From barn and woodpile the goodman came; The goodwife quitted her quilting frame, With her child at her breast; and, hobbling slow, The grandam followed to see the show.
When Harold leaves London, I trow well towards that house will his road wend; for there lives Edith the swan's-neck, with her awful grandam the Wicca.
It pleas'd me To mark how he had fasten'd round the pipe A silver toy his grandam had late given him.
I never seed Tom myself," continued Timothy, "but grandam war his own cousin right enough, and it war a proud moment for any lad to clasp hands with old Tom.
Her felt it war cruel hard, I've heard grandam say.
I was told "that grandam was but poorly," and Susie begged for a bit of tea and a drop of broth.
Grandam says as it have a greater power of healin' than ever lies in doctor's messes, or than in bought stuffs neither.
And grandam often told me how she seed 'em herself whipped from the dungeon below the Guildhall to the White Hart Inn, and so round the town.
Such wrinkles as a skillful hand would draw For an old grandam ape, when, with a grace, She sits at squat, and scrubs her leathern face.
I heard my grandam calling me last night," she said; "I be going to her soon.
If your grandam was to hear you, I doubt not but the rod would be called for.
In the vast, dim, sculptured chambers, where the grandam span by the wood fire and the little children played in the shadows, and the lovers whispered in the embrasured window.
But their fears were groundless; she was gone; the hut when they entered it had no tenants, except the lifeless famished bodies of the old grandam and the year-old infant.
Messenger and his great grandam a daughter of Imp.
His grandamwas by Bishop's Hambletonian, a son of Imp.
When the men are not here, and good grandam is not suffering of a gout," she answered.
It doth astonish me," said Lord Kennedy, when she had gone from the room, "how the good grandam hath preserved her sweetness of temper throughout all these years of turmoil and dangers.
Grandam Sutherland had but just awakened, and was blinking at the two after a confused fashion.
The grandam dropped him a pretty curtsy, the while the other stood with drooping and averted head.
Oh, for a dose of Tomoye's spirit,--of the unbending pluck of the militant grandam concerning whom the samurai were always trolling ditties.
Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will Give it a Plum, a Cherry, and a Fig.
And it' grandam will Give it a Plum, a Cherry, and a Fig.
And its grandamwill Give it a Plum, a Cherry, and a Fig.
Then fingering the ends of her silver girdle and glancing at the old woman, who was still asleep, she began in a hesitating voice: "Mayhap the speech of my good grandam might mislead thee into thinking me but a sorry flirt.
The next moment the kneeling grandam crouched and the glittering metal swept around just high enough to miss her head.
Behind the brightness was the done-for look, plainer than ever, and with it yet another, a look of keen purpose, which the grandam would have understood.
In her hiding Flora's intent face faintly smiled a malevolence that would have startled even the grandam who still killed time out among the roses with her juniors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandam" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: beldam; crone; dame; dowager; frump; grandmother; hag; trot; witch
