grannie

• “After her death, it was used from habit, at first with a feeling of mistake, seeing its immediate owner was gone; but by degrees it settled down upon me, and I came to be called grannie by everybody in the house.”

  The Vicar's Daughter

• “You shouldn't call your grannie wicked," said the gentleman.”

  At the Back of the North Wind

• “Via reader Goli, a YouTube video posted by an American "grannie" ...”

  Thomas Crampton: China, Iran: World Leaders in Blocking the Internet

• “With a piece of twine she tied "figure-eights," now and then slipping into the "grannie" class; she made half-hitches, clove hitches, a running bowline, and various other combinations, until Amy declared that it made her head ache to look on.”

  The outdoor girls at Rainbow Lake: or, the Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem

• “She put her arms roun 'grannie's neck, an' grannie could not speak, but de big tears roll down her cheeks.”

  Memorials of a southern planter,

• “He toppled his "grannie" into a rocking-chair and started away.”

  Kincaid's Battery

• “figure-eights," now and then slipping into the "grannie" class; she made half-hitches, clove hitches, a running bowline, and various other combinations, until Amy declared that it made her head ache to look on.”

  The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem

• “grannie" and their mother about it, this was the first direct intimation they had given to their grandfather.”

  David Fleming's Forgiveness

• “Wasn't it Grassly that knowingly & falsely spread the LIE about Death Panels and pulling the plug on grannie?”

  Grassley re-elect below 50 percent

• “April 2nd, 2010 10: 39 am ET never count your chickens before they hatch. grannie always said!!!”

  Obama: Midterms will be hard

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