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Example sentences for "nephew"

Lexicographically close words:
neophytes; neos; neow; nepenthe; nepheline; nephewes; nephews; nephridia; nephridial; nephridium
  1. Found Mr. and Mrs. Bowker, also a young Rollanson nephew of Mr. J.

  2. Some of them ran away, if they were near the frontier; but Bishop Gregory was in the utmost anxiety about his nephew Attalus, who had been last heard of as being placed under the charge of a Frank who lived between Treves and Metz.

  3. This young man, a nephew of Cato, had taken his uncle as an example for his public life.

  4. Lucy You see in your nephew the living features of your husband, his uncle.

  5. Bramble As, so as to no longer have to put up with the presence of anyone around me who might take something from you when I die, I've decided to send my nephew to the Indies.

  6. And I always thought she prayed the nephew would outlive his uncle.

  7. The governor greeted the two Spindrifters with a bow and a handshake, and then inquired, "What good providence brought you here, nephew mine?

  8. Because you are the governor's nephew and a police official, we must assume that you are completely loyal to him.

  9. So, I think we should see the nephew of the governor.

  10. My nephew and his fellow police are efficient, but their number is too small.

  11. Beecher, a nephew of the big preacher, was shot through the small o' the back, and lay thar beggin' us to kill him.

  12. A schoolmate, George Butler (he was a nephew of General Butler and afterward fought bravely in the Civil War), had a little blue suit with a leather belt to match, and was the envy of all.

  13. One of them, Bob Howland, a nephew of the governor, attracted Samuel Clemens by his clean-cut manner and commanding eye.

  14. He was the nephew of William Cecil, Elizabeth's great minister, and, entering public life, himself became the favorite minister of James I and Lord High Chancellor of England.

  15. A niece and nephew are regarded as the most legitimate spouses of a son and daughter respectively.

  16. The pyre is kindled by a Billava, and the mat on which the corpse has been lying is thrown thereon by a son or nephew of the deceased.

  17. Do you really think your nephew is going to marry Mary?

  18. Would not his nephew be better amused if a bachelor expedition were fitted out to go in search of the seals that abound in the channels around Inch Kenneth?

  19. Your nephew will be very proud of it," she said.

  20. She'll be off Easdale now," said he to himself; and we knew he was speaking of the steamer that was bringing his nephew from the south.

  21. What a beautiful day your nephew must have had for his sail from the Crinan," said the Laird's gentle hostess to him.

  22. His nephew had to go scrambling down through the alders and rowan-trees and wet bracken to get this bit of pink crane's-bill for Miss Avon's bouquet.

  23. But the Laird's nephew got even more savage as we rowed back in the calm, pale twilight.

  24. However, the mention of the Shorter Catechism seemed to suggest solid ground; and he was just about entering into the question of the Subordinate Standards when an exclamation of rage on the part of his nephew startled us.

  25. A new building was erected on the old site, and remains to this day in the occupancy of a nephew of the old tavern keeper, Aden Clary.

  26. The prominent young attorney of Uniontown of the same name is a nephew of the old wagoner.

  27. The nephew of Mr. Moses and all the other passengers escaped without injury.

  28. Zephania Riggle kept this house at an early day, and was succeeded in 1845 by Peter Colley, a nephew of Abel Colley, before mentioned.

  29. This year Lieutenant Flipper and a nephew of General--graduated in the same class, and the colored man rated the highest.

  30. Reid, nephew of the Secretary of War (it is said).

  31. Blows might have followed: the uncle, in his anger, hewing the nephew limb from limb with the carving knife from the table, and subsequently carrying away the remains to the Pond and there casting them in.

  32. Your nephew is of the same noble race, and well-beloved of the King; it is absolutely necessary that you should help him.

  33. They saw that he was in earnest, and one, who was the seneschal, sent orders to his nephew and the gates were opened.

  34. To which his nephew replied: "Monseigneur, I assure you that pride has nothing to do with it, but the desire and will to follow in the steps of your brave ancestors and mine.

  35. He is a nephew of the Bishop of Grenoble, who made me a present of him only six months ago.

  36. His name was Hiram Masterson, and he was really a nephew of Sparks Lemington.

  37. Because she chose to think the worst of her poor innocent nephew was no reason why Miss Muster should believe ill of every fellow.

  38. Sallie went around right away, and told how the rich Miss Muster suspected her own nephew of actually taking some of her beautiful and valuable jewels.

  39. What have you done, Gaius, with this young nephew of yours?

  40. You cannot deny that you are the youth we are in search of--the nephew of the pontiff Gaius," said the soldier.

  41. I am not certain on that point," answered Gaius; and calling to his nephew he desired him to swear that he would not reveal what he was about to communicate.

  42. The officer, having formally delivered his charge into the hands of Gaius, retired, and the uncle and nephew were left alone.

  43. He, as was the case with the other pontiffs, had long been initiated into her mysteries, and he trusted that in time his nephew would be qualified to become one of her votaries.

  44. Gaius readily understood and remembered the facts mentioned in the Bible; but he appeared utterly unable to comprehend their spiritual meaning, although he listened to all his nephew said.

  45. Gaius appeared to be completely deceived; he spoke more openly to his nephew than he had hitherto done, though at the same time he was too wary not to keep the same strict watch over him as at first.

  46. Gaius now treated his nephew with apparently perfect confidence, speaking unreservedly to him on matters of all sorts.

  47. He was described by Mrs. Machyn-Stubbs as a nephew of Lord Seely and her intimate friend, who was travelling on the Continent to recruit his health after the shock of his wife's sudden death.

  48. Long after his little nephew was sound asleep in the corner of the room the old man sat by the fire, thinking.

  49. The aged Munchkin wriggled again and stared at his small nephew as if disturbed by his argument.

  50. But now Ojo rushed up and threw his arms joyfully about his uncle, and the old man hugged his little nephew tenderly and stroked his hair and wiped away the boy's tears with a handkerchief, for Ojo was crying from pure happiness.

  51. Instead of replying, Aunt Temperance lighted a candle and calmly looked her nephew over.

  52. As Mistress Temperance emitted this tingling small-shot of words, she was marching with some rapidity up Old Palace Yard and the Abbey Close, her magnificent nephew keeping pace with her, right sore against his will.

  53. Chrysilla would accompany her, but she could leave her father alone in Pergamus a few months without anxiety, for he had a second son there in his nephew Myrtilus, and had found a kind friend in Philetaerus, the ruler of the country.

  54. Then the good man also saw how nobly, in spite of his wild life, his obstinacy, and the work so unpleasing to him, his nephew always showed the noble impulses inherited from his brave father, and thus Hermon gained the day.

  55. Like his nephew and heir Eumenes, he was a friend to art, and induced the laurel-crowned Alexandrian to execute the relief, modelled in clay, in marble for the Temple of Dionysus at Pergamus.

  56. Archias, bearing the letter which stated the hour when his fame-crowned blind nephew would enter the great harbour of Alexandria.

  57. And, besides, he had destined his nephew to become his successor, the head of one of the largest commercial houses in the city.

  58. Proclus, who neglected no opportunity of serving the nephew of the rich man whose aid he constantly required for the Queen's finances, was his guide, and described the decoration of the inner apartments of the royal residence.

  59. In spite of his deep vexation and the unbridled violence with which the nephew had allowed himself to address his uncle, my father did not dream of withholding his assistance from him.

  60. Many will not believe me, and even your father will perhaps consider it a disgrace to give his arm to his scorned, calumniated nephew to guide him home.

  61. He left three hundred thousand pounds--divided between his nephew and niece--not a greater sum than has been left by several deceased Irish prelates.

  62. His nephew came home at three and found himself confronted by two nurses, two doctors and a cabman who was waiting in the hallway for his fare.

  63. You are a simple soul," was all that Joseph said, and then borrowed fifty dollars from his nephew for a fresh start in the world, as he expressed it.

  64. Back in 1885, Joseph Hooper, disgraced, disowned by his family and as poor Job's turkey, made a brief but sufficiently explicit will in which he named his beloved nephew Thomas Singleton Bingle as his sole heir.

  65. At length, however, he was convinced, and condescended to offer his nephew his hearty congratulations.

  66. Pickering here, and his nephew Williams there, can easily negotiate this.

  67. Having no indications of Henry as the intermediate in this negotiation of the Essex junto, suspicions fell on Pickering, and his nephew Williams in London.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nephew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.