Bridget and Grandad were at their wit's end, as many a time before, for words with which to soothe the old woman.
If the demon of pessimism lurked by the M'Carty fireside in the person of Granny M'Carty, that malign influence was offset by the angel of optimism who brooded over the family circle under the name of Grandad Rafferty.
Grandad unrolled the paper and eyed his stick of candy lovingly.
Though he inwardly resented this abuse of his daughter, Grandad tried as usual to pour oil on the seething waters.
At the shriek of the first whistle Grandad Rafferty, who sat by the fire with baby Ellen on his knee, looked up at the clock and nodded to it approvingly.
At dusk Granny M'Carty and Grandad Rafferty sat in their accustomed places by the fire.
Grandad had conjured up too blissful a vision for even her gloomy spirits to withstand.
Granny M'Carty was moved up to the centre of the table on one side, and Grandad Rafferty was installed opposite.
But how great was their happiness when the last veil disappeared and they saw, at a few steps from them, Grandad and Granny sitting on a bench, sound asleep.
Grandad and Granny only shrugged their shoulders: "How stupid the Living are, when they speak of the Others!
Poor old Grandad was very much upset and complained lustily: "Gracious me, how tiresome the Living are, with all their fuss and excitement!
You never would take any help from anybody, and yet you went on so about grandad when he made bother.
Grandad doesn't take anything like that time to tune his fiddle,' the other whispered, conscious that she was daring in her criticism.
All grandad has to hev is a bowl of coffee an' some braid," Daniella went on.
Grandad jest lak a baby an' I kin cook the wittles, but I wisht maw'd git back.
Grandad ain't no trouble, but you has to watch him lessen he sets hisse'f on fiah, an' he has to hev his supper airly.
So, Grandad Pickerel, if he had regrets after swallowing a member of his own family, found it impossible to throw him up, as the Good Book says the whale cast up Jonah.
This was an exhibition of bad judgment on the part of Grandad Pickerel.
Grandad came for Daffodil to take a ride with him, and that evening he sauntered in and had a game of piquet and beat.
Then grandad set up Norah with a pony and a sort of jaunting car, that would only hold two.
Oh, grandad will be as glad as the rest of us presently that we have a country.
Grandad is among the distillers and Norah is as hotheaded as he.
Don't say a word about the lad, or grandad will show his claws and scratch all round.
But grandad had taken him off, and that somehow rankled in the child's heart.
Maybe grandad can find you some red leather, and lame Pete can make them.
Grandad hadn't been glad when the news came; she could see just how he had turned with his nose in the air, and now he was claiming his son as if he had all the right.
Grandad did get very merry and dance a jig, the laughter grew uproarious.
Grandad is going to the meeting where they will spout like a leaky gargoyle.
Grandad wouldn't go back on her, but he could wait.
Daffodil went often to see grandad and Norry, as they called the merry-hearted second wife, who nearly always had some tidbit for her.
Grandad might have carried you, but he hardly knows whether he's on his head or his heels.
They had come to be such friends that she sat on the broad arm of the chair, but he noted her wonderful delicacy in never dropping into familiarities, while they were so common with her father, and grandad was almost rough with her.
She took Dilly back with her, and in the afternoon grandad bundled her up and drove her over to the mill with him, and was very jolly.
I've been a hero, months on end, just for the things that my grandad did in the seventies.
My beloved grandad is going to gouge the deacon out of some money, I know by the looks of him.
My beloved grandad will come down upon him like a thousand of bricks, on the first of July, if he don't pay the interest on his note; and Le says his father can't do it.
If my grandad was a decent man, I wouldn't say anything about it," replied Stumpy, apparently troubled with a doubt in regard to the propriety of the revelation he was about to make.
I shouldn't dare to take it into the house, for fear my beloved grandad should steal it.
That's just my opinion of what my grandad is doing.
I play angel to my kiddie sometimes, putting a fairing in his little hammock where he sleeps like a bird among the trees all night, but I've never had the chance to do it to an old grandad before!
I'd as soon see my old grandad trampin' it as you.
Grandma Perkins's grandad was a Hiram Teesdale, of Gloucester, England, and this recipe is over 400 years old.
In those days folks felt that it was an indispensable feature of the feast, and the reveler of to-day holds it in equal esteem as did his grandad before him.
Grandad and I used to sing it on Sunday evenings: 'Rock of Ages, cleft for me.
In fact, I should not be Grandad or Dad, notwithstanding the beauty and noblemindedness and capacity of my dear kids.
I cannot think of myself as Grandad or possible Grandad.
Grandad Burlak, he says, "The lad will give up the ghost.
One can kiss Grandad without payment,' said another girl.
Grandad went to the village Elders, but they say nothing can be done.
So the thrice-wise Helena arrived at the blue sea, sat under a rock by the shore on a large stone, turned her face to the blue sea, and began to call her dear grandad the Sea-king.
My belief is that Grandmother did not fully share her husband's faith in The Second Coming but upon her fell the larger share of the burden of entertainment when Grandad made "the travelling brother" welcome.
Rachel had moved to Georgia, and Grandad McClintock was with his daughters, Samantha and Deborah, in western Minnesota.
Grandad himself was able to play the violin but he no longer did so.
Grandad takes Frank upon his knee and the cutting wind of the gray outside world is forgotten.
Grandad had sold the original homestead on the LaCrosse River, and David who had lately married a charming young Canadian girl, was the head of the family.
It seemed to me then that the earth was about to go up in a flaming cloud just as my grandad had so often prophesied.
Wusn't he helping to rob your grandad as he was a coming out of the train, and did'nt I nab his pal with the wad of stuff in his hand?
Well, you see, miss, that feller is the pall of the man what tried to rob yourgrandad and he was a taking of you to one of the worstestes places in Chicago.
But grandad said, by the way, that it was just as well he should see our strength, and that we had a dozen armed sailors here, in addition to so many natives.
Grandad promised me two years ago that we should pass the present winter in Upper Egypt.
If only I could persuade grandad that he is being wilfully misled, things might go as I wish.
Irene, who had never known her grandfather to be so greatly disturbed, whispered earnestly to her lover: "If grandad wishes you to follow von Kerber, you must be too ill to do anything of the sort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
