grand-mother

My beloved maternal grand-mother, whom we called Bobonne, as is the custom in Brussels; was a specialist of this art.

coupable - French Word-A-Day 2009

But she stayed with him for years and she was his wife and their mother and their grand-mother, and she performed with the gentleness of a floating feather and the kindness of the spring breeze which carries it.

Glass Lou Freshwater 2011

Living in Europe, I first met all three of them on our first visit to the States, year 1948, to visit my American grand-mother. reply

Annie Nathan Meyer. 2009

My family has been making puffy tacos since my grand-mother began making them in Texas in the early 1900s, now for 4 generations.

The good, the bad and the puffy tacos | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

My New Mexican grand-mother would have been too polite to say anything to GU's face, but she might have said a rosary or two for his soul.

The Case Against Libertarian Hispanophobia, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

There, in the virtual hob-knobbing ether, I've succumbed to the most degrading and wanton social climbing that, were my grand-mother alive, would surely cause her to spontaneously combust all over her chintz pillows: I am actively and enthusiastically poaching other people's enviable "friends."

Victoria Lautman: Facebook 'Friends' and the Gentle Art of Summer Poaching 2009

My beloved maternal grand-mother, whom we called Bobonne, as is the custom in Brussels; was a specialist of this art.

coupable - French Word-A-Day 2009

Matilda shed tears of sincere regret to the memory of her grand-mother, who had fulfilled in every sense the character of a parent.

The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale 2008

These ladies were daughters of a deceased and only son of Mrs Charlton; they were single, and lived with their grand-mother, whose fortune, which was considerable, they expected to share between them, and they waited with eagerness for the moment of appropriation; narrow-minded and rapacious, they wished to monopolize whatever she possessed, and thought themselves aggrieved by her smallest donations.

Cecilia 2008

I was raised in a traditional Latin culture where married men have mistresses and my grand-mother taught me that after getting married I had to control the purse strings.

Las Se�oras de Tehuantepec 2006