| 单词 | granduncle |
| 例句 | Daddy is beyond geeked that I was “really able to connect with” his favorite granduncle. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z They would be gentle, formal, everyone gathered in the musty living room: her elderly uncles and granduncles, their wives, some cousins, and perhaps a baby tied on someone’s back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One of her most striking claims is that Sun Yat-sen, revered as the father of modern China, "raised my grandfather and granduncle as his own sons" – akin to a Briton being reared by Winston Churchill. Ping Fu controversy over childhood tales of China's cultural revolution 2013-02-13T13:47:38Z Then, there’s the strange gray heron who badgers him and claims that his mother is still alive, and the mysterious tower built by Mahito’s long-vanished granduncle. Hayao Miyazaki's ‘The Boy and the Heron’ makes clear the world is a fragile place 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z There is also a elderly granduncle with a long beard nearing the end of his life, aware that his ability to hold this crumbling world together is receding. Hayao Miyazaki invites moviegoers to dream with him one last time 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z His mother’s family owned a chain of popular general stores, and his granduncles ran the location on Front Street until it closed around 60 years ago. Wildfire devastates Hawaii’s historic Lahaina Town, a former capital of the kingdom 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z My friend's granduncle was a train engineer who told wonderful stories about traveling across the country, all the people he met and places he saw. GOP's violent rhetoric keeps getting worse — and almost nobody is paying attention 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z “My granduncles were in World War II and always talked about it.” PBS film ‘KOREA’ eyes social, political tolls of Korean War 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z “The first day we got there we went over to Till’s granduncle’s house and men in a car with guns forced us to stop,” Mr. Booker told the Times. Simeon Booker, intrepid chronicler of civil rights struggle for Jet and Ebony, dies at 99 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z To make things worse, Jonathan failed in business, before he left France, and had to obtain a surséance against his creditors through the application of his granduncle to the Count de Vergennes. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Marriage is also forbidden in Holland between brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, between uncle and niece, or granduncle and grandniece, and between aunt and nephew, grandaunt and grandnephew, legitimate or otherwise. Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World 2011-04-04T02:00:08.180Z He was descended of a good family, and was the maternal granduncle of Pompey the Great. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z My granduncle leaves for his castle at that time, and my father and mother go with him to the railway-station; they always make so much of him. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z As it constantly happens that there are no sons, it becomes necessary to adopt those of other brothers, or failing these the grandson of an uncle, or the great-grandson of a granduncle. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology I, too, have money in my own right, but it is only in trust, and it will be taken from me if I do not marry in accordance with the provisions of my granduncle's will. A Romance in Transit Her son Greenleaf, to whom when four years of age his granduncle inscribed the poem "A Name," now resides here. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. Their father, paternal uncles, paternal grandfather, and paternal granduncles all suffered in the same way from headaches, which ceased at the age of fifty-four or fifty-five in all those who lived so long. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) "I will marry some man with no end of ancestors whom my granduncle approves of, but I shall die of grief, and before the year is out I shall be in my grave." The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z His maternal granduncle was the celebrated Dr Thomas Brown of Edinburgh. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century After the death of my granduncle some of the family came to America. Sixty Years of California Song I do remember seeing one of my granduncles. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Planty was the little Lord Silverbridge as was to be, if nothing unfortunate intervened, who was now sitting on his granduncle's knee. Phineas Finn The Irish Member My granduncle raised his hand and made a vow, and then I made one too. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z There were four verses, and she was on the last when the door opened stealthily and her granduncle, old Luke Basset, entered. Madelon A Novel A frown so quick and angry darkened his brow that it showed the consideration in which the Douglas held his granduncle James the Gross, Earl of Avondale. The Black Douglas The grandsire and granduncle of the present marquis, both being masters of fence, had succumbed in an attempt to give law to each other. The Grey Cloak "But don't you know, mother, that, as respects my granduncle, I have confided that secret to you already?" The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Baron Ernsthausen wrote me----" "A perfectly odious letter," Molly again interposed, "but my granduncle dictated it. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z The first two ants called their brothers and sisters, and aunts, and uncles, and papas, and mammas, and cousins, and nephews, and forty-second granduncles. Uncle Wiggily's Adventures I wish I could run away with that double pair of buffalo horns that belonged to Dr. Gleason's granduncle or somebody. Kit of Greenacre Farm I remained with my granduncle, the Great Duke, and was brought up amid the fighting, vice, and piety of his sumptuous court. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall While in London I met your granduncle, and from him I learned your history, and a bad one it is. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Oh, I prayed so fervently that my granduncle would commit some folly! The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z One of the portraits here is that of Mr. Brooke’s granduncle—a handsome, full-blooded, rather testy-looking old warrior, in the close-fitting scarlet uniform of the Prince Regent’s time. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) It was necessary," he answered, with remembered gravity, "in connection with the death of—of a relative, a granduncle of mine. A Daughter of To-Day Césarine threw off a cloak, trimmed with fur, and more suitable for a colder season, but it was a sable with a sprinkling of isolated white hairs most peculiar and a present from her granduncle. The Son of Clemenceau His mind was also nourished by the books belonging to the scanty library of his granduncle. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Suddenly my granduncle's letter announcing his marriage fell into the midst of us like a bombshell. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z Michelangelo the younger's anxiety for his granduncle's memory induced him thus to corrupt the text of his poems. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti His grandfather and granduncle were both potters, as was also his father who died when he was a mere boy, leaving him a patrimony of twenty pounds. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance "Oh, my granduncle is well known at the Russian Embassy, and Madame and M. Lesperon remember your lamented father distinctly." The Son of Clemenceau I knew, at a very early age, that my granduncle Nicholas B. was a Knight of the Legion of Honour and that he had also the Polish Cross for valour Virtuti Militari. A Personal Record "I did, it is true, propose to pay my granduncle a visit, but as he is just married----" "What?" asked the old lady, imagining she had not heard correctly. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z "It's my granduncle, sir," said Norah, casting down her eyes before the keen, critical gaze of the young soldier. Round the Red Lamp It may have done very well for my granduncle. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War Born with a deformed foot; much petted as a child; inherited title and estate at death of his granduncle, William, fifth Lord Byron, 1798. It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration I follow here the tale as told afterward by the servant to my granduncle's friends and relatives, and as I have heard it repeated. A Personal Record "I should like to know how my granduncle behaved; if he longed to dance all day long as I do?" The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z In his eleventh year the death of a granduncle left him heir to Newstead Abbey and to the baronial title of one of the oldest houses in England. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World I know all about him," said Catharine, nodding sagaciously; "let us hear the story of his granduncle. Lost in the Backwoods The second in the coffeeroom of Breslin's hotel on a rainy Sunday in the January of 1892, in the company of Stephen's father and Stephen's granduncle, Stephen being then 5 years older. Ulysses But his father had told him that he would be no stranger there because his granduncle had presented an address to the liberator there fifty years before. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man First of all we must wait until your granduncle has really gone home. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z They collected a band of friends, and took revenge on their granduncle for the murder of their mother. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable His father, and his uncle, and his grandfather and granduncles, had all been concerned in the affairs of the diocese of Barchester. The Last Chronicle of Barset His granduncle, Stephen Vail, had built the engines for the first steamship to cross the Atlantic. The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry Their father, paternal uncles, paternal grandfather, and granduncles all suffered in the same way from headaches, which ceased at the age of fifty-four or fifty-five in all those who lived so long. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 "What has your granduncle to do with it?" The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z And so he made Mohegan the granduncle or grandfather of Oliver Edwards.” The Pioneers The marriage of my granduncle, Baron Ernsthausen of Frankenstein, and my betrothal took place at the same time. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z He is a hugely-important person, my granduncle, because he is so very rich, and we shall have his money. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z I was to be tied up like a parcel and sent to my granduncle's address. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z The next morning was like the calm after ten thunder-storms; my granduncle was excommunicated with bell, book, and candle. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z Papa was indignant, mamma was outraged, and my granduncle fairly snorted with rage. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z "I wish my granduncle would go to Monaco and gamble away all his money," Molly retorted, sobbing angrily, "or that he would adopt some orphan and leave her every penny he possesses!" The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z Oh, my granduncle is the dearest, most delightful of men! The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z |
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