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A prostitute with a heart of gold and a surprisingly nice flat takes granddaughterly pity on the hobo and gives him a chaste bed for the night – so when the bad guys get violent with her, the hobo gets a shotgun and metes out vengeance, making Insp Harry Callahan look like Relatively Clean Harry.
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This girl seemed to be about granddaughterly age, yet there was something compellingly mature about her.
Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995
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This girl seemed to be about granddaughterly age, yet there was something compellingly mature about her.
Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995
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Carlotta took my coffee-cup when I had finished and set it down in her granddaughterly way.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896
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Our excursion to Topsham would, we supposed, prove a very disagreeable business to him; but we knew it would result very agreeably for us, and so, though with a good deal of maidenly compunction and granddaughterly compassion on Julia's part, we outvoted him.
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865
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I couldn't just abandon those daughterly, sisterly, granddaughterly feelings; so I was stretched thin, holding on to them all so many thousands of miles apart.
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