uncle

• Inheriting a haughty disposition, and elated by the grandeur which her uncle was attaining, she assumed consequential airs which rendered her disagreeable to many of her companions. —  Hortense Makers of History Series
• My Father settled on 600 acres of land lying about half-way between the present Village of Vittoria and Port Ryerse, where my uncle Samuel settled, and where he built the first mill in the County of Norfolk On the organization of the London District in 1800, for legal purposes, my uncle was the Lieutenant of the County, issuing commissions in his own name to militia officers; he was also Chairman of the Quarter Sessions. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
• Your uncle was a man well thought of Madam Bowdoin holds her age wonderfully," said Mrs. Leverett Yes. —  A Little Girl in Old Boston
• He thoroughly identified himself with the interests of the firm, even when his uncle was a comparative stranger to him. —  Janet's Love and Service
• Then Hugh and his uncle were alone Mr Shaw told him how sorry the boys all were, and how they had come in from the playground at once, and put themselves under Firth, to be kept quiet; and that very little dinner had been eaten; and that, when the writing-master arrived, he was quite astonished to find everything so still, and the boys so spiritless: but that nobody told him till he observed how two or three were crying, so that he was sure something was the matter Which? —  The Crofton Boys

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