Opposite her, above the crowded mantelpiece and surmounted by a raffia wreath, the enlarged-crayon gaze of her deceased maternal grandfather, abetted by a horrible device of photography, followed her, his eyes focusing the entire room at a glance.

Mr. Effingham ardently desired, and had actually designed, to take his niece with him to Europe, but her paternal grandfather, who was still living, objected his years and affection, and the scheme was reluctantly abandoned.

Nor is it sufficient to prohibit its sleeping with younger persons, and yet crowd it into the bed with an aged grandfather or grandmother, or with both.

We'll give a dinner and announce it at dessert, just as your honored grandfather did your Aunt Constantia's betrothal" For about the Musgraves of Matocton there could be no question.

It is interesting to note that an extant portrait of Erasmus Darwin, Darwin's distinguished grandfather, shows a pituitocentric, but with a rounder head and a fatter face, which point to a predominance of the post-pituitary over the ante-pituitary.

Opposite her, above the crowded mantelpiece and surmounted by a raffia wreath, the enlarged-crayon gaze of her deceased maternal grandfather, abetted by a horrible device of photography, followed her, his eyes focusing the entire room at a glance.

It was a good deal that way with your lamented grandfather.

he exclaimed, "is it possible that you are afraid of your affectionate old grandfather?

My colored grandfather lived to be 115 years old, and at that age he was never sick in his life.

Thus asked (by Vali), his wise grandfather, conversant with every conclusion, replied upon the whole subject unto his grand-son who had sought at his hands the resolution of his doubts.

She helped with great alacrity to put away the tea-things, and mounted into the vehicle, followed by her delighted grandfather.

Despite the precedent of an ultra democratic grandfather, and all his plebeian tendencies as a philanthropist and a Christian, his Catholic friends had inclined him toward monarchical ideasalthough he never actually sided with the militant portion of the party.

There is an instance in which she is seated by the Virgin with her basket of fruits and flowers; and St. Jerome, no longer beating his breast in penance, but in likeness of a fond old grandfather, stretches out his arms to the Child.

One limped across the floor like a gouty grandfather; one set a pair of spectacles astride of his nose, and pretended to pore over the black-letter pages of the book of magic; a third seated himself in an arm-chair, and strove to imitate the venerable dignity of Doctor Heidegger.

Marian Nowell will have no need to supplicate for protection from an indifferent father or a hard-hearted grandfather, if she will be my wife.

Fourth of his line, I cannot be expected to take any very lively interest in the novels of my literary great-grandfather.

" "You talk like a little old grandfather, sometimes," said Miss Bertram, laughing, as she sat down beside him.

"We have been lucky to-day, grandfather," says the younger; "but Alfred says these birds are not like the birds in old England.

Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather.

" "What are you, if a mere grandfather may venture to inquire?

Many of the families of my Barmouth schoolmates had the fulcrum of a moneyed grandfather.

What are a lot of musty, mouldy old grandfathers, compared with life and love and happiness?

His parental grandfather, although of Portuguese blood, was an intensely patriotic Brazilian.

After all, one must be indulgent to these noviceswith no traditions behind themand nowell, to put it plainlyno grandfathers!

Everyone perceived that the young Capo della Repubblica was in full possession of the solid grit of his pushful grandfather.