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  • Nothing short of the simplicity, integrity, and piety of Grandsir

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

  • Pansie, however, fled onward with outstretched arms, half in fear, half in fun, plying her round little legs with wonderful promptitude, as if to escape Time or Death, in the person of Grandsir

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

  • Grandsir Hook,” and Dr. Crosby assured me that I inherited my fat, fun, and asthma from that obese person, weighing nearly three hundred pounds.

    Memories and Anecdotes Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917 1915

  • I can make out old Grandsir Stark distinctly, —110

    The Generations of Men 1915

  • I must have heard the story ten or twelve times in all, and I recollect many of Grandsir Billy's words and expressions.

    A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

  • The first time I heard Grandsir Billy tell the story he said that the panther was as large as a yearling steer.

    A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

  • "Grandsir Hook," and Dr. Crosby assured me that I inherited my fat, fun, and asthma from that obese person, weighing nearly three hundred pounds.

    Memories and Anecdotes Kate Sanborn 1878

  • Kendrick, in order, as Grandsir Kendrick declared, to show that "some folks was as good as other folks."

    Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • When little Pansie was the companion of his walk, her childish gayety and freedom did not avail to bring him into closer relationship with men, but seemed to follow him into that region of indefinable remoteness, that dismal Fairy-Land of aged fancy, into which old Grandsir

    The Dolliver Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Nothing short of the simplicity, integrity, and piety of Grandsir

    The Dolliver Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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