"I wish," mused the nephew aloud, "it could be as he wants it.

That afternoon the nephew begs, entreats for more money; they have a row; the poor woman is in tears, and is only temporarily consoled by a pleasant visit at the theatre.

He turned quickly and looked at his nephew blankly for a moment, and then his left eyebrow went up.

As follows: Am taking legal advice to ascertain whether strangling an idiot nephew counts as murder.

Observing that the young man still slept beside the chair from which he fell, he had ultimately, and with the umbrella still under his arm raised the dishevelled nephew head-downward in his arms, and impatiently conveyed him from the heated room and house to the coolest retreat he could think of.

The door opened a trifle, and Coronado instantly slipped the toe of his little boot into the crack, at the same time saying in his natural tone, "My dear uncle!" Seeing that he was discovered, Garcia gave his nephew entrance, closed the door after him, locked it, and sat down trembling on the edge of the lower berth, groaning and almost whimpering, "Ah, my son!

A company of King's men came instead and re-occupied the place, Errington and his nephew escaping, to wander about in the neighbourhood for several days, hiding from pursuit, before they got clear away.

Let those who dare now venture to talk of truce or pardon!" Claverhouse saw his nephew fall; with a glance of indescribable emotion he looked at Evandale.

"Then there's the sea; and the boats; and the fishermen; and the beach; and 'Am to play with" Peggotty meant her nephew Ham, but she spoke of him as a morsel of English Grammar.

Lord Plotwell warmly welcomes his nephew home, and proceeds to unfold his design of giving him his niece Diana in marriage.

But your nephew knowes I have met with my match.

Blows might have followed: the uncle, in his anger, hewing the nephew limb from limb with the carving knife from the table, and subsequently carrying away the remains to the Pond and there casting them in.

"My little grand-nephew making alliance with your workmen shows that he is taking after his papa.

My nephew mending, but my brother not well.

But he was invited to Logwood, Lady Agnes Foker's, where there were private theatricals, and a gay Christmas party of very fine folks, some of whom Major Pendennis would on no account have his nephew neglect.

Pascal was almost the only one who talked, in his passionate love for this scorched landa love which he endeavored to make his nephew share.

Is that the way my own nephew talks to me?"

He lives in a dreary house, with a testy housekeeper, and a timid little nephew-ward, and spends many of his lonely hours in trying to decide if he loves Miss Deborah Woodhouse the utilitarian, or aesthetic Miss Ruth.