grannie

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"See what he wants and let him get away to his work, or your grannie will be vexed to see him loitering about all the morning Miss Sybylla," he began, when we were left alone, I want to apologize to you.

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  • She calls me grannie, because I like it. —  Rivers of Ice
  • Pax would go with him Well, my lads, please yourselves," said Mr Flint,--wheeling the old woman to the table, on which smoked a plentiful supply of her favourite sausages Let me take the cat off your lap, grannie," said May Let the cat be, lassie; it's daein' nae ill. —  Post Haste
  • Are the callants gaein' oot Yes, grannie," said Phil, "we have business to attend to Bizness!" —  Post Haste
  • With its usual remonstrative mew it fled and found a place of rest and refuge in the coal-box But it's not to the Post-Office we're goin', grannie," said Phil, laying his hand kindly on the old woman's shoulder What o' that? —  Post Haste
  • Everybody calls her wicked old grannie--even them that's as wicked as her. —  At the Back of the North Wind
 

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