Whatever my other uncles said, by way of preference to Bagdad and the Tigris, in calling Bagdad the true residence of the Mussulman religion, and the metropolis of all the cities in the earth, all this made no impression upon me.
My father and my uncles left me in Damascus, and pursued their journey.
At last my uncles thought of pursuing their journey; but took care, before they went, to seil my goods, which they did so advantageously for me, that I got five hundred per cent.
Soon after, my uncles declared themselves how much they were touched with my father's discourse.
They were not going to visit aunts or uncles or grandfathers.
No, their visits were going to be more exciting even than visits to aunts and uncles and grandparents would be, for many of them were going to be guests of families whom they had never seen.
It is not to be wondered at, then, that my uncles looked up to their sister with feelings of especial devotion.
My uncles were not religious men, but they had an almost filial respect for my Mother, who was several years senior to the elder of them.
The flight of my uncles at this particular juncture left me without a relative on my Mother's side at the time of her death.
In the course of our misfortune I was carried to Barbary by two uncles of mine, for it was in vain that I declared I was a Christian, as in fact I am, and not a mere pretended one, or outwardly, but a true Catholic Christian.
I am to stay with my uncles in Baltimore and not come home until next June.
Turning to Leila, he said: "Your aunt and I have had some unpleasant news from your uncles in Baltimore--a political quarrel.
Now you'll have to look around for everybody; you have to speak to my three aunts and all my uncles and my father.
And all that's the matter with your blessed trio of aunts is their ambition to stand well with Mrs. William, and your precious uncles lean on the First National counter when they want to borrow money.
I'll be glad to," declared Fred; and then realizing the absurdity of his fervor in consenting to speak to the aunts and uncles he laughed.
Allow me to reiterate the statement I set down in my letter, that I left Merivale and you of my own accord; indeed my uncles would have stayed me, but I was determined to be gone for your sake, their sake and my own.
Young ladies generally expect to be taken away from their fathers and mothers, and uncles and aunts.
What business had he to talk to her about being taken away from her uncles and aunts?
My uncles both are slain in rescuing me; And all my followers to the eager foe Turn back and fly, like ships before the wind, Or lambs pursu'd by hunger-starved wolves.
At home, we found assembled as wedding-guests, the two uncles Preissing and several other of the most intimate friends among the members of the Ducal orchestra, as also Cantor Schade, an old friend of the Scheidler family.
Yet somehow or other he inevitably recalled the uncles of history.
I have never learnt to skate,' said Leonore, 'but your uncles look very kind, and perhaps they would have taught me.
Once this point of view prevailed, cross-cousins would necessarily be felt to be something very different from parallel cousins, and cross-uncles and aunts from parallel ones; and the distinction would find expression in nomenclature.
Within this family specific terms for father and mother as opposed to uncles and aunts are the rule and cross-cousins are generally not distinguished from parallel cousins and brothers.
Among the Herero, though uncles and aunts generally regard their nephews and nieces as their own children, the maternal uncle applies to them a distinct term, ovasia.
The essential point to ascertain is whether paternal and maternal uncles and aunts are merged in one group or are distinguished.
Then quickly donned their best array, Her uncles three, those counts of power; And they together took their way To good Queen Malfred’s lofty bower.
Then answered her those counts so bold, Her uncles three, with fury glaring: “Ah ne’er shalt thou the promise hold Which thou to make hast had the daring.
Now my three gentle uncles mind me, I love Sir Axel dear as life, And faithless he shall never find me.
Answered heruncles all with speed, Their voice it made her ears to tingle: “As thou wast single in the rede, So in the oath be also single.
Then straight the uncles three replied, With joyous eyes each other viewing: “O she was born in lucky tide, A noble prince for her is suing.
Dame Julli sleeps the slab below, Sir Emmer lies in earth’s embraces, If they but lived my uncles now Would scarcely turn from me their faces.
Her management of her unclesand Isaiah was now complete.
The following morning Mary astonished her uncles by announcing that as soon as she had helped Isaiah with the breakfast dishes and the bed making she was going up to the store.
The hardest part of the experience for her was to see how eager her uncles were to please each caller and how anxiously each watched the other's efforts and the result.
At six o'clock Mary, who had reasons of her own for wishing to be left alone in the store, suggested that she remain there while her uncles went home for supper.
She must not permit herself to think of anyone but her uncles or of anything except the great debt of love and gratitude she owed them and of the sacrifice they had made for her.
She knew her uncles were, in all probability, there at the store, and she wished to see Isaiah and talk with him before meeting them.
She had her adopted unclesand Isaiah to take care of and boy beaux were silly.
You may remember I told you the other evening that so far as our house was concerned, we should probably be willing to sell your uncles indefinitely, for old times' sake.
Give my regards to your uncles when you see them and tell them I wish them luck.
When her uncles returned she said nothing of the occurrence.
Her uncles had sent her there to study; they needed her at home, but that need they had sacrificed in order that she might study and improve.
What's all this about your uncles failing in business?
Mary went home for the Christmas vacation and spent the holidays, as she had spent those of the previous year, in helping her uncles at the store.
I beg my duty to my papa, my love to my brothers and sisters, my respects to my uncles and aunts, and my remembrances to my cousins; and believe me your dutiful son.
The Dukes of Lancaster and Gloucester, uncles and regents of Richard II.
Wherever he went, he heard tales of the bad government of his uncles; listened, promised amendment; those uncles remaining the while at home in much disquiet of mind.
His brother and uncles hastened to him, but he did not recognize them; his eyes were set, and he spoke no word.
In vain the other uncles sought to quiet his fury; his only reply was to summon them and his troops to Le Mans, and start with them on the fatal march to Brittany.
It was for this reason that when, at breakfast on the day on which Jephson's were due to play Leicester's, he received an invitation from one of his many uncles to spend a weekend at his house, he decided to accept it.
On this occasion Marriott cut in with a few sage remarks on the subject of uncles as a class.
The three regions below him are guarded by maternal uncles and by his father, who never comes near the taboo house, which only his mother shares with him.
Then Pele bids her sisters and uncles to keep up the fire, but Kamapuaa's sister, Keliiomakahanaloa, protects him with cloud and rain.
It is guarded by two maternal uncles of the hero, Kanenaiau and Hawewe and a maternal aunt, Luahinekaikapu, the sister of the lizard grandmother, who is blind.
No wonder, then, that of his two uncles Edward VI preferred Thomas to Edward!
Now, Marie would be Queen, and who so natural advisers as her uncles of the house of "Lorraine"?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
