Grizzel

Grizzel, which is the way the Traquairs and Ruthvens came first to an intermarriage.

Lay Morals 2005

Ruthven of Drumshoreland, anno 1540; bought letters of slayers at the widow and heir, and, by a barbarous form of compounding, married (without tocher) Simon's daughter Grizzel, which is the way the Traquairs and Ruthvens came first to an intermarriage.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Sir Pitt was first married to Grizzel, sixth daughter of Mungo

Vanity Fair 2006

Lady Grizzel was won by her humility and was mollified towards the little woman.

Vanity Fair 2006

Mrs Grantly, I presume, inspected her kitchen, though she had a first-rate housekeeper, with sixty pounds a year; and attended to the lessons of Florinda and Grizzel, though she had an excellent governess with thirty pounds a year: but at any rate she disappeared: and I never could make companions of the boys.

The Warden 2004

Grizzel, after a sister of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Warden 2004

The two little girls Florinda and Grizzel were nice little girls enough, but they did not possess the strong sterling qualities of their brothers; their voices were not often heard at Plumstead

The Warden 2004

That's Griz-zell, "mister, accent on the second syllable -- not like them papers kept calling it, Grizzel."

The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994

The Commonwealth's attorney quoted Grizzel as saying:

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

‘It’s a single gentleman, ’ whined out Grizzel; ‘maun I take him into the parlour?

Chapter XI 1917