Bread and butter, come to supper," sang the baby with sudden glee, "that what Tante says.
Though what a vasso is, or a tante either, is beyond me to say," she murmured.
Tante will not go with us, or change her decision.
Tante is one of the most charming persons in the world, but I have never thought her remarkable for good judgment.
I suppose I would have told Tante except that she has been ill and I did not wish to make her unhappy.
Besides I asked permission and Tante wishes you to go.
Tante and I spoke of this the other afternoon and decided to bring the question up before the Camp Fire for an open debate.
Come home with me to Tante and Peggy, won't you, Dan?
I am pretty stupid at trying to say things, Sally, but I wish you to know that Tante and I had a talk about you and she told me to go ahead and see if you would confide in me.
Perhaps you and Tante and Aunt Patricia may be the exceptions.
I have had no letters from home in months and did not understand that you and Tante and Peggy were still in France.
If we hear you and Tante are in special danger we may return to you!
And don't you think my returning home at once is a question for Tante or for my mother and father to decide?
Ippolito is said to have asked the poet: "Dove avete trovato, messer Lodovico, tante corbellerie?
But it tante safe to be caged with them in a house out o' town.
It tante much different from stump oratory in America arter all, or speakin' off a whiskey barrel, is it?
If he talks liberal about corn law, it tante to feed the hungry, but to lower wages, and so on in every thing a most.
He can't put the leake into me that way, so it tanteno use tryin'.
It tante burglary,' sais I, 'unless the lodger sleeps in his trunk.
Soften Onkel Heinrich, and teach him to cherish kind Tante Else with the meek blue eyes and claret-colored silk dress?
I don't know what had passed between him and Tante Else since last we had seen him, but his opaque black eyes were crosser and blacker than ever.
Oh no,' sighed Tante Else, 'it is I who am impatient and foolish.
Oh, no, no,' sighed Tante Else, yet listening with manifest fearful interest.
He had had a happy day, ending with two very glorious hours in the Royal Library, and Tante Else's herring salad was much to his taste.
Dear niece, it is of no consequence,' falteredTante Else, her eyes anxiously on her husband.
Papa, lifting his glass and drinking gayly to Tante Else, who glanced uneasily at her husband, he not yet having been, to her recollection, called a cistern.
He had hold of Tante Else's hand and was stroking it.
Therefore I prophesy that if you are at the English Embassy in Berlin fifty years and meet fresh people every day of them, among those people will never be Onkel Heinrich and Tante Else.
Jakhals gave one last spring right over poor Oom Reijer, and danced off to his den in the kopjes to tell Tante Jakhals and the little Jakhalsjes how he had cheated Oom Reijer.
But before hunting again he thought he would go home and see how Tante and the children were getting on, and whether they had feasted well on the nice fat hamel.
At any other time Jakhals would have skipped with delight, for it was very seldom he had the honour of such an invitation, but now he was blown up with conceit at having cheated Oom and Tante Leeuw so nicely.
I think, Vera, that Tante recently has heard some unexpected news of Gerry," Sally finally announced with the proper degree of solemnity and with a due sense of dramatic values.
But suppose when Tante returns we inquire why we are to wait over in Los Angeles a few days more?
I did not say Gerry had written, I only said that I believed Tante had received some information concerning her," Sally answered, undisturbed by criticism.
See here, dear, I am not sorry to have you and mother and Tante begin worrying about me, fearing I am going to do something foolish.
Nevertheless Tante has a most eccentric fashion of suddenly deciding to explore along small byways.
I believe Tante will have the time of her life acting with you girls, of course she will consent, although probably no one else on earth with her reputation would take such a risk.
Only promise me you'll see that mother does not worry and that neither she nor Tante makes a scene to try to force me into giving up my present work.
Personally I am perfectly sure that if Gerry wishes Tante's sympathy and help again, Tante would be sure to do whatever she could to help her.
I do wish you could; but even if Madame de Soigne had asked you, Tante would never have allowed you to go.
It is only that now everything seems grey and dreadful, and Tante is unhappy because so many of her friends have gone away, and because of everything.
I hoped that Tante would allow us to sew the ruby in the crown, but she would not consent!
Mardi Gras was a tiresome day, after all, she sighed, and Tante Louise agreed with her for once.
Singing with unmasked faces, they danced toward Tante Louise and Odalie.
Only think, Tante Louise," she would cry, "what a happy time it is to be!
But I do not have to; and you know, tante Pelagie, you do not need to.
The voice was very clear and steady with which she spoke to Tante Lizette, brewing her tisane there in a corner.
My father loves me, tante Pelagie, and such will not be his wish when he knows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tante" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
