Do we say uncal or uncle

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If he does so, it will determine all those who are wavering, for the King of Prussia is his uncle and the King of Bavaria his cousin.

"Do you remember," continued the Count, "an adventure in which I most unselfishly stood your friend when their High Mightinesses were on a visit to your uncle, and were all together in that great, straggling castle?

ivate and intimate conversation, I was long withheld by the perpetual confluence of visitants with whom the first news of my uncle's arrival crowded the house; but was amply recompensed by seeing an exact and punctilious practice of the arts of a courtier, in all the stratagems of endearment, the gradations of respect, and variations of courtesy.

My uncle saw the veneration with which I caught every accent of his voice, and watched every motion of his hand; and the awkward diligence with which I endeavoured to imitate his embrace of fondness, and his bow of respect.

At length I entered London, and my uncle was reinstated in his superiority.

We were not yet capable of observing how much fortune influences affection, but flattered ourselves on the road with the tenderness and regard with which we should be treated by our uncle.

In the expression and motion of the dramatic mute the aged uncle had the sublimity of Lear.

The old uncle who had loved the dead man had well left it to God.

Another child of a kingMary, daughter of Stephenbecame Abbess in 1160, and her uncle, Henry de Blois of Winchester, built the greater part of the present church about 1125, the western portion of the nave following between 1175 and 1220.

To the right, a turning leads to Symondsbury, where there is an old cruciform church with a central tower and, in the chancel, the tomb of Bishop Gulston, uncle of Addison.

So Tristan returned to Wales, his own realm, even as his uncle bade.

Aunt Caddie, 10 cents; Uncle Gilman, 5 cents; Cousin Walter, 4 cents; cash, 25 cents,$1.04 and the penny talent returned.

My uncle Nis'-ah.

His father and uncle S. S. had been to see him once during our vacation, and we were now expecting them again with his Aunt Mary and her three children and his grandmother.

Eddy came to me with a little flag which his uncle had given him, and after they had left us he ran up and down with it, and as my eye followed him, I thought he looked happier and brighter and more like himself than I had seen him for a long time.

and then would correct himself and say, "I mean my Uncle Stearns."

By arrogating Jonson's hostile name; Let father Flecknoe fire thy mind with praise, And uncle Ogleby thy envy raise.

This Dryden might learn from Mulgrave, who mentions in his Memoirs, as a means of Monmouth's advancement, the "great friendship which the Duke of York had openly professed to his wife, a lady of wit and reputation, who had both the ambition of making her husband considerable, and the address of succeeding in it, by using her interest in so friendly an uncle, whose design I believe was only to convert her.

The exertions of Hyde, Earl of Rochester, who, although a Tory, was possessed necessarily of some influence as maternal uncle to the queen, procured a recall of this award against a play which was in every respect truly inoffensive.

When the old man had finished it she remarked: "That story does not appeal to me, Uncle Julius, and is not up to your usual mark.

Uncle Remus, his songs and sayings.

The newcomer was that sneering Court fop, the Count von Reuss, Duke Casimir's nephewstill in hiding from the wrath of his uncle.

Then I saw the look of his uncle stand hell-clear in his eyes.

I employed many of them to do the heavy work of clearing avenues, and the air resounded with their cheerful songs, and I had the pleasure, with much labor, to save from the rapacious white robbers, the farms which these colored men had received from generous Uncle Sam.

Uncle and Aunty Peter Gooden owned a fertile farm, and made a good living and more by diligent labor thereon.

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