The woodpigeons coo in the covert; the frogs croak in the pond; the bees hum about some thyme, and some of my smaller nieces have been busy gathering primroses, 'all to make posies suitable to this present month.
I have read (as usual with me) but very little, what with looking at the sea with its crossing and recrossing ships, and dawdling with my nieces of an evening.
As it was, I could not rid myself of the idea that one, if not both, of Mr. Leavenworth's nieces looked down upon me from the eyes of this entrancing blonde with the beckoning glance and forbidding hand.
Mr. Harwell, we are told that upon the breaking in of the library door this morning, Mr. Leavenworth's two nieces followed you into the room.
The old lady was particularly pleased with him; and secretly wished, that before she died she might be so happy as to see one of her nieces married to Sempronius.
Miss Branwell accepted the trust and would seem to have watched over her nephew and fivenieces with conscientious care.
She bequeathed sufficient money to her nieces to enable them to reconsider their plan of life.
The two eldest of those nieces were not long in following their mother.
It is easy to imagine with what horrified astonishment aunt and nieces must have regarded each others' peculiarities.
Many a fierce tussle of wills, many a grim listening to over-frivolous reminiscence, must have shown the aunt and her nieces the difference of their natures.
Was it possible that she should allow her own nephews and nieces to starve while she was rich?
Rosa brought Madame Orio and her two nieces to witness it, and I had the pleasure of treating them all to a good dinner in my room.
In the evening I called upon Madame Orio, as I wanted to inform her charming nieces that, being an inmate of Grimani's house, I could not sleep out for the first night.
He alluded to his nieces as rude, selfish monkeys, without either feelings or manners.
His sister commented on it in a curt, businesslike manner, and the eldest of his delightful nieces said mockingly: "You have been taking too much exercise this morning, Uncle Roderick.
Annie Bermond was the youngest of John and Margaret Greylston's nieces and nephews.
One snowy evening, a merry Christmas party was gathered together in the wide parlour at Greylston Cottage,--nearly all the nephews and nieces were there.
A great intimacy sprang up between my nieces and these young people.
After the battle of Austerlitz the State undertook to bring up, at the public expense, the sisters, daughters, or nieces of those who were decorated with the Cross of Honour.
The seven daughters belong to the kings of Spain and the two nieces to the knights of a very holy order called the Order of St. John.
They used to sit out on the old porch and talk; or, when there were no guests, his two nieces and some of his brothers' kept him company.
I am keeping house alone, except as I have some nieces now and then staying with me.
They have no children; but the nieces and nephews flock hither for rest and recreation, and are always fascinated with Uncle George's adventures.
But all the nieces think Aunt Nan just the loveliest and sweetest body in the world.
The names of the daughters and nieces of the chief Norman barons, will be found in the catalogue of the first nuns.
Dr Balfour, in April 1860, the manse ceased to be the second home of Louis Stevenson, and in the November of that year his aunt, Miss Balfour, and the nephews and nieces who stayed with her moved to a house in Howard Place.
Balfour's household and Miss Balfour, and the nephews and nieces who had their home with her--who made of the little Fife town their holiday resort.
After taking care of me ever since I was a baby, she must like me better than those nieces and nephews she never saw till yesterday.
Katharine was to spend the day there with her nurse, and make the acquaintance of all the nieces and nephews about whom Marie had told her so much, while her father was to return to Amsterdam, where he had business to transact with a friend.
Madame Orio and her lovely nieces shed many tears, and I joined them in that delightful employment.
After supper, the aunt told her nieces to shew me to my room, and, as may well be supposed, we spent a most delightful night.
Of this secret the said nieces were perfectly aware, and derived much amusement therefrom.
If she marries, her children are certain to call forth her resources, if she does not marry, her nephews and nieces very probably will do so instead.
Aunt Anna was the wife of a dean, and she never dared to invite any of her London-weary nieces to stay with her, lest they should unwittingly reveal to any of her titled friends the ghastly fact that they had to work for their living.
Mr. Harry Duncan wrote for her, saying that she had a great longing to see her nephews and nieces once more, and to make the acquaintance of Violet's husband and his children.
They all have happy faces as I remember them—as happy as those of three cheery little nieces and a jolly little nephew of Your affectionate, UNCLE JOHN.
Old Silas Watson, interested as he was in the result, found it hard to decide, after ten days, which of her nieces Jane Merrick most favored.
So one morning she sent word asking them all into her room, and when the nieces appeared they found Uncle John and the lawyer already in their aunt's presence.
At last the first of July arrived, and Oscar was dispatched to the railway station, four miles distant, to meet Miss Elizabeth De Graf, the first of the nieces to appear in answer to Jane Merrick's invitation.
She is very young and unsophisticated," said the lawyer, "and of all your nieces she will least appreciate your generosity.
But you're more nervous and irritable than usual, I'll admit, and I fear this invasion of your nieces won't be good for you.
There was an air of impressive formality pervading the room, although Miss Merrick's brother, at least, was as ignorant as her nieces of the reason why they had been summoned.
But I must try to live until my nieces come, and I can decide which of them is most worthy to care for the old place when I am gone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nieces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
