My great-uncle Pedro died last month at the age of 96. From Wordnik.com. [Behind exhumation of Simon Bolivar is Hugo Chavez's warped obsession] Reference
We saw Delfin, the other great-uncle out here a while ago. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: INS Raids Home of Miami Relatives, Seizes Elian Gonzalez - April 22, 2000] Reference
David's great-uncle was ill with typhoid fever, and that the. From Wordnik.com. [Polly of the Hospital Staff] Reference
My great-uncle had particularly declared it should not be divided. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
A great-uncle grabs the box from the floor and springs the latches. From Wordnik.com. [Gathering] Reference
= The Cardinal Georges d'Amboise was in reality Bussy's great-uncle. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
Little Trout, they called her, the great-uncle baker's one grandchild. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The lawyer, paid for by my great-uncle, set up the plea of self-defence. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
"Oh, wise great-uncle," she said, "I am going to tell you about the Man!". From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
Chaworth, John Hewett, Lord Byron, a great-uncle of the poet, and seven others. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
"And now to see whether the Moqui will promise to carry it to your great-uncle.". From Wordnik.com. [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference
Mr. Gibbes, who, by the way, was a great-uncle of William Waldorf Astor, was a South. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Although there is no insanity in our family nearer than a great-uncle, I marvel that. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
His cousin and great-uncle traveled to Washington Saturday hoping to see Elian again. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2000] Reference
At the age of ten, on the death of his great-uncle, he succeeded to the peerage as Lord. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
"I am third cousin to your little girl: Mr. Raymond at The Headlands is my great-uncle.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
The death of his great-uncle (May 19, 1798) placed him in possession of the title and estates. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Many times during breakfast Denis looked thoughtfully at his great-uncle, and at last inquired. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia de Noël] Reference
One of the 2,000 residents here at this senior community is actually the president's great-uncle. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2009] Reference
Another great-uncle, Delf??, who served 10 years in a Cuban prison, is the anti-Castro firebrand. From Wordnik.com. [The War Over EliáN] Reference
My great-uncle takes care of the right I have there, and I have never been allowed to meddle with it. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
Take Alicia, 15, whose mother left her two years ago with a great-uncle who pocketed her support money. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Barrel Children'] Reference
Roy and Walt -- her grandfather and great-uncle, respectively -- are legends of the entertainment business. From Wordnik.com. [Abigail Disney Isn't Interested In Cinderella Stories] Reference
The Abassides of Kufa, Bagdad, and Cairo, fifty-four in all, descended from Abas, the great-uncle of the Prophet. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
The attorneys have asked that judge to grant temporary custody to Elian's great-uncle, with whom he has been living. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Fate of Young Cuban Refugee Elian Gonzalez Remains in Limbo - January 9, 2000] Reference
Pretty lifelike, I call it -- well, there ain't anything in it yet, but my great-uncle Bradly's shirtstuds are in the. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
His great-uncle Lazaro, a 49-year-old house painter who lives in a modest house in Little Havana, has temporary custody. From Wordnik.com. [The War Over EliáN] Reference
An 'then my great-uncle asked him if he'd got anything to say why the resolution o' that meetin 'shouldn't be carried out. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
"The boy will have far greater opportunities here than in Cuba," said Lazaro Gonzalez, 49, the great-uncle who took him in. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Boy In The Middle] Reference
The Kean family line goes back much further, though; Tom Kean Sr. 's grandfather and great-uncle both served in the Senate. From Wordnik.com. [Fix Clip -N- Save: 'First families' of politics] Reference
Another incident painful to recall, but characteristic, was told to my great-uncle in 1834 by Colonel Morgan Lewis, a friend of Colonel. From Wordnik.com. [Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold] Reference
On the day of her meeting with Maurice, she ate her lunch with a glance every few minutes at her great-uncle Allan on the opposite wall. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters] Reference
The boy's great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez, a 49-year-old house painter, fled Cuba in 1983 and has been awarded temporary custody of the boy. From Wordnik.com. [The Americanization Of A 'Miracle Boy'] Reference
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