The girl had no vocation for a religious life and rebelled against the fate proposed for her, but the father and uncle were inexorable, and after a vain struggle she was forced to yield and take the veil.
Of course a man's uncle and aunt are his uncle and aunt, and as such I do not mean to say that I ever thought of suggesting anything against Mr. and Mrs. Plaskett.
I rather fancy that Aunt and Uncle Plaskett have a tendency to shift the little disagreeables of life off their own shoulders on to other people's.
And that forgiving, tender-hearted uncle and aunt of mine had said they would.
That hypocrite of an uncle of mine had arranged to revolutionise the habits of his house for her.
Uncle Joe remembers the skirmish and seeing cannon balls come over the fields.
Barbacueing had been Uncle Joe's specialty during slavery days and he followed the same profession during his service with the federal army.
The mother of the young child was house maid for mistress Simms and Uncle John remembers that mother and child received only the kindliest consideration from all members of the Simms family.
Uncle Joe stresses the value of work, not the enforced labor of the slave but the cheerful toil of free people.
The colder the weather, the more hard work we had to do," declares Uncle George.
Uncle Jimmie recalls how the slaves always prayed to God for freedom and the negro preachers always preached about the day when the slaves would be no longer slaves but free and happy.
Uncle Joe's religion is the religion of decency and virtue.
The uncle ran away in the early part of the war, and after two years broke through the lines, and joined the northern army, going back after emancipation.
Uncle Samuel was given a job at the Trinity Church, corner of Third and Chestnut Streets.
Uncle Joe has seven daughters, he says they have always been obedient and attentive to their parents.
The second wife was Minnie Dixon who still lives with Uncle John at Evansville.
Uncle Sammy" as the negro children living near his home on South East Fifth Street call the old man, possesses an unusually clear memory.
Slaves kept the lawns smooth and tended the flowers for miles around Nashville, when I was a child," said Uncle Jimmie.
Uncle George said the roustabouts sang gay songs while loading boats with heavy freight and provisions but on account of his crippled feet he could not be a roustabout.
Uncle George said the Eclipse was a beautiful boat, he remembers the lettering in gold and the bright lights and polished rails of the longest steam boat ever built in the West.
The exertions of Hyde, Earl of Rochester, who, although a Tory, was possessed necessarily of some influence as maternal uncle to the queen, procured a recall of this award against a play which was in every respect truly inoffensive.
My uncle has sent for him; he is very unwell, and papa is his trustee.
While English narrative fiction was still in its first youth, Mrs. Behn protested against the evils of the slave trade through the medium of a story which may be considered a forerunner of "Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Uncle Tom and Topsy are fine and original creations.
In a fortnight or three weeks, added my uncle Toby, smiling, he might march.
Slavery then assumed a new and more personal aspect, and thousands who were indifferent to the rights of the negroes in general felt a sympathy with the fate of Uncle Tom which easily extended to the sufferings of the whole race.
Among the novels relating to life in the Southern States, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is the most prominent.
But with the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" the whole Northern public were brought face to face with the question of slavery.
The man whom you know as my uncle holds me in his power.
I had not seen Vera's uncle since our marriage, as he went to Zurich immediately afterwards.
My uncle gave it to me for a Christmas present, and it amuses mamma and me very much.
I am pressing some flowers for Genevieve Harvey, for although I live in the same State, uncle says we do not have the same kind of flowers here in the mountains as they have in the valley.
Dick noticed that the cigar his uncle carried was smoked down almost to the butt, and augured well from that detail.
The column he was reading described the wedding of his uncle with Miss Jenny Launton, and journalese surpassed itself.
My uncle gives me to understand that my allowance is secured to me in his will; and I'm the heir of my aunt, Lady Simon, whom you've probably met.
They now formed a thoroughly dismayed, disheartened group of three there under the high, girdered roof of Uncle Sam's reception chamber for prospective children by adoption.
At that I laughed a very large laugh and made this answer to the perturbation of my Uncle, the General Robert: "I will tell you after luncheon, my Uncle Robert, because I have not as yet eaten in this Harpeth country of America.
Do you suppose her Uncle got there or that anything happened?
He had not noticed a confusion of sex was between Pierre and me and he had sent out the check of my wicked Uncle and procured the American money for me.
Did I stay to fight the duel with that, what I know now to call a cad, and thus be put back into the person of the Marquise de Grez and Bye for a wicked Uncle to murder.
Yes, my Uncle Robert," I answered with a great sadness but also some amusement.
Very well, Robert Carruthers, who is no longer the beautiful Marquise of Grez and Bye, you will be that husky nephew to your wicked Uncle in the State of Harpeth whom he 'needs in his business.
Oh, my Uncle Robert, how much time is it that I have to make my toilet?
All woods made into forest by King Richard our uncle or King John our father up to the day of our first coronation, are to be immediately disforested, except our demesne woods.
Then there was captured Robert de Courtenay, who was uncle of the Queen.
He has no uncle there, and I can soon convince you that such is the case.
His uncleowns many great vessels that come every year to Swearah, laden with rich cargoes.
The uncle of one of them in Mogador will redeem the whole party of us.
Jim, turning to the Arabs; "the young fellow says that he is quite certain his unclewill buy us all.
I thought that perhaps the fact that your uncle has brought Mr. Crewe into the case might make a difference.
If he will give me his word of honour that he will not attempt to escape, and if you and his uncle will do the same, I'll let him go back to Staveley in charge of Heather.
They located the big house of Andy's uncle without trouble.
His uncle lives there, and that's the reason for it.
That is, unless you think it will be too much for me to stand all in one day--your news and that about Uncle Sam's success in raising funds and troops.
That Uncle Sam had at last gotten beyond the bounds of patience with a ruthless and sneaking enemy and was making energetic warfare against him was welcome news to those who had so long borne the unequal brunt of battle.
Before the end of December, the nephew set off to join his regiment, and from that moment it seemed as if the uncle had been delivered from his evil genius.
Loaded with debts he returned to Judea and was assisted by his uncle and brother-in-law, Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee.
But with the conversion of his uncle and one Omar--a man like himself of great force of character--he took a rigid stand again.
Our Uncle Nicholas was not a man very accessible to feelings of affection.
It must not be supposed that in setting forth the memories of this half-hour between the moment my uncle left my room till we met again at dinner, I am losing sight of "Almayer's Folly.
His nephew (my uncle and guardian) told me that the first lasting impression on his memory as a child of four was the glad excitement reigning in his parents' house on the day when Mr. Nicholas B.
It was a present to them jointly from ouruncle Nicholas B.
The devouring in a dismal forest of a luckless Lithuanian dog by my grand-uncle Nicholas B.
I knew, at a very early age, that my grand-uncle Nicholas B.
Two fools, Tom, two fools," said Uncle Benson grimly.
My uncle coughed, and beginning in an oddly stiff and formal way told the story of the year 1838, for the most part what I knew already, as I told him, not meaning to be impolite.
My uncle stood up, buttoned his coat, and went softly from the room.
Uncle Benson and my father are sitting looking at me, who am standing awkwardly enough and shifting my feet about.
Uncle Ben Benson was captain and part owner of the Saratoga, a good ship, carrying steam and sail, and landing merchandize at Doty's Slip.
In the sewing-room Uncle Benson was lifting my mother to the sofa.
She was sold to the service, with the option of repurchase if not destroyed, and Uncle Benson was enlisted to command her, and looked a fit proper man in his uniform, which excited me almost beyond endurance.
So we waited for a time that no doubt seemed longer than it was; I do not know how long, or what Uncle Benson said by way of conversation.
Phinuit was right: a gardener named Farnsworth had worked for her uncle and then for her grandfather thirty-five or forty years before.
The family name of "Uncle Carruthers" could never be given properly.
This Uncle Frank was aged about 80, and was living in Cornwall: the general description is characteristic.
At Barking, where my uncles lived as children, there is a field called Smith's field, but my Uncledoes not remember the cat incident.
At the 46th sitting,[29] Phinuit reports that the last visit the father of Professor Lodge paid was to this Uncle Robert, and that he didn't feel very well.
Your Uncle Jerry, do you know, has been talking to Mr E.
Uncle Jerry says he will tell all the facts, and all about families near, and so on, that he can recall.
I will quote another incident of "Uncle Carruthers'" communications, because on account of its stamp of vivid realism it is one of those which the telepathic hypothesis does not explain satisfactorily.
The most important communicator after his father during the sittings was his uncle Carruthers, whose name, however, was always mangled by Rector, and given as Clarke or Charles.
Lesueur, calling himselfuncle of Miss Virginia, as also a Dutch physician from Herzogenbusch, Dr.
His father was a native of Lausanne, in Switzerland, and uncle of the celebrated naturalist Desaussure.
In one of the halls is a full length portrait of Washington, and in another, that of the late Governor Clinton, an uncle of the present governor.
Since to-day is Friday and a holiday, Uncle says that I am not to begin work till Monday.
But that isn't possible, for he's promised as an apprentice to his uncle in Bukurest.
And don't trouble about me, Uncle Silas; I'm not asking to come home.
Uncle Silas, however, is urging me to go, at least for a time, to Washington.
And, dear Uncle Silas, can't you see what it means to me?
Uncle Silas says it usually is opium; the duty is so great, and there is such an immense profit on a smuggled lot.
But," and she turned with recovered brightness to the small boy who stood waiting on the threshold, "this is Lem Myers, Uncle Silas.
But he was ready, and he had told Sing to watch, and when he saw him coming withUncle Paul, to bring in the soup.
Your first dance belongs to Mrs. Governor, Uncle Si; we can't choose.
You taught me to be proud of it, Uncle Silas; you loved to remind me my mother was born on the Columbia, and that her father, a New England missionary, followed Marcus Whitman to Oregon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncle" 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
