There were such stories in the Bible, and grannie was certainly as good as some of the people in the Bible that saw angels--Sarah, for instance.
Mr. Lammie brought his gig at last, and took grannie away to Bodyfauld.
Only grannie concealed her reasons without reason; and God makes no secrets.
He told him how grannie had mourned and wept over him, from the time when he heard her praying aloud as he crept through her room at night to their last talk together after Dr.
Robert must now hide the violin better than his grannie had done, while at the same time it was a more delicate necessity, seeing it had lost its shell, and he shrunk from putting her in the power of the shoemaker again.
Gin yon bonny leddy 'at yer grannie keeps lockit up i' the aumry war to tak to the piano, that's jist hoo she wad play.
Grannie cudna bide me to touch 't,' So determined was he, that Miss St. John was forced to yield.
So Take ran for thread, and Taro got Grannieto help him.
Put on your clogs and take an umbrella, and don't stay but a minute," Grannie said.
After dinner Grannie said, "I'm going for a little nap.
If you and grannie will help me, I'll make some little wagons and we'll harness the beetles," Taro said.
As he passed his Father and Mother and Grannie and Bot'Chan, Taro saluted.
They played with the beetles and wagons a long time until Grannie said, "Let them go now, children.
What people call her soul is just grannie herself.
No, Willie; grannie's body goes to the grave, but grannie herself is gone to heaven.
Ere grannie had finished this sentence, I had shrunk from her again and retreated behind my uncle.
At length grannie took her hand from her eyes, and seeing me, started.
Grannie had told me not to open it: I began to think it hard that I should be denied thorough possession of what had been given to me, I believed I should be quite satisfied if I once saw what made it go.
I could not but remember how both he and my aunt had sought to prevent me from seeing my grannie alone, and how the last had complained of this in terms far more comprehensible to me now than they were then.
The loss of my watch had made the thought of grannie painful again.
I began to feel uncomfortable--grannie looked so strange and lost.
The sword was in my bones, and as I judged that only from grannie could I get any information respecting it, I found myself beginning to inquire why I was afraid to go to her.
Grannie wanted to die, and uncle would not let her.
She went, and presently returning, said 'Grannie seems a little better.
My grannie she bought me a beuk, And I held awa to the school; I fear I my talent misteuk, But what will ye hae of a fool?
Grannie was at the door, struggling to hold it against the wind, while she looked out into the gathering darkness.
Grannie came to Elm Cottage next morning with two duck eggs for Pete's breakfast.
There were four or five old women in the kitchen spinning yarn for a set of blankets which Grannie intended for a wedding present.
The horses pranced, Nancy screamed, and Grannie started, but Kate gave no sign.
Grannie held little Katherine up to him, and he controlled his face and looked at her.
Grannie must have been sitting before the fire with the baby across her knees.
Then Grannie finished, on hearth and griddle, the baking of her cakes.
Then Grannie awoke with a start, and reproached herself for sleeping.
Grannie had had a troubled night, and the moment she woke began to talk about the laird, and his visitors, and what the storm must have been round lonely Castle Warlock.
He found Grannie sitting up in bed, and Aggie getting her tea--to which Cosmo contributed a bottle of milk he had carried her--an article rare enough in the winter when there was so little grass for the cows.
But he did not get better so fast as he expected, and the only condition on which Grannie would consent not to send for the doctor, was, that Agnes should go and tell his father.
Therewith he repeated the rime, and Grannieburst into a merry laugh--which however sobered rather suddenly.
At the door of it, however, Aggie gave her companion the slip, and set out to go back to her grannie at Muir o' Warlock.
By this time Granniewas snoring in her chair, or very likely, in his desire to emerge from its atmosphere, he would have told her his dream.
But they aye cover him, baith his grannieand his sister, till ye wud think there wes never a better-daein' lad gied oot o' the Glen.
Grannie aye brocht us up tae live sae that we cud look a'body in the face, and exceptin' Chairlie.
Everyone does what darling Grannie tells them," said Joyce, "so we had better begin.
Probably Grannie was wise enough to ask the right questions.
Grannie objects to Girton and Newnham, but she has consented to my finishing my education at Redgarth.
Won't granniehave a jolly Christmas, even though she is all by herself.
I mean to show grannie and father of what stuff I am made.
Grannie will take lodgings for us, and we are to be as jolly and merry as ever we please.
Grannie has sent me here, she sent me rather against her own inclination, and I'm determined to prove to her that she has done the right and only thing to satisfy me.
I meant to apply to grannieas a dernier ressort," said Molly; "but this is much better.
I do think grannie has the sweetest thoughts in all the world.
I am fifteen--not at all too old; but I don't think grannie will wish me to leave her in the evenings.
We need deny ourselves nothing, for grannie will want us to have a real good time.
And Grannie and Aunt Emily, and how you used to play on their piano.
And how Granniejumped when you came down crash on those chords in the Waldstein.
Nae, my lad, it wouldna be right to leave grannie by herself, and you'll need to bide here.
You'll hae Norman and Harry, and them a', but grannie has none but me.
Had he not had two months of billing and cooing, to gain which she and grannie had spun their fingers to the bone?
Her shrill tones brought grannie from her labours below, and before these two eminently respectable matrons the guilty pair could only hold each other's hands like the babes in the wood, feeling lost and miserable.
I told Mother she could finish her game to-morrow, but she must let Grannie tell me a story there and then.
Grannie went on: Then the princess took her little husband away in great distress, and built a large palace with seven wings, and began to cherish her husband with great care.
At this point I came up close to my wise Grannie and asked her eagerly: "What then?
Grannie and Mother went on playing cards, and took no notice.
Grannie continued: The little boy went to school and learnt many lessons from his teachers, and as he grew up his class-fellows began to ask him: "Who is that beautiful lady who lives with you in the palace with the seven wings?
Poor Grannie takes you for her husband, who left her in her youth, and went back to his own people.
Yes, I have heard about it from the Granfer men and Grannie women here at Churchtown,' said Jim, turning his face towards a little village close to the church which he could just see from where he was sitting.
They also found out that Grannie Nankivell, whenever she made these delicacies, put them overnight into her spence [21] for safety.
But Grannie Nankivell was still unconvinced, and still believed it was Genefer, and not the Piskeys, who ate her biscuits and junket.
Whether the Piskeys thought the old turf-cutter was sufficiently punished for clearing out their sleeping-places, or whether Grannie Nankivell's threat to wring their necks frightened them away, we cannot tell.
It thinks it is a little golden bird, and one day will sing with the Great White Angel Birds Grannietold me about.
The Grannie was old and weak in her legs, and could not take her granddaughter out to see the sights of the little old-world town, with its narrow streets and ancient houses, so the child had to go by herself.
Phillida was glad herGrannie liked the cake, and she began to eat the generous slice the old woman had given her, and as she ate it she thought it was so delicious that she must go on eating cake for ever and ever.
The next time Grannie Nankivell took biscuits and a junket into her spence she shut the window and also the door; but when she got up the following morning and went to see if they were safe, lo and behold!
But I wadna hear tell o't--his mother was perfectly wild against it, and poor auld grannie was neither to hand nor to bind.
I jamp up, and Jeannie jamp up; auld grannie raise totterin' to her feet, and the bairns screamed, puir things.
After "dinner" I asked for a bottle of ink and some paper, and scrawled a few lines to grannie and my mother, merely reporting my safe arrival at my destination.
Excuse me, Miss Melvyn, but your grannie has commissioned me to find you as we want to have lunch, and it appears you are the only one who knows the run of some of the tucker bags.
There was not a man on the place; grannie was in a great stew; so I volunteered my services.
I would write to grannie and mother explaining matters, and I felt sure they would heed me, as they had no idea what the place was like.
Grannie and uncle say it is a curse to be living beside the road, as it costs them a tremendous lot a year.
Grannie made a rule that when we arrived late we had to unsaddle our horses ourselves, and not disturb the working men from their meal for our pleasure.
Had grannie seen me, I would have been lectured about unladylike behaviour.
From her I learnt that grannie and uncle Jay-Jay had really gone home, but Mr Beecham had persuaded them to allow aunt Helen and me to spend the night at Five-Bob Downs, our host promising to send or take us home on the morrow.
The main substance of mother's letters to me was a hope that I was a better girl to my grannie than I had been to her--a sentiment which did not interest me.
Grannie had not come home till after twelve, but was looking as brisk as usual.
On this particular afternoon, after we had talked to grannie for a little while, knowing that he wished to interview me, I suggested that he should come up the orchard with me and get some gooseberries.
Grannie had left the veranda, and on the table where she had been writing aunt Helen was filling many vases with maidenhair fern and La France roses.
It was such a good joke that I considered it worth two of the blowings-up I was sure of getting from grannie for my conduct.
It was no use arguing with grannie and impressing upon her the fact that I was not the least nervous concerning the horses.
Aunt Helen and grannie put me to bed, where I yelled with pain for hours like a mad Red Indian, despite their applying every alleviative possible.
Gwen's one sheet anchor of hope, to which she clung in a kind of desperation, was the thought of the postal orders that Grannie and Aunt Violet almost invariably sent at Christmas.
It was kind of Grannie to send that lovely coat: dark green will just suit you.
That both Grannie and Aunt Violet should have sent presents instead of money was worse than she had calculated upon.
Irene had not seen her grannie for some years, and, with the instinct of childhood, she had discovered, without being told, that her father did not care much for her grannie.
Grannie lets me drop her letters in the post, o' course.
She mayn't be like her, for grannie says Irene isn't like Aunt Eva.
I don't think that would do," Irene said, "for father wished me to live withgrannie and the cousins.
Dorothy,-- "Grannie has sent us to take you to the Villa Lucia; are you ready?
Grannie continued: The little boy went to school and learnt many lessons from his teachers, and as he grew up his class-fellows began to ask him: "Who is that beautiful lady living with you in the palace with the seven wings?
At this point I came up close to my wise Grannie and asked her eagerly: "When then?
But Grannie and Grandfather could live here if they wanted to, only the country is better for them,' she explained, when the little girls had told her the reason of their 'factory.
I am sureGrannie and Grandfather would come and live with us always if Mother had more money.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grannie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
