He sized up the Gray family quickly, and apparently with satisfaction, for he talked quite freely of his niece to them, and they saw that they were not alone in their estimate of her.
I may tell you that the General had a niece named Valentina Ignatievna.
As regards her kinship with the General, she stood to him in the relation of niece by marriage.
She had not treated her niece to anything in the nature of an outburst on her return from Queen's Road to take up her duties.
It was bad enough for her niece to have become a lady's maid.
After all, she was very fond of her niece and would welcome the opportunity of having the girl's company at night and during the hours when Lady Feo was out.
Mr Temple gave him an outline, which appeared to Mr Cophagus to be very satisfactory, and then referred him to his niecefor fuller particulars.
By Jove, that's quite a notion," said Uncle Eneas, looking at his niece as people look at the sky to see if it is going to rain.
Jasmine, without thinking that amid the incalculable permutations and combinations of city life it was at least as probable that she was not this woman's niece as that she was, replied without hesitation that she was.
Both ladies looked at Sir Hector as if they supposed that he would at once certify his niece insane after such a remark.
Lady Grant never really enjoyed looking at a paper unless she had taken it away from somebody else, and when her niece surrendered it she smiled at her.
Yes," agreed the Dean, and so rapidly did he sit down that his niece was scarcely conscious of the movement until she saw the ostrich egg lying on the table again.
Hopkins replied 'Yes, my lady,' and before Lady Grant had time to explain that she did not want Hopkins, her niece was hurrying on her way north.
Mr. Vibart, struggling in the gulf between a baronet's niece and an artist's model had nothing to say, but he made up his mind to ask his uncle something about Italy.
My niece is staying with us indefinitely," said Lady Grant.
At any rate, when she carefully explained to her niece that the room was a sanctuary not so much for her own use as for old time's sake, Jasmine accepted its survival as due to some sentimental reason.
It must be that Lettice and Pamela had a chance of being married at last and that in a spasm of generosity she wished to help her niece .
As soon as he had gone, Aunt Ellen's treatment of her niece became something like a persecution.
Sirene is not a place that predisposes people to walk fast, and Uncle Eneas was continually being amazed that a niece thirty-five years younger than himself should be unable to quicken her pace to suit his own.
She looked at her niece keenly when she made this announcement; but Jasmine was determined not to give her the gratification of a self-conscious blush.
This letter is unhappily lost; but the answer to it is preserved, in which Petrarch tells the monarch that his epitaph rendered his niece an object rather of envy than of lamentation.
Father Dionisio, upon his arrival at Naples, impressed the King with so favourable an opinion of Petrarch that Robert wrote a letter to our poet, enclosing an epitaph of his Majesty's own composition, on the death of his niece Clementina.
It being clear that somebody was dead, Mrs Pipchin's niece inquired who it was.
It was the theatre in which his niece became a dancer, and he accepted the task of serving as her escort and guardian.
On his return he begged Mrs. Maylie and her niece to accompany him upstairs.
No, she is Hilda Brinsfield, the orphan niece of Mr. Ashley.
A niece of Mr. De Cormis from Woodmont, a village near my home in Ohio, is visiting there, and I am glad to have you become acquainted.
Clovis, pleased with his success and with Clotilde's notion, at once sent a deputation to Gondebaud to demand his niece in marriage.
He had heard tell of a young girl, like himself of the Germanic royal line, Clotilde, niece of Gondebaud, at that time king of the Burgundians.
Gondebaud in great alarm asked counsel of his Roman confidant Aridius, who had but lately foretold to him what the marriage of his niece Clotilde would bring upon him.
Well, we will pass that point," his great-niece relented again.
His niece keeps him company to the gate, but he leaves her there, and she stays there for him.
None of the papers noted the presence on the platform of Miss Hilda Auriol, the niece of Mr Lechworthy, nor can it be pretended that she constituted an item of public interest.
I shall not even mention the matter to my niece until we are all aboard the Snowflake.
At the moment of the cigarette, Miss Lechworthy and her niece retired to rest with instructions that they were not to be called before London.
Lechworthy's nieceis ill, and Dr Pryce is attending her.
And, after all, the summons of Dr Pryce to the palace to attend Lechworthy's niecewas all to the good.
If any of them is sick then Pryce comes and makes him well again, just as he is making your niece well again, and never anything to pay.
He and his niece preferred to live quite simply, and it was most kind of Mr Mast to entertain them in any case.
Lechworthy and his niece will sail away in the Snowflake, and take the next available steamer for England.
That is because, when your niece was ill, I made a little mistake, and he saw that I suspected him.
His niece is ill--seriously ill, I should say, and he wants me at once.
My niece is out, and there is no one in the house, so we can talk the .
Whereupon Mr. Worrall said in his bland commercial way that society had its burdens as well as its pleasures, and that his dear niece could hardly escape her social duties after the flattering manner in which London had welcomed her.
She would no longer have been a Pouilly, the niece of Pouilly of the Dictionary, if she had acknowledged any kind of equality between herself and her husband.
Lady Sheerness and her niece stayed but a short time at Scarborough after the latter was perfectly recovered, the season being over.
Besides her letters on business to persons of all conditions, she maintained a constant correspondence with her son and her niece from the time of their joining, the one the Benedictine, and the other the Ursuline Order.
The niece alluded to had been from her birth a special object of her holy aunt's interest.
She had happily obtained the conversion of her son; when she had suffered more, she would be rewarded by that of her niece also, but not until then would her self-imposed task of charity be perfected.
There seems to me, about the codicil as it stands, a declaration that the connexion with Newton's niece was such as, if people knew all, Newton might have sanctioned.
This morbid fear, which is often represented as modesty, would have made him, had he acted a part with regard to his niece which he could not avow, conduct it with the utmost reserve.
It is impossible that Newton could have been ignorant that his niece was living in Montague's house, enjoyed an annuity bought in his own name, and was regarded by the world as the mistress of his friend and political patron.
Those who have written on the life of Newton have touched with the utmost reserve upon the connexion which existed between his half-niece Catherine Barton, and his friend Charles Montague, who died Earl of Halifax.
Nevertheless, at breakfast on Tuesday, he warned his niece not to keep her admirer dangling at arm's length.
And how is yourniece after last night's terrible experience?
Owner's niece on board--bound to South America for the good of 'er health.
The silence of his niece on that same topic was alarming, but the position could not be so bad if she was willing to leave for the coast without seeing him again.
Oo even 'eard of a man sendin' 'is pretty niece on a ship 'e meant to throw away?
He was walking with unnatural steadiness, so Hozier made some excuse to meet him and whisper that the owner's niece was on board.
I appreciate exactly how well it would serve Mr. David Verity's interests if hisniece married a wealthy old party like Bulmer.
Has he made any mention lately of his Nephew and Niece in the Country, Sir Roger Bumper and his Sister?
Sir, I have not the Honour to be known to you, but the Report of your Death has brought me to Town, to testify the Duty and Affection of an unworthy Niece for the best of Uncles.
Shark, go you and prepare your Disguises; do you act the Nephew and the Niece well and I'll warrant everything else shall thrive.
You say he has never seen neither the Nephew nor the Niecesince they were Children?
The young Amazon allowed the knight who had called her his niece to put his arm about her and kiss her blushing cheek, for in those days the Hungarian woman still blushed even if the kiss came from a kinsman's lips.
I jumped out and was endeavoring to extricate myniece when this wretched boy got in the way.
He told the coachman to arrange for the removal of the carriage, grasped his niece by the arm and led her, still protesting, into the house.
But his niece shared with him at least one characteristic.
Nothing that Miss Clare had said dwelt so much on the memory of her niece as the simple observation, “It wants a little more scarlet, I think.
Miss Clare was surprised, pained, disappointed by what she now heard; yet there was comfort to her in seeing that now at least her poor niece was heartily repenting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "niece" 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; relative; sister; son; uncle
