It was Aunt Jane's living-room; in it she had rocked and knitted for more than half a century.
It recalls to us the last judgment look which a maiden aunt was wont to bestow upon us years ago.
Aunt Lydia has written to you," she said, still gazing at him as if she doubted his reality.
On the whole, perhaps, the lesser evil was to resign herself to her Aunt Lydia if, as her father declared, her aunt was willing to receive her.
To Rosalie Road, Balham, with her Aunt Lydia for companion, the divorced woman at the age of twenty-six retired to remember that she had once hoped to be an artist, and had had the opportunity of being happy.
The father is an hotel-keeper in the United States, you tell me, and the aunt lives in Wandsworth.
An emotion that she did not seek to define was roused in her as she wondered if Heriot could indeed have taken the blow so stoically as her aunt declared.
Aunt Lydia said you weren't cut up at all when she saw you.
Aunt Rose ran out, waving her apron, and the daring Robin Hood, making as much noise as both of them, strode back and forth, protecting while at the same time vigorously protesting against the retreat of his flock.
Aunt Rose, you are as bad as a child, standing giggling there!
And old Aunt Vina and her two sons would not have lost their wages, nor the church its annual liberal check.
And the affront was the greater in this instance, in that Vivian had considered "Aunt Nellie" his firm friend.
This is her daughter, and I know that when my uncle and aunt meet her, they will adopt her as their own daughter in her mother's place.
I wouldn't have thought your aunt would so far have forgotten herself.
To which he replied, "I would go through it all again, Aunt Marjorie, for the joy I believe it will bring you and yours.
But her old aunt had given her the very best present of all; it was a doll, with a sweet pretty face and dark brown curls.
Oh, I suppose it is nothing but a lump of brown sugar from Aunt Beate.
She had called her Beate, her own name, and the name of her old aunt who had given her the doll.
Madame Reynier, the auntof mademoiselle, was summoned, and Van Camp was marooned on a sofa with Lloyd-Jones, who was just in from the West.
Or Sallie would ask, as if her fate depended on the answer, "Did he eat that nice piece er chicken, Aunt Susan?
I sat silent, recalling what a drudge she had been until Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt successfully overcame that bad habit of living, so highly desirable to be got rid of by some people.
The Educational scheme or Course established by Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt may be resolved into the following synopsis.
As soon as this volume began to circulate, Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt fell into a state of coma, arising either from sleep or a rheumatic paroxysm.
Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen, and Biddy became a part of our establishment.
Why, Aunt Letitia, have you no wish to find out who killed Uncle Herbert?
If your auntseems to want sympathy or help I daresay Mother would feel kindly toward her in this trouble.
There's no hope from your mother, my aunt or Sir Herbert.
You say you want to find the murderess in order to relieve your aunt from any hint of suspicion.
Of course; but it must have been a lower class of women,--not ladies, like my auntand Mrs Everett.
Yes, and my auntsays he expected to see Crippen the night he was killed.
There can't be any reason that would make Bates do so, but to shield his aunt from suspicion.
You'll get it from me, but Solomon himself couldn't understand my aunt if she chose to be secretive.
I think we can say positively there is no danger of suspicion coming to rest on your aunt or her companion, Miss Gurney.
You have heard Aunt Mandy tell her pickaninnies what awful fellows the Yankees are, have you not?
Help Marcy into his saddle and then tell me what I shall bring you when I come from town--a plug of store tobacco for yourself, and a big red handkerchief for Aunt Mandy?
This gave her aunt a further opportunity of repeating the same taunts.
This auntwas influenced by a secret feeling of spite, and when Jijiû visited her she often whispered to her many things which did not become her as a lady.
One day, quite unexpectedly, theaunt arrived at the mansion, bringing as a present a dress for the Princess.
Aunt Sophia and I are great friends, you know; she has always been like my mother, who died when I was a baby.
I had to ask them, and they generally come once while they are up--the four girls and Aunt Katherine--and it is with the greatest difficulty I can collect four young men for them if they get the least hint whom they are to meet.
You take Evangeline to lunch, Aunt Sophia, and I will go back and feed with him, and tell him, and then come to you after.
My aunt and I carry it with great difficulty to a clean place and, after a fashion, cut off steaks which we broil rapidly and put between slices of bread.
On the plateau (over opposite the one where my aunt went) he saw five German soldiers observing the plain of Iles, and several others watching the road to Quincy.
Before he could answer, Aunt Betsy laid the baby in his arms.
After his aunt had put on her shawl and left for her own cabin, he curled up in a bearskin on the floor.
There, side by side on the sofa, sat Aunt Jane and Mr. Solomon Baxter, looking up in surprise at the vision which had suddenly burst in upon their quiet conversation.
The whir of the locust outside, and the regular creak, creak of Aunt Jane's tall rocking-chair were the only sounds to break the stillness.
Whenever Aunt Jane was particularly trying, her friends brought forward the singular excuse: "Jane is so conscientious; she means to do just right.
Aunt Jane is going to be married on Thanksgiving Day.
Aunt Jane was serious-minded and progressive, and, worst of all, she was conscientious.
Aunt Jane wants me to wear a veil and keep white; but I'd rather be black and speckled all over, than make a mummy of myself.
Perhaps not," heraunt answered; "but it may make a little.
I don't know whether he means us with Job, or Aunt Jane with the Baxter babies, or you with the housekeeping.
If these children can come here for mere pleasure, it certainly is not too stormy for me to go out on an errand of duty," answered Aunt Jane, with dignity.
And Aunt Jane stalked past them into the house, and sat down to cut the leaves of the last scientific magazine.
I can't help feeling as if Aunt Jane were likely to drop in at any minute, though," Polly remarked.
I am a disgrace to you; Aunt Bolton has said so again and again.
Was not Mrs. Bolton, the widow of the late archdeacon, and the richest woman in Upton, own aunt to the rector, David Chantrey?
Aunt Bolton has told me what she said to you; and I can hardly bear to look either of you in the face.
I tried to break myself of it I did try to keep from it; but it was always there on the table when I sat down to my meals with Aunt Bolton; and I could always find comfort in it.
She would take exactly what her aunt Bolton drank, and then she could not go wrong.
The worry and fret of his brain had grown almost to fever-height, when his aunt made a proposal, which he accepted in impatient haste.
Mr. Chantrey was impatient to get into his own house, where he could do what his aunt had refused to do, and where he could shield his wife from all temptation to yield to the craving for stimulants in any form.
Those from his friend Warden and his aunt which bore a recent date had certainly a rather unsatisfactory tone; but all of Sophy's had been brighter and more cheerful than he had anticipated.
He looked at his auntwith a smile, and an expression of hope, such as had not lit up his gray face for many a month.
What will Marjorie do when the shops once again lie temptingly before her, and when her aunt Plessington's guests once more besiege her, and social life presents itself again in its garish variety?
When she was seventeen her tutor died of a surfeit occasioned by feeding too freely at a gaudy, and the secret at last came out that there had been a union between the Don and the aunt for nearly twenty years.
Her aunt was so fond of her that she was suffered to "give a loose to her passion for literature," and the girl absorbed information from curling papers and the lids of wig-boxes.
The aunt became, therefore, a mother, and she produced documents to show that the Don's possessions were hers.
Of course I can't take you all with me, so I am going to ask your Aunt Julia to let you go and live with her.
Every one but Aunt Julia had loved her always, and done their best to make her happy, even cross Lydia, and she in return rewarded them by a placid, sweet acceptance of their efforts, and allowing them to love her.
I couldn't refuse to, and--you must all go to live with your Aunt Julia.
Easter is in their hearts, too, for Penelope is home for her holidays and Angela has just returned from a much-dreaded duty visit to Aunt Julia, and their joy at being together again is intense.
It would be jolly, and ever so much nicer than living withAunt Julia.
Aunt Julia firmly refused to take over at a moment's notice the burden her sister was so calmly laying on her shoulders.
I really think your Aunt Julia would refuse to have Esther if she knew how bad her temper has become," said Mrs. Carroll with a sigh.
I don't like Aunt Julia; she is always cross, and I don't like cross people.
But perhaps Aunt Julia will not have us," said Penelope, joyfully clutching at the hope.
And there came back to her mind her mother's words, "I am sure your Aunt Julia would not have Esther if she knew how bad her temper had become," and her eyes filled with tears at the recollection.
I wish I could remember all the things Aunt Julia used to tell us," sighed Angela regretfully.
Not to be going to Canada was bad enough, but to have to go and live with Aunt Julia, for no one knew how long, was too dreadful to contemplate.
But his blame was unjust; he had credited me with having made known the cowardly part he had played on the river; but though my uncle and aunt were ignorant of it, the news reached Lilla's ears, the medium being Tom Bulk.
My aunt and Lilla were almost startled at the suddenness of the proposed departure, and my uncle looked anxious; but they said nothing, only made their final preparations, and soon after dark the fresh skipper came up with half a dozen men.
I hurried into the house to find that the old notary had fallen asleep, while my aunt was uneasily walking about.
The door closed then, and it was evident that Tom was enjoying the act of seeing Garcia off the premises, while the next minute my uncle was holding me tightly by both hands and my aunt sobbing on my neck.
We found Tom watching his prisoner on our return, and my aunt and Lilla ready to welcome us gladly.
But I'm glad you'll go on to Brussels, Aunt Claire, and I think Major du Chaillu will be glad to make the arrangements, before the railway is interrupted.
You said it was settled, Aunt Claire," he replied.
I think you had better take your maid and go to Brussels, Aunt Claire.
And Paul and Arthur, too, rode in the carriage that took their aunt and her maid into Liege.
Only my aunt wants us to go, and I was afraid that perhaps we could.
Oh, Aunt Claire, we've done so many wonderful things to-night!
It flowers white, leaving a berry like a small nut, but that sometimes it is broad like a bean; and when it is peeled, parteth in two.
That is, Englishmen use forms of a certain distinct type, viz.
They were grown from seed of the Coffea arabica brought to Malabar from Arabia.
It was not long after its beginning that nearly every shop on the Piazza di San Marco in Venice was a caffè[41].
He therefore takes a middle course, and observes that the possession of an aunt in the Lunatic Asylum is certainly strong presumptive evidence that her nephew is no better than she is.
My sole security in this affair, is a maiden aunt now in the Lunatic Asylum.
Here proof of the lunacy of the maiden aunt would be sufficient.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aunt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words: aunt dear; aunt said
