may the noses of all respectable people be turned upside down and jackasses dance eternally upon their grandmothers' graves!" "Patricia!" cried a shocked colonel.

The Bodhisattva put his toes down on the ground, and the demon soldiers retired and dispersed, and the three young ladies were changed into old grandmothers.

But, as he was not spoiled by indulgence, it is but fair to conclude that her gentle method of educating him was tempered by firmness on proper occasionsa quality somewhat rare in grandmothers.

Mean time their very grandmothers will acquit us, and reproach them with their self-do, self-have, and as having erred against knowledge, and ventured against manifest appearances.

How one wedding gown served our grandmothers till they exchanged it for a winding-sheet; and praises plainness, not for less sin, but for less cost.

Not for that I mean to hoard you, Keep you close and lodge and board you As I would my sisters, brothers, Cousins, aunts, and old grandmothers, But that you shan't bother others With your sniffling, snuffling folly, Howling, Yowling, Melancholy.

Though he allowed some of the more elderly persons to live, yet by calling them his fathers, grandfathers, mothers, and grandmothers, he got revenue from them during their lifetime and inherited their property when they died.

All those grandmothers lined up at the slot machines . . .

Beach-goers and gamblers of all ages strolled back and forthstuds with oiled glistening muscles, grandmothers with straw hats and outrageous sunglasses, Afro-Americans, Latinos, Asians.

About forty years ago, a post-chaise was a sight more novel in the little hamlet of Thorndean, than silk gowns in country churches during the maidenhood of our great-grandmothers; and, as one drew up at the only public-house in the village, the inhabitants, old and young, startled by the unusual and merry sound of its wheels, hurried to the street.

I was charged with old obligations conferred on my grandfathers and grandmothers; and, finally, had the certain knowledge that my gentlest denials were looked upon as a compound of selfishness and hypocrisy.

Sometimes to women, listening to the stories of their grandmothers, it seems better to have lived then than nowher grandmother was at that time a young wife.

"Both my grandmothers and both grandfathers were slaves.

When the book was sent to Lamb he remarked (in December, 1796) on "the odd coincidence of two young men, in one age, carolling their grandmothers....

"Those Books kept by modern young Ladies for show, Of which their plain grandmothers nothing did know "or otherwise floating about in Periodicals; which you have chosen in this manner to embody.

In the long run, grandmothers are more tender to their grand-children than their own offspring.

Standing among your women and children, and your old grandfathers and grandmothers, I was ashamed of looking with watchful and observant eyes.

Poor old grandmothers in black bonnets and skirts trudged under the lines of poplars, with younger women who clasped their babes tight in one hand while with the other they carried heavy bundles of household goods.

That's the trouble with these New-Englanders, anyhowthey've always got grandmothers to fall down at crucial moments.

The ten grandmothers.

Madame Tallien, who is supposed occasionally to dictate decrees to the Convention, presides with a more avowed and certain sway over the realms of fashion; and the Turkish draperies that may float very gracefully on a form like hers, are imitated by rotund sesquipedal Fatimas, who make one regret even the tight lacings and unnatural diminishings of our grandmothers.

As there is no Man living who is a more professed Advocate for the Fair Sex than my self, so there is none that would be more unwilling to invade any of their ancient Rights and Privileges; but as the Doctrine of Pin-money is of a very late Date, unknown to our Great Grandmothers, and not yet received by many of our Modern Ladies, I think it is for the Interest of both Sexes to keep it from spreading.

They were the lot of most Europeans and North Americans when our great grandfathers and great grandmothers were in their prime.

But however powerful the operation of the Church machinery upon the grandmothers and grandfathers of the modern Grindwellites, it has certainly fallen greatly into disuse, and is kept a-going now more for the sake of appearances than for any real efficacy.

As the mothers dress, so do their daughters, so did their grandmothers, and so will their grand-daughters."