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  • ‘Your own ancestors were living here before that, I suppose?’ said Grantly, meaning to be civil.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

  • 'Grantly's gone to the shop,' she said, 'to learn to be a soldier'; and

    The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

  • "Just a little longer, Mrs. Story, just a little longer," Mrs. Grantly said soothingly.

    Jack London's Short Story: Planchette 2010

  • In his book Childbirth without Fear, Grantly Dick-Read said that in the past not many of his patients wanted to see the placenta.

    The Official Lamaze® Guide Judith Lothian RN 2010

  • This perspective on the pain of childbirth well predated the founding of The Farm: perhaps Ina May found inspiration in Grantly Dick-Read, Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth (New York: Harper, 1944).

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • In commending the work in the field of painless childbirth of Grantly Dick Ried, Pope Pius XII made clear that the words “in sorrow and in pain…” were not a malediction but a prophesy – God was saying that this would be the result of sin.

    Laborem Exercens: A Distributist Response 2008

  • Lufton – Grantly alliance treaty was not to be ratified.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • Grantly in marriage; but if he kept his word in this respect no one had a right to quarrel with him for going to Paris in the meantime.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • Hartletop – Grantly alliance was to be carried to its completion.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • Grantly, as she was driven home to her lodgings, began to have doubts in her mind whether it would be wise to discountenance so great an alliance as that which the head of the great Hartletop family now seemed so desirous to establish.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

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