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Example sentences for "maternal grandfather"

  • The health of Lady Jane’s maternal grandfather, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, failed him completely soon after his return to England.

  • Lady Jane Grey’s maternal grandfather was, as he wrote himself in the famous quatrain referring to his marriage with the King’s sister, descended from “cloth of frieze.

  • First witness: Claude Labouret, maternal grandfather of the child.

  • As a girl I have had my maternal grandfather named to me by strangers as "the doctor who drove the beautiful horses.

  • I do not remember a bathroom in any house--not even that of my maternal grandfather, a physician of some distinction in his day, who dictated the laws of hygiene not only to us but to many county families.

  • My maternal grandfather laughed in the face of my direct lineal ancestor.

  • Again my maternal grandfather indulged in a hearty fit of laughter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    begged him; comparative area; cried little; crooked stick; does not know what; hearing this; high range; last autumn; little maid; long tail; looking down; many distinct; maternal grandfather; maternal impression; maternal impressions; maternal love; maternal uncle; one day; rope ladder; royal warrant; rural communities; usually made; virtuous conduct; went immediately; will rejoice; zygomatic arch