Her grandparents were back in the city house, she knew.
Joy was delighted to find that her Muse wasn't asked for, and her grandparents may have been rather pleased at her continuing to behave as she always had, instead of saying curious things about wanting to be like other people.
Joy was wild with delight at the idea; but her grandparents would not let her go.
She had been told so often by her grandparents that she was only a child yet, that she quite believed it.
When your grandparents were as fond as all that of you, you really hadn't any right to feel as if you wanted anything else.
Such teachers seem to be immune to the teachings of psychology and pedagogy; they continue to travel the way their grandparents trod, spurning the practices of Pestalozzi, Froebel, and Francis Parker.
Libby's maternal grandparents died early and her mother had to begin very young to support herself.
She came of a healthy family; all of her grandparents and many of her uncles and aunts are living.
All the grandparents are still alive in the old country.
They did not stop to think that their parents and their grandparents might be worried, for it was quite late.
Neither he nor Sue said anything to their father, mother or grandparentsabout what they were going to do.
It was sheltered by a few old oaks, under which the grandparentsand great-grandparents of the children now at school had played long ago.
She often said that she did not take easily to home life, so many of her great-grandparents having built no nests at all, but laid their eggs in the homes of other birds.
Nobody would have dared remind these Chimney Swifts that their great-great-great-great-grandparents lived in hollow trees, if indeed any of their friends knew it.
A merchant of Wilmington, Delaware, wrote that his child was taken by the grandparents when his wife died, and after the grandparents died the child was hidden by the relatives.
What would our grandparents have said to such a miracle?
In our case we were put in the carriage because my mother would not leave us behind, and wanted to give our grandparents pleasure by our presence.
The records showed them to be descended from grandparents or great-grandparents who had been burnt or reconciled and they were duly punished.
Their father dying three years afterwards, the home of the grandparents became their permanent abode.
Margaret was only six years old, at which time she and her sister Mary went to live with their grandparents at Princeton.
I cannot go beyond this hut which my great-grandparents built.
The baby, now a woman in years, moved about between the four walls which its great-grandparents had built.
Not only as parents but as grandparents God's blessing will be enjoyed.
The natural, constant teaching of God's commandments in the daily life of the home by parents and grandparentswill prepare the children to lead prosperous, successful, useful lives.
His maternal grandparents are Silver King and Harebell, and his great-grandparents Perso and Beauty,--all registered cats.
Her paternal grandparentsare Mrs. Herring's well-known champion, Blue Jack, and Marney.
The maternal grandparents are King Harry, a prize winner at Clifton and Brighton, and Fluff.
My great-grandparents were cousins; he was a German and she was a Dane.
My grandparentswere also cousins; he was a Swede and she was a Dane.
But immediately after breakfast, two days before the steamship “Metric” was due to arrive in New York, he came upon his grandparents as they were ending a private consultation.
The only one of my grandparents I can bring to memory now is Grandma Rose on my Pa's side.
According to these people this lore represents the sort of thing that their parents and grandparents believed in and at various times they have been heard to tell about these beliefs.
The midwife then closed the ceremony by congratulating the grandparents and assembled friends.
Every day I marry young people whose grandparents I have married in days gone by.
There are similar duties of charity and piety between other near relatives, for example, between brothers and sisters, grandparents and grandchildren uncles and aunts and their nephews and nieces, and between first cousins.
Perhaps she was best known to our grandparents as the joint author, with Dr.
Wife, husband, children and grandparents all contributed in their distinct sphere.
He had the prestige of being a homeowner, and the pride of working his own soil, perhaps the same soil his grandparents had tilled.
All organic beings, moreover, include many dormant gemmules derived from their grandparents and more remote progenitors, but not from all their progenitors.
In these cases the child is commonly said to inherit such characters directly from its grandparents or more remote ancestors.
In the remaining cases the failure may be attributed to reversion, by which the child resembles its grandparents or more remote progenitors, instead of its parents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandparents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ancestors; antecedent; elder; forebears; patriarch; predecessor; progenitor
