grandson


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a male grandchild

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Why should a grandson and grandfather peg away at each other with mutual wiolence when all might be bliss and concord.
Now, although La Ramee appreciated, as of a certain value, the honor of being shut up with a prisoner of so great importance, still the pleasure of living in intimacy with the grandson of Henry IV.
Now, the wizard's grandson, the young Matthew Maule of our story, was popularly supposed to have inherited some of his ancestor's questionable traits.
Billings and her grandson. Receiving no response he inserted his pass key in the lock, only to discover that another key was already there, but from the inside.
The grandson, however, being smitten by a sudden wish to see the house himself, proposes to join the party.
Presently the Grandson rose to leave--discovered he had an appointment with some Emperor, perhaps.
I hope he treated his grandson better than he did the jarvies."
As no other children have been born to any of the newer generations in the intervening years, all hopes of heritage are now centred in the grandson of this man.
Then there was no need to write more for the dearly loved grandson, as a year or two later, when he was only eleven, poor Littlejohn died.
I expect Captain Jim'll be more than interested when he hears that a grandson of the Selwyns' is coming here.
In the Levins' house, so long deserted, there were now so many people that almost all the rooms were occupied, and almost every day it happened that the old princess, sitting down to table, counted them all over, and put the thirteenth grandson or granddaughter at a separate table.
He cannot endure the notion that Buonaparte is negotiating on equal terms with all the sovereigns of Europe and particularly with our own, the grandson of the Great Catherine!
Whatever cross-accidents had occurred to intercept the pleasures of her nieces, she had found a morning of complete enjoyment; for the housekeeper, after a great many courtesies on the subject of pheasants, had taken her to the dairy, told her all about their cows, and given her the receipt for a famous cream cheese; and since Julia's leaving them they had been met by the gardener, with whom she had made a most satisfactory acquaintance, for she had set him right as to his grandson's illness, convinced him that it was an ague, and promised him a charm for it; and he, in return, had shewn her all his choicest nursery of plants, and actually presented her with a very curious specimen of heath.
The maid disappeared, and the old lady turned to her grandson.
For, in short, you must admit that it is sufficiently strange to be born the grandson of a king, to have made war against kings, to have been reckoned among the powers of the age, to have maintained my rank, to feel Henry IV.