Sentence example with the word 'grandame'

grandame

Last update: July 13, 2015


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There is no cheerful grandame with pocket full of goodies and a store of dear old reminiscences all beginning with that enchanting phrase, "When I was a little girl."   [Please select]

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DREAM CHILDREN: A REVERY _By_ CHARLES LAMB Children love to listen to stories about their elders when _they_ were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle, or grandame, whom they never saw.   [Please select]

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'" "After all these years," the grandame said, Lifting her head, "I think I can hear my mother's voice Above all other noise, Saying, 'Hearken, my child.   [Please select]

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She even sneered and scoffed at them, until Nanny Swinton began to fear that the judgment of God might strike her lady--a venerable grandame still without one weakness of bodily decay or human affection.   [Please select]

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The ancient grandame, again seated on her wicker-chair by the fire, had resumed her eternal spindle, wholly unmoved by the yelling and screaming of the children, and the scolding of the mother, which had preceded the dispersion of the family.   [Please select]

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The grandame a second time took a glass in her hand, drank its contents, and exclaimed, with a sort of laugh,--"Ha."   [Please select]

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