| 单词 | great-aunt |
| 例句 | Our great-aunt accepted that this is what Fern would call her. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z So instead, she just nodded and gave her great-aunt a chaste kiss on the cheek. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It felt especially strange to intrude on her great-aunt in such a vulnerable moment, just a smallish lump under a mountain of blankets, only an old kerosene lantern to keep her company. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The answer drew Ophie’s gaze away from her milk and into the dark, lined face of her great-aunt. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Kiel was approximately a hundred kilometers from Denmark and only eighty kilometers from where my sister was sent to live with our old great-aunt. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In addition to being my grandparents, Desdemona and Lefty were my great-aunt and -uncle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It’s not my grandpa; it’s my great-aunt who came from Korea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Miss Trotter’s just fine, Auntie,” he said, although she was his great-aunt. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “My sister Gloria is a crossbill,” Gran had said, referring to my recently deceased great-aunt Glo, with whom Gran had never gotten along. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m told I have my mother’s café con leche skin color, my father’s curly black hair, my grandmother’s slightly turned-up nose, the dimples from some great-aunt who spent her whole life smiling at everyone. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Robbie, my great-aunt, my rigid taskmaster of a piano teacher, passed away in June, bequeathing her house on Euclid to my parents, allowing them to become home owners for the first time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If she was, that made her our great- great-aunt. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Julie put in the great-aunt story because she thought we might have to blow the place up with her inside. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I also went to Cuba with a group of Johns Hopkins students to study the island’s arts and culture—a trip I used to try to find my long-lost great-aunt and other family members. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z My great-aunt Cecile's all the time saying dead don't have to mean dead and gone, and I like to believe that. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Except for the funerals I can’t say I remember my great-aunt and great-grandmother being under the same roof or together under the same piece of sky. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z For me, it was a throwback to the way I’d been raised—the jazz at Southside’s house, the piano recitals and Operetta Workshops put on by my great-aunt Robbie, my family’s trips to downtown museums. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Every time Ophie tried to get a moment alone with her great-aunt there the cousins were, telling a funny story about school, or asking to help with dinner, or just being a general nuisance. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Don’t go to school, I’m a businessman—girl, I mean. I go to wait on my great-aunt, and a dear, cross old soul she is, too,” answered Jo. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent every summer in Maycomb with his great-aunt, who lived next door to the Finches. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen, and Biddy became a part of our establishment. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I saw the school principal, and your great-aunt Lynda, who we called Shelf Butt, because her butt was so big a person could set a glass of milk on it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I wasn’t surprised to learn my great-aunt, like her sister, preferred her cotton sheets lightly starched and didn’t trust the feel of permanent press fabric. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Celia had known him since she was a child, when her mother had sent her from the countryside to live with her great-aunt in Havana. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Educational scheme or Course established by Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt may be resolved into the following synopsis. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z But before he was freed, he fathered many children, all of them born into slavery, including a daughter named Henrietta Pleasant—the great-aunt of Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z My great-aunt did, and for that matter, so did my great-grandmother. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She and Ma Charles were so much alike I expected my great-aunt to turn to me and say, “Young’n, get me a switch.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “My great-aunt had it and my mother was just beginning to get it—” She stopped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Miss Trotter said—” She made her face like our great-aunt, down to the pinched nose, and said, “Dentures? Dentures?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The pupils ate apples and put straws down one another’s backs, until Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt collected her energies, and made an indiscriminate totter at them with a birch-rod. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I sat silent, recalling what a drudge she had been until Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt successfully overcame that bad habit of living, so highly desirable to be got rid of by some people. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I just wanted to go downstairs and demonstrate to my exacting great-aunt what a gifted girl I was, how it would take no effort at all for me to become her star student. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe she means great-aunt. But why would they send Jack? I mean, what about school?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Which is how my great-aunt and I ended up in each other’s faces, both of us hot and unyielding. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Every day without Monday made her absence grow bigger and bigger in my head, like the tumor my great-aunt Jackie died from. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Investigation showed that Claudette Colvin was being raised by her great-uncle and great-aunt, respectively a “yard boy” and a “day lady,” as maids were called. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z In the summer I go down south to my great-aunt Cecile's house. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z I had never heard of any tutor but Biddy and Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt; so, I replied in the negative. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It’s a lot like one of those bear hugs I used to get from my great-aunt at Thanksgiving. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Her great-aunt had already warned her away from interacting with the spirits, after all, and the incident on the trolley had been a harsh lesson besides. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z All those lives that have touched mine so briefly—most of them I don’t even know their real names, like Julie’s great-aunt and the driver of the Rosalie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z For reasons he rarely revealed, he was separated at some point from his parents and taken in by his uncle, a stern and demanding man named Barlea, and a great-aunt, whom he simply called Grandma. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Francis’s great-aunt has an apartment on Marlborough Street. Just a few doors from the Public Garden. She goes to the country in the summer and Francis said if I wanted to stay there, I could.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Ginny’s great-aunt. At the wedding. The one who said you had skinny ankles.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Abuela says she was saved because her parents sent her to live with her great-aunt in Havana, who raised her with progressive ideas. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt, besides keeping this Educational Institution, kept in the same room—a little general shop. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It took longer to reach our great-aunt and cousin but we needed to cool down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “No, I haven’t had the pleasure of making his acquaintance,” I say, holding my nose so my voice comes out like my great-aunt Elizabeth’s. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On one occasion they had looked up and delivered their looks simultaneously, causing Leon to spray soup from his nostrils onto the wrist of a great-aunt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z After Mama died, my great-aunt Cecile came up from South Carolina saying she was going to take me and Ty'ree back home to live with her. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Otherwise, she says, she will incur the wrath of an angry great-aunt who will say: "You would never have had a teapot like that." Set designer Eve Stewart: 'Get me nine tons of Scottish seaweed!' 2013-02-03T20:00:03Z Her family lived on the second floor of a brick bungalow owned by a prim great-aunt and her fastidious husband. Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z To the untrained eye many pieces appear to be relatively nondescript reproductions of Asian prototypes, the kind of thing you might find cluttering the home of a rich, genteel great-aunt. Art Review: A Jewel Box for Translucent Treasures 2011-12-15T22:59:09Z His great-aunt Marie de Lorraine was heartbroken — and immensely wealthy, now that the full fortune of the House of Guise went to her. Review: The Rarely Heard Christmas Music of a Baroque Master 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z She remembers gathering gourds for Thanksgiving decorations and helping unfurl her great-aunt Clara’s table linens. Amanda Hunt and Her Grandparents’ Italian Pitcher 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z A great-aunt who survived Auschwitz settled in Acapulco and opened an Austrian-style bakery. Forget the Wall: Pati Jinich Wants to Build a Culinary Bridge to Mexico 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z My mom and great-aunt reminisced, but for my mom it became a reminder of all the lost years. A first aid kit from World War II begins to heal a divided family 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z That fraught night beautifully establishes all the key personalities in this story, inspired by the life of the author’s great-aunt. Life with a medical condition that once changed lives permanently 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Thus, they’re now living on a farm owned by Jones’s great-aunt near the town of Surrender, where their truth-seeking again earns them political hostility and threats to their lives. Caleb Carr’s ‘Surrender, New York’ echoes ‘The Alienist’ in theme if not setting 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Bingham explained that, long before she came upon the trunk, an earlier incident had whetted her interest in her great-aunt. Henrietta Bingham’s Jazz Age Life 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In an interlude called “Lucy’s Song,” the late great-aunt recounts the early history of the tree: Elegy With a Side of Applesauce 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Her new collection takes up the life of an 83-year-old great-aunt in the south of France, whom she visited in her country home, staying in the attic, whose long-held memories suffuse the whole. For Fashion Week, an Archivist Comes Down From the Attic 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Athan, who lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and attends a performing arts school in Coney Island and travels by car; much of the driving is done by his great-aunt. The Soulful 11-Year-Old Princes of ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Conveniently forgotten is the fact that Mendelssohn’s great-aunt, Sara Itzig Levy, was an enthusiastic collector of Bach manuscripts well before Mendelssohn’s birth. The Last Civic Remnant of Authentic Spirituality at Christmastime 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Such is her malevolent ubiquity it can't be long before Wallis turns up as Homer's homicidal great-aunt in an episode of The Simpsons. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z When they arrived at my home, my 8-year-old daughter was enjoying lunch while video chatting with her great-aunt. Perspective | Miss Manners: ‘I won’t come over, but will let you cook for me’ 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z My mother was in the kitchen talking with my great-aunt, who was visiting from Israel. “Now that’s a Jewish face!”: They all agreed cheerfully that should the Nazis come, my sister was doomed 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Her great-aunt Sugar teaches her how to fish. Review | In ‘Memorial Drive,’ Natasha Trethewey reclaims her mother’s life from the man who took it 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z That maxim guides Sinclair’s one-woman show, which takes her back to a childhood in southern Virginia, her creative ambitions stifled by proud and fearful grandparents and stoked by a glamorous great-aunt. ‘Self Portrait’: Family hopes and history on canvas But try telling that to Will Butterfield, a Virginia bookstore owner who’s forced to deal with his mother and great-aunt, two elderly women who share a house and do not get along. 7 fictional Thanksgivings to fill your holiday craving 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Dowdy, overweight, earnest Grace, a doctoral student in Women's Studies, is summoned by her retired B-movie siren of a great-aunt to spend a transformative summer as her companion in great-auntie's spectacular Pebble Beach mansion. Summer reading: Sizzling romance and more 2012-06-15T17:13:51Z Last summer, Ms. Heller, 32, opened a sandwich counter in Williamsburg, also named for her great-aunt. Edith’s, a Pop-Up Highlighting Jewish Fare, Sets Up Shop in Williamsburg 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z His inclusion in the lineup reflects his position as a new torchbearer for a genre that his great-aunt helped pioneer. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z My eldest great-aunt insisted on going to university, and she was allowed to, as long as she fulfilled two conditions: one was, she never took an exam. ArtsBeat: Julian Fellowes on Viewer Criticism and ‘Downton Abbey’s’ Future 2014-02-24T03:30:09Z But once ensconced in Cavendish Square, where she's very much on trial with her fiance's grandfather and great-aunt, she's appalled by the stifling tyranny of upper-class life. Trelawny of the Wells - review 2013-02-27T00:47:00Z Throw in a meddling great-aunt and an untrustworthy suitor. Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Read Hemingway at Marcia Brady’s Urging 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z I grew up in San Diego, and actually, my grandmother, who is technically my great-aunt, lived in Tijuana, which is literally on the other side of the border. "My mouth is watering": Chef Claudia Sandoval's culinary border tour is undeniably delicious 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z “It’s not exactly practical to try and strangle a dead person,” one woman narrates upon seeing the reanimated corpse of her great-aunt, who died in infancy. In Three New Collections, Characters on the Edge 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z I was just with a friend who was helping his great-aunt go to his grandma’s house. In defense of single people 2012-07-09T01:00:00Z Also Martha was my great-aunt, and a woman who helped raise my mother. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z A great-aunt from Silver Spring, Md., who spoke Yiddish with a twang, offered him an education about the area’s grandees. Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Her shift from filmmaking to writing happened, she said, after making a documentary, “The Jazz Baroness,” about her great-aunt, Nica Rothschild, who ran away from husband and family to follow Thelonious Monk. Hannah Rothschild Adds Novelist to Her Résumé 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z He’s amassed decades of knowledge: He became hooked at 5 years old, when he started camping out in front of a “gigantic” wooden television set with his great-aunt. Michael R. Jackson on the Soap Opera Origins of ‘White Girl in Danger’ 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The maroon cherries, glistening with juices and dusted with an extra helping of sugar, remind me of a large brooch made of rubies, something your fabulous great-aunt would wear to the annual holiday party. Desserts That Bring the Party, but Not the Fuss 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z A great-aunt and a great-uncle also encouraged her to sing, and while she was reluctant to sing in church, she began playing piano and writing songs for herself when she was 9. Baby Rose Writes Music With Intention, ‘Not to Fit Into a Box’ 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z A: Years ago my great-aunt Alice, now deceased, was throwing a big birthday bash for another great-aunt. Civilities: Dealing with a relative’s refusal to invite a same-sex partner 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z In this inaugural production in The Ensemble’s Custom Made Play Project, sisters reconnect and decide the meaning of “value” as they try to help their great-aunt, a compulsive hoarder, in Ballard. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Dec. 9 2012-12-07T22:56:59Z She was christened Penelope Sally Rosita – the last after the explorer and writer Rosita Forbes, her great-aunt. Polly Renton obituary 2010-06-23T18:33:00Z My mom was young, she was one of seven, and I got taken care of by my aunts and uncles and my great-aunt, who looked like an English headmistress. Meet Chanelle Benz, whose debut book is 'The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead' 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Watson’s novel is based on the life of a great-aunt in rural Mississippi in the early 20th century who couldn’t have children and never married. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z His great-aunt Anna died in 1979 after they relocated to Miami to be closer to their daughter. Robert Battle, Alvin Ailey?s New Leader 2010-05-07T13:42:00Z As a child, Michael R. Jackson would religiously watch soap operas with his great-aunt. New Musical From ‘Strange Loop’ Writer to Run Off Broadway 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The horseshoe was placed so the opening was at the top, “looking to heaven,” my great-aunt would say. Mine: The wreath She describes her new restaurant, named for her great-aunt, as “airy, bright and very feminine” with white walls, banquettes upholstered in cobalt blue and brass fixtures. Mena, From Victoria Blamey, Opens in TriBeCa 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z You were technically my great-aunt but had the role of grandmother on my mother's side. Family life 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z The monstrous great-aunt whose child-rearing ruined Charlie is said to be “an enormous woman — 300 pounds, even allowing for the boutonniere.” From Joshua Ferris: A Father’s Scattershot Legacy, Narrated Unreliably 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z He’s the youngest person on the bus, traveling with his grandparents and great-aunt on their first trip to Washington. For the people of Lyles Station, Ind., a trip to the African American Museum lets them witness their legacy 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The effect is of making you feel about 10 years old, but in a good way, when you could still listen credulously to accounts of How It Was from a favorite great-aunt. Theater Review: ‘I Remember Mama’ Reminisces at the Gym at Judson 2014-03-31T02:00:01Z In Teddy Wayne’s recent novel “Apartment,” the closet is an apartment, a rent-stabilized two-bedroom that his narrator inherits from a great-aunt. Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z Exiled to the care of her great-aunt while her parents attend to some unspecified business, Mary is a bored, lonely, curious child, and therefore a perfect candidate for a fantastical adventure. Review: ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ Chases a Girl and Her Broomstick 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z She learned this meticulousness from her great-aunt Harriet Roth, who helped raise her and her sisters after their father’s death, when Ms. Bialosky was only 2. The Artistry in Jill Bialosky’s Pastry Brush 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The voiceover: structurally extensive, delivered with the all the elan of a great-aunt in a Harvester restaurant reading out the menu through some bifocals. Grimes finds a whole new way to make climate change fun 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z But when she mentioned my great-aunt Zenobia and her funeral home, I knew she was correct. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z We saw my great-aunt May Ideta from time to time but like many families never spoke much about it. The stories of people who make pilgrimages to a World War II Japanese American incarceration camp 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Her great-aunt, an immigrant from Lithuania, helped bring other women to safety before the elevator stopped working, Lansner said. After 112 years, Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims get a memorial 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Growing up, Bass knew her great-aunt had lived through the fire, but it wasn’t until years later that she heard about Rosie. Memorial honors 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire deaths that galvanized US labor movement 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The Navajo sought to have the child placed with her great-aunt, who lives on a reservation. Supreme Court Upholds Native American Adoption Law 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Walker described the person as “a third-degree relative,” which typically means a cousin, a great-aunt or great-uncle, or a great-niece or great-nephew. Disney lawsuit judge removes himself from case but not for reasons cited by DeSantis 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z His daughter, my great-aunt May, among the photos in an educational exhibit. The stories of people who make pilgrimages to a World War II Japanese American incarceration camp 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z It had belonged, Ms. Miller said, to her great-aunt Lizzie, who had been a downstairs maid at a grand house in Scotland and had married the footman. Judith Miller, ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Mainstay, Is Dead at 71 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z His great-aunt Mercedes, who has been left in charge of the boy, receives money every month from Alexander's mother. Exodus from Cuba: The children left behind as wave of emigration swells 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z A state judge determined that the Brackeens would share custody with the great-aunt, with the girl spending time with her extended family each summer on the reservation. Supreme Court Upholds Native American Adoption Law 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Q: As a dentist, I had a colleague refer his great-aunt to me because of her extreme fear of dentists. Correcting malnutrition reversed great-aunt’s dementia 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z “She thought the kids were devils. She said she was afraid of them,” said Casey Canada, Octavius’ great-aunt, who looked after both boys. Mother charged with murder in stabbings of her 2 boys in NYC 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z This time, the Navajo petitioned a judge to award custody to the baby’s great-aunt, who lives on the reservation among many relatives. Race Question in Supreme Court Adoption Case Unnerves Tribes 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z "Next year, I won't be in Cuba anymore," he tells his great-aunt. Exodus from Cuba: The children left behind as wave of emigration swells 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z “Liza was a sunny baby,” her great-aunt recalled. ‘Robbed of the most precious thing’: Missile kills Liza, 4 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z We imagine your colleague was relieved to have his great-aunt recover. Correcting malnutrition reversed great-aunt’s dementia 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z She was also backed by her great-aunt, who introduced her to the fundamentals of etiquette, and her maternal grandmother, a seamstress who made gowns for drag queens and dancers. Gloria Allen, who ran a charm school for transgender youths, dies at 76 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z The new Texas family court trial to determine whether the Brackeens or the Navajo great-aunt will adopt Y.RJ. is scheduled for December — after the oral argument in the Supreme Court but before the justices rule. Race Question in Supreme Court Adoption Case Unnerves Tribes 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z When they petitioned for formal adoption, T.J.’s great-aunt began a legal challenge. Stephen Eilperin, D.C. Superior Court judge, dies at 84 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z His great-aunt, Bonnie McLain, remembers him as a happy child who enrolled in Boy Scouts and spent summer days playing baseball, dropping in at her home to raid the fridge for Gatorade. In Pittsburgh, a shooting victim leaves behind legacy to help youth 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z And she agrees with her great-aunt on preferring the mild. Hot chicken blazes a trail from Prince’s in Nashville to Hotville in Los Angeles 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z ODESSA, Ukraine — The first time in 24 years that I saw my great-aunt, I was wearing my bulletproof vest with “PRESS” stamped on the front. I always dreamed of visiting my ancestral home of Odessa. But not like this. 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Some Japanese Americans memorialized their experiences — my great-aunt, Auntie Kim, testified to a government commission after being released from camp and my uncle, Ron, wrote a book — but many others did not. Why we need to preserve the painful memories of my family’s incarceration during WWII 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Offering his “deeply-felt regrets” to the great-aunt and her family, he urged them to “shower T.J. with all the love my decision allows and their hearts hold.” Stephen Eilperin, D.C. Superior Court judge, dies at 84 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z A judge assigned Matt to a diversionary program run by YES in 2018, his great-aunt said. In Pittsburgh, a shooting victim leaves behind legacy to help youth 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z He also heard that his great-aunt Mary, then 13, had been asleep at the time of the collapse. A century later, the pain of D.C.’s deadliest disaster still resonates 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Gwen knew her great-aunt had worked in the Resistance in France during World War Two, but didn't know anything about that time in her life. In the footsteps of the women who escaped a Nazi death march 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Ms. Garza Tulip, 41, had endured so many losses — two miscarriages, and the virus taking her mother, uncle and great-aunt. As Covid Deaths Rise, Lingering Grief Gets a New Name 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Their mom had always said that if anything were to happen, the girls would live with their great-aunt Sonja, who had worked at a domestic-violence shelter, but no one from the department called her. How ‘Shadow’ Foster Care Is Tearing Families Apart 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z School remained a struggle, partially because of his anxiety over formal learning, his great-aunt said. In Pittsburgh, a shooting victim leaves behind legacy to help youth 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z A great-aunt, Susan Hughes, said Huber was involved in protests because he was “very upset” that a police officer had shot Blake, who was left paralyzed from the waist down. Stern judge among key players in Kyle Rittenhouse trial 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Those were words of wisdom from my kooky great-aunt Estelle, who loved the idea of love and would seek me out at family events to bestow her advice. L.A. Affairs: He pulled over on a dark, deserted road and I thought: 'Uh oh...' 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z She worried about the girl’s great-aunt, who is now in Mexico. More migrant families make it into United States, but thousands are still being expelled 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z His father and great-aunt were there from the start, and he says many community members deserve credit for the achievement. Minnesota tribe calls return of land a step toward healing 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z Jude Folmar, a 19-year-old college student in Dallas, said he’s been trading stocks since he was 13 under a custodial account his great-aunt helped him set up. The Misfits Shaking Wall Street 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Newly arrived babies in my extended family likely won’t know their eccentric great-aunt during their infancy, nor I one of life’s greatest sensory pleasures — the smell of a baby’s head. Opinion | What the pandemic has taught us about ourselves 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Magdalena, a few towns over in Guatemala, is still apart from her daughter, María, who is in Indiantown, Fla., with a great-aunt. Separated from her 3-year-old at the border in 2018, a mother wonders if the U.S. election will bring a reunion 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Reid’s father and younger brother also contracted it, as did her grandparents, great-grandmother and great-aunt, though they were largely asymptomatic. Amid a Local Outbreak, a Historically Black University Cancels Basketball Season 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z The bride’s grandparents, a great-aunt, and an aunt and uncle were in the boat, while other Mainers watched from shore. Border closure can’t keep grandparents from Canadian wedding 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z My great-aunt Tawa was one who often saw him and correctly heeded his warnings. Opinion | For a few hours during Isaias, no news or noise — only the sound of waves breaking 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z To put it simply, when coronavirus hits a nursing home, your grandparents, your mom and dad, your great-aunt, your child’s great-grandmother could die. Editorial Roundup: Georgia 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z These commemorate their father, grandparents and great-aunt, all of whom were sent to concentration camps, and only one of whom survived. ‘He wrote to us as he waited for the train to Auschwitz’ 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z Davis says that when her great-aunt wasn’t facilitating sex work at home, she worked at a nearby bar called Shadowland. The incredible story of New Orleans' first black female homicide detective 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Her great-uncle and great-aunt were sick, their conditions deteriorating, in need of intensive care. Hundreds of health care workers lost their lives battling the coronavirus. Now a series of ‘what ifs’ haunt their friends and colleagues. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z In Maryland, Candra Hardy drove to the Frederick nursing home where her great-aunt lives after struggling for days to reach her. Isolated in nursing homes, elderly Americans grieve, adapt — and hope On our first morning, my great-aunt Sonia takes me and my little sister to the hotel buffet. Is this the end of the hotel buffet breakfast? It's not just the toast I'll miss | Hadley Freeman 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z I am the last of 14 children and an aunt, great-aunt, and great-great-aunt many times over. VIRUS DIARY: Luck (good for now) is her isolation soundtrack 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z She rejoiced in being a homeowner, able to provide a place for her aging mother, father, and great-aunt to live. The Trump campaign wants to win the votes of evangelicals of color 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z My great-aunt, adorned in a colorful sari, waves goodbye to me while the entire school bus looks on. Opinion | My Daughter Passes for White 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z I told him about my great-aunt and Aaron’s wrist homer. Op-Ed: Baseball's steroid era was bad, but the Astros cheat was organized crime 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z And her great-aunt implored me to keep her in secure detention for her own safety. Juvenile justice: Address the complex needs of youth in system 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Pearl Rebolledo Velazco, the children’s great-aunt, spoke at length in front of dozens of people at a candlelight vigil Wednesday night outside the home where police say Rachel Henry killed her children. Children’s aunt says she was home when they were suffocated 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z But there were other benefits to her new line of work, like twice-a-month visits to her great-aunt, whose house in Dakar she uses as a distribution center. The Secret Behind Amazon Package Delivery to West Africa 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z I am still ashamed of how I treated my great-aunt. Opinion | My Daughter Passes for White 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z When I was barely old enough to drive, I scraped together enough money to take my great-aunt to a Milwaukee Braves game. Op-Ed: Baseball's steroid era was bad, but the Astros cheat was organized crime 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z “It was just everyday life for them,” Bailey once told the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals, referring to the work her great-aunt and great-uncle pursued. Azellia White, trailblazer for African American women in aviation, dies at 106 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Gaines’ father left when he was young, and his mother remarried and moved to California, leaving him in the care of a great-aunt, Augusteen Jefferson. Ernest J. Gaines, Novelist of ‘Miss Jane Pittman,’ Dies at 86 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z "She was awesome. She was great. She was a star. She was a superstar," her great-aunt Amelia Pagan reportedly said. Man charged in shooting death of 2-year-old girl in Philadelphia, another man in custody: police 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z When Whittallspoke to other WASPs about her great-aunt, they couldn’t believe her description of an introverted, stuttering young woman. The 75-year search for a missing WWII pilot continues 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z But my mother took me and my sister to live with our great-aunt in a small town in rural Texas, called Ames, population 800. How Being a 13-Year-Old Busboy Prepared Darren Walker to Lead the Ford Foundation 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z When she was 6, the future four-time Olympic gold medalist and her younger sister were adopted by their grandfather in Texas; Biles-Thomas and another sister were adopted by a great-aunt in Cleveland. Simone Biles says she’s having a ‘hard time processing’ her brother’s arrest on murder charges 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Bobby’s younger sister, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, whose namesake great-aunt died in a plane crash in 1948, has had assorted television and stage roles. The Kennedy Grandchildren: Bearing the Privilege and Burden of a Family Name 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z I visited there once from St. Mary’s with my parents — my visiting great-aunt, with us, became entranced with the slots and was reluctant to leave. Opinion | The slot machines of yore on the Maryland-Virginia border 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Many people Whittall met remember her great-aunt as a studious, serious woman. The 75-year search for a missing WWII pilot continues 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Queen Emma - the great-aunt of William the Conqueror and the daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy. The riddle of Winchester Cathedral's skeletons 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z On the day of the burial, many people had come to the pay their respects, including Lance's great-aunt Eppe - his grandmother's sister - who was beside herself with grief. The mystery Samoan in my family tree 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Rep. Joseph Kennedy III said Thursday Education Secretary Betsy DeVos‘ plan to cut 18 million dollars from Special Olympics, an organization his great-aunt founded, is “cruel” and “misguided.” Joseph Kennedy III: Special Olympics budget cuts are ‘cruel’ and ‘misguided’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z She moved that year to England, where she had a great-aunt, working for a time for a publishing house and as a ballet critic for the London Tatler. Rachel Ingalls, author who found belated fame with ‘Mrs. Caliban,’ dies at 78 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z She hopes as technology improves, her great-aunt will be found. The 75-year search for a missing WWII pilot continues 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z She also got some no-nonsense advice from her great-aunt Princess Lilian about approaching the future. Sweden’s Prince Oscar gets grumpy on mom Princess Victoria’s name day, steals the show 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Thomas R. Lansner and some cousins will attend the Friday concert in memory of their great-aunt, Fannie, the factory forewoman from Russia credited with saving lives before losing her own. Philharmonic Piece Inspired by Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Set to Debut 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Almost all of my closest family members owned their home: My grandparents, my great-aunt and, most important, my mother. Opinion | The American Dream Isn’t for Black Millennials 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z Abandoned by her mother with a mostly absent father, Zola Richardson, 27, spent her toddler years in foster care until a great-aunt took her in. Connecticut’s affordable housing shortage hits hard 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z She’s so painfully conventional, she could be anyone’s great-aunt from a backwater piano bar, yet so alluringly odd she might have been airdropped from a serious hallucination. Holiday revue review: Dina Martina’s fresh show at ACT, Scott Shoemaker’s merrily chaotic cabaret at Re-bar 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But Lina's great-aunt and great-uncle, who had raised her, were hesitant. Scores of migrant girls quietly vanishing from Indonesia 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But Lina’s great-aunt and great-uncle, who had raised her, were hesitant. Scores of migrant girls quietly vanishing from Indonesia 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z As a kid growing up in the 1950s, Ed Theisen gallivanted around friends’ boats, watched movie screenings on Sunday nights and sat through meals with his great-aunt and uncle. Detroit Yacht Club celebrates 150 years, revamps image 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z To Booker, it seemed to be a way to turn everyone into a patrician, the federal government taking the role, when necessary, of a dead, rich great-aunt. How Cory Booker’s “Baby Bond” Proposal Could Transform the Reparations Debate 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z His father bought it from her great-aunt, who built the house in the 1950s. ‘People need to come back’: Future of quaint, beachfront town at risk after Hurricane Michael 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z Leigh Todd, from Scarborough, wanted to mark the life of her great-aunt, Nancy Allen, whose fiance was killed. 'A nation's thank you': 10,000 pay tribute to war dead in the people's procession 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z When his great-aunt Sue Amendola died last fall, the calls got even more frequent. Red Hook: the hip New York enclave caught between gentrification and climate change 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z A great-uncle apparently bought it after the sheet of 100 was broken up, and after the great-uncle died, the great-aunt left it to the man’s mother in the 1930s. An Inverted Jenny Surfaces. The Flawed Stamp Had Not Been Seen Since 1918. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Her great-aunt, Sukaina Muhammad, who lost her husband in the same blast, makes ends meet with food parcels from a local charity. Iraq’s Forgotten Casualties: Children Orphaned in Battle With ISIS 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Solomon Douhne said his great-aunt was confused and “not a threat.” Police chief defends Taser use on woman, 87, holding knife 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z Order this: My great-aunt believes the North Atlantic lox platter is the best in town, and I agree. In search of perfect pastrami: Your guide to the Jewish delis of Los Angeles 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Once, my great-aunt, who had Alzheimer’s disease by the time I came to know her, even grabbed my arm in search of the tattoo that she thought she would find there. How Should Children’s Books Deal with the Holocaust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Alston’s great-aunt, Brenda Price, 68, disputed the police account and said she believes her nephew was a bystander who got shot as police jumped from their cars to confront a group of people. Police say man opened fire on police before two officers fired back with fatal shots 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Her surviving relatives, a 63-year-old great-aunt and her 21-year-old married sister, found her at a field hospital, where an American military medic had saved her life. Iraq’s Forgotten Casualties: Children Orphaned in Battle With ISIS 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z He spent his first few years living with a great-aunt in a large house with a big lawn out in Baltimore County. A Teen’s Death in Baltimore and a Family’s Search for Answers 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s the goofy Santa Claus savings bank you got from your great-aunt when you were still a twerp. Perspective | How to divvy up the inheritance — and keep the family together 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z When my great-aunt turned 100, the whole extended family gathered to celebrate and when she passed, we were all here to mourn her. New Seattle: Family ties 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z “Everything Lyn told me matched up with everything my great-aunt told me.” ‘Like we descended from Hitler’: Coming to terms with a slave-trading past 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z She now spends her day helping her great-aunt with household chores. Iraq’s Forgotten Casualties: Children Orphaned in Battle With ISIS 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Rachel went about the rest of her day in Charleston Heights, where she lived with her great-aunt. After tragic life woman places hope in finding a lost son 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z “Tell me what you gave him to eat,” Hernández asked the boy’s great-aunt, María Peraza, who had taken him to the hospital. As Venezuela collapses, its children are dying of hunger 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Their infant daughter, Crystal, stayed with a great-aunt. In fear of deportation: five hours that can make or break a family's future 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z “Start about 4:15 for 6 o’clock dinner,” the index card my great-aunt wrote the recipe on helpfully notes. My Aunt Edith’s dinner rolls, a no-fuss family favorite 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Her great-aunt was embalmed and on display, a common practice at funerals in the American midwest. ‘Have you seen the maggots yet?’ Lindsey Fitzharris on the gruesome history of surgery 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z When her great-aunt learned of it, she confided in a neighbor who, in turn, alerted the state Department of Social Services. After tragic life woman places hope in finding a lost son 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z “We could not find formula anywhere,” said Peraza, the great-aunt, acknowledging that she knew the food could hurt the baby. As Venezuela collapses, its children are dying of hunger 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The case revolved around a lawsuit filed by Lexington lawyer Richard Dawahare on behalf of a great-aunt who took in two young boys but was denied foster payments from the state. Supreme Court refuses to hear Kentucky foster care case 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Mary Smith is living with her great-aunt Charlotte while her parents are immersed in some distant work project. Mary and the Witch’s Flower is everything fans want from Studio Ghibli 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z But this was also where he and his parents would walk a mile to see his great-aunt andhis first cousins; there was a human side to these buildings that’s rarely discussed. Can rap shine a light on America's social housing crisis? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z My great-aunt who is elderly and blind receives $24 each month in benefits. I grew up on food stamps. I'll never forget the sneering looks | Jessika Bohon 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z On the rapidly gentrifying corridor near First and Bates streets NW, I see the proud brownstone that belonged to one of our city’s first African American kindergarten teachers, my great-aunt. Opinion | Too many Americans still don’t see black history as their own 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Dijon Prosecutor Jean-Jacques Bosc said Friday that a great-aunt and great-uncle of Gregory Villemin are accused of kidnapping and illegal confinement followed by death. French cold case: Relatives charged in boy’s 1984 death 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Local newspaper L’Est Republicain reported that they were a great-uncle, great-aunt and aunt of Gregory’s and that they are suspected of complicity in the killing. French cold case: Arrests over 1984 killing of 4-year-old 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z “Nobody thought Trump would win, either,” suggested Hairell Walters, the great-aunt. Homeless, a Democrat and in jail: is this America's most unlikely candidate? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z When I was 24, my great-aunt and -uncle asked about my life goals. At the time, I was working nights as a copy editor and dreamed of someday shifting into a full-time writing job. Perspective | Love, marriage, kids — life doesn’t follow a set timeline. So don’t expect it to. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z All of this explains why Jones, on Monday afternoon, paid a visit to his 98-year-old great-aunt in Newport News. Students write NASA’s ‘hidden figure’ Katherine Johnson 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Handwriting analysis on one letter led investigators to the great-aunt. French cold case: Relatives charged in boy’s 1984 death 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Imagine watching your father slowly weaken, waste and die from a brain disease that no doctor has been able to diagnose, then learning that a similar illness also struck your grandfather and great-aunt. Opinion | Would you take the test if you knew you potentially carried a deadly gene? 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z In an early chapter, he and Stefan, grown men now, drive to the house of their great-aunt Anna, in Bremen. Love, Terror, and Cigarettes 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z Her great-aunt Effie Simpson rubbed her hands together, trying to bring warmth to them. Student illustrates plight of homeless high schoolers 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z “We want to honor Jacob, celebrate Jacob, in a way he would love,” his great-aunt, Rebecca Hunnicutt, told the Anderson Independent-Mail. Superhero Funeral Honors 6-Year-Old Killed in South Carolina School Shooting 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z My great-aunt adopted a male name, as George Eliot did, to ensure her works would be taken seriously at a time when women writers were still regularly diminished. I know how Elena Ferrante feels. My great-aunt was outed too | Angela Neustatter 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z The 4-year-old’s great-aunt said she noticed that the child’s pants were “open multiple times when getting off the bus,” charging documents state. Pr. George’s school bus aide charged with sexual abuse of two special-needs children 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Around 8 years old, he heard that his great-aunt Clara, who lived in Utah, knew a lot about the family, and he wrote her a letter. When Searching Your Ancestry Means Finding a Sense of Possibility 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Community members are working together to build a small house for her and her great-aunt in Swannanoa. Student illustrates plight of homeless high schoolers 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z The unnamed boy's great-uncle and great-aunt in South Carolina petitioned the court for custody, and the request was granted by a judge on Monday. Ohio boy in graphic heroin photo finds new home - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Laura Murphy is named after her great-aunt, artist Laura Wheeler Waring, whose oil painting, “Girl in Red Dress,” will be featured at the new museum. ‘An offer of my heart’: A story of black love after the Civil War 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z When Bundles visited her great-aunt in Pine Bluff, Ark., she was taken to play in a segregated park, she recalls. Black wealth, racism and the legacy of the legendary Madam C.J. Walker 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z One was Harold Graham, his paternal grandfather’s first cousin, who lived in Decatur, Miss. The boy, notebook in hand, approached him at the birthday party of a great-aunt. When Searching Your Ancestry Means Finding a Sense of Possibility 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z “It’s been two long, horrible years,” said Ford’s great-aunt, Mahalia Clark, 68. Demonstrators call on D.A. to decide whether to prosecute LAPD officers who shot Ezell Ford 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Older women, including the girls’ great-aunt and the friendly owner of a local diner, figure more prominently. ‘Our Little Sister’: Four siblings never got along so beautifully 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Roth first hunted mushrooms in Maquoketa with his great-aunt and great-uncle when he was about 5 years old. Morel collector takes the chance to find mushrooms in Asbury 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z She spent three nights in the jail before her great-aunt, who had raised her from infancy, could come up with a bondsman’s $650 fee and secure her release. States Move Toward Treating 17-Year-Old Offenders as Juveniles, Not Adults 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z My great-aunt Ethel once described how she and my great-grandfather, Jacob, would pretend to go to sleep and then sneak out the window to go to the dance halls. What Happened to Worcester? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z “It’s quite scary when you hear the air ambulance at 2 in the morning, 3 in the morning,” said Jackie Hookimaw-Witt, Sheridan’s great-aunt. Suicides Plague an Aboriginal Community in Canada 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z After her arrest and release to the custody of her pastor and great-aunt, the bright, opinionated Colvin insisted to everyone within earshot that she wanted to contest the charges. This once-forgotten civil rights hero deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z “I feel my great-aunt is not at peace and I would love to have justice for her and my family.” Cryptic tombstone leads to details of 1927 murder 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z But now, five years later, she still lives with her great-aunt, Yolanda Wills, in east New Orleans, where a mantel in their home is filled with Ms. Marshall’s high school athletic trophies. States Move Toward Treating 17-Year-Old Offenders as Juveniles, Not Adults 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Linda Cromwell, Anthony’s great-aunt, spent hours waiting outside the courtroom for the hearing to begin. Babysitter Tortured Staten Island Boy Who Died, Prosecutors Say 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Kenyia Hicks, Autumn's great-aunt, said the father's background gave no one the right to kill a baby. 'Hearts are broken' after the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old Compton girl in her crib 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The children were put on a train to Virginia, where an older cousin, Deborah Jackson, and her husband, Bernard Jackson, took in 2-year-old Tiera while a great-aunt raised two of her older siblings. A hidden world: Desperation and cramped living for homeless families in D.C. motels 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z When he married Walker’s great-aunt Big, they moved to Houston, and he got a job as a porter and shoeshine at a gas company. The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z His great-aunt, Catherine Kelly, also of Bartow, echoed her sister’s assessment. Bartow teenager pushes himself to march in band 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z The specialty at Pok Pok Phat Thai may be the one Thai dish your great-aunt is likely to have opinions about — a noodle usually characterized by sugary sweetness and fistfuls of bean sprouts. The 10 best dishes of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Took me back roughly 50 years when I’m riding one of the escalators with my great-aunt Sissy. A Majestic Landmark, Overlooked on Wall Street 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z From the time he was 17 or so, he would visit his grandmother and a great-aunt, who lived in Clark County in northeast Missouri, he said. Jacob’s Ladder brings beauty back to crumbling gravestones 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Mike Steiner, who is assisting his 94-year-old great-aunt Dorothy, sees home care as a way for her to remain in her home and relatively independent. Learning the Unfamiliar Language of Home Care 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z His grandfather, great-aunt and great grandparents had been twice forced out of their home in an area of northern Romania occupied by Soviet troops during World War II. An apple, a blanket, a ride to safety _ amid Europe's migrant tensions, kindness arises too 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z The young Missy Piggle-Wiggle’s scenarios will shift accordingly—iPhones and computers will appear—but retain all the “fanciful magical fun” of her great-aunt, Martin says. Exclusive: 'Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle' To Go Millennial 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z He was able to locate his great-aunt and her family. When the pope visits Cuba, he’ll find that many of the priests aren’t Cuban 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Taking a copy of the family tree for reference, Snyder would listen to his grandmother and great-aunt tell stories about their ancestors and try to picture them. Jacob’s Ladder brings beauty back to crumbling gravestones 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Darlene Roberts, the boy’s great-aunt, left court with several other women Wednesday and described them as being “related to the people who were tortured by him.” Court hears appeal of man convicted of torturing 3-year-old 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Lillie Vinson, a longtime friend of Jamyla’s great-aunt, said it seemed like the community worked well with the Ferguson Police Department and its new interim chief, Andre Anderson, to try to solve the crime. Hundreds mourn slain 9-year-old Ferguson girl 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z But when they got to New Orleans, Lois saw that her great-aunt was ailing and the house on Lamanche Street was ailing. She quit New Orleans after nearly dying during Hurricane Katrina 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Her great-aunt Dora was once a Jewish opera singer in Berlin. A sweet Jewish moment 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z His great-aunt sold the restaurant due to health reasons to Massey. Smiths Grove eatery in business more than 50 years 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Her son, she told Johnson, was shot attempting to shield his great-aunt, Jackson. ‘You are welcome:’ The night Emanuel opened its door to evil 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z Her great-aunt Darlene painstakingly taught her to walk up and down stairs. Cerebral palsy hasn’t limited this District senior 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Her great-aunt and the remaining cousins relocated to Houston, where they all remain today. She quit New Orleans after nearly dying during Hurricane Katrina 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Thomas has tasked Gigi’s grandmother and great-aunt to sing “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” and, to be honest, they seem a little stunned by the assignment, though they’re up to the task. Review: Vanessa Hudgens does well but can’t save ‘Gigi’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z A New Jersey man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing $1 million from his great-aunt and great-uncle by persuading them to invest their retirement savings in a high-risk, money-losing investment venture, officials said. New Jersey man admits stealing $1 million from family in fraud 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z I remember my grandmother — my mother’s great-aunt, who actually helped raise us. At 68, an Art Professor and Lawmaker Sees Her Work as Unfinished 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Texas on Wednesday executed a 41-year-old man convicted of stabbing three people to death with a screwdriver, including his great-uncle and great-aunt, in a San Antonio home robbery in 1993, a prison officials said. Texas executes man for 1993 triple murder in San Antonio home 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Texas plans to execute on Wednesday a man who was convicted of stabbing three people to death with a screwdriver, including his great-uncle and great-aunt, in a San Antonio home robbery in 1993. Texas to execute man for triple murder in San Antonio home 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Ercan resumed his story, about how his grandfather and great-aunt had been orphaned, how they were taken in by neighbors, how they earned money cleaning wool, working a loom, dyeing cloth. Atoning for a Genocide | The New Yorker 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z On the mainland, my closest relative is my great-aunt in Beijing. Q. & A.: Kung Tsui-chang on Life as the Heir to Confucius 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z My great-aunt died of breast cancer at 36. There's Cancer In My Future. How Am I Supposed to Feel? 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z She listened to the family stories, especially those of her great-aunt Ivonette Wright Miller, who knew the brothers well and in 1911 was one of the first female airplane passengers. Wright Brothers’ niece recalls family stories 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z I stayed up til midnight listening to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with a friend’s great-aunt, a tiny woman who spoke no English. The Sturm und drang of being part-German The teen's great-aunt, Elizabeth VanArdenne, told the newspaper she was shocked. American in Ukraine crash had lived in New Jersey 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Traci Tate of the county's emergency dispatch center said the infant was taken from her grandmother's home, and that Findley is believed to be the child's great-aunt. Colorado issues kidnap alert for woman who claimed dying baby vision 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z As she often did, Collier turned to her great-aunt Mildred Gill. Research into relative’s execution leaves its mark 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z Breu says she was close to her great-aunt, but acknowledges that she knew little of her ordeal. Sole civilian, killed in WWII, buried at Fort Rich 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Like many people her age, your great-aunt follows a set routine. Quantify Thyself, Know Thyself 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z The collection was put together by Reginald's sister Olive, Anne's great-aunt and the "family historian". Personal treasures of World War One uncovered 2014-03-09T00:16:31Z Her grandfather, great-aunt, uncle, father and cousins died of it. Ethics Questions Arise as Genetic Testing of Embryos Increases 2014-02-03T22:06:38Z The characters living half a century later in the bitterly funny second act of “Clybourne Park” include Kathy, Karl’s daughter, and Lena, a longtime neighborhood resident whose great-aunt was the Younger matriarch. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Clybourne Park,’ at Kean University 2013-07-20T00:35:23Z Her thirst for the project reminded her of a Readers Digest-style magazine that her great-aunt collected in their native Croatia. City Room: Jet Magazine Covers Add to Harlem Restaurant's Décor 2013-06-06T00:05:21Z My great-aunt, -uncle and grandfather live in me. Witnessing a South African healer at work 2013-05-07T01:31:10Z Ms. McBride, the children’s great-aunt, took in Evangeline at birth because the siblings’ foster family was unable to care for another child. The Neediest Cases: With 7 Children, Money’s Tight but Motivation’s Strong 2013-01-24T02:21:30Z B. The owner of a dry-cleaning store in Colorado set Ron Paul up with his great-aunt. Quiz: The Craziest Business Stories of 2012 2012-12-06T05:00:00Z On her website, she posed an open challenge to her peers to develop a robot for ironing clothes, to meet the exacting standards of her great-aunt. Maria Petrou obituary 2012-12-04T17:43:20Z For an old fan, it’s as if your great-aunt Lottie showed up for the christening in a mohawk and ripped fishnets, saying she’d finally found her true self. Essay: Art Modell and the One-Way Street Out of Cleveland 2012-09-12T15:38:45Z In our family, the historian was my great-aunt Luz, whose name means light in Spanish. Essay: In Andalusia, Searching for Inherited Memories 2012-08-17T18:56:16Z In the Walpole garden from whence came to us our beloved Ambrosia, was an ample Box-edged flower bed which my mother and the great-aunt called The Rosery. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z My great-aunt died in 1870, but Uncle East lived till over ninety and went out hunting almost to the end—so eleven years of India had not done him much harm. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z The great-aunt was seated in her little, round-backed armchair, sipping her "night-cap." The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z These tacky garments are now being re-appropriated from their perpetual spot in the wardrobe of great-aunt Edna or your third grade social studies teacher. A Brief History of Ugly Christmas Sweaters 2011-12-15T01:40:00Z It was here the man had been brought up by an old great-aunt. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The story is of a Queen who, having stepped on the ring-toe of the King's great-aunt, is condemned to die before the clock strikes twelve. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z Marguerite told me I had a great-aunt who took the vail, and three years after died mad in a convent in Paris. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z That sounds like a convenient excuse that you try to feed your great-aunt. Bats: A Texas Rainout, but Not for the State Fair 2011-10-10T15:00:31Z “Your great-aunt Helen is dead, Chris,” he said at last, as he let me go. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z Oh, yes, the Italian proprietress cheerfully informed him, the parrot had been in the country with Maria Rosa and her great-aunt. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z But Martha didn’t understand how to go about getting it, and when a friend of hers offered to find a good home for the baby, the poor great-aunt consented. Polly in New York 2011-09-18T02:00:27.103Z Bab felt particularly rich in souvenirs of her visit, with a picture of a new and hitherto unknown great-aunt, a ring and a beautiful pin. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z He lost his father when a child, and was brought up by his mother and his great-aunt, thanks to whose combined care he was able to battle against the natural delicacy of his constitution. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z As soon as this volume began to circulate, Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt fell into a state of coma, arising either from sleep or a rheumatic paroxysm. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Truly, the great-aunt was fond of the country, she was still there. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Nina left her great-aunt and flew to her own room with barely time to dress. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z She testified that her great-aunt and Sowell's mother, Claudia Garrison, would strip the children naked, tie them to poles or banisters and whip them, sometimes with electrical cords. Serial killer Sowell's family testify he was abused 2011-08-02T20:39:46Z It was from his great-aunt that he learnt the elements of music. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z When this horrible din had lasted a certain time, it mechanically awoke Mr. Wopsle’s great-aunt, who staggered at a boy fortuitously, and pulled his ears. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z That year, however, his great-aunt forwarded him an advertisement from a father looking for someone to help his 15-year-old son switch to football from gymnastics. Youth Quarterback Camps Find a Profitable Seam 2011-07-28T20:30:23Z She sat in a basket chair on the lawn at Puddlewood, dressed all in filmy white, and sipped tea with the Duchess of Pemberwell, her great-aunt, in the shade of one of Puddlewood's ancient oaks. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z Granny, I must tell you, was not the children's grandmother, but the great-aunt of their mother. The Green Casket and other stories 2011-07-27T02:00:30.510Z Now and again passages and characters remind one of Dickens; the great-aunt, Mrs. Sandyshaft, is a thorough Dickens woman, with a touch of the great master's exaggeration; Barbara's father is another Dickens character. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z In fact, she had repeatedly made overtures to her great-aunt to be reconciled, but these overtures had been always rejected. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z There was one other house in the lane, and in it lived a great-aunt, widow of the grocer's brother and partner, and a maiden first cousin once removed. Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z "My aunt Katrine,—a great-aunt whom I had never seen until last year, when she came over from Germany to visit us." Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z Levonnia Parnell, the great-aunt, invited Ms. Brett-Pierce and her children to a party in Harlem last July for her own son’s high school graduation. A Bleak Life, Cut Short at 4, Harrowing From the Start 2011-05-09T05:14:31Z Father used to write once a year to a great-aunt, Gwendoline was her name, but she died; after that some of her daughters wrote once or twice and then stopped. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z It was this: I had a great-aunt who was deranged. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Motts had been convicted in 1997 of the robbery and murders of his great-aunt and another relative in South Carolina. South Carolina executes man who strangled prison inmate 2011-05-06T23:42:12Z Motts was convicted in 1997 for the murders of his great-aunt and another relative. South Carolina set to execute man using new drug 2011-05-06T16:32:57Z After years of grotty flats and poky "starter homes" that ended up being second and third homes too, that windfall from great-aunt Annie is going to be put to good use. Rice house 2011-05-06T10:19:08Z The royal dispensation is required for marriage between a man and his brother’s widow, his aunt, great-aunt or any feminine relative nearer of kin to the common ancestor than the man himself. Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World 2011-04-04T02:00:08.180Z Rose Penaluna had been with her great-aunt after her mother's death. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z She described her great-aunt as "a strong-willed person, a disciplinarian" who believed that elders should be respected. Group: Oldest living African-American dies at 113 2011-01-15T12:11:56Z An old great-aunt of mine, who lived far away, in New England. Briarwood Girls 2011-01-11T03:00:30.337Z Some of my relatives credited him with great feats, like transforming Tehran into a modern city; one elderly great-aunt kept a portrait of him and his wife, the Empress Farah, on her bedside table. The Shah's Son's Suicide: Why the Pahlavi Dynasty Still Haunts Iranians 2011-01-06T22:25:00Z It was just over a decade ago, during a heated exchange over the Bible and Moses, that Mr. Palilingan’s maternal great-aunt let slip the family’s Jewish roots. In a Sliver of Indonesia, a Public Embrace of Judaism 2010-11-23T01:40:00Z My favourite great-aunt used to advise me to get rid of an item of clothing whenever I bought a new one. Marks and Spencer wardrobe clearout: a help for hoarders to declutter? 2010-09-08T10:14:00Z He is a nephew of a former governor of the BBC and a great-aunt was Baron de Rothschild's wife. Jupiter Asset Management names its price 2010-06-02T09:17:00Z When I was 8 or 10, I would exchange letters with a great-aunt in Tennessee who was also talented in drawing. The Boss: Williams Capital?s Chief: From Art to Wall Street 2010-05-01T22:01:00Z At 13 he went to work in a bistro in Grenoble owned by a great-aunt and went on to do an apprenticeship at Philippe, also in Grenoble. Jean Vergnes, Who Helped Open Le Cirque, Dies at 88 2010-04-23T02:16:00Z Melville's great-aunt and aunt both lived at the home at the time of her death. 2010-02-11T14:55:00Z In his desperate circumstances L'Estrange had consented; the boy was handed over to his great-aunt, and had been brought up at the Castle without any remembrance of his own home and parents. The School by the Sea Desire's marriage gratified me deeply, and for a wedding present I gave her the Queen Anne silver tea-set I inherited from great-aunt Abby. The Preliminaries And Other Stories The visitor proved to be old Mrs. Perkins, a great-aunt of James Watson, who was an inveterate gossip. Wait and Hope A Plucky Boy's Luck Cynthia had drawn back her own curly bang, and fastened on the smooth brown hair of her great-aunt. Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 That it happened at all was due to the death of Maurice's great-aunt, who left him one hundred pounds. Carnival He paints the portraits of his grandfather and his great-aunt. An Outline of Russian Literature At the end of eighteen months the girl packed up her trunk, and left home to pay a dull visit to a great-aunt. What a Man Wills I lived with a very old great-aunt before my marriage, so I’m an expert in old ladies.” Lady Cassandra “Why, as to rumor,” said Mason, “there goes one in Accomac, that Colonel Singleton offers himself to her regularly every Valentine’s Day; and there are some who add that your old great-aunt helps his suit.” The Spy Condensed for use in schools The girl had been reading her own letters, just come in the morning’s mail, but she paused to stare at her great-aunt and to ask in turn: “Aunt Betty, what do you mean?” Dorothy on a House Boat "My great-aunt is fond of bright colours," said the child, at last. Hildegarde's Harvest The old great-aunt died suddenly, and left a good deal of money to Mr. Mays, and ten thousand dollars to Roxy. Helen Grant's Schooldays I don't think they'll ever be again the victims of the Murdstone aunt—who is really a great-aunt and about twice as much in the autumn of her days as our new Albert's uncle aunt. The Wouldbegoods She was visiting her great-aunt in Salem when she met with him. Old Friends and New You can't tell, looking at her, whether she is old or not, but being my great-aunt—or Anne's—I suppose she is. Happy House "That is the very best thing for my great-aunt," he said. Hildegarde's Harvest My great-aunt Roxalana has been married twice, both times to rich men. Helen Grant's Schooldays "But did your great-aunt say anything about those pictures?" The Boarded-Up House So ran his communication to his great-aunt, on whom he called afterwards; being, as he said, handy. When Ghost Meets Ghost But the force of her appeal had been a little blunted; for the young man was not only destitute of sisters, but of any female relative nearer than a great-aunt in Wales. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) A magnificent service of plate came from Jemima's great-aunt, for whom she was named. Kildares of Storm "Are you going to call her grandmother or great-aunt, or mother-in-law?" Helen Grant's Schooldays He had been brought up by a great-aunt of mine, to whom he was entrusted as a baby. My Autobiography A Fragment That was all the direction on the envelope, originally covered by another, addressed to Micky's great-aunt. When Ghost Meets Ghost His great-aunt, Miss Betsy Trotwood, who had left his mother's house the night he was born because he did not happen to be a girl. Tales from Dickens She had two children, Janet, the great-aunt who left Jan Wren's End, and James, Jan's grandfather, who was sent to Edinburgh for his education, and afterwards became a Writer to the Signet. Jan and Her Job There are quite a good many queer old people in the world—I'm sure Roxy tells things about her old great-aunt and laughs over them, that do not sound kindly, if they are amusing. Helen Grant's Schooldays "It is not unreasonable that Miss Tallowax should give her money to her great-nephew, nor is it unreasonable that she should ask for this honour, seeing that she is the child's great-aunt." Is He Popenjoy? Michael had absconded from his home, and sought that of his great-aunt; the only person, said contemporary opinion, that had a hounce of influence with him. When Ghost Meets Ghost First I had a stepmother, and then I tried living with a great-aunt, and then I went to work. The Gorgeous Girl Draga was in attendance upon Queen Natalie when she called on us, a beautiful girl, somewhat too full-bosomed for an unmarried one, like my great-aunt, Catharine, who became the wife of that upstart, Jerome Napoleon. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess I was named after a rich old great-aunt, she was my sponsor and consented to promise I should renounce everything desirable. Helen Grant's Schooldays My great-aunt Maxwell is dead at Bath and has left me all her money, twenty thousand pounds. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 Michael ended his stay with his great-aunt shortly afterwards, returning home with a budget of legends founded on his waterside experience. When Ghost Meets Ghost You know that, don't you, father?—for great-aunt Saunders never got rid of it winter and summer. Lover or Friend I am Abijah Jones, your cousin, three times removed; your great-aunt Betty told me to come out here and make a call on you. Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story "It is the likeness of a great-aunt of her husband's." The Grey Woman and other Tales "What is it?" he asked, when he discovered that I did not want to go to some impossible place because my teeth ached, or my great-aunt wanted me. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate That singular couple, Michael Ragstroar and his great-aunt, had got to the cherry-tart before a passing neighbour, looking in at their window, acquainted them what had happened. When Ghost Meets Ghost The very morning of the day it was to take place I received a telegram stating that my great-aunt had died suddenly in California. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition "I should have remembered my experience with your great-aunt, but I knew how much you wanted that paint-box," and he slipped into Marianne's stocking a japanned box with a whole sheaf of paint brushes. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Then great-aunt Hannah opened the cupboards, and pulled out the drawers, as though she expected to find the "grand-boy" rolled up in a napkin, and tucked away in a corner. The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Did you tell her a man may not fall in love with his great-aunt?” Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Micky kept his word, going over to his great-aunt the following Sunday; to oblige, as he said. When Ghost Meets Ghost But there was little chance to exercise taste in the old yellow farm-house, and Candace, from training and long habit, was submissive; so she accepted the inevitable, and, as her great-aunt said, "made no difficulty." A Little Country Girl Do you think I am as old as your great-aunt, without knowing much more than you do! Soap-Bubble Stories For Children She was a kind, nice old lady, not well off, a humble great-aunt to the whole village. The Third Miss Symons This, as I had yet to learn, was the "Aunt Hannah lot," an appendage of the farm, which had come into grandfather's possession from a sister, my great-aunt of that name. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine I see him next door to my great-aunt, as ever is. When Ghost Meets Ghost She might have been an aunt, a great-aunt, or even a grandmother of the poet, and the widow of Richard. Shakespeare's Family I can remember your great-aunt sleeping in this very bed and being in just the same fuss. Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Miss Notley, Le’s great-aunt, who owned the place and who left it to Le in her will, never lived here at all. Her Mother's Secret And Stuart says the only one he can remember distinctly was the one presided over by his great-aunt Patricia, and she never did understand boys. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation Micky would never have described his great-aunt as a female party. When Ghost Meets Ghost Mrs Mildmay has seen nothing of Lady Myrtle since she was a little child; it is only quite lately, as we know, that your great-aunt has come across the Mildmay girls, really by accident. Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls My great-aunt was a tiny little old lady, so tiny that small as I was myself she made me feel clumsy. A Christmas Posy "No," I said, "I have an absurd prejudice against paying twice for the same thing; I inherit it from a great-aunt on my mother's side." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 She admitted to herself that she would rather be dead than to be an invalid for life like her great-aunt Jane. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation It was on the Tuesday following the boy's visit to his great-aunt that Mrs. Tapping had words with her daughter Alethea. When Ghost Meets Ghost But with regard to our great-aunt, both my father and mother hope she will hear nothing about us. Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls He was obedient; that is, he did what his great-aunt told him. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Never could understand why good people should have lumbago; excellent complaint for scoundrels; excellent! well, the boy—his great-aunt, you understand!—refuses to leave her. The Merryweathers Girlie's second great-aunt has wanted to believe for some time, but her son is very mean to her, and he won't let her go to church. Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries “Well, if worst came to worst—” began Rankin, then changing front, he began again: “My great-aunt—” The doctor fell back in his chair with a groan and a laugh. The Squirrel-Cage This son was followed by a daughter, called Martha after her great-aunt Martha of Valley Brook Farm, where the older Rovers had spent many of their younger days. The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine "Just round the corner, two doors from my Great-aunt Maria's," he said, astonished that I should not know, "Lead on," I said, concealing my ignorance of the residence of great-aunt Maria. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 5, 1916 His two sisters, Jane and Cassandra, also profited by the kindness of their great-aunt, who left two hundred pounds to each. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record And you, Girlie, your second great-aunt said that she wanted to believe. Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries My queer old great-aunt left me that ’cello. The Squirrel-Cage A dear old great-aunt of mine had purchased my discharge, and had furnished me with money to go home. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile I could not locate anyone nearer to you than an old maiden great-aunt of your mother’s although I have had every clue investigated. The Black Wolf Pack First and foremost her thoughts went back to the old great-aunt to whose generosity she owed the present fulfilment of her ambition. A College Girl Girlie's second great-aunt stayed too, upon urging, and they all talked on and on. Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries My great-aunt said that there was a man in her town who had such a terrible temper that his wife was in perfect terror of him, and finally actually died of fear. The Squirrel-Cage For instance, Mr. Armistead Churchill Gordon, of Staunton, Va., had it direct from his great-aunt, who was a kinswoman of Mrs. Jones, and who heard from her the circumstances referred to. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure I should be the last to blame my great-aunt, for the irregularity of her conduct afforded my grandfather the opening for his career, the fruits of which made my childhood so pleasant. The Promised Land One of his aunts—my great-aunt—told me the story. A Soldier of the Legion In those of English ancestry the disgrace of having a near relative, even so distant as a great-uncle or great-aunt or sister-in-law, "come upon the town" is felt keenly. The Family and it's Members He will have a hundred thousand pounds, at five-and-twenty, that were left him by old Lady Greenfield, his great-aunt, and that is more than he will know what to do with. The Two Admirals They will look delightfully in our new one, when they are mounted and touched up a bit, and they will set off our Copley of my great-aunt in the turban. The Opinions of a Philosopher A great-aunt had just then left him a couple of thousand pounds, which no doubt assisted him in his views with the wine merchants. Can You Forgive Her? Mrs. Dangerfield turned away hastily to hide her working face: she must not laugh at their great-aunt before the Twins. The Terrible Twins "Or if you knew there was nothin' left in it you wanted to be goin' after," said his great-aunt, half to herself. Strangers at Lisconnel "Wish you a great many," responded the great-aunt, in stereotyped phrase. Faith Gartney's Girlhood Now, all that his great-aunt told the boy about the golden key would have been nonsense, had it not been that their little house stood on the borders of Fairyland. The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories Her great-aunt was confined to her bed with rheumatism. Alec Forbes of Howglen She thought it better that the Terror should write to his great-aunt to make requests rather than not write at all. The Terrible Twins And he also remembered having occasionally heard his great-aunt say that Nicholas took after his poor mother, and would never comb a grey head. Strangers at Lisconnel Then I began to ponder on my great-aunt and the Crimson Diamond. In Search of the Unknown "So now you have become a native of us," said a chuckling old Margravine, great-aunt to the Prince, when informed of the exploit by one of her grand-nephews who had mischievously lured Charlotte on. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Annie Anderson's great-aunt took to her bed directly after her husband's funeral. Alec Forbes of Howglen Mrs. Dangerfield was pleased with him for his thought: she wished him to stand well with his great-aunt, since she was a rich woman without children of her own. The Terrible Twins As for his great-aunt Moggy, when she heard of this arrangement, she resigned herself to her fate, which was obviously the Union away at Moynalone. Strangers at Lisconnel Now, of course, you know who my great-aunt was. In Search of the Unknown There was another long silence and then, feeling extremely nervous, I murmured haltingly, 'I—I—wonder if you missed me when I was away nursing my great sick aunt—I—I—mean my sick great-aunt. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel Then she looked out of the window, and there was her great-aunt Peggy, and the old maid-servant just coming home from meeting. The Green Door An' there was my husband's great-aunt managed a farm for twenty year, an' left legacies to all her nephys an' nieces, an' even to my husband, as was then a babe unborn.' Scenes of Clerical Life My visitor informed me that long ago he had known of the existence of an eccentric woman in Virginia,—a great-aunt of his now deceased wife. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 Most old ladies are eccentric, but there is a limit, and my great-aunt had overstepped it. In Search of the Unknown For instance, Marion, the central figure in the plot, went away suddenly to nurse a sick great-aunt. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel “Well, it was a hard lesson to learn, and I hoped to spare you from it, but perhaps it was for the best,” said her great-aunt Peggy. The Green Door Perhaps there was something in the simplicity of her dress too: there on the wall was a pretty miniature of her great-aunt in blue and white and golden flowing hair to witness the resemblance. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax "She is your great-aunt," said mamma; "and I want you and Bertie to be very polite to her." The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers That cat is the same cat that ran out of the apartment in the Waldorf when your great-aunt ceased to exist—in human shape. In Search of the Unknown Is it not written that it is better to have one rheumatic great-aunt than a brother, sister-in-law, and a niece in an asylum!' Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel My great-aunt taught me the names of the notes and got a tuner to put the piano in order. Musical Memories He may be a bad old thing in many ways," she said; "I admit that the language he uses is calculated to make his great-aunt Louisa, of sacred memory, turn in her grave! The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year When I arrived at the bungalow I found that Rosalie had with her the old great-aunt and uncle who had been with her when we first met in Maine. The Gay Cockade "Because," he said, "although my fiancée was prepared to accept a cat as her great-aunt, she could not endure the complications that followed." In Search of the Unknown She had named the baby for Stuart's great-aunt Patricia, who for so many years had been like a mother to the boys and Elsie. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware My great-aunt was born in the provinces in 1781, but she was adopted by a childless aunt and uncle who made their home in Paris. Musical Memories Give $500 to this member, who will be sick and stay at home, and $300 to this member, who will go to see his great-aunt languishing in her last sickness. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him She was utterly alone, with no family but the great-aunt and uncle who had been with her when she met Perry. The Gay Cockade I've 'ad a deal o' peppermints in my time, but this 'ere consignment from the Navigator's great-aunt fairly put the lid on. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917 "Twenty isn't anything at all except the threadbare cloak of her father's idiosyncrasies, lined with her mother's made-over tact, trimmed with her great-aunt somebody's short-lipped smile, shrouding a brand-new frame of—God knows what!" Little Eve Edgarton My great-aunt was a precocious child—she walked at nine months—and she became a woman of keen intellect and brilliant attainments. Musical Memories A great-grandmother called Saint Cecilia was not half so interesting as a beautiful great-aunt with a romantic love story; and an old and useless spinet not to be compared to a ring like Patricia's. Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters Both parents died while Hearn was still a child, and he was adopted by a great-aunt, and educated for the priesthood. The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories Her mother wants to put her through college, to please the wealthy great-aunt. A Hoosier Chronicle There had been one fascinating woman, a great-aunt of Nella-Rose’s, who had imperilled the family honour by taking her heritage of worship with a high hand. The Man Thou Gavest A sampler wrought by some ancient great-aunt, both aunt and sampler long since yellowed and mellowed by the years. Martha By-the-Day "I could explain to the boys—" "You go and ask Mrs. Lawrence if she won't step out on the porch," the other commanded; "she's my great-aunt, and I never asked anything of her before." Different Girls She's really very pretty—all the Coles were handsome—her great-aunt was once a famous beauty. The Wheel of Life Marian, who had found a school friend with an automobile and had enjoyed a run into the country, did not share the common fear of her great-aunt. A Hoosier Chronicle But I suppose your dear aunt—great-aunt, that is—has become so foreign that she's forgotten our simple ways. The Street Called Straight He was turning fifty when his great-aunt died and made him her heir: "as a poor reward for his immortal services to literature," read the will of this phenomenally appreciative relative. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories It is to my great-aunt, therefore, that we owe, and not to an inconsiderable degree, the acquisition of this second empire. Reviews "I'm so sorry, dear," Aunt Rachel, who in reality was a great-aunt, said. Widdershins A great-aunt taught me—she was a genius—I follow her at a long distance. Marcella Taking one thing with another, he liked his future great-aunt by marriage. The Street Called Straight Nevertheless, when in a superhumorous mood, he dwelt upon his high satisfaction in having been enabled by his great-aunt to purchase all that was left of them. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories If his great-aunt had been a Red Indian, should we not have said that only in the Ojibways and the Blackfeet do we find the Browning fantasticality combined with the Browning stoicism? Robert Browning Charming, too, is the portrait of his great-aunt. Promenades of an Impressionist She got, however, only a slight smile from Aldous, who had long ago left his great-aunt to work out her own economics. Marcella Herbert's mother was a beautiful but penniless orphan of good family, who visited this house some years since in the capacity of companion to our great-aunt. Strange Visitors They were therefore as much displeased as surprised by the sudden appearance to them of their great-aunt, very haggard, her usual extreme timidity swept away by overmastering emotion. Hillsboro People Upon the King's death the Scots proclaimed his son King, and sent over Sir George Wincam, that married my great-aunt, to treat with him while he was in the Isle of Jersey.—Swift. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings "It's just as your great-aunt said," put in Rachel, in a meditative tone. The Price of Love Yes, Nancy's great-aunt though she was six years and two months younger'n Nancy's mother. 'Lena Rivers When he was about two years old, the great-aunt of whom I have spoken died, leaving a large proportion of her property to Alice, of whose misfortune she had never dreamed. Strange Visitors Among other things was a quaint old diary of my grandmother's great-aunt, she that was the buxom widow of Jed's story. Hillsboro People We came here from India to live with our great-aunt—first me alone, and then David and Jock. Penny Plain Amid the morbid excitations of the fear of death, he had forgotten that in strict truth he had not stolen a penny from his great-aunt, that he was utterly innocent. The Price of Love He owns a big place about twelve miles away that an old great-aunt of his left him. The Way of an Eagle At dinner he was unfortunately seated between one of the giggling girls and a very deaf old lady who was the great-aunt of Nina and Vera. The Secret City Beside him sat his great-aunt, Désiré, dressed in a satin gown of silvery gray that had been her mother's, and looking as if she had just stepped out from the frame of the portrait up-stairs. The Gate of the Giant Scissors The great-aunt who brought up the Jardines must have been an uncommon old woman. Penny Plain He now vividly remembered that his sole intention in taking possession of the bank-notes had been to teach his great-aunt a valuable lesson about care in the guarding of money. The Price of Love Here was evidence, I thought, that what the great-aunt said was true. The Three Comrades He was very genial, praising the tree, laughing, shouting in the ears of the great-aunt. The Secret City When at length a letter arrived from Virginia it appeared that she had written several times before, but as she had received no replies, she feared that her great-aunt had intercepted her former letters. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Such a pathetic mite she was when her great-aunt died and left her with David and Jock and the little Gervase Taunton! Penny Plain By the kind hazard of fate he had never once encountered his great-aunt in the street. The Price of Love My great-aunt had a cancer that was to be taken out. A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia He had been apprehensive, with the sensitiveness of youth, lest his old great-aunt should make a fool of him before Clara's family. The Marrow of Tradition Virginia wrote that her great-aunt had tried to force her into marriage, had disinherited her on her refusal, and had sent her back to the island. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Finally they reached South Carolina and concluded they must be related—something about Katie's grandmother and Miss Osborne's great-aunt—. The Visioning "None but our great-aunt, Miss Pelham," Ken said, "and she lives in Los Angeles." The Happy Venture I have mentioned my great-aunt, who was a slave in Dr. Flint's family, and who had been my refuge during the shameful persecutions I suffered from him. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself She comes out of respect to the memory of my great-aunt, with whom Talleyrand fell in love, when he was in America, before Mrs. Meredith was born. Malbone: an Oldport Romance She'll be sorry for me when she hears about my dear great-aunt by marriage as brought me up from a child and was a mother to me. The Phoenix and the Carpet I don't think they'll ever be again the victims of the Murdstone aunt—who is really a great-aunt and about twice as much in the autumn of her days as our new Albert's-uncle aunt. The Wouldbegoods Then, on the other hand, he had an old great-aunt who lived but a few miles from the city. Boyhood in Norway An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, of whom I shall have more to relate by and by, was the principal magnate of our family. David Copperfield Besides, have a horrible old great-aunt who is always saying to me, with a mournful sigh, 'You were such a pretty baby. Anne of the Island One may rest assured Sir Nigel Anstruthers said nothing whatsoever in New York of an interview he had had before sailing with an intensely disagreeable great-aunt, who was the wife of a Bishop. The Shuttle My poor old great-aunt died about eight months ago, and left me enough to do this. The Woodlanders "You don't have to be very old to be a great-aunt," said Cecily. The Golden Road Now there’s absolutely nothing in that menu that harmonises in the least with the subject of your great-aunt Adelaide or her funeral. Beasts and Super-Beasts Her ears had been pierced against a piece of cork by her great-aunt when she was seven years old. O Pioneers! Seeing a trough of water near he bathed his face, and went on to the cottage of his great-aunt, whom he found breakfasting in bed, attended by the woman who lived with her. Jude the Obscure If she had listened, she might have been amused by the reference to old Lady Barborough, her great-aunt, but, oblivious of her surroundings, she went on reading. The Voyage Out Kitty Marr has a great-aunt who is just the same age as her mother. The Golden Road I think I told you that great-aunt Adelaide had made me her executor. Beasts and Super-Beasts To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. Les Misérables "Well, I bain't set against marrying as your great-aunt was," said the widow. Jude the Obscure "No, by heaven!" said the Marquis, also listening, "dooce take me if it isn't my great-aunt—her Graceless Grace, by Jove it is!" The Amateur Gentleman She was certainly very tall and dignified and imposing—altogether a great-aunt to be respected. The Golden Road "Why, as to rumor," said Mason, "there goes one in Accomac, that Colonel Singleton offers himself to her regularly every Valentine's day; and there are some who add that your old great-aunt helps his suit." The Spy M. Gillenormand had inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a centenarian. Les Misérables |
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