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  • So Elsie thought of God's hand reaching out of heaven into grandmamma's large bedroom and stroking her down one side and leaving that dead.

    Stroke Artur 2007

  • Heidi jumped up from time to time to see if there was any sign of grandmamma's approach.

    Heidi 2000

  • Clara and Heidi were as overjoyed at these words as if they were two birds let out of their cages, and grandmamma's face beamed with satisfaction.

    Heidi 2000

  • I mean when we were younger, it was necessity that sort of the home base in terms of school and what are we going to do with the kids when they get out of school and they need to go someplace where someone is going to be home quicker than we'll be home, and that was usually grandmamma's house.

    Oral History Interview with John Love, February 17, 1999. Interview K-0172. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1999

  • [Illustration: LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD CATCHING BUTTERFLIES.] "I am going to my grandmamma's," said the child.

    The National Nursery Book With 120 illustrations Unknown

  • "O!" cried Tot, and then, immediately, with a roll and a pitch, they came to a little white farmhouse and stopped again, and Tot was at grandmamma's.

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

  • "Cobbs," said master Harry, one evening, when Cobbs was watering the flowers, "I am going on a visit, this present Midsummer, to my grandmamma's at York."

    Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various

  • One day, when they had been at grandmamma's only a fortnight, Nelly saw a neighboring farmer drive up to the front gate, and ran gladly to meet him, for farmer Dale was a cheery old man, who had always seemed very fond of the child.

    Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

  • His aunt Lou, who lived in New York, came in on her way to grandmamma's while Ned and his mamma were eating their lunch, and Ned heard auntie ask his mother to go with her, and mamma consented, and he heard her say, "I will not get home before six o'clock."

    Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • Spout, the eloquent, dissected the philosophy of mirth in the same style and with the same effect that the boy in the story dissected his grandmamma's bellows to see how the wind was raised.

    Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

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