Can't you understand,' he said, 'that I meant what are you going to do about letting your grandmother know where you are?
Dear, dear, how frightened yourgrandmother will be!
Why, your grandmother will be nearly out of her mind about you!
But what I can't make out is how you could treat your grandmother so.
Grandmamma was not at all the sort of person most children think of when they hear of a grandmother in a story.
I daresay you'll never know, unless you live to be a mother and grandmother yourself, what the thought of parting with you was costing her, at the very time she spoke so quietly.
He had quite come to the conclusion that his mother and grandmother had frightened themselves most unnecessarily; but he admitted that this was natural enough, after the losses they had had.
Thinking it over, he had come to the conclusion that either his mother or grandmother must have been taken seriously ill.
Your great-grandmother and mygrandmother were sisters.
He created his grandmother a member of the Senate, with rank next after the consuls; and established a rival Senate, composed of ladies, presided over by his mother.
Pierre Pastedechouan has told us that his grandmother used to take pleasure in relating to him the astonishment of the Natives, when they saw for the first time a French ship arrive upon their shores.
I never asked my grandmother or anyone about these things.
Robert always maintained that his lying began when he was a very little boy, when he found out that by telling his grandmother that his mother was mean to him he could get things done for him which he wanted.
The idea that the grandmother passed on as inheritance her prevaricating traits is open to discussion, but we have seen that environmental influences from this source may have been the only effect, if there was any at all.
Grandmother was dreaming and she took him at first for Henry Ware, his very self.
Ko-yeda or her mother or grandmother used to go to the go-down and select what was to be the decoration for the day and one of them spent a long time arranging the flower vases.
Mrs. Sannomiya bowed to the floor, likewise did Grandmother Sannomiya, as well as every one else in the establishment.
My grandmother frown and say I naughty little girl, for that I wish no be like the honorable ancestor.
This is from Grandmother Sannomiya," she announced.
So much could not be said of the grandmother who looked shrunken and yellow, whose teeth were blackened and who wore a sombre robe of gray.
The old grandmother has blackened teeth and is the most important person in the house.
In the family there are Mr. and Mrs. Sannomiya, Grandmother Sannomiya and Ko-yeda.
But whether they went or whether they stayed, they all told the grandmother that they did believe it was the best Thanksgiving dinner they had ever eaten in their born days.
As soon as the grandmother saw it open its mouth that way she just gave one scream, 'My sakes!
When the old grandmother got up close, it thought it would do something extra to please her; or else the heat of the candle had dried it up so that it cracked without intending to.
In my woolen shirt and the pale blue necktie My grandmothergave me, there I went With the old queen right past the houses Of my friends down the hill to the river As on any usual day, any errand.
Finally Georgina is discovered to be a grandmother of one of those present, and is described sufficiently well to be recognised as the grandmother on the father's side, though, curiously, Georgina was the name of the maternal grandmother.
It must have been the very next winter that my grandmother died.
I was very pleased; I snapped it off at once, for I had heard so many times that it was hard to make roses bloom; and I ran in through the hall and up the stairs, where I met my grandmother on the square landing.
Besides this, it befell me later to sin more gravely still; my grandmother had kept some plants through the winter on a three-cornered stand built like a flight of steps, and when the warm spring weather came this was put out of doors.
My grandmother was a proud and solemn woman, and she hated my mischief, and rightly thought my elder sister a much better child than I.
It seemed as if the messenger from an unknown world had come to the wrong house to call my poor grandmother away; and that loud ringing is curiously linked in my mind with the knocking at the gate in "Macbeth.
O, yes; about grandmother dreaming about father when he come home from sea.
But it went on four years, and gran'ther got used to it some; though grandmother never would give up.
John Ashby's grandmotherwas a clever little woman as ever stepped.
The style is grave when great-grandmother Field is the subject, and when the author passes to a rather elaborate impression of the picturesque old mansion it becomes as it were consciously beautiful.
You will know that one of the influences of his childhood was his grandmother Field, housekeeper of Blakesware House, in Hertfordshire, at which mansion he sometimes spent his holidays.
Why, child, you surely cannot wish to sell your Indian doll that has a beaded buckskin dress just like the one your grandmother wore when she was your age?
I will give it to you if you please to give me one dollar--that is what they gave my grandmotherfor her dolls when she would sell them at the agency," Cordelia said, in eager undertone.
The Indian doll my grandmother made for me is very nice and new, for I have kept it in my trunk so much.
You wish to give me pleasure, but I cannot accept it, for I know you love the little Indian grandmother better than you could the prettiest white doll in the Christmas box," she added, gratefully.
You, who have read that book, will remember that Flossie and Freddie found, in a big snow storm, the lost father of Tommy Todd, a boy who lived with his grandmother in a poor section of Lakeport.
Your great-great-grandmother has condensed the learning of two centuries to evolve this one discovery.
My great-great-grandmother has an acute conductor of sound that she has invented, so exquisite in mechanism as to reveal the voice of the tiniest insect.
Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.
There lay her grandmother with her cap pulled far over her face, and looking very strange.
The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap entered the wood, a wolf met her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandmother" 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; relative; trot; witch
