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  • About 100 years ago, when this club was getting underway, my grandfa-ther was ending his academic career at grade six.

    "Excellence For All" 2004

  • The Chevalier Crandison has since convinced me, by generous a: d condescending reasonings, that I could not, in duty to the will of my two grandfa-thers, and injustice to my elder brother and his de scendants, renew my wishes after the cloister.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • They are alive today because of my grandfa - ther.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • Caesare, having been named after his beloved grandfa - ther, was the favorite, that was common knowledge inside the household, and perhaps as things fell out, outside as well.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • Myrddin saw a man he thought close to his grandfa - ther's age, but there was no nobility, no pride, in these features, puffed as they were by too much drink.

    Merlin's Mirror Norton, Andre 1975

  • "The one who killed his grandfa --" "But I didn't do it!" he almost wailed.

    The Rose in the Ring George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • I am a God fearing and my mama is a religious one, my grandfa at 82 years old now, still alive but still reading in the BIBLE ..

    BoSanchez.ph 2008

  • I am a God fearing and my mama is a religious one, my grandfa at 82 years old now, still alive but still reading in the BIBLE ..

    BoSanchez.ph 2008

  • I am a God fearing and my mama is a religious one, my grandfa at 82 years old now, still alive but still reading in the BIBLE ..

    BoSanchez.ph 2008

  • I am a God fearing and my mama is a religious one, my grandfa at 82 years old now, still alive and still reading in the BIBLE ..

    BoSanchez.ph 2008

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