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Example sentences for "dear granny"

  • It was a brilliant party, but they were all so preternaturally witty and wise that, to tell you the truth, dear Granny, they occasionally gave me the mind-ache.

  • My dear Granny, you will well understand how I came to think of you during that performance; for the first time, I thought like you on this subject.

  • I look forward to seeing you all in the spring, and in the mean time remain, dear Granny, Yours most affectionately, FANNY.

  • Thank you, my dear Granny, for all your advice, and still more for the love which dictates it; I lay both to heart.

  • She was equal to:--"Dear Granny Marrable.

  • Really, dear Granny Marrable, I don't think you need be the least uneasy.

  • I must give it a name, dear granny," she said; "can you help me?

  • O dear granny, that is what I have been praying it may be," said Fanny, "and you have often told me that God hears prayers even of weak little girls like me.

  • Dear Granny,' she said, 'don't talk like that.

  • I said I wanted to "fĂȘter" dear granny on her birthday, and I wondered what I could do.

  • Oh, granny, dear, dear granny, is it you?

  • And all of a sudden, greatly to dear granny's surprise and still more to her distress, I burst into tears.

  • James could scarcely find it in his heart to say a single word to damp her joy, and all his resolution enabled him to do was to say gently, 'You know, dear granny, we must not forget that I am a clergyman.

  • James had been thinking it meant for some one; but, as he said, 'certainly not for you, dear granny.

  • Depend upon it there is a greatness in him, which may show, when, as dear granny says, she has cured him of all he learnt away from home.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear angel; dear brethren; dear child; dear cousin; dear creature; dear daughter; dear father; dear father and mother; dear godmother; dear governor; dear grandmother; dear heart; dear knows; dear ladies; dear lord; dear mamma; dear mother; dear niece; dear one; dear people; dearest cousin; dearest creature; dearest sister; eight pages; our language; three years