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  • Buck Hill 'til we's good an' ready -- not whilst Marse Bob Bucknor's prodigy is livin ', an' Mr. Jeff the spitin 'image of his gran'dad.

    The Comings of Cousin Ann Emma Speed Sampson 1907

  • That's what me father done unto me gran'dad in eighteen six. '

    Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • 'Me gran'dad fled as flees th' hen befure th 'hawk, but dad stayed not till gran'pa, treed, besought f'r peace.

    Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • It all depends on how I kin bend that ol 'stick of a gran'dad o' yourn. '

    Mary Louise in the Country J. Allen St. [Illustrator] John 1887

  • She's the daughter of the man I work for in Washington -- the assistant chief of the Department -- and she is here to try to land your gran'dad in jail.

    Mary Louise in the Country J. Allen St. [Illustrator] John 1887

  • Ingua, but she keeps house fer her gran'dad -- what they is to keep, which ain't much.

    Mary Louise in the Country J. Allen St. [Illustrator] John 1887

  • Here on sunshiny noons in the good Saint Martin's summer the old gran'dad loved to sit, blithe and hearty, chirping away the soft unseasonable December days.

    Una Of The Hill Country 1911 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • Tom, he 'lowed he war dreamin' ez his gran'dad hed gin him a calf -- Tom say the calf war spotted red an 'white -- an' jes 'ez he war a-leadin' it home with him, his dad kem racin 'inter the house with sech a rumpus ez woke him up, an' he never got the calf along no furder than the turn in the road.

    Down the Ravine Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • "Old Tom Kittredge," the father resumed, after a time, "he jes 'branded yer gran'dad's cattle with his mark; he jes' cheated yer gran'dad, my dad, out'n six head o 'cattle."

    His "Day In Court" 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

  • But she should think of her gran'dad and gran'mam, he persisted.

    Una Of The Hill Country 1911 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

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