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  • "Grandfer," she said very gently, "you mustn't speak of Jarge to me like that -- ye mustn't -- ye mustn't because I-- love him, and if

    The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Well, I've been telling Old Joe that he ought to let me and Mr. Kight shove a couple o 'broom-sticks under his Grandfer

    The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

  • "Why, afore I went a soldier in the Bang-up Locals (as we was called), in the year four," chimed in Grandfer

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • "If there's any difference, Grandfer is younger," appended Fairway decisively.

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • He arose and followed the Grandfer, and the rest also went to the door.

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • "Dostn't wish th 'wast three sixes again, Grandfer, as you was when you first learnt to sing it?"

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • "Yes, you should try more," echoed the Grandfer with insistence, as if he had been the first to make the suggestion.

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • Across the stout oak table in the middle of the room was thrown a mass of striped linen, which Grandfer

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • "And I see the young bride's little head!" said Grandfer, peeping in the same direction, and discerning Thomasin, who was waiting beside her aunt in a miserable and awkward way.

    The Return of the Native 1878

  • "Right, Grandfer," said Sam; and the mead then circulated.

    The Return of the Native 1878

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