Grandaunt does not approve of it, and will not countenance it.
Sitting there in a wooden chair beside the little stove, Anne felt more of home comfort than she had ever known at Caryl's, and the thin miserly teacher was kinder than her grandaunt had ever been.
But one evening Anne remarked frankly that she was very glad he came; her grandaunt sent her out whether she wished to come or not, and the resources of the small garden were soon exhausted.
Her thoughts were on the island with the children; would it not be best for them that she should accept the offered allowance, and go with this strange grandaunt of hers, enduring as best she might her cold severity?
If her grandaunt was willing--there came the difficulty.
Grandaunt was right, and no doubt he thinks me a bold, forward girl who tried to make a sensation.
Trying to interest that child," he thought, as he listened to the grandaunt with the air of deferential attention she liked so well.
Reluctant to go to her grandaunt before it was necessary, she consented.
She hoped to return to Mademoiselle at the half-house, and remain there until the school opened--if her grandaunt was willing.
The young girl greeted her grandaunt with the same mixture of timidity and hope which she had shown at their first interview.
Anne, weary and anxious, and forced to hear all these probabilities, began at last to picture her grandaunt as a sort of human kaleidoscope, falling into new and more fantastic combinations at a moment's notice.
I will not take this, I think; you can tell grandaunt that I have money enough for the present," she said, returning it.
Anne made no reply; the circle round her grandaunt seemed to her a world of dark and menacing terrors, from which she was fleeing with all the speed she could summon.
Grandaunt Susie said her hair was so thin you could see through it, and when she was at our house it was as thick as--as thick as mine.
We might try some of Grandaunt Susie's exercises," twinkled Polly.
Grandma says that she would have married Petre herself, and that her hatred for grandma came from the belief that grandma could have stopped the marriage with my grandaunt by speaking.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandaunt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
