The six grandsons of Garibaldi formed an Italian regiment and volunteered for fighting on the French lines.
His sons, great-grandsons, and great-great-grandsons continued for one hundred and fifty years to be obliged to swear allegiance to the French kings in order to keep the duchy of Normandy.
Take the Franks, for example; the three grandsons of Charlemagne, who had divided up his great empire, fought a disastrous war with one another, which ended in a great battle that almost wiped out the Frankish nation.
As Attila ruled from China to the Rhine, and wasted Europe from the Black Sea to the Loire, so Zingis and his sons and grandsons occupied a still larger portion of the world's surface, and exercised a still more pitiless sway.
The youngest of these grandsons reigned only a short time, and then surrendered the royal authority to his brother and entered the priesthood.
Two of his sons and two of his grandsons subsequently reigned at Ayuthia.
The fathers followed Boon or fought at King's Mountain; the sons marched south with Jackson to overcome the Creeks and beat back the British; the grandsonsdied at the Alamo or charged to victory at San Jacinto.
The sons and grandsons of those who had been our foes in Louisiana and New Mexico came eagerly forward to serve in the army that was to invade Cuba.
He was succeeded by his son Gayuk, after whose death the empire devolved to his cousins Mangou and Cublai, the sons of Tuli, and the grandsons of Zingis.
But in the battle of Angora, the main body itself was supported, on the flanks and in the rear, by the bravest squadrons of the reserve, commanded by the sons and grandsons of Timour.
The sons and grandsons of Zingis had been accustomed to the pastoral life; but the village of Caracorum [31] was gradually ennobled by their election and residence.
The marriage of six of the emperor's grandsons was esteemed an act of religion as well as of paternal tenderness; and the pomp of the ancient caliphs was revived in their nuptials.
House of York had still representatives living, in two grandsons of the old Countess of Salisbury executed by Henry--the Earl of Huntingdon and Arthur Pole, the latter of whom did actually become the centre of a still-born plot.
Poles were grandsons of his brother, Clarence, whose daughter, their mother the Countess of Salisbury, was living still.
The Twrch Trwyth cannot be hunted unless thou get Bwlch, and Kyfwlch [and Sefwlch], the grandsons of Cleddyf Difwlch.
Bwlch, and Kyfwlch, and Sefwlch, the sons of Cleddyf Kyfwlch, the grandsons of Cleddyf Difwlch.
Now Isis is declared to have been the daughter of Inachus, who first began to reign in Argos when the grandsons of Abraham are known to have been already born.
Now this Cush, father of the giant Nimrod, is the first-named among the sons of Ham, to whom five sons and two grandsons are ascribed.
You can teach my grandsons if you like, provided you do not put any of your--your fanaticism into them.
His evening class had disbanded some time before; the poor old aunties and uncles crept off to bed very early now, in order to be safely out of the way when their disorderly sons and grandsons came home.
One of thegrandsons was Howel the Good, who put the laws of Wales down in a book.
He then turned to the many sons and grandsons of the Lord Rees--Maelgwn and Rees the Hoarse especially.
Let the mountaineer's grandsons be brought up as cobblers, and by the time they are thirty they will not be remarkable for their muscular capabilities.
Your dear and devoted daughter will, I know, be the greatest possible comfort to you, and I trust that your grandsons will grow up to be all that you could wish.
To this maxim, which he not only preached but practiced, his two grandsons at this time owe the very considerable fortunes that he left them.
The last Biff saw of the Ancient One's grandsons was a picture he would keep in his heart and mind forever.
In turn, the grandsons went ahead to make certain no one was lying in wait for them.
The five grandsons stood in a line, facing in the direction of the departing plane.
She had seven periods of youth one after another, so that every man who had lived with her came to die of old age, and her grandsons and great-grandsons were tribes and races.
And so it happens that they live to a ripe age And great-great-grandsons are often seen.
Stay with me, Soul, and share The span of days that happiness will bring; See sons and grandsonsserving at the Court Ennobled and enriched.
It is at any rate clear that Jehoram's slaughter of his brethren met with an appropriate punishment: all his own sons and grandsons were similarly slain, except the child Joash.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandsons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
