmaster as they signed in. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Torc]
Before this grandam, whose lack-luster eyes were fastened steadfastly before her, the fool paused and asked the direction of the inn. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Her daughter, a blooming matron, was there, happy, wealthy, good; yet not apparently a whit more reconciled to life than the aged grandam. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
The grandam explained that an evil spirit had destroyed all others; but that she by her power had preserved herself and her grand-daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
There's a good grandam, boy, that would blot thee. From Wordnik.com. [Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical] Reference
The smouldering grandam nods and knits by turns, 190. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
Then goes the musicker to my grandam, bidding the old. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
I felt like an aged grandam admonishing a silly child. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Basement Flat] Reference
Boy! it was happy for thy grandam that she loved me not. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
And all we hear is only fit for grandam-talk and nursery-hymn. From Wordnik.com. [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference
"But what will your grandam say, and your tutor, Dominie Holiday?". From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Flanders grandam, who had sworn that his blood came from proud kings. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of the King] Reference
Riding Hood: "there will still be plenty left for grandam and for me.". From Wordnik.com. [Bo-Peep Story Books] Reference
Gertrude's place it should be Margery, and the grandam had cried Amen. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Old grandam Moan, who had been taken home before the singing began, was there. From Wordnik.com. [An Iceland Fisherman] Reference
Yes, she knew how to sew and embroider, and transfer with a vengeance, that old grandam!. From Wordnik.com. [The Sand-Hills of Jutland] Reference
"Who dares, sweet grandam, to place banner or pennon where Earl Godwin's ought to float?". From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
"Thy grandam on which side, prithee?" said she, displeased because he did not "madam" her. From Wordnik.com. [The Visions of the Sleeping Bard] Reference
Malvolio, "Thou shalt fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam.". From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
By the fireside sat the old grandam, very old, and blind, as Elizabeth now perceived she was. From Wordnik.com. [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
The smallest boy or the most secluded grandam could tell you whether No. 32 had a hot-box last. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
In her passion she dropped her cultivation for once, and went back to the THOU and THEE of her grandam. From Wordnik.com. [A Simpleton] Reference
Beldam (belle dame), originally a complimentary name for grandmother or grandam, has become uncomplimentary in meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
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