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Example sentences for "grandfather said"

  • My grandfather said he never knowed a man, either, with the same aversion agin labor as his father had.

  • But when next Philip was bidden to do an errand for Mr. Carvel my grandfather said quietly: "I prefer that Richard should go, Caroline.

  • As she stood arching her neck and pawing the ground, I all confusion and shame, my grandfather said simply: "Richard, this is Firefly.

  • He was a forbidding figure, in his black gown and periwig, so my grandfather said, with a piercing blue eye and shaggy brow.

  • Grandfather said he was up at 6 o'clock and walked up as far as Mr. Greig's lions and back again for exercise before breakfast.

  • Grandfather said he was going to take us out to Mr. Waterman Powers' in Farmington and he did.

  • I made the pocket for my dress after I got home from school and then Grandfather said he would take us out to ride, so he took us way up to Thaddeus Chapin's on the hill.

  • My grandfather said he had never known such a storm since he came to live on the island, more than forty years before.

  • When she was gone, my grandfather said 'Alick, there's something wrong with Jem, depend upon it!

  • Grandfather said never a word, but from time to time he looked at Hortense as though he couldn't believe what she said.

  • It would be too small for me to approach," Grandfather said, "and I am much too old to eat thirteen cookies.

  • That banian-tree, my grandfather said, held the toua, the cord of cocoanut fiber that held the living meat suspended above the baking pit.

  • Grandfather said that he could dance strange dances of the sailor that made them all laugh until their ribs were sore.

  • Honi was his name, as my grandfather said it.

  • As their joints hardened and their sinews were knit, their hearts grew manful, and yearned, as my grandfather said, with the zealous longings of a righteous revenge, to sweep them away from the land as with a whirlwind.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another order; brief address; each hour; each word; enormous amount; gave some; grandfather said; home and; hour before; humble birth; hundred million; merely because; much comfort; much heat; our friend; personal government; publishing house; similar arrangement; spake unto; strong light; thine inheritance; thou beest