When grandmamma shook her head, and feared Cynthy would grow up a dreadful tomboy, grandpapa declared she was precluded by all facts of nature and grace from being otherwise than a lady.
And off she would fly with the always fresh wonder whether grandpapa really had no idea how delightful it was to go.
What a good thing Roland found out about grandpapa and grandmamma, Hester--and how fortunate that they should have asked me!
I will come as soon as I can get grandpapa to bring me.
Rather than let grandpapa and grandmamma be disturbed at their age, I shouldn't wonder if she would give the breakfast--especially considering the double connection, and that it is such a very good thing to get me settled.
Grandpapa is eating ham and fried eggs over at the minister's house," contributed Dick, after satisfying his hunger a bit.
Grandpapa always comes when I want him," in piteous tones.
Mamsie's face, whenever Grandpapa plans all this magnificence, is enough to make me feel wretched at the thought of it.
He said it was big, and he asked Grandpapaif he might have it, and Grandpapa said, Yes.
Yes; Jack has taken ours off; Grandpapa gave it to him.
Oh, Phronsie dear, so you went down to bid Grandpapa good- night, did you?
Grandpapa Takma was ninety-three: married late in life and his son married late made it possible for him to have a granddaughter of Elly's age.
He was not passionately in love with Elly: he thought her an intelligent, artistic little thing; and he was really not doing it for what she would inherit from Grandpapa Takma.
The story, which dated sixty years back, ran that Grandpapa Dercksz had shown kindness to a woman in the kampong and that he was stabbed by a Javanese out of jealousy.
Ben never got as much schooling as the others, for he insisted on getting into business life as early as possible, in order the sooner to begin to pay Grandpapa King back for all his kindness.
And Polly, between Grandpapa and Jasper, tried to make them have such a good time that really it seemed no walk at all, and they were all quite surprised when they found themselves there.
Besides, Grandpapa sent it to me to practise with for this game, and I really couldn't have done so well without it.
And Grandpapa sat at the head of the table, with Mother Fisher at the other end, and Dr.
Grandpapa and Jasper are ready to go to the railroad station.
Grandpapa was not ready, she knew; but she always ran down a little ahead for the fun of the last moments waiting with Jasper, when old Mr. King was going to take them out of an evening.
Polly in dismay, with her heart full at the thought of Mamsie's distress, and that of dear Grandpapa and Jasper.
And Grandpapa King was so overjoyed that he called "Bravo--bravo!
Grandpapa didn't want a box to-night, because we could see the play so much better from the floor.
Perhaps you might push this fidelity further thangrandpapa does," said she, with a smile.
Papa hopes that grandpapa will have no objection to taking you, Nicholas; he means to write about it to-day; but if there should be a difficulty, he has another place.
Come, Lucy, we shall be keeping grandpapawaiting for us.
I want to know what I shall reply,--I mean, I 'd like to hear if grandpapahas any kind message to send the poor fellow.
You weren't there, Godfrey, so you can't know what grandpapa said.
But grandpapa says it is of no use, Charles, to look at all these plans for houses.
Grandpapa pulled down a row of cottages that the poor people lived in, and built this romantic little hermitage.
You don't know what a determined man grandpapa is.
But grandpapa will expose them--and, besides, he'll pay them handsomely to go.
He is twenty years old, and has no teeth to eat hay with, and grandpapa says he would starve to death if it were not for me.
Major and Velvet Paw are my pet cats, and Peep is my German canary-bird; and I had a pet chicken, but grandpapa stepped on it one day.
I was glad whengrandpapa brought them home; and the first thing I did was to find a good large mud-puddle, and oh!
After praying in a broken voice for her poor old grandpapa in his loneliness, the child remembered to ask God's blessing on her new parents.
Entering quietly, and finding her grandpapa still asleep, she lay down by his side, and when he awoke, her dear arms were about his neck, and her loving eyes smiling into his.
Well, grandpapa did much business there, both of French goods and of ships; and because the hotel was the favorite of the sugar-planters its rotunda was one of the principal places for slave auctions.
I had reached that point in my reflections when suddenly dear grandpapa turned abruptly to me: "'What has become of your little friend Sidonie?
Dear grandpapa had been cross all the morning, and poor mamma dared not say a word, being afraid of those frowning eyebrows which have always laid down the law for her.
Grandpapa took Marcelino to the Miserere, and they spent a day with Don Alfonso.
The wonderful French carriage that you sent out to grandpapa has actually been used at last.
If grandpapa will set the example plenty more will give me slaves, and I will raise a large regiment.
Marcelino is secretary at the Consulado, grandpapa hardly ever leaves his house, and Uncle Gregorio is always at his estancia outside.
You are my friend, and mamma's and papa's and Marcelino's, and to grandpapa you are as a son.
Grandpapa and Uncle Gregorio also," said Dolores, clapping her hands.
No, and thereforegrandpapa says we must keep it secret till we see whether it can be done.
Will it be some news of my uncle Gregorio, I know grandpapa is very anxious about him?
My uncle Gregorio is going to Las Barrancas to raise a squadron of cavalry, as you know, and I have been trying to persuade grandpapa to let me raise a company of infantry among the slaves on his chacras about the Guardia Chascomus.
You behave as if grandpapa were going to his own funeral.
When Johann Leopold learned my errand, he offered to guide me by a road over the mountain to the clearing, and we agreed to tell grandpapa that we had met, but to say nothing further.
Grandpapa explained to Otto upon the spot how much I was entitled to as the heiress of his daughter,--I an heiress!
Grandpapa roared out that so to treat an honest man, who could not demand satisfaction for the insult, was the act of a blackguard; Otto was not worthy to bear the name of Doenninghausen.
Grandpapa is unfortunately still obliged to be pushed from one room to another in his wheeled chair.
It was certainly a matter of course that grandpapa should take charge of the destitute orphan, since in a certain sense she was one of the family; but was there any need to treat her as an equal?
If grandpapa says no, I shall go without his permission.
Thus we see each other daily,--sometimes in the mornings, when grandpapa arranges our rides so that we meet Otto, and always in the evenings.
I wish grandpapawere at home again; he is the only one who really cares for me," she said to herself.
And you are right, dear aunt; grandpapa must not be told anything.
Then they went up the great stone staircase into the upper rooms, into that where grandpapa died, as Georgie said in a whisper, and then higher still into George's own room.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandpapa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
