555 examples of grandchild in sentences

This woman in front had found her boy's half-charred body left tied to a tree by Rebel scouts: this girl was the grandchild of Naylor, a man of seventy,the Federal soldiers were fired at from his house one day,the next, the old man stood dumb upon its threshold; in this world, he never would call to God for vengeance.

Lady Grange was the more to be dreaded, as she came of a vindictive race, being the grandchild

And at last, when the king was seventy-eight years old, a great-grandchild was laid in his arms,the first son of Prince Gustavus Adolphus (now the Crown Prince) and the Princess Margaret of Connaught.

Except that as yet she saw no prospect of presenting the empress with a grandchild, she had hardly a wish ungratified.

"I hear that he has placed his heroic love upon the bright charms of a pewterer's wife; and, after a long amour, and many perilous adventures, has stolen the fair lady, which, in spite of his wrinkles and grandchild, persuade people of his youth and gallantry."

Our author to avoid any impertinence which the captain was likely to be guilty of towards him, told him, Sir Edmund Bacon, the person with whom he travelled, was the grandchild of the great lord Verulam, High Chancelor of England, whose fame was extended to every country where science and philosophy prevailed, and that they were protected by the earl of Hertford, the English embassador at Brussels.

Posterity N. posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.

she would have trembled with rage that a Dahcotah maiden, and her grandchild, should be guilty of the enormous crime of loving a cousin.

One Seribonius, who maintained that he was a grandson of Mithridates and had received the kingdom from Augustus after the death of Asander, married the latter's wife, named Dynamis, who was the daughter of Pharnaces and a grandchild of Mithridates, and obtaining the power committed to her by her husband got control of Bosporus.

Bernard's father and mother lived long enough to see their first and only grandchild, and then died, leaving their son a large baronial estate, 500 slaves, and a vast amount of money.

In the years to come, mayhap, there'll be a wee grandchild nestling on your knee that'll circle its little arms about your neck and look into your wrinkled face, and ask you: "'How old are you, Grandpa?

Mrs. Ellis at the head of the table with a grandchild on each side of her, and her cap-strings pinned upon the side next to baby.

And so with regard to this question of futurity; if any benevolent being of the present age is imbued with a desire to know what his great-great-grandchild will think of this or that authorof Mr. Dickens especially, whose claims to fame have raised the questionthe only way to settle it is by the ordinary historic method.

With lightning rapidity Arthur Carrollton read what Maggie had writtenread that she, his idol, the chosen bride of his bosom, was the daughter of a servant, the grandchild of old Hagar!

Joyfully the servants told to each other the glad news, disbelieving entirely the report fast gaining circulation that the queenly Maggie was lowly borna grandchild of old Hagar.

It was the first time that the idea had ever gained a foothold in her mind, that her docile and tractable grandchild could really have for any serious length of time a will opposed to her own, and she found it even now difficult to believe it.

But Jacob and Ruth Newell had neither son nor daughter, grandchild, cousin, relation of any nearness or remoteness, to expect; for the white snow covered with a cold mantle scores of mounds in many graveyards where lay their dead.

The worst happened last week, when one particularly motherly, blooming solicitor's wife, after recounting to us in full detail the arrival of her first grandchild, hoped Mrs. Gurrage would soon be in her happy position! Merciful Providence, I praythatnever!

But Mr. FISHER WHITE made a touching picture of the weak old Austrian Emperor, torn between love of his grandchild and fear of Metternich.

She was taken, however, at once up to the baby, and then in the presence of her daughter and grandchild it may be presumed that she relaxed a little.

She still felt,though she had yielded for this day, this day which was to make her grandchild a Christian,that there must be, and should be, a severance between people such as the Boltons and people such as the Caldigates.

"Then what are we to do?" rejoined the old woman, "I don't know unless you do for the father of your grandchild."

It was a good thing to leave to a grandchild; but she could not do without it as long as she lived.

Replying to his grandchild, an old man in Lewis said ... 'Mary!

A part of the money I gave Barnes to stimulate his exertions, and the rest I placed in the hand of Mary Woodley's grandpapa, with a friendly admonition to him not to allow his grandchild to make a fool of herself; an exhortation which produced its effect in due season.

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