A frown so quick and angry darkened his brow that it showed the consideration in which the Douglas held his granduncle James the Gross, Earl of Avondale.
But scarcely were you gone away on Black Darnaway ere a messenger came from our granduncle James at Avondale that he and my cousins Will and James arrive to-morrow at the Thrieve with a company to attend the wappenshaw.
The boy Marquis was at school in Paris when, in 1770, his devoted mother and the richgranduncle who had had him appointed a cadet of the Musketeers both died.
But thegranduncle had been very fond of the lad, and in his will he left Lafayette all his fortune and estates.
I knew, at a very early age, that my granduncle Nicholas B.
III The devouring in a dismal forest of a luckless Lithuanian dog by mygranduncle Nicholas B.
I wish it to be distinctly understood that it is not I, but mygranduncle Nicholas, of the Polish landed gentry, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, etc.
I wish my granduncle would go to Monaco and gamble away all his money," Molly retorted, sobbing angrily, "or that he would adopt some orphan and leave her every penny he possesses!
Papa was indignant, mamma was outraged, and my granduncle fairly snorted with rage.
My granduncle raised his hand and made a vow, and then I made one too.
Oh, my granduncle is the dearest, most delightful of men!
I should like to know how my granduncle behaved; if he longed to dance all day long as I do?
I will marry some man with no end of ancestors whom my granduncle approves of, but I shall die of grief, and before the year is out I shall be in my grave.
The next morning was like the calm after ten thunder-storms; my granduncle was excommunicated with bell, book, and candle.
First of all we must wait until your granduncle has really gone home.
I mean to pray fervently that my granduncle may commit some such folly, in spite of his seventy years!
My granduncle leaves for his castle at that time, and my father and mother go with him to the railway-station; they always make so much of him.
Oh, I prayed so fervently that my granduncle would commit some folly!
There she now dwelt with her noble lord, and in many letters to my granduncle she warmly declared to him that, so far as in her lay, all should be done to discover where the lover of her youth might be.
Nay, more and more since I am raised to such fortune as thousands may envy me; inasmuch as my granduncle purposes to make me his heir by form of law.
Whither the horse had fled none had ever heard; nor did any man enquire, inasmuch as it was only Eppelein's nag, and my granduncle had given him a better one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "granduncle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: brethren; brother; bud; cousin; daughter; father; mother; nephew; niece; sister; son; uncle
