Billy Mink turned a back somersault into the Smiling Pool so close to the big green lily-pad on which Grandfather Frog sat that the waves almost threw Grandfather Frog into the water.
And now, Grandfather Frog, we'll take you home again," concluded Billy Mink.
Very strange, very strange, indeed," muttered Grandfather Frog over and over again.
Grandfather Frog, smoothing down his white and yellow waistcoat.
Then the three put their heads together and with a lot of giggling and chuckling they planned their joke on Grandfather Frog.
Three times the Merry Little Breezes blew a foolish green fly right past his nose;--Grandfather Frog didn't so much as blink.
This, however, he had not done; but as his deed from the life-tenant was in form an exclusive and unlimited conveyance, it had been quite forgotten that the will of his grandfather limited it to a life estate.
I had come to much the same conclusion," said Hesden, "though I never heard that grandfather had a cousin James until to-night.
I have always understood that grandfather married soon after coming here.
I hope there may be something to show that mygrandfather did not act dishonorably," he replied.
In it he says that his cousin visited him on his way home; went from there to Philadelphia, and was taken sick; your grandfather was notified and went on, but death had taken place before he arrived.
The boundaries of that grant, as shown by the record, are identical with the record of the grant under which our grandfather claimed the estate of which this is a part, and which is one of the first entered upon the records of Horsford County.
I never breathed a lisp of it before, son, and nobody ever knew of that quarrel, only your grandfather and me.
Do you know it was that which made that terrible quarrel between your grandfather and Uncle John, when he struck him that--that last night, before John's body was found in the river.
Their grandfather was one of the kings who tried to force all of the people to go to one church and to give their money to no other.
Their grandfather had been King of England, and then their father was king.
It appears that Great Grandfather Christmas has forgotten his part, or left it in the dressing-room, and the Giant Jester has kindly brought it him.
She talks to Great Grandfather Christmas, who seems frightened, and tries to back out of it.
I think he is Great Grandfather Christmas off Gog and Magog's twelfth-cake.
That was, I was nearly sure that Elsie's grandfather had something to do with the whole series of crimes of which the death of poor Harry was only the last and the most senseless.
All for fear that your grandfather would claim you and take you to bide in the same house as Mad Jeremy and his sisters.
Whatever part my grandfather Stennis had taken in the disappearances of Harry Foster, Riddick of Langbarns, Lang Hutchins the drover, and Joe Yarrow's father, obviously he had nothing to do with this.
I went this morning to the school where Miss Elsie Stennis teaches," said Miss Orrin, "and I gave her a message that her grandfather was ill and wishful to see her.
Mr. Yarrow," she said, "thinks that everything which my grandfather possessed before he began to kill people is quite rightly mine.
Especially the weaving-room, and where old Hobby sat, and the keyhole through which Elsie peeped to see hergrandfather as if praying over the loom, with Jeremy's knife hafted between his shoulder blades!
This is Miss Orrin, my housekeeper," said Elsie's grandfather automatically.
And leading her to the window he showed her the bars which her grandfather had caused to be put up to guard his treasures.
But Elsie followed her grandfather step for step and took no notice.
Its prominence dates from the time of Lorcán, grandfather of Brian.
But neither his father nor his grandfather had held the high-kingship.
At the head of this group was the great-grandfather of its youngest members, whether he happened to be dead or alive.
In each case, the derbfine or group of heirs was ascertained by counting back to the great-grandfather of the youngest member and comprised all his descendants.
Nobles to prosecute the Noble Acts of his Grandfather King Henry III.
I owe it to my grandfather that I had not a public education, but had good masters at home.
BOOK I The example of my grandfather Verus taught me to be candid and to control my temper.
The tidings of these civil wars penetrated into the seclusion of the religious house where my grandfather had already passed three years in quiet study.
His grandfather also conducted a part of his education, in childhood.
Her grandfather told them imperatively, that they must go, and without delay.
Was your grandfather in Paris at the time of the marriage of Henry and Margaret?
As his father died in his childhood, his mother and grandfather conducted his education.
My grandfather and my father were educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and were sharps on Latin and Greek, but I never figured the dead languages as much of an aid to a man doomed from birth to view cows from the hurricane-deck of a horse.
My grandfather Mike induced my great-grandfather Noriaga to build it way back in the 'Forties.
Your beloved grandfather and your equally beloved father never assumed the dress of our people--" "Hush!
Eef you don' win those race you grandfather hee's goin' cut you throat sure.
Later, mygrandfather taught me to swear in English with an Irish accent, and I've been fearfully balled up ever since.
We have never intermarried with Mexican or Indian, and until mygrandfather Farrel arrived at the ranch and refused to go away until my grandmother Noriaga went with him, we were pure-bred Spanish blonds.
Grandfather Farrel is the fellow to whom I am indebted for my saddle-colored complexion.
Will my little Bridget bid her grandfather good night?
On the south side of the chancel will be seen the fine tomb of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, grandfather of Henry VII and grandson of John of Gaunt.
Fielding, whosegrandfather was a canon of the Cathedral, is said to have lived in a house on the south side of the gate.
He was the brother of Acrisius, the grandfather of Perseus.
Some suppose that by this it is meant that as Belus, the father of Abas, and grandfather of Acrisius, was the son of Jupiter, who was also the father of Bacchus, the latter and Acrisius were consequently related.
Of those who despise Bacchus, Acrisius alone remains, the grandfather of Perseus, who, having cut off the head of the Gorgon Medusa, serpents are produced by her blood.
I don't know if Grandfather can be changed,' I wrote.
I do believe that Grandfather needs your understanding and your compassion, and the same from your spouse or partner.
At the back of another cart was the decrepit old grandfather tied with cords to a wardrobe, and he was hauled away for all the world as if he had been one of the family chattels.
Grandfather might, but there would be the delay, and very likely Clara would say I had copied her.
Science was so strictly orthodox that my grandfather published his "Vestiges of Creation" anonymously.
My grandfather was an ardent Jacobite, and consorted largely with old Jacobite families.
One night, whilst my grandfather was visiting Sir Peter, they were sitting at supper in the old dining-hall.
My grandfatherwent after a neighboring clan who had raided his cattle.
In the mean time the respected father and grandfather of that worthy young gentleman were laboring as assiduously for his advancement in life as if he had been gifted with a catalogue of all human virtues.
With respect to his education, Val's gratitude was principally due to his grandfather Clank, who had him well instructed.
At your age, your grandfather would not have had to complain of want of success.
After his disappearance, his mother and grandfatherboth died and his father became very rich.
One Saturday morning when he was about to set off for the woods with the sling in his pocket and a bag for nuts on his shoulder, his grandfather stopped him.
Stooping, he picked up a small stone and threw it over the head of his grandfather into a clump of bushes.
He did not believe that the man who turned up his face and in a harsh voice shouted at the sky was his grandfather at all.
On the occasions when David went to visit his grandfather on the Bentley farm, he was altogether contented and happy.
It seemed to him that he was in the presence not only of his grandfather but of someone else, someone who might hurt him, someone who was not kindly but dangerous and brutal.
Grandfather Jesse's white mare has torn the black stocking she wears on her foot.
Among the sheep was a lamb that had been born out of season, and this David and his grandfather caught and tied so tightly that it looked like a little white ball.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandfather" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
