They sing an old song that their grandmothers sang when they were little girls and which one day their children's children will sing, for songs are frail immortals which fly from lip to lip throughout the ages.
Our great-great-grandmothers here in America wore Paris fashions shown on the imported fashion dolls and made up in brocades from China, by the Colonial mantua makers.
A kerchief was originally a cover for the head, and indeed sundry amiable, old-fashioned grandmothers still use it for this purpose.
Rich or poor, tall or dumpy, tottering grandmothers or babies in swaddling-clothes, they long for ampler pastures.
Our grandmothers did all the work with swift movements of hands and feet.
Sidenote: Colonial Loom] No essential changes have been made since our grandmothers made cloth a hundred years ago.
I suppose all grandmothers think that, just as all mothers do.
The grandmothers Rebecca Mary knew were staid, sedate women with aprons and knitting.
Our great-grandmothers were all bid to marry first, and love would come afterwards; and I don't see why their daughters should follow their own inventions.
He said, rather foolishly-- "Given six or seven grandmothers for the telescope!
But grandmothers always seem to want to have you; at leest they do in the case of Travers; but his parints are ded.
It would have been difficult to convince some of our pious and sainted grandmothers that our lakes, bays, and rivers did not leave their moral effect upon those who lived along their shores.
Yes, and tell her that if she keeps me waiting I'll bring the black cloud of the Boong-jee-gop over the palace, and that will bring you all to the condition of wishing that your grandmothers had never been born.
He can have fifty grandmothers if he pleases and I won't say a word--kiss me--kiss me again.
But in my State thegrandmothers of seventy are growing weary of being classed with the grandsons of seven.
Even soap is made in the big iron kettles in just the same way that our grandmothers used to make it.
If however, a leaf from the daily life of one of our grandmothers were accessible, it would contain the story not only of the bread-making, but of the soap-making too.
He was what our grandmotherswould have called a "fine figger" of a man.
It's a good thing for men to git reminded of their grandmothers once in a while," she answered, cryptically.
Perhaps some of the dear old grandmothers will give you a few hollyhock roots, which you can plant in a circle big enough to hold your little club.
Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers did not always drive in carriages, and it was customary for them, when riding on horseback, to sit on a pillion behind a gentleman or a servant.
Our grandmothers in their crinoline may have looked like walking hay-cocks; but the young women of Otaheite who carry presents from one person of rank to another look as if they were issuing from an immense drum.
Verily, between one interest and another, our grandmothershad work enough to do!
But he never refused to do anything his Grandmothers asked him to, and did it pleasantly, too; and it was not on that account he got into the Patchwork School.
I don't mean to say that grandmothers are to be considered usually as crosses.
Somehow that time he was unusually cast down at the sight of the eight pairs of stockings hanging in a row under the mantel shelf; but he kissed and thanked his Grandmothers just as he always had.
Julia really knew a great many stories which his Grandmothershad taught him, and he sat on a little stool and told them through the keyhole all night to the Chinese Ambassador.
Every year each of his Grandmothers knit him two pairs of blue woollen yarn stockings, and hung them for him on Christmas Eve, for a Christmas present.
All the grandmothers and grandfathers and aunts and uncles will see it, and we are going to eat the pies made from it.
Tis a Book kept by modern Young Ladies for show, Of which their plain grandmothers nothing did know.
A Parwar must not marry in his own gotra nor in the mul of his mother, or any of his grandmothers or greatgrandmothers.
Marriage can then be regulated by forbidding a man to take a wife from the whole of his own section or from the subsection of his mother, grandmothers and even greatgrandmothers.
No wonder indeed that grandmothers are all married--for one could hardly imagine the young men of that day overlooking such paragons of virtue and propriety as lived in their grandmothers' days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandmothers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
