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  • * Naadiina*? also known as Grandam, one of the oldest Linyaari, host to both Maati and Acorna on narhii-Vhiliinyar, died to give her people the opportunity to save both of their planets.

    First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005

  • Naadiina - also known as Grandam, one of the oldest Linyaari, host to both Maati and Acorna on narhii-Vhiliinyar; died to give her people the opportunity to save both of their planets.

    Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003

  • Naadiina: Also known as Grandam, one of the oldest Linyaari, host to both Maati and Acorna on narhii-Vhiliinyar, died to give her people the opportunity to save both of their planets.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • Naadiina: Also known as Grandam, one of the oldest Linyaari, host to both Maati and Acorna on narhii-Vhiliinyar, died to give her people the opportunity to save both of their planets.

    Acorna's Search McCaffrey, Anne 2001

  • County of York; his Grandam was his old royal Mare, and got by

    Spectator, August 30, 1711 1711

  • Sedbury, _near_ Richmond _in the County of_ York; _his Grandam was his old royal Mare, and got by_ Blunderbuss, _which was got by_

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • "Grandam," said the girl in a low voice and after a long pause; and the sound of her voice so startled the handmaids, that every spindle stopped for a moment and then plied with renewed activity; "Grandam, what troubles you -- are you not thinking of the great Earl and his fair sons, now outlawed far over the wide seas?"

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "Grandam," said the girl in a low voice and after a long pause; and the sound of her voice so startled the handmaids, that every spindle stopped for a moment and then plied with renewed activity; "Grandam, what troubles you -- are you not thinking of the great Earl and his fair sons, now outlawed far over the wide seas?"

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Also, Raul could technically be in the first movie, however, the way it would work is to re-map the rest of the series and have it start as though he were starting a narration for the entire series, where he could start to tell of the stories he had heard from Grandam and the other characters, but they would have to entirely break away from him to conclude the story eventfully without interruption.

    Dan Simmons's Hyperion Sci-Fi Series Being Adapted by Warner Bros « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Grandam, you know, gives one a curiously ageless feeling. '

    Twin Moons 2010

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