That was my great-grandmother on my mother's side. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
His great-grandmother walked West with Brigham Young. From Wordnik.com. [Xanadu, Sacramento and Beyond] Reference
CALLER: Yes, my great-grandmother, not my grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2007] Reference
I replied to you: 'She is my husband's great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
CALLER: It ` s actually not -- it ` s my great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2007] Reference
Rise, O son and behold this thy afflicted great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
She is the great-grandmother of the superannuated laundress. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891] Reference
I'm reading a journal kept by my great-grandmother Pearl in 1914. From Wordnik.com. [Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)] Reference
"The girl will feel as though her great-grandmother were a thief.". From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
Home was a tiny house that was owned by David's great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [Innocents Lost] Reference
She also revealed her grandmother and great-grandmother were anorexic. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2007] Reference
Your great-grandmother was named Mary Beyer and was one of four sisters. From Wordnik.com. [Pixy's Holiday Journey] Reference
Was it an inheritance from his great-grandmother, the Electress Sophia of. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
I forget the name of my great-grandmother, but I believe it was Elizabeth. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3] Reference
Through it all, Kay remained a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [What They're Saying] Reference
My great-grandmother chopped wood until she was 85, then quit out of boredom. From Wordnik.com. [Tipping Point] Reference
That's something a dainty-footed great-grandmother could never have imagined. From Wordnik.com. [Soap Operas, Frozen Food And Convertibles] Reference
She knows the rules: her great-grandmother was one of Edward VII's mistresses. From Wordnik.com. [Dating: Dos And Don'ts] Reference
I understand she strongly resembles her notorious great-grandmother, Angèle de. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
Kitty's father is his own great-grandmother, or something complicated of that sort! '. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
"There were black people who hadn't been slaves in a lifetime, like my great-grandmother.". From Wordnik.com. [Excavation of sites such as Timbuctoo, N.J., is helping to rewrite African American history] Reference
Black, she says, is slimming, and pink matches a special necklace from her great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [Weddings: White: So Worn Out] Reference
He was one evening in a ball-room, and was paying court to the great-grandmother of that lady. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
MARTHA: Well, I am about to be a great-grandmother and I have no objection to being called ma'am. From Wordnik.com. [Please Don't Call Me 'Ma'am'] Reference
In 1921, my great-grandmother, wrote this book about how her parents met, married and began a family. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Immigrant] Reference
This kind of dress was huge, like physically, in 1993, and it was actually made by my great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Frevele: A Second Chance at the '90s!] Reference
I remember my great-grandmother, an old lady of nearly ninety; my grandmother of nearly as great an age. From Wordnik.com. [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference
Tuttletown public school, as did her children and her children's children - she is now a great-grandmother!. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country] Reference
"I'm quite sure the Master knows something dreadful about your great-grandmother, Mr. Fletcher," laughed Mr.. Shaw. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
If I had avoided the girl, as I intended, I should never have heard of her search for her beloved great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
I did buy the picture, and the lady was my great-grandmother once, but she did not like the position and soon gave it up. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Now her mother, my great-grandmother, was a distinguished personage in my eyes, having been the daughter of Captain Jonathan. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
Sallie watched her grandmother go upstairs and then Sallie looked at the picture hanging on the wall of her great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [Sandman's Goodnight Stories] Reference
I remember well a little couplet your great-grandmother was fond of quoting -- and she practiced it every day of her life, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Lady] Reference
They married on the ship and while in China, gave birth to twin daughters, one of whom was my great-grandmother and namesake, Lila. From Wordnik.com. [Lila Nordstrom: My Grandmother the Family Anchor ... Baby] Reference
We often find children who offer a striking resemblance to a paternal grandfather, a maternal aunt or a maternal great-grandmother. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
She is the natural, own great-grandmother of every child in the world, and her pocketfuls of treasures are his by right of inheritance. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
But this time we found the victoria relegated beside the old "Berline" which Aunt Rose's great-grandmother had used to make a journey to. From Wordnik.com. [With Those Who Wait] Reference
The children went to live with their great-grandmother, who found them "inconveniently young," while Thackeray remained alone in London. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Hertfordshire, in whose family Lamb's maternal grandmother -- "the grandame" of his poem of that name, and the "great-grandmother Field" of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
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